So it’s just like the LUAS, but it doesn’t go anywhere.
Should be opening any day now I guess?
At this point the easiest way to build an underground metro in Dublin is to build a time machine, go back by about 150 years and convince the British that Dublin needs an underground railway like the one they just built in London.
Christ, hilarious that they still have that video up.
I’m optimistic but I believe they haven’t abandoned the idea of DART Underground, I think because it’s far too sensible an idea in principle but there just isn’t the money for it right now.
For clarity, there are no current plans to build DART Underground. It was shelved after the global financial crisis and the Phoenix Park tunnel was brought into operation instead. However, transport authorities say there will probably be a need for it in future so they are preserving the line so nothing gets built that would prevent it from happening.
>“The DART+ Tunnel project is an updated version of DART
Underground which received planning consent in 2010. This
scheme was not brought forward at that time, primarily due to
funding constraints and also due to the potential to utilise the
Phoenix Park Tunnel for passenger service.
>Since then, the Phoenix Park Tunnel link has been brought into
operational service, providing connectivity from the Kildare
line to the city centre stations of Connolly, Tara and Pearse.
In addition, the NTA and Irish Rail have reviewed the tunnel
project in order to further optimise its potential and ensure that
its progress would deliver the maximum benefits for transport
in the city-region.
>The NTA are satisfied that, in the longer term, the requirement
for an additional heavy rail line through Dublin City Centre
will arise. As such, an alignment for the DART+ Tunnel will be
preserved and protected to allow its future delivery subsequent
to the strategy period. However, the timing of implementation
of the DART+ Tunnel will be reassessed as part of the periodic
reviews of the Transport Strategy and its implementation can
be brought forward if required by emerging transport patterns.
Just ask Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook !
So we never needed this in the first place.
“And we’d’ve’adit by now if not for Obama!” -Irish people who take in American propaganda, questioned while protesting for “Pro-Life” anti-abortion measures returning to Ireland.
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They copy and pasted the script, lazy bastards.
Not there yet, but getting there…..but not really
So it’s just like the LUAS, but it doesn’t go anywhere.
Should be opening any day now I guess?
At this point the easiest way to build an underground metro in Dublin is to build a time machine, go back by about 150 years and convince the British that Dublin needs an underground railway like the one they just built in London.
Christ, hilarious that they still have that video up.
I’m optimistic but I believe they haven’t abandoned the idea of DART Underground, I think because it’s far too sensible an idea in principle but there just isn’t the money for it right now.
For clarity, there are no current plans to build DART Underground. It was shelved after the global financial crisis and the Phoenix Park tunnel was brought into operation instead. However, transport authorities say there will probably be a need for it in future so they are preserving the line so nothing gets built that would prevent it from happening.
>“The DART+ Tunnel project is an updated version of DART
Underground which received planning consent in 2010. This
scheme was not brought forward at that time, primarily due to
funding constraints and also due to the potential to utilise the
Phoenix Park Tunnel for passenger service.
>Since then, the Phoenix Park Tunnel link has been brought into
operational service, providing connectivity from the Kildare
line to the city centre stations of Connolly, Tara and Pearse.
In addition, the NTA and Irish Rail have reviewed the tunnel
project in order to further optimise its potential and ensure that
its progress would deliver the maximum benefits for transport
in the city-region.
>The NTA are satisfied that, in the longer term, the requirement
for an additional heavy rail line through Dublin City Centre
will arise. As such, an alignment for the DART+ Tunnel will be
preserved and protected to allow its future delivery subsequent
to the strategy period. However, the timing of implementation
of the DART+ Tunnel will be reassessed as part of the periodic
reviews of the Transport Strategy and its implementation can
be brought forward if required by emerging transport patterns.
https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTA-GDA-Transport-Strategy-2022-42-15.11.21-FA-WEB-1.pdf
Just ask Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook !
So we never needed this in the first place.
“And we’d’ve’adit by now if not for Obama!” -Irish people who take in American propaganda, questioned while protesting for “Pro-Life” anti-abortion measures returning to Ireland.