Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

A Vision for Public Transport: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. David Franks:

We would be very happy to.

Regarding the cost of the automatic train protection system, we have an estimate for a complete roll-out across a network, having carried out a pilot this year. It would cost €130 million, but it is investment in safety equipment that is commonplace across Europe. By way of highlighting the benefits of it, there were accidents in Italy and Germany this year in which 35 people were killed and more than 100 injured, and members will have heard about the incident in New Jersey just the other day. These would have been prevented by an automatic train protection system. It is commonplace, best practice and something we need to consider seriously.

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