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Dublin Port Tunnel

  • 21-03-2003 10:24am
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    dmeehan
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    A report in todays Indo states that 6 houses have been damaged by the construction of the dublin port tunnel

    another fly in the ointment, will this ever finish


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    dmeehan
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    now brennan says the dublin port tunnel will have to be raised to allow the higher trucks in at the cost of €100m.

    why the flock wasnt it built to this specification from the begining, its not like these trucks were only invented last week
    TRANSPORT Minister Seamus Brennan yesterday conceded the height of Dublin's Port Tunnel might have to be extended.
    -from Irish Independent 9th April


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    daveirl
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  • #4
    Victor
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    Originally posted by daveirl
    I've no idea why they didn't do it Day 1, but it's definitely the right thing to do now. There was no point in having a tunnel that was supposed to take trucks away from the City Centre if it wasn't going to be able to do that!
    Part of it is because more and more vehicles are operating at full height (let us say you have a truck full of Rice Crispies, a standard truck would hold much less than the 40tonne levels), when they started the design, far fewer trucks would have been at maximum height. The larger the tunnel, the greater the cost.

    http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/breaking/517029?view=Eircomnet
    Brennan to meet council over Port Tunnel height
    From:ireland.com
    Wednesday, 9th April, 2003

    The Minister for Transport will this evening meet representatives of Dublin City Council to query the height specifications for the Dublin Port Tunnel.

    Mr Brennan will discuss the cost and engineering implications of a raising the clearance heights for trucks in the tunnel, from the designated 4.6 metres to the National Roads Authority's motorway standard of 5.3 metres.

    It's understood that the tunnel space currently being excavated is at a total height of 11.3 metres, which would allow space for height modifications, should they deemed necessary.

    Since construction on the Port Tunnel commenced two years ago, it has been suggested that the 4.6 metre height specification may not be high enough to accommodate certain HGV vehicles.

    The Irish Road Haulage Association say that they would approve of any move to raise the height of the Port Tunnel. A spokesman for the Association said that they would welcome a minimum tunnel height of 4.9 metres, on the basis that such an increase would ensure that more HGVs would be able to use the Tunnel.


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