Marta

Darren
The business traveller
Darren is a 42-year-old based in Cork who regularly travels
for business to Dublin, Belfast, and Galway.
Today’s railway	A potential future railway
• Poor interchange and slow services	• Major enhancements to intercity
make rail travel between Cork and both	connectivity, such as cross-Dublin routes,
Galway and Belfast less attractive, so	and timetable integration will make
Darren often opts to drive for those	journeys between Cork, Belfast, and
journeys.	Galway much faster.
• Wi-Fi on board is sometimes	• High-quality Wi-Fi could be provided on
unreliable, so he often has to download	board all services to ensure that rail is an
files in advance to ensure he can get	attractive option.
work done on the move.
	• Much more frequent services mean that
• Infrequent services are very	passengers will not need to plan their
inconvenient for him when business	schedules around timetables, making rail
meetings overrun, requiring a lot of	more appealing.
waiting around for the next service.
	• Improved onward public transport
• Car parking at Cork station encourages	connections from rail stations will
Darren to drive to the station even	encourage users to carry out their entire
though he lives in the city.	journey by sustainable modes.
Holly
The wheelchair user
Holly is a 29-year-old living in Ballymote who plans to visit
Kilkenny for a weekend away with friends.