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Luas Tracks on Samuel Beckett Bridge?

  • 02-02-2010 11:13pm
    #1
    FlameoftheWest
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    I asked this on the main thread but it might have got lost.

    I have this memory of seeing Luas tracks on that bridge when it first came. Was I halucinating? If they were there, why not now?


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  • #2
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,329 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    there are grooves in the bridge to allow tram tracks to be retro-fitted. They've been tarmacced over in the meantime.


  • #3
    Run_to_da_hills
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    loyatemu wrote: »
    there are grooves in the bridge to allow tram tracks to be retro-fitted. They've been tarmacced over in the meantime.

    The gauge was probably wrong. :pac:


  • #4
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    What luas is proposed to go up that way?

    At least there was a bit of forward planning for a change


  • #5
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    godtabh wrote: »
    What luas is proposed to go up that way?

    None afaik, but it's Gormley's area isn't it?


  • #6
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    godtabh wrote: »
    What luas is proposed to go up that way?

    It'l be a stand alone single carriage service that just goes back and forth over the bridge. :)


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  • #7
    Cool Mo D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭Cool Mo D


    It could be used for a Connolly - Ringsend service, but I don't think there are any actual plans for that.


  • #8
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,329 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    there was a proposed Docklands - Grand Canal - Inchicore luas line in the DTO's platform for change plan. This plan was still alive when the beckett bridge was designed, but has subsequently been superceded by Transport21 which does not contain that Luas line.


  • #9
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,577 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/5811/104406.jpg


  • #10
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    loyatemu wrote: »
    there was a proposed Docklands - Grand Canal - Inchicore luas line in the DTO's platform for change plan. This plan was still alive when the beckett bridge was designed, but has subsequently been superceded by Transport21 which does not contain that Luas line.

    It was one of many possibilities. It was in "THEME 3 - ON STREET LRT"

    http://www.dto.ie/platform1.pdf

    Does anybody have a higher res version of that PDF?


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