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Joining the Luas lines

  • 27-11-2012 10:16PM
    #1
    robclay26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭


    RTE news talking again about the link to join the 2 LUAS lines. Getting the go-ahead.

    Sure didnt they announce this already! and am i right in saying the bridge for it to cross the Liffey is under construction for ages already? Its opposite The Garda National Immigration bureau


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  • #2
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,922 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    I'm worried about the chaos this is going to cause in Dublin city centre. Really think transport like this needs to go underground in major city centres in this day and age.


  • #3
    antoinolachtnai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,726 ✭✭✭antoinolachtnai


    No cost benefit analysis has been done since Metro North was scrapped. That cancellation completely changes the parameters for BXD.


  • #4
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,645 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    antoinolachtnai wrote: »
    No cost benefit analysis has been done since Metro North was scrapped. That cancellation completely changes the parameters for BXD.

    a CBA would only be a waste of another couple of dozen million, how many of them have they done now for various slightly different plans? just go ahead and do it already.


  • #5
    dowlingm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭dowlingm


    Throw in a few million to expropriate the Abbey Street junctions to allow route interoperation between Red Line and BX - sure most of the offending properties are probably in NAMA now :D Oh I kid, I kid...


  • #6
    LivelineDipso
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 510 ✭✭✭LivelineDipso


    Watch, the WRC crowd will be demanding Atherny-Tuam reopened 'to address the imbalance'.


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  • #7
    antoinolachtnai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,726 ✭✭✭antoinolachtnai


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    a CBA would only be a waste of another couple of dozen million, how many of them have they done now for various slightly different plans? just go ahead and do it already.

    The CBA results will come out quite different once you remove Metro North from the equation. The loadings on the Luas itself and on other forms of public transport will be completely different. You could carry out the CBA for a few thousand euros in a few weeks, since all of the preliminary work has been done. You just have to redo the transport model.

    The CBA would make it apparent that the demand would be tremendously high between Harcourt St and O'Connell St. It is hard to see how the Luas could carry it all.


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