Suckers. I’d have written the plan for €24 billion.
For those who only skim the article, it unfortunately doesn’t have details of the to-be-published plan, talking mainly of the draft, but noting that the published version isn’t expected to be too different from the draft.
€55 billion Dublin transport plan still not completed
Whitewater rafting from phibsborough to st stephen’s green
Can’t wait to read in 5 years time about how these funds were “mismanaged” and/or “overspent” in shady deals with Dail friendly contractors…
Eventually resulting in a couple of bus lanes that do not make any sensed to begin with.
Surprise me…
So €11,584.80 from every person working in Ireland (A lot more when done probably).
How much is Paris paying for all those new metro lines again?
Meanwhile, in Donegal…
Is it going to be published in the Culture / Fiction Books section of the newspaper?
For 25 billion I will find contractors willing to build a 4 lane highway from north to south and east to west of Ireland.
But with the Irish government they’ll keep increasing the cost of the project over its lifetime and then put a toll on it 😢 smh
The smell of transport 21 off this. But I guess we got a load of motorways out if that but fuck all Transport projects. I recently discovered the original plan for at least some of the Luas around 2000 was for it to be partially underground, pretty much like a German Stadtbahn. So more plans that will be whittled down to a bus with fancy paint
I too have plans. I plan to learn how to fly using excess arm fat. This will cost the tax payer 30 million to conceptualise and will never happen.
It’s weird reading about 2042 this, 2042 that 😬
Inching towards the grave
Might sound a bit of a strange idea but it would be a fairly strong proposal to do a metro loop around the commuter belt towards Swords. Like Bray, Sandyford, Saggart/Tallaght, Adamstown, Lucan, Blanch type of links. Centralisation is a big weakness of the current setup we have. Basically everything converges, it should be more of a web. Bus is last mile, train/luas/metro should be the major part of the journey.
>Metrolink line from Swords and Dublin Airport to the city was submitted to An Bord Pleanala last September, but the draft strategy suggested that instead of a future extension of the line to the south or southwest, these areas should be served by Luas lines, but not until after 2042.
Infrastructure will be built by, current year + 20 years, cant wait until its finished, if Infrastructure not built by that time, please reread the message
Queue loads of politicians swanning around like they’ve already done it all. While knowing they never will (metro anyone?) and what’s more, there’ll neve be any comeuppance. Just another plan in 5 years.
So I’m hearing 50 billion right?
Thats how it works right, we say 25, but its going to cost 50 right?
And the rest of the country can continue to get berated by the greens for not walking 40 miles to work every morning
I’d say EY and/or Accenture bust out the best copy and paste PowerPoint they have for this bad boy .
We should have an underground railway link all across Ireland. Especially the North West of the country seems underdeveloped… One wonders if the overlords in Dublin are waiting for a united Ireland before they start developing NorthWest ROI
Hell I’ll take a direct link between Ireland to mainland Europe just like the connected UK to France but I guess that’s not gonna be possible. Imagine though if it was, we’d have the longest underwater tunnel in the world
…again. Anyone remember *Transport2020* or somesuch, the multi-year plan to transform Public Transport…
Reddit – Why is transport so shit?
Also Reddit – We’re planning to spend WHAT on transport?!
Any chance they would throw a few hundred thousand at the rest of the country?
“Greater-Dublin-Area-Transport-Strategy”
Won’t someone think of Dublin! – You know, the place that has dedicated bus fleet, Luas, train and cycle paths.
It’s difficult to swallow seeing my area as a potential post-2042 Luas stop. This would have been so handy for me growing up, and there were always talks about Luas lines, potential extensions to the proposed Metrolink from Charlemount out to Knocklyon from when I was 12 years old up to today. It’s sad to think that even if they turned around and did it the very next year in 2043, I would be 50 years old.
This is a budget big enough to build 15 miles of subway.
We need an underground but especially a loop around the city connecting Docklands, Pearse, Houston and Connolly.
These plans are always such horseshit, and just get diluted or fail:
The crop up every few years and we pay lots of consultants lots of money and then it inevitably gets eroded at local level. But the producers get to pat themselves on the back for a delivery in twenty fucking forty two…
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Suckers. I’d have written the plan for €24 billion.
For those who only skim the article, it unfortunately doesn’t have details of the to-be-published plan, talking mainly of the draft, but noting that the published version isn’t expected to be too different from the draft.
