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.

I think it's kids on scramblers is the problem unfortunately.

I think they really need to consider the area when forming these plans. Parts of Finglas have serious issues. You can ask for nice things but reality can't be ignored either for safety reasons. You can't do everywhere in Dublin what you might get away with on parts of the green line.

That's not to say you don't try to bring up the area as a byproduct of infrastructure but no miracle is going to be done here just by a tram line though it may help to start some developments.

Unfortunately, the anti human kissing gates seem to be an idealogical crusade by DCC they've installed a new one only this year in tolka valley park, despite what design guidance says.

And not only that but they use these gates as a means to evade arrest when the cops are chasing them. They know the Guards can't lift their cars or bikes over like a couple of teenagers can with a small scrambler. It would work against them if these barriers were wide enough for the Guards to chase them through.