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Port Tunnel due open December 2005 / January 2006

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  • 27-11-2004 12:18am
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    Victor
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    http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/1126/tunnel.html
    Dublin's Port Tunnel faces further delay
    26 November 2004 19:28

    The opening of Dublin's Port Tunnel faces a further delay of at least three to four months.

    The tunnel was due to open to the public in August 2005 but will not now begin operating until December 2005 or January 2006.

    The main cause of the delay is a three-month long commissioning period required under EU law.

    Operation of Tunnel and Toll Facility is being put out to tender http://www.nra.ie/News/NewsAnnouncements/d1545.HTML.html


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    Victor
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    http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/4522232?view=Eircomnet
    Ivor salutes the light at the end of Port Tunnel
    From:The Irish Independent
    Saturday, 27th November, 2004

    SUITED and booted, Junior Transport Minister Ivor Callelly led the charge into the bowels of the Dublin Port Tunnel yesterday and immediately pronounced the €750m project a resounding success.

    Although the first truck has yet to rumble through the 4.6km of tunnel, Minister Callelly says that the success of the Tunnel will act as a blueprint for future tunnels in the country. "Tunnelling is the way to go," declared the minister. Health and safety precautions at the site are extremely stringent and even the minister had to be kitted out in a white "forensic" suit, complete with a 7lb Self Rescuer pack, which was strapped around his middle.

    "It will give you about 20 to 25 minutes of pure air, if a fire breaks out in the tunnel," declared one Health and Safety officer.

    It will take another year to finish the tunnel, although the main boring activities were completed at the end of last August.

    An army of construction workers is now fitting out the tunnel, fire-proofing and lining the walls before the final electrical fittings and road surfaces are laid.

    "Test runs" at the tunnel site are due to take place towards the end of next year.


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    vinnyfitz
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    The main cause of the delay is a three-month long commissioning period required under EU law.

    Yeah right Ivor! Don't tell me that the project is being delayed because of some new regulation from Brussels. This commissioning period requirement must have been part of the schedule for ages. If not, whoever forgot to build it in should be dumped.

    Sounds to me like case of sure lets blame Europe rather than facing up to our own errors.


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    All you have to do is find out when this EU regulation came into effect.
    That will tell you how long the people responsible have been incompetent/hiding the information. Unless of course the EU snuck the law in very recently - unlikely since the big contenintal fires were years ago.


    On the radio it sounded like trucks would be allowed through for the first three months and only after comissioning would cars be allowed , course I could be wrong.


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