Luas Finglas

You might be expecting too much from one Luas stop in Finglas South

I could see people buying houses there as investments and renting them out rather than settling there and raising kids.

Foreigners would have no problem renting there as they'd have no idea of Finglas's reputation and it would be just 20 minutes from town with good public transport.

So quite quickly it could change demographically.

Ultimately this should be good for Finglas and Charlestown.

I've seen some commentary that this will "unlock" housing, but Finglas is built up as it is and with the changes to Jamestown Business Centre to Housing, and Broombridge Industrial Estate to housing, it'll be a busy line.

I know a few people from leafy south Dublin who have bought up around in anticipation of the Luas.

Most gentrification impacts of Luas were delayed by the GFC.

Cabra, Phibsborough, Crumlin and Drimnagh have all gentrified a bit because of the Luas.

Perhaps also the East and North sides of Tallaght.

It'll be interesting to see what Finglas will be like in 10 years. The East part is already fine.

The South part might gentrify next as it's right by the Luas and Park.

The Glasnevin industrial estate also will be redeveloped over time.

I agree here, I suspect it’s another case of Irish Times style journalism when it comes to rounding it to the nearest clickbait number. But I don’t think this is necessarily bad. If the number that the papers are rounding up from was already higher than necessary for overruns and delays, and with a time expectancy of 2031 for opening, the likely worst thing the project will do, is come in on time and at budget, and it likely could be a case of being ahead of time and under budget, which will only help the public’s opinions on these Luas projects. So overall, while it looks bad now, the project is approved and will get built, so a high cost and time estimate doesn’t actually matter, and could actually work in its favour.