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A 5 Billion Metro subway to Swords!

jock101 · 2010-10-28 19:54:15

The Greens are banging on about building a Metro subway from the Green to Swords/Airport costing an est. 5 Billion and to start in 2012, and to be built by 2016! Who's going to pay for this Fantasy, the EU??? or the imaginery taxpayers who will have shipped out!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: LOL, total…

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#152 01-11-2010 1:07pm
markpb

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jmayo wrote: »

I think the metro North is going to be waste of money we do not have short term.

You realise that because of the PPP arrangement, we only pay for prep work and then nothing until the metro is operational and carrying passengers? So in the short term, it costs us very little. Cutting it now will save us nothing.

Even if it did save us money, all the other things you suggest (schools, prisons, etc) would need to go through public consultation, design phase, planning permission (local and ABP) and public tender so they won't be ready to build for years.

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