Dublin - Metrolink (Swords to Charlemont only)

I am sorry but its a pointless argument, I am from rural North Tipperary and I am strong supporter of Metrolink, DART Plus, Heavy Rail, and any public transport that will help the country run more efficiently. Vast majority of rural and urban people are too.

Metrolink and DART Plus will be of national benefit same as the motorway network, same as the stadiums, hospitals etc etc. Its a national development plan not a rural or urban development plan.

Whatever is next, there needs to be a next. We need to keep the knowledge bank that will be gained from MetroLink to be moved onto the next big PT project whatever that is or looks like at that stage.

We have to caveat everything with the political will at that time. Hopefully somebody will still be around from the last recession and remembers that we should push ahead with infrastructure regardless for the bounce back.

I could imagine the very fact that we are building a metro line would make us as a nation think "hang on, we can actually do this". Getting ML under construction could be be a game changer in our national psyche. That's what I'm hoping for anyway because letting a load of tunnel builders leave our shores again after ML would be a crying shame. We should definitely keep a pipeline of projects going for a core group of them.

I doubt many (any?) of the houses on Dartmouth Square will be sold to TII. I'd say the objectors just agreed to this as a way of saving face following the negative reactions but don't actually want to move elsewhere (they wouldn't have started down the JR route if they wanted to move).

It'll be several years before any work starts there (it is literally the end of the line) so none of them will be rushing out of there. A few of those residents may look to take advantage of the offer for TII to buy them out but that'll be because it suits them to move anyway (downsizing, escaping to the country, etc.). Most will look for money towards triple glazing, etc. and will bitch constantly to the TII liaison but they'll stay put because they already live in an extremely desirable house.

And CGT/CAT won't be an issue with any buy outs. There'll be a purchase price set plus then compensation, moving costs, etc. The full sum will not be considered purchase price, the whole thing will be carefully choreographed, any costs would be for TII to cover anyway.

They will probably run the figures if its cheaper for the contractor to take it apart or bury it on site.

I think sometimes when people hear the TBM was buried they think it’s just switched off and left but in reality lots of it is stripped. Anything of value or use is removed, also any oil etc is taken.
removing it shipping it and rebuilding it elsewhere would be very costly especially in a system where it doesn’t finish at an extraction point.

Now that we seem to have new anti nimby powers it might be time to launch a separate project to tie the metro into the Green line. By the time the tbm reaches Charlemont hopefully it'll have an RO.

That would delay the metro opening by years.

Thoughts aside about connecting ML into a southwest Metro, it would have to be done with its own TBM starting from the M50. There is no way to extract the amount of material a TBM will be spitting out in Ranelagh or CC, which would delay the rest of the metro opening.

would need acres of land to remove soil and insert the linings on an ongoing basis. Thats without taking into account the constant back and forth of trucks going to and from to the site. Roads couldn’t take it. There’s just no way there could be a dig from the city end.