marno21 wrote: » TII have tendered for utility investigation along the planned routehttps://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/publicpurchase_frameset.asp?PID=145913&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE&PS=1&PP=ctm/Supplier/publictenders
Pete_Cavan wrote: » Can the thread be closed until something relating to Metrolink happens? We've had several pages of nonsense which those looking for updates have to wade through in case there is something of relevance.
Idbatterim wrote: » I think, THINK it was the FG morons that didnt get even enabling works underway on DU and decided to reinvent the wheel with metrolink... Metronorth had planning, it actually had planning permission in this country, low and behold and they go and reinvent the wheel :rolleyes: well its mostly the FG voters in Dublin 6 primarily that have resulted in this latest farce! I wouldnt say FG voters in dublin are necessarily pro public transport!
LeinsterDub wrote: » FF are the party of no. They've position on MN and BC is no because FG are a yes
Can't see how a change from Tweedle Dumb to Tweedle Dumber would speed up delivery, especially considering FF's voter base is more rural.
D.L.R. wrote: » What's FF's policy on Metrolink? Presumably they're in favour, considering they're supporting the govt. Can't see how a change from Tweedle Dumb to Tweedle Dumber would speed up delivery, especially considering FF's voter base is more rural.
Idbatterim wrote: » I think ff would be more likely to actually deliver something of this scale than fg.
Pete_Cavan wrote: » Can we get a new thread for all the whining about politicians and chatting about individual commutes? Every couple of weeks this and other threads here descend into this and any initial relevance to the thread is quickly lost to the type of thing you hear on LiveLine.
Idbatterim wrote: » I dont accept this! there should be a very limited public consultation, all of this bull**** is on spineless politicians mostly! this crap just goes around and around in circles! they could have a decade long public consultation here and it there'd still be complaints! basically the entire cities transport plans are constantly changing, diluted down and messed up. Because some useless politicians, are scared of nimby voting? and as far as the public at large are concerned, would simply be replaced by another clone of these useless fools? you cant make an omelette without breaking an egg. FG are going to probably be propping up FF next time, not because they didnt overhaul loads of areas like they said they would, but rather due to a total lack of action on anything!
Uriel. wrote: » Yeah night be an option. No flexitime I'm afraid. First child due soon and I'm getting more wary of the situation. Not sure what the car commute might be like. I might do a trial run over next couple of weeks.
Idbatterim wrote: » you can get electric cars now for 6-7k, original leaf etc, might work if you have a house. I dont know what commuting time would be, or if your work offer flexitime so that you could avoid peak traffic. But two hours commutes for that relatively short distance, just beggars belief!
Last Stop wrote: » https://www.maldronhotels.com/metrolink-dublin-imagined/
Uriel. wrote: » I live in Swords and since early this month I've had to switch to an earlier bus to get into work on time. 9 out of 10 Days I was getting a 7.45 bus and stepping off it at 9.10 to 9.20 in Merrion Square. Plus another 10 minute walk to work. That's one bus, "express," no change overs, using the tunnel. Effectively 90 minutes to get to work and a couple of days it was closer to 2 hours. That's an approx 20km trip. It's madness and it seriously eats into work life balance. Its about 1 hour 20mins most evenings on the return leg. The traffic is horrendous and looking around its as much bus/coach congestion as it is private cars.
Uriel. wrote: » I could get parking in work for free for a max of three days a week. So I'd still be paying bus fares for the balance. But we're also a one car family and altho neither of us uses car for our commutes, my wife does need the car at home most days unfortunately
Idbatterim wrote: » That is insane uriel, I take it that driving is out as you would have to pay for parking? I live out in rathcoole, it takes the bus over an hour to get into the city centre off peak (for what 15km) after its tour of west dublin, I just drive to redcow luas if going into town. Then there was a meeting about the congestion in rathcoole village yesterday, that has been the case for years and that minor changes at a roundabout can solve. The fact that the game changer project here might be decades away, and even with issues they have known about for years, that are very easy and cheap, they still havent taken action, tell's you everything you need to know! So much for all their rubbish talk and waffle on climate change etc, maybe getting people out of cars and onto semi decent public transport might be an idea? that will obviously have to be bus based in the short term! Here is another joke, I mean this really takes the biscuit! I have a mate, who is in college in Dublin 8, lives in family home in Shankill, it takes her an hour and a half to get to college on public transport, she is now looking at simply renting beside the college! You couldnt dream up this banana republic, they should use this countries in studies of how not to do things! Now if dart underground were there, that trip would be ok. Dart underground and dublinmetro were needed twenty years ago, fingers crossed we might have one of them in twenty years! with the insane construction inflation are those morons now claiming shelving metro north was the correct option? metrolink might offer some advantages, but do you know what? Id take a half built metro north now, than the wheel reinvented again! I'm surprised they dont have a public consultation for pets in the effected areas too, get their input aswell, why stop at humans?
Idbatterim wrote: » Another one who ducks in and out. Waiting for growth to slow a little more , so they have the excuse to replace a line that 50,000,000 or more a year would use, with a fcuking greenway half way to the city centre , at which stage you can hop onto one of the glacial busses or just continue walking or cycling ! Extremely environmentally friendly and most importantly, extremely cheap compared to a metro ... I think ff would be more likely to actually deliver something of this scale than fg. I was on the luas at six pm yesterday heading out to Dundrum. ( once in a blue moon trip ) The amount of people that couldn’t get on it , was a joke ! I pay a fifty percent marginal tax rate and what do I get for it in this kip ? A farce of a transport and health system. Law and order a joke. Housing a joke. At least we have a world class welfare system , of which I’ve never claimed a red cent from. Happy to totally starve other areas of expenditure to feed that whale in the room ! The council morons put a cap on 32,000,000 passengers a year at Dublin airport over concerns about traffic congestion , it’s now over this figure, so daa trying to exclude transfer passengers who obviously don’t travel by road to buy more time. There are roughly 2,000,000 of these passengers. I don’t suppose the council ever considered constructing adequate roads and junctions to serve a major airport ? Maybe a metro ...
Podge_irl wrote: » They're not "waiting" for anything. I'm sure they would love to put shovels in the ground tomorrow, but even with lengthy, well advertised consultation periods on the emerging preferred route and the proposed route you still have a loud cohort bemoaning the lack of consultation and the damage it is doing. And they are given huge media presence. We get what we deserve.
Idbatterim wrote: » Another one who ducks in and out. Waiting for growth to slow a little more , so they have the excuse to replace a line that 50,000,000 or more a year would use, with a fcuking greenway half way to the city centre , at which stage you can hop onto one of the glacial busses or just continue walking or cycling ! Extremely environmentally friendly and most importantly, extremely cheap compared to a metro ...
ncounties wrote: » Just need nine more, and the 12 pubs of Christmas will be sorted for December 2027.
MJohnston wrote: » They now have a venue at 3 separate potential Metro stations!
murphaph wrote: » I just duck in and out of this thread and every time I do I regret it.
CatInABox wrote: » Only related to metrolink tangentially, but Glasnevin Junction/Whitworth Station just got a whole load more popular with hipsters and those fond of the Bernard Shaw. The whole kit and caboodle is being moved into the Porterhouse Whitworth building.