Edit: [Strategy has gone live](https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Greater-Dublin-Area-Transport-Strategy-2022-42.pdf)
Monorail.
Meanwhile in 2040
€55 billion Dublin transport plan still not completed
Whitewater rafting from phibsborough to st stephen’s green
Can’t wait to read in 5 years time about how these funds were “mismanaged” and/or “overspent” in shady deals with Dail friendly contractors…
Eventually resulting in a couple of bus lanes that do not make any sensed to begin with.
Surprise me…
So €11,584.80 from every person working in Ireland (A lot more when done probably).
How much is Paris paying for all those new metro lines again?
Meanwhile, in Donegal…
Is it going to be published in the Culture / Fiction Books section of the newspaper?
For 25 billion I will find contractors willing to build a 4 lane highway from north to south and east to west of Ireland.
But with the Irish government they’ll keep increasing the cost of the project over its lifetime and then put a toll on it 😢 smh
The smell of transport 21 off this. But I guess we got a load of motorways out if that but fuck all Transport projects. I recently discovered the original plan for at least some of the Luas around 2000 was for it to be partially underground, pretty much like a German Stadtbahn. So more plans that will be whittled down to a bus with fancy paint
I too have plans. I plan to learn how to fly using excess arm fat. This will cost the tax payer 30 million to conceptualise and will never happen.
It’s weird reading about 2042 this, 2042 that 😬
Inching towards the grave
Might sound a bit of a strange idea but it would be a fairly strong proposal to do a metro loop around the commuter belt towards Swords. Like Bray, Sandyford, Saggart/Tallaght, Adamstown, Lucan, Blanch type of links. Centralisation is a big weakness of the current setup we have. Basically everything converges, it should be more of a web. Bus is last mile, train/luas/metro should be the major part of the journey.
>Metrolink line from Swords and Dublin Airport to the city was submitted to An Bord Pleanala last September, but the draft strategy suggested that instead of a future extension of the line to the south or southwest, these areas should be served by Luas lines, but not until after 2042.
Infrastructure will be built by, current year + 20 years, cant wait until its finished, if Infrastructure not built by that time, please reread the message
Queue loads of politicians swanning around like they’ve already done it all. While knowing they never will (metro anyone?) and what’s more, there’ll neve be any comeuppance. Just another plan in 5 years.
So I’m hearing 50 billion right?
Thats how it works right, we say 25, but its going to cost 50 right?
And the rest of the country can continue to get berated by the greens for not walking 40 miles to work every morning
I’d say EY and/or Accenture bust out the best copy and paste PowerPoint they have for this bad boy .
We should have an underground railway link all across Ireland. Especially the North West of the country seems underdeveloped… One wonders if the overlords in Dublin are waiting for a united Ireland before they start developing NorthWest ROI
Hell I’ll take a direct link between Ireland to mainland Europe just like the connected UK to France but I guess that’s not gonna be possible. Imagine though if it was, we’d have the longest underwater tunnel in the world
…again. Anyone remember *Transport2020* or somesuch, the multi-year plan to transform Public Transport…
Reddit – Why is transport so shit?
Also Reddit – We’re planning to spend WHAT on transport?!
Any chance they would throw a few hundred thousand at the rest of the country?
“Greater-Dublin-Area-Transport-Strategy”
Won’t someone think of Dublin! – You know, the place that has dedicated bus fleet, Luas, train and cycle paths.
It’s difficult to swallow seeing my area as a potential post-2042 Luas stop. This would have been so handy for me growing up, and there were always talks about Luas lines, potential extensions to the proposed Metrolink from Charlemount out to Knocklyon from when I was 12 years old up to today. It’s sad to think that even if they turned around and did it the very next year in 2043, I would be 50 years old.
This is a budget big enough to build 15 miles of subway.
We need an underground but especially a loop around the city connecting Docklands, Pearse, Houston and Connolly.
These plans are always such horseshit, and just get diluted or fail:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_21
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Development_Plan
3. https://www.engineersireland.ie/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=HmVoVZPgEIs%3D&portalid=0&resourceView=1
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusConnects
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_Bus_Corridor
6. https://www.rte.ie/archives/2020/0625/1149536-metro-dublin/
The crop up every few years and we pay lots of consultants lots of money and then it inevitably gets eroded at local level. But the producers get to pat themselves on the back for a delivery in twenty fucking forty two…
Or spend money on the rest of the country?