An Bord Pleanala decision on planning approv delayed again, but a handy €125M spent on the project so far…

by SeaofCrags

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  3. We’ll all have jetpacks and teleportation devices by the time that thing starts being built.

  4. To much tied up in bus connects for this to happen anytime soon.

  5. An Bord Pleanala needs to have a serious eye cast over it.

  6. An Bord Pleanala needs to be gutted and restarted from the ground up. Useless clowns

  7. Can this not be processed though an essential infrastructure route like the way certain roads projects are? It’s insane – Dublin will literally choke on its own traffic and cease to function or be able to compete if some of these projects don’t happen soon.

  9. Our dysfunctional planning system in Ireland is an enormous dead weight around infrastructure and housing.

    Dublin bus has had 130 electric buses sitting unused for a year because of problems getting planning permission to install charging infrastructure in its depot.

    What concerns me is there is so little political discussion about how to seriously reform the planning system.

  12. We could stop now and it’d be a bargain compared to the children’s hospital.

  13. And even if it does get built, it’s nowhere close to enough.

  14. ABP are a shower of cunts and it’s up to us the people to put an end to it. The politicians wont but we should raise their building to the ground.

  15. Not been smart or anything, but what the fuck did they spend 125 million on? Trips to Vegas so they could discuss it around a high stakes poker table?

  17. Well, sir, there’s nothing on earth
    Like a genuine, bona fide
    Electrified, six-car monorail
    What’d I say?

  18. Thank you An Board Pleanala for making it impossible for my girlfriend to sell her house because of the forever delayed project…

  19. Where is the money going to? Is this what I am paying tax for? Planning? Planning what?

    And I would be more surprised if it was not delayed again…

  22. This is not a surprise to me, people forget there were other attempts to do similar projects in Dublin before and they start off delayed due to planning permission problems and then scrapped as costs increases. Even if it gets past the ABP stage the appeals will go the courts route. EamonnRyan and a lot of the Greens are against planning reform. I saw an interview where he said he wanted the planning process to have full judicial oversight and rigour. Am guessing if he sought special infrastructure status for the project he could be labelled a hypocrite.

  23. Joke.

    At this stage they should just bin the whole idea and build luas lines all over Dublin.

  24. Transport 21 vibes.. Just cancel the damn thing already. I was all for it, but now just take it off life support. There’s absolutely zero desire in government to build it. None of the parties. Sane with DART. All of this should have abd could have been built and opened by 2015. Instead fucking bus plague everywhere.

  25. We need Javier Milei for absolutely nothing else but to specifically run an Bord Pleanala.

  26. Who actually holds these people accountable? This is extremely shady behaviour.

    Can the public access a breakdown of costs so far and where they’ve gone etc like they can with a charity? Would be very interesting to see where and how they’re fucking this up.

  27. Yeah I’ll be out of this country by the time any good thing is built. Fuck sake. I just wanna live without a car and have fast and reliable public transport. I swear I’m outta here once I finish Uni.

  28. Are the government completely incapable of managing anything?

    Construction is a massive weak point of FG/FF and given the type of country we are, it really calls into the question the competence of the current ministers?

    We potentially need to increase the age requirements for running for government as clearly TDs do not have enough industry experience to oversee the various departments

  29. The lack of long-term planning and vision in Ireland is an absolute disgrace.

  30. Imagine we had started building this thing back in 2016-2020 when interest rates were at 0% and inflation was low , it would be built by now and at a much lower cost. It’s looking like this won’t even have planning permission by the next election and of the next government doesn’t have the greens I wouldn’t have much faith in it being built at all. This country is actually a disaster when it comes to new transport infrastructure bar roads.

  34. It’s never going to be built. In 20 years time this will still be happening, we’ll have spent 200mil by then with nothing to show for it other than a lot of wealthy consultancy and survey companies.

    All we can do here is build bypasses and motorways in the arsehole of nowhere. Anything semi urban/urban and useful gets shouted down by nimbys and those with vested interests against usable public transport. It’s a complete joke, but I’m used to it at this stage. Last decent bit of public transport infrastructure built in Dublin was the Luas, nearly 20 years ago & that was planned since the early 80s.

    If Dublin had a dedicated transport authority who had actual powers it might be different. But too many departments and quangos involved these days. (DCC, DOT, TFI, NTA, RPA, ABP etc)

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