{"id":202914,"date":"2025-11-27T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202914\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:44:08","slug":"luas-red-line-fully-reopens-after-bridge-fire-as-night-service-for-christmas-is-announced-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/202914\/","title":{"rendered":"Luas Red line fully reopens after bridge fire as night service for Christmas is announced \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a>\u2019s Red Line <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/luas\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/luas\/\">Luas<\/a> services between Connolly and The Point will reopen on Friday, in time for the introduction of late-night services for the Christmas party period. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Announcing the reopening of the George\u2019s Dock bridge, which was severely damaged by fire in August, Luas operator Transdev said the late-night trams would run on Friday and Saturday December 12th and 13th, as well as Friday December 19th and Saturday, December 20th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Night Luas, as the extended services are to be branded, will also operate on New Year\u2019s Eve. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Night Luas services will be operated on both the Red and Green lines, with trams generally running up to about 3am. The full timetable is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luas.ie\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.luas.ie\">Luas.ie<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Services will finish at 8pm on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This year is the 21st anniversary of the introduction of the Luas and by year end Transdev expects journey numbers to rise to more than 55 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Before the bridge fire, some 20,000 passenger journeys took place each day on the Connolly-to-The-Point section of the Red Line, with numbers increasing significantly during concerts, matches and big events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Infrastructure provider Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) said an intensive programme of construction and reinstatement works was delivered in collaboration with Transdev, Jons Civil Engineering, ROD, GPX Rail and Custom House Docks Management Limited. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">TII chief executive Lorcan O\u2019Connor said passenger services were being restored \u201cwithin an exceptionally short time frame\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In addition to bridge reconstruction, utility connections and Luas tracks, the overhead contact system was fully reinstated. The Commission for Railway Regulation approved the return of passenger services this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Minister for Transport Darragh O\u2019Brien congratulated all concerned. \u201cI\u2019m delighted to see the services reopening just in time for the busy Christmas season and thank passengers for their patience and understanding throughout this period,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"c-unordered-list paywall\">\n<li class=\"c-list-item paywall\">\u00a0TII has produced a short time-lapse video showcasing the George\u2019s Dock construction works over recent months. You can see it <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1140363779?share=copy&amp;fl=sv&amp;fe=ci\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/1140363779?share=copy&amp;fl=sv&amp;fe=ci\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin\u2019s Red Line Luas services between Connolly and The Point will reopen on Friday, in time for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,52,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,11550,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-202914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-luas","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115621492488903857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}