Going on children’s maths this will cost 40 billion and 1st train in 2045
Change that €9.5bn to €40bn.
How much have all the delays cost. It could have been done for a billion 20 years ago.
Swiss rail built a 57km tunnel through a mountain for 9bn, and Switzerland is not famous for being cheap.
Any word on the green line Luas south of Charlemont being upgraded or have the NIMBYs killed that one? A direct, frequent transport link from Bride’s Glen directly to the airport would be amazing.
We can make up all the dates and numbers that we want. IT AINT EVER GONNA HAPPEN BABES.
I am convinced this thing wont be up and running before I retire in 30 (if im lucky) years.
Fucking finally. Get it signed, sealed and ordered.
9.5bn my absolute hole!
Let me correct that, “Long-delayed Dublin Metrolink to cost €15bn with first trains running by 2040.
China has built 37,900 kilometers of high speed rail since 2008..
OP, you mean will cost 25Bn and start around 2045.
Fuck just get it built
Just get it built. It’s needed and I’m sick of listening to it but never seeing it.
They should put it above ground on struts
Ahh just get it done already before its gonna cost so much we won’t be able to afford it anymore and that will be it, wouldn’t be surprised at all…
The bill will still be running …can’t build one hospital…
Please educate us Donegalians on what a train is?
Is this the swords one?
I’m struggling to think of the last time we built infrastructure and thought, “you know, that was not money well spent”.
I’d hope we will do this properly though – overcome the NIMBYism around Ranelagh and upgrade the Green line to support the large developments which are proposed along it.
We also need very visible policing on an underground. None of whatever it is we have now, we’re not spending 10 billion to give thugs a joyride to the airport.
If they start digging, they’re just going to run into some trash heap left by the bloody Scandinavians and the whole thing will be held up for years
Triple that and you’re closer to the actual final figure, anyway build it
Probably have housing sorted by 2395 so….
Uuuguh
And that’s just the figure now.
I’ll say €40bn by 2045
The second tallest building in the world, the Merdeka 118, cost $1.5 billion to build. Ireland is a joke.
Buses are fine if you acknowledge that city Centre roads are too small for cars and have the balls to reserve roads for buses where bus routes are.
This was estimated at roughly €2bn back when it was Metro North in 2010. Metrolink is not the exact same route, but very similar. Had it been approved, it would be opened by now, contributing to the economy, and paying for itself.
Delaying these projects by a couple of years is ok, but delaying for 10+ years is a colossal waste of money. For reference, €9bn is ~40% of the final cost of London’s Crossrail project, which is on a whole other scale to the Metrolink underground tram connecting Swords and the airport to the city center.
Hopefully it’s standard gauge and not our own domestic gauge used by no other country on earth
Like honestly, who thought a broader gauge was a good idea, now anytime we buy trains they either have to be built to this gauge or converted over
Nice. Il ride for free with my OAP discount.
I honestly thought this was a parody when I saw the cost and opening date
Lads the “luas is free” gag is all fun and games but can we stop pretending the Metrolink is ever going to be a thing? That joke’s not funny any more
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Going on children’s maths this will cost 40 billion and 1st train in 2045
Change that €9.5bn to €40bn.
How much have all the delays cost. It could have been done for a billion 20 years ago.
Swiss rail built a 57km tunnel through a mountain for 9bn, and Switzerland is not famous for being cheap.
Any word on the green line Luas south of Charlemont being upgraded or have the NIMBYs killed that one? A direct, frequent transport link from Bride’s Glen directly to the airport would be amazing.
We can make up all the dates and numbers that we want. IT AINT EVER GONNA HAPPEN BABES.
I am convinced this thing wont be up and running before I retire in 30 (if im lucky) years.
Fucking finally. Get it signed, sealed and ordered.
9.5bn my absolute hole!
Let me correct that, “Long-delayed Dublin Metrolink to cost €15bn with first trains running by 2040.
China has built 37,900 kilometers of high speed rail since 2008..
OP, you mean will cost 25Bn and start around 2045.
Fuck just get it built
Just get it built. It’s needed and I’m sick of listening to it but never seeing it.
They should put it above ground on struts
Ahh just get it done already before its gonna cost so much we won’t be able to afford it anymore and that will be it, wouldn’t be surprised at all…
The bill will still be running …can’t build one hospital…
Please educate us Donegalians on what a train is?
Is this the swords one?
I’m struggling to think of the last time we built infrastructure and thought, “you know, that was not money well spent”.
I’d hope we will do this properly though – overcome the NIMBYism around Ranelagh and upgrade the Green line to support the large developments which are proposed along it.
We also need very visible policing on an underground. None of whatever it is we have now, we’re not spending 10 billion to give thugs a joyride to the airport.
If they start digging, they’re just going to run into some trash heap left by the bloody Scandinavians and the whole thing will be held up for years
Triple that and you’re closer to the actual final figure, anyway build it
Probably have housing sorted by 2395 so….
Uuuguh
And that’s just the figure now.
I’ll say €40bn by 2045
The second tallest building in the world, the Merdeka 118, cost $1.5 billion to build. Ireland is a joke.
Buses are fine if you acknowledge that city Centre roads are too small for cars and have the balls to reserve roads for buses where bus routes are.
This was estimated at roughly €2bn back when it was Metro North in 2010. Metrolink is not the exact same route, but very similar. Had it been approved, it would be opened by now, contributing to the economy, and paying for itself.
Delaying these projects by a couple of years is ok, but delaying for 10+ years is a colossal waste of money. For reference, €9bn is ~40% of the final cost of London’s Crossrail project, which is on a whole other scale to the Metrolink underground tram connecting Swords and the airport to the city center.
Hopefully it’s standard gauge and not our own domestic gauge used by no other country on earth
Like honestly, who thought a broader gauge was a good idea, now anytime we buy trains they either have to be built to this gauge or converted over
Nice. Il ride for free with my OAP discount.
I honestly thought this was a parody when I saw the cost and opening date
Lads the “luas is free” gag is all fun and games but can we stop pretending the Metrolink is ever going to be a thing? That joke’s not funny any more