IndustrialHeritageIreland has found a local newspaper that thinks that river buses on the Grand Canal could provide commuters from west Dublin with fast transport to Google HQ at Grand Canal docks. IHI points out that the journey from Hazelhatch can take eight hours; even Dublin traffic moves faster than that.
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