Get rail links back on the right track

UNDER the transport investment programme, Transport 21, Navan's rail link is due to be reinstated by 2015.

Get rail links back on the right track

This is five years later than previously promised by the Government in Platform for Change, where the people of Navan were told the railway would be back in place by 2010.

In Platform for Change, the people of Meath were also told that the design of the Navan rail link would meet a 2003 deadline, and that the railway would have reached Dunboyne by 2006. Now, the 4.7 miles of rail to Dunboyne will not be complete until 2009, Navan will be 2015 and Kells will be reopened by ... well, never, according to current plans.

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