Luas Finglas

I'd back Luas Finglas getting completed ahead of any other ongoing PT corridor projects across the GDA.

It's on the path of least resistance; broad political and community support, technically straight forward, costs and delivery issues reasonably well known from previous schemes, and not too expensive.

Like the Luas Cross City, it will be pushed through to have completed something.

Dunville Avenue didn’t delay the project though.

The sewer along the Grand Canal that the NTA inexplicably missed was the reason for that.

With respect Sam, you’re fixating on the wrong person. I think you should be focussing on the NTA and asking why it’s taking them so long.

Maybe he could talk about it more instead of gas-bagging about High speed trains from tuam to donegal at the party conference

Sam, I want to see it happen as fast you do but let’s be honest, the NTA’s handling and communication of the original plans were, like that of many of their projects, poor and flawed to say the least. Most of the delays stem from their own issues rather than the DoT.

You fixate on Dunville Avenue, but I seem to recall Ryan’s questioning of alternatives was driven more by a different issue.

I can recall posting here that after one of the first consultation meetings that it was apparent to me that significant sections of the Green Line would have to have extended closures during the construction, only for several posters to tell me that I was talking through my behind.

Incredibly it took several more consultations before the fact the line would be closed for extended periods was explained in detail by the NTA, but, I will add, with no real explanation of how all those thousands of passengers would be dealt with on the roads of South Dublin.

That was what I recall the main reason behind ER’s questioning of the proposed route. Few if any of the public or politicians had even remotely realised that sections of the Green Line would have to be closed for months, some more than others.

The rights of way need to be dealt with too - they are issues of importance to communities along the line which deserve attention, as much as Metrolink being in place is important to others further out.

In that regard I tend not to listen to the more extreme loud voices who deal in hyperbole, such as what you seem to focus on, which are the ones sadly that get the news coverage, and which you fixate on, but rather listened to some of the more reasoned explanations of issues that people have that I heard at a couple of public meetings.

Like everything transport related, sadly the Irish media tend to focus on extreme stories that aren’t the real issues, and the real issues get ignored.

The unexpected sewer rendered the Dunville Avenue issue as irrelevant.

The northern part of Metrolink needs to happen but again, I have to ask, what’s happening within the NTA? Why haven’t they made a single one of their own deadlines? That’s the question to be asked.

It looks like the plan is that in 2025 there will be simultaneous construction on metrolink, DART+, bus connects corridors and some cycling schemes. The state is running the risk of causing rapid inflation of construction costs by running so many massive simultaneous projects while we also have to deliver 50,000 housing units annually. Adding another project at the same time probably isn't sustainable and thats before you consider the public expenditure element

It's now live.....

Is the Luas Green Line going to become the longest tram line in existence once this is done? I feel like trams aren't meant for such long journeys.