I’m sure it’s not set in stone, it sets in the pocket.
Ours is based on the Copenhagen Metro which has been called the best in the world. We’re certainly not following the same timeline though.
1992 – Idea considered
1996 – Construction begins
2003 – Starts operation
2005 – Second line proposed
2007 – Finding granted
2013 – Construction
2019 – Extension begins operation
The greatest bluff of them all
Best little country to make bank
I should have got on that quango train. Look at them. Shit-eating grins and nary a wrinkle!
Ahh jobs for the boys, you’d build a grand childrens hospital elsewhere for that or a grand metro.
Thats ok elsewhere but we have to consider our politians mates.
Usually these projects cost billions, they’ll need a lot more than 250m. Dublin is also built on rock unlike London where they had marshy ground and it was easier to tunnel.
Irish efficiency
Please submit a response to TFI or write a letter to your local TD, let’s try actually get change rather than being keyboard warrior and complaining doing nothing I’m writing one now
surprised?
They were giving their developer mates plenty of time to buy up swathes of land between Dublin City and the airport
A quarter of a century, a quarter of a billion and literally no progress. Only in Ireland.
Not an inch of it has been dug and we have no idea of when they’ll even start. It infuriates me as this is something Dublin desperately needs.
Going to be very popular stating the obvious here but this is classic clickbait. Planning and ground investigation are expensive (and must be done) because if it wasn’t, the headline would be ‘Government wastes 1 billion on route that is unsuitable’.
We pretty much had the converse for the Port Tunnel where not enough ground investigation was done which led to costly delays until the methodology of excavating the glacial till under Dublin was figured out.
That all said, this whole thing will probably be ready when I am eligible for the free travel pass when the retirement age is up to 90.
The lack of progress on the Dublin metro is one of the most embarrassing things about this country.
Not to mention how it’s already been downgraded to a tram.
Pathetic.
By 2015 Stephen’s green should have already been dug up to build the metro and DART underground station there.
And I thought the HSE was a black hole for swallowing money
Shure, but, politicians! Tis their culture.
The apparatus of the Irish state now functions entirely to collect money from taxpayers, and funnel it into the pockets of private sector workers and shareholders. I would love to know how much the big 4 accountants made off us in the last few years, it’s got to be an absolute fortune on covid alone. As of August it was at least €1 million a week.
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I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
I’m sure it’s not set in stone, it sets in the pocket.
Ours is based on the Copenhagen Metro which has been called the best in the world. We’re certainly not following the same timeline though.
1992 – Idea considered
1996 – Construction begins
2003 – Starts operation
2005 – Second line proposed
2007 – Finding granted
2013 – Construction
2019 – Extension begins operation
The greatest bluff of them all
Best little country to make bank
I should have got on that quango train. Look at them. Shit-eating grins and nary a wrinkle!
Ahh jobs for the boys, you’d build a grand childrens hospital elsewhere for that or a grand metro.
Thats ok elsewhere but we have to consider our politians mates.
Usually these projects cost billions, they’ll need a lot more than 250m. Dublin is also built on rock unlike London where they had marshy ground and it was easier to tunnel.
Irish efficiency
Please submit a response to TFI or write a letter to your local TD, let’s try actually get change rather than being keyboard warrior and complaining doing nothing I’m writing one now
surprised?
They were giving their developer mates plenty of time to buy up swathes of land between Dublin City and the airport
A quarter of a century, a quarter of a billion and literally no progress. Only in Ireland.
Not an inch of it has been dug and we have no idea of when they’ll even start. It infuriates me as this is something Dublin desperately needs.
https://www.tii.ie/careers/
No jobs, all the boys have one…
Going to be very popular stating the obvious here but this is classic clickbait. Planning and ground investigation are expensive (and must be done) because if it wasn’t, the headline would be ‘Government wastes 1 billion on route that is unsuitable’.
We pretty much had the converse for the Port Tunnel where not enough ground investigation was done which led to costly delays until the methodology of excavating the glacial till under Dublin was figured out.
That all said, this whole thing will probably be ready when I am eligible for the free travel pass when the retirement age is up to 90.
The lack of progress on the Dublin metro is one of the most embarrassing things about this country.
Not to mention how it’s already been downgraded to a tram.
Pathetic.
By 2015 Stephen’s green should have already been dug up to build the metro and DART underground station there.
And I thought the HSE was a black hole for swallowing money
Shure, but, politicians! Tis their culture.
The apparatus of the Irish state now functions entirely to collect money from taxpayers, and funnel it into the pockets of private sector workers and shareholders. I would love to know how much the big 4 accountants made off us in the last few years, it’s got to be an absolute fortune on covid alone. As of August it was at least €1 million a week.