yascaoimhin wrote: » The campaign to save this apartment block has largely gone silent. Save for retweeting the ramblings of Cormac Rabbitt from "Metro Dublin" they haven't said anything about fighting the CPO since May last year.
marno21 wrote: » MetroLink FAQ April 2021https://www.metrolink.ie/assets/downloads/MetroLink_FAQ.pdf
spacetweek wrote: » That’s a slippage. RO was meant to be end Q2 this year.
CatInABox wrote: » Not too surprising, the Updated Business Case was delayed as well. I hadn't had a laugh in a while, so I decided to check in with my favourite residents association, GADRA. While there's much to dislike about them, I have to admit that their commitment to their website is phenomenal. TII held a presentation about the intervention tunnel in Albert Park for them, and they've kindly put the presentation, and their own minutes up on their site. Nothing really new if you've already been following it, but it is somewhat what interesting to see the engagement. It's primarily NTA/TII going through many, many different variation of "We've looked into it, and we're not doing it because X". See presentation and meeting notes
Shedite27 wrote: » Yeah first step was to agree the route, then doing surveys to ensure the route was possible. Now that we know the route, they've to prove that there are enough people going to use the route on a daily basis and that capacity can meet demand etc, to make it worthwhile. In theory it should hopefully be a formality. They couldn't do a business case until they knew where the stops would be to show how many people live within catchment of each stop
CatInABox wrote: » At a guess, I'd say a few things are happening here.They're holding off until the project is back in the news, as there's definitely going to be stories on the cost once the final amount is known. Their earlier protests fell on relatively deaf ears, as the vast majority of people think that the CPO is regrettable but necessary. The number of people actually protesting is relatively small, as some owners are ok with the CPO, including the majority of landlords owning the apartments. All guesses on my part, but I'd put money on them being mostly right. Expect to hear from these guys once you start seeing articles about the cost. I think the fact that DCC is fully on board with the CPO, pending a replacement being found for the Markievicz centre being found, really took the wind out of any protests sails.
Fugazifan wrote: » I thought the idea was to allow people to shape the process).
donvito99 wrote: » This works both ways. Interchange at Tara allows an even larger section of the public to benefit from Metrolink.
Fugazifan wrote: » I don't think anyone is against an interchange at Tara St? I'm not. The point I'm trying to raise is the selection of the particular route chosen, while vacant sites were dismissed on technical grounds, now it is apparent that there is very little evidence of any due diligence on the part of TII.
Pete_Cavan wrote: » That's not what was said at all. The decision seems to be that TII have to produce a report on yhe report ghat they didn't publish, even though the report which wasn't published is less detailed than the report which was published. There doesn't seem to be any flaws or incorrect information identified or any lack of due diligence. Just seems like a lot of people making work (money) for themselves and/or trying to justify the existence of their job. These projects are mana from heaven for jobsworths.
MyLove4Satan wrote: » The massive Cherrywood residential development just got the go ahead. They literally have no choice but to run the MetroLink out there now as the Luas simply won't be capable of meeting the capacity needs of the population.
VonLuck wrote: » I think a better initial approach would be to extend the metro south, running parallel to the Luas to ease the volumes using it. If you completely replicated the Luas line with the metro it would pretty much become redundant.
Dats me wrote: As a final aside to my rant, if they did build it on Hawkins House say, you'd have three(?) years of station building and then the years of building Hawkins House on top of that - right beside you, I'm sure you've thought about this but the money and an apartment somewhere else could better?
MJohnston wrote: » Ummm...wouldn’t it just be completely replicating the LUAS line to run the Metro parallel to it though? To be clear - the current Metro South upgrade plan subsumes the existing LUAS line, it doesn’t replicate it.
VonLuck wrote: » Sorry, I missed a key part of my own post! I meant that it should run in parallel up to a point, say Milltown. It could then diverge to another population centre like Dun Laoghaire or towards Rathfarnham. It would relieve pressure on the Luas whilst also connecting other areas not served by good transport options. By the way, where can I find the current Metro South plan?
Fugazifan wrote: » The decision is that TII release the information as it was , they don't write a report! The 3 documents which justify the reasons they said they could not find an alternative route are two Powerpoint presentations and a Jacobs IDOM report, all which she noted had same or less information than published Appendix M. Appendix M was scant and so lacking in detail which prompted the FOI request in the first place. TII are hiding behind an excuse that it would not be in the public interest to release them.
Elessar wrote: » I dunno tbh. The Irish love a sob story. I reckon once the threat of CPOs raise their heads again you'll see parish politics at its finest as TDs and other representatives get behind their constituents and decry the big bad metro for threatening to evict 'vulnerable' people from their homes, most of whom won't get anywhere close to them again for any sort of price (I'm talking the apartments here). I think there will be enormous pressure to reroute metro to avoid this at all costs and the government will have to bend. This is Ireland remember, the only country in the world where the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many. I'll eat my hat if the above doesn't happen.
