[PR] Metro West - Public Consultation

Victor

RPA wrote:

Metro West - Tallaght to Dardistown. Public Consultation – St Brigid's Well.

Date: Monday 30th June
Time: 11am - 8pm
Venue: SDCC Clondalkin Civic Offices, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.

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Metro West
Tallaght to Dardistown
Public Consultation - St Brigid’s Well

RPA have undertaken Archaeological investigations and have developed design solutions that may involve the relocation of St Brigid's Well.

DATE: Monday 30th June
TIME: 11am - 8pm
VENUE: SDCC Clondalkin Civic Offices, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.

We look forward to your views and comments and hope that you can come to our Public Consultation Open Day. Information on the project is available from the RPA and please feel free to request more information or submit your comments using our contact details below.

METRO WEST SCHEMATIC
Cappoge
Huntstown
Clondalkin
Fonthill
Rowlagh
Quarryvale
Poterstown
Millennium Park
Blanchardstown
Tallaght East
Colberts Fort
Belgard
Newlands
St. Brigid’s
N.A.C.
Tolka
Abbotstown
Ballycoolin
Meakstown
Silloge
Harristown
Dardistown

Ste.phen

RPA have undertaken Archaeological investigations and have developed design solutions that may involve the relocation of St Brigid's Well.

The St Brigid's Well in St Margarets?
(Though I'm aware there are many 'St Brigid's' wells around the country, St Margarets isn't too much of a stretch from Dardistown

weehamster

No is the well near Newlands Cross. Heres the draft map in pdf .

loyatemu

under the current economic climate Metro West is surely not going to happen, so its all academic anyway...

Ste.phen

Well they still have cash for their studies, so they may as well continue, eh?

lostexpectation

just saw this, ya can't move this, its' not just a holy well its a well, and i know it dried up and somewone sasy the building of the road cut it off from its source of water but still, ya can't do that,they want to relocate it, ya can't relocate a well, especialy a dry one. does anyone have more detail or map of its water source, said it had stream going northward, but can't see anything on the historical maps

BrianD

Why do they call it a mrtro line when it should be part of the LUAS network? Then again I suppose Mrtro North is really a Luas line as well.

Victor

The Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) is currently preparing a Railway Order application for Metro West, the proposed orbital line that will connect the towns of Tallaght, Clondalkin and Blanchardstown with Metro North.

As part of the development of the design of Metro West RPA now wish to design an interchange between Metro West and the Luas Red Line at Belgard. Two options are now proposed, one option involving a bridge over Embankment Road and the other involving an underpass beneath it.

Your opinion is important to us and we will hold a public consultation evening on Tuesday the 30th September in the Belgard Heights Community Hall from 6-9pm. RPA engineers and staff will be on hand to deal with questions.

We invite you to come along and have your say. Alternatively you can send your views by post, phone or email. RPA will accept submissions on the options up to Sunday the 19th October.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact RPA on 1800 676464 or at info@rpa.ie.

We value your input to this process and look forward to your response.

Railway Procurement Agency.

.

BluntGuy

Metro West = Luas Line 3

No two ways about it.

I don't like the way they're building this under the guise of metro. If it's simply a Luas line with slightly greater capacity, then they should just say it!

D.L.R.

Maybe they want people to perceive that a Metro "network" is being built. Network being at least 2 lines by definition.

Seriously, out of all the shortcomings of Dublin suburban rail, should Metro West really be the priority it is? I can think of half a dozen large Dublin suburbs with no rail link to the city at all. Seems foolish to build a line that doesn't go near the city centre when so many areas are still without. The M50 was a poorly thought out route and now the govt seem intent on creating its rail counterpart!

BluntGuy

Creating poorly thought out 'solutions' is one of government's many talents. Creating poorly thought out 'solutions' to problems created by their original poorly thought out 'solutions' is another one of their many talents. Creating poorly thought out 'solutions' to problems created by their poorly thought out 'solutions' to the problems created by their origianl poorly thought out 'solutions' is yet another one of their talents.

Bottom Line:

We've got a very talented government.

Metro West showcases that.

dowlingm

Still chugging on it seems...
http://www.rpa.ie/upload/documents/Metro%20West%20Design%20Update%20No1%201108.pdf

What's in Harristown that it needs a future metro west stop, causing a substantial deviation between Silloge and Dardistown?

Cool Mo D

I think it's earmarked for terminal 3 in the airport? I could be wrong.

paulm17781

There are better projects but seeing it on a map it looks nice. It's just a shame there will still be parts of the city with little or no public transport and this is getting precedence.

Victor

dowlingm wrote: »

Still chugging on it seems...
http://www.rpa.ie/upload/documents/Metro%20West%20Design%20Update%20No1%201108.pdf

What's in Harristown that it needs a future metro west stop, causing a substantial deviation between Silloge and Dardistown?

Airport car park. Of course Harristown bus garage is at Sillogue stop, not Harristown stop. :rolleyes:

paulm17781

Victor wrote: »

Airport car park. Of course Harristown bus garage is at Sillogue stop, not Harristown stop. :rolleyes:

Genius... :rolleyes:

D.L.R.

Metro West is a very bad idea. We need to get over this Luas-through-green-fields mentality and instead figure out ways to serve the existing city.

If Dublin needs an orbital rail line, it should be half the radius of Metro West. And fully segragated.

dowlingm

I don't object to an orbital line per se (it would be nice to see it used as an connecting mechanism between Fonthill and Porterstown IE lines in a similar way to LUAS Red between Heuston and Connolly) but I think building it as metro is likely to increase costs unsustainably.

Building it as Luas gives the potential for interconnection/diversion with other LUAS lines in places like Tallaght, Newlands Cross and Lucan. For instance, the proposed depot for Lucan Luas is very close to MetroWest, when if it was a LUAS line the same depot could cover both lines, even if it meant a short piece of non-revenue track to ensure both lines has independent access.

Aard

I think MW is a good idea. It will encourage inter-suburban travel, and so will create a more polycentric city. Having said that though, it's probably better to build it as a Luas, rather than fully-fledged metro (like what has been done on the green line). At least that way, if the demand is there in the future it can be upgraded.