And we all know that figure will be doubled or tripled in reality
> Metro linking Dublin Airport to city centre estimated to cost €9.5bn. Construction is expected to begin in 2025 and the route is expected to be completed between 2031-2034.
So, €100 billion and they’ll be breaking ground about twenty years after the airport is at the bottom of the Irish Sea, then?
Government NAMA took possession of the derelict school and lands from behind the Hilton at Clarehall west to the M1/M50 junction; would it have been too much of if a leap of the imagination to build a spur DART line from Clongriffin station to the airport from there?
Metro in Dublin is a mad vanity project. There are far cheaper and less disruptive options.
Cheaper to provide helicopter shuttles.
Eiteal Átha Cliath!
***”Metro linking Dublin Airport to city center to cost €19.5bn”***
Just imaging how many children’s hospitals we could have built with that money.
The answer is 3, if you are lucky.
Like HS2, I’d imagine Most of this due to the cost of buying the land for the track. Hypothetically, If they spent 5B on building new houses outside dublin and gave them away for *free* they could probably tank the entire Dublin housing market enough so that the land they have to purchase would be available at a 50% discount.
5B could build 20k new houses valued at 250k each.
Cheaper to build a Monorail.
“I give you the Dublin Monorail! I’ve sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map! Well, sir, there’s nothin’ on Earth like a genuine bona-fide electrified six-car monorail””
But… Why?
€19.5 billion
Just build something. Anything. Then deal with the metro later. A direct bus route not one that goes all around Dublin first. A Luas. A helicopter. Fucking anything that gets people to and from the airport quickly.
So €30bn ?
2034 😅
I know it’s a major project, but that seems excessive?
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And we all know that figure will be doubled or tripled in reality
> Metro linking Dublin Airport to city centre estimated to cost €9.5bn. Construction is expected to begin in 2025 and the route is expected to be completed between 2031-2034.
So, €100 billion and they’ll be breaking ground about twenty years after the airport is at the bottom of the Irish Sea, then?
Government NAMA took possession of the derelict school and lands from behind the Hilton at Clarehall west to the M1/M50 junction; would it have been too much of if a leap of the imagination to build a spur DART line from Clongriffin station to the airport from there?
Metro in Dublin is a mad vanity project. There are far cheaper and less disruptive options.
Cheaper to provide helicopter shuttles.
Eiteal Átha Cliath!
***”Metro linking Dublin Airport to city center to cost €19.5bn”***
Just imaging how many children’s hospitals we could have built with that money.
The answer is 3, if you are lucky.
Like HS2, I’d imagine Most of this due to the cost of buying the land for the track. Hypothetically, If they spent 5B on building new houses outside dublin and gave them away for *free* they could probably tank the entire Dublin housing market enough so that the land they have to purchase would be available at a 50% discount.
5B could build 20k new houses valued at 250k each.
Cheaper to build a Monorail.
“I give you the Dublin Monorail! I’ve sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map! Well, sir, there’s nothin’ on Earth like a genuine bona-fide electrified six-car monorail””
But… Why?
€19.5 billion
Just build something. Anything. Then deal with the metro later. A direct bus route not one that goes all around Dublin first. A Luas. A helicopter. Fucking anything that gets people to and from the airport quickly.
So €30bn ?
2034 😅
I know it’s a major project, but that seems excessive?