Thrashssacre wrote: » I think there four piece sets there ordering, fixed eight piece sets would be wasteful. Prevents having shorter sets at weekends and late at night and would completely rule out expansion where as extending to 12 car trains at some point isn’t complete unreasonable 16 though I could never see in the next 50 years.
DoctorPan wrote: » It's a mix of fixed 4/8 piece sets they're going with.
Thrashssacre wrote: » Does anyone have any particular preference to who’d they like to see awarded the contract to build the units based on what they have on offer in another part of the world? And who they really wouldn’t like to see being given the contract?
Heartbreak Hank wrote: » Is there a timeline for releasing the routing of the tunnel or will it be after the Maynooth and Drogheda work?
Captain Chaos wrote: » I'd hate for Alsthom or CAF to win it. I'd like to see Stadler, Siemens, Tokucar, Mitsui or Hitachi to win it.
cgcsb wrote: » a new road bridge between stationcourt way and riverwood ct (hardest part)
MJohnston wrote: » Is this even necessary? The Clonsilla/Porterstown Road bridge is barely 600m away and very easy to access from both sides of the railway.
Qrt wrote: » Is Porterstown Road the one where they wanted to close the level crossing and build a bridge at the end of an adjacent cul-de-sac? I’ve been trying to find stuff online but I can’t find it.
cgcsb wrote: » Just to add to the Maynooth line works, there is a very simple solution to the closure of crossings: a new road bridge between stationcourt way and riverwood ct (hardest part) a new bridge at teh barberstown crossing Extend the diswellstown road through the rural area beind the school and join it onto the luttrellstown rd Throw in some ped overpasses and there is no significant movement left out, all the new building works will be in rural areas except the bridge neer coolmine, but that'll only be a few clalls to Joe.
Last Stop wrote: » You left out Ashtown and Clonsilla which are the two hardest ones. !
ciaran75 wrote: » While clonsilla may be more technical there are not many houses around so see little resistance Having grown up near coolmine Station i think there may be a lot of complaints, i hope not. Huge amount of people live very close to station and use that crossing. The new bridge they put a few years ago while may be only 600m as crow flies you have 3 sets of lights and clonsilla Road which is very busy so not really a runner, would take at least 10 mins detour Are there any plans out yet
Pete_Cavan wrote: » These posts both refer to the same location. The suggestion was a new road in the green strip beside Stationcourt Way and a new bridge tying into Riverwood. This was to replace the existing bridge at Coolmine station. There was/is uproar over it and sitting/hopeful local representatives have been falling over themselves to oppose it.
cgcsb wrote: » Bump, so apparently the moving of Docklands station to a former rail station site on Northwall quay with direct access also provided to the Spencerdock luas platform via central square is being considered, well in advance of DART underground happening. This will mean excavating a new cut and cover tunnel through the grounds of Europcar and the vacant sites behind it, to connect with the tracks north of Sherrif st. The tunnel must be deep enough by the time it hits north wall quay to meet a future TBM connection, avoid being flooded by the liffey and avoid destroying the foundations of the existing buildings. This will mean closure of the red line between the Point and Connolly for some time. The amount of time is unknown but 'weeks' seems ti be the term de jour. The existing Docklands station may be retained (but normally closed) to provide operational flexibility into the future, particularly while the DART expansion programme is ongoing, which will no doubt be disruptive to existing services.
loyatemu wrote: » seems like a lot of effort for not much benefit. Though I suppose it would be a symbolic first step for Dart Underground.
ncounties wrote: » Where was this heard, and when would it happen? They should have never planned to diverge from the original plan (seen here) anyway! I remember the plan, at the time, was to couple this with a pedestrian bridge across the Liffey directly south of this location to provide connectivity with Grand Canal Dock from the North. As an East Wall resident, who's nearestr Luas stop is Spencer Dock, I would happily welcome this disruption for the long term good.
cgcsb wrote: » The benefit is that the existing station is an undesirable terminal location for passengers both from Hazehaltch and Maynooth. By moving the station to the quays and adding a new pedestrian bridge There is much better access to employment, it also offers better integration with the luas and busconnects services on the quays. Coupled this with the proposed Glasnevin interchange and it'll be perfectly reasonable to have Maynooth terminate at GCD and Hazelhatch at Northwall Quay or vice versa.
CatInABox wrote: » It'd make a fair bit of difference for interchanging between the Dart and the Luas, as that's one of the biggest complaints about the current Docklands station. It's also future proofing the line as well, better to do it now while those areas aren't being actively developed..
Shedite27 wrote: » It's gonna be opened up for the Salesforce building anyway, might as well throw the required bits down once it's open.
loyatemu wrote: » Docklands is only 300m from the quays; most of the time saved will be eaten up by having to get out of an underground station. And for this we're going to spend how many millions and close the red line for how many months? The pedestrian bridge is going to be built anyway.
