Meeting on Dublin Rail Transport in Phisborough

sligoliner · 18-06-2003 1:47pm #1

For those interested Fine Gael are organising a public meeting on rail transport issues on the Northside of the city at Saint Peter’s Hall at 8PM. Next Wednesday the 25th.

Victor · 21-06-2003 9:20pm

Do you have any further details or a link?

sligoliner · 21-06-2003 10:58pm

:Fine Gael have organised this meeting as follows;

:Park Tunnel Public Meeting
:Phibsboro: St. Peters Hall, 7.30pm
:Wed. 25th June

:Platform11 have been invited to give a presentation on all aspects of the d-:Connector, and it promises to be a great evening. Try and make :it if you can!

Winters · 22-06-2003 12:40pm

I may be there on Wednesday. Sounds all good.

Victor · 23-06-2003 5:52pm

Is St Peters Hall next to St Peters Church - is that the Big church on the NCR?

Victor · 25-06-2003 9:26pm

I went along tonight, attendance of about 50. They certainly had a message to put across.

Apparently a shortlist of three routes for the Airport Metro are being considered - will try to follow up.

Winters · 26-06-2003 12:32pm

I know that this is and was off the agenda but extracted from the Dublin Corporation Site:

"Very large car transporters and extra large container vehicles, which require 5m clearance will use an alternative route. Huge trucks requiring clearance of up to 5.5 metres could not even be accommodated on most of Ireland's surface roads, .including our new motorways , since 5.5m vastly exceeds the height at which new road bridges, both in Ireland (5.3m) and internationally, are being developed."

Denis Naughton was wrong in Wednesdays Meeting. He was wrong about it affecting inflation and he was wrong about the new motorways being able to accomodate the UK supertrucks.

BTW just for comparison, a double Decker bus is smaller than 5m

Victor · 26-06-2003 1:33pm

Originally posted by Winters
"Very large car transporters and extra large container vehicles, which require 5m clearance will use an alternative route. Huge trucks requiring clearance of up to 5.5 metres could not even be accommodated on most of Ireland's surface roads, .including our new motorways , since 5.5m vastly exceeds the height at which new road bridges, both in Ireland (5.3m) and internationally, are being developed."

Denis Naughton was wrong in Wednesdays Meeting. He was wrong about it affecting inflation and he was wrong about the new motorways being able to accomodate the UK supertrucks.

Not "wrong" - selective. Vehicle in excess of 4.65m (Port Tunnel), but less than 5m (the legal limit before you become an "oversized vehicle") is what he was talking about, not the 5.0-5.3-5.5 categories.

Meeting on Dublin Rail Transport in Phisborough

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