[Article] Public inquiry into 7.5km Luas extension to Cherrywood opens
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Platform 11 made its submission today, and the Irish Times have been given a copy
A copy of the text is attached, it wil be on the main website shortly |
There where rumours going around on Tuesday evening
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http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ire...5HM10LUAS.html © The Irish Times 2006 |
Well, we knew this was coming since last Summer. It has the potential to be very messy and cause untold delays.
Lets just hope an amicable solution can be found. |
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Poor old Olivia comes across as pro-business interests a lot of the time but her concerns seem very valid, having an at-grade crossing to the Estate would be a disaster. |
We don't want the Burton Hall crossing either and proposed a solution round it, I'm told the RPA actually agree with my assessment but it would annoy residents. Thanks to a bit of information that came my way last week we even proposed a way to avoid 3 at grade crossings at Glencairn and leave Clonlea House standing
I sold the segregation is good for passenger experience line Since this is light metro we have to concede level crossings, but that a high level of segregation is desirable |
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© 2006 The Irish Times Of course we mentioned the ambassadors wall at the inquiry on Wednesday. |
Such a load of hot air I have never heard in my life as that from Gaffney 'Sacred' the Portugese ambassador who held up the N11 widening at Whites Cross to preserve his front garden tennis court found himself 'Sacredly dismissed' by his government upon a complaint from then Taoiseach Albert Reynolds in 1994.
The issue for me here is why is such an obscene amount of concrete being poured and such a large number of traffic jams being created by the provision of at grade crossings when an existing alignment is intact save for one communal back garden? |
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You could go under and miss 3 at grade crossings and leave Clonlea house standing..........
RPA very quick to say it wasn't possible, cost they claim |
Anything is possible. Question is, is it worth it..
There are far too many short term goals in T21. Projects such as Luas line BX, the lack of segregation on Line B1, Sheriff Street Station, DMUs order etc.. I could name many more. Question is, are they worth the gain for the expenditure. Remember FF have the 2007 elections in mind and they are going to try and get as much as possible into planning and construction as they possibly can. Problem is, the interconnector can be pulled at that stage but I doubt the metro could. |
as sir humphrey said "Everything is possible minister, but nothing is possible the first time"
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Thats more or less what I told the RPA engineer, its an idea it can be done if you wanted itit won't be cheap but on the otherside it offers significant benefits
The inquiry panned out exactly the way we thought it would. Since the RPA have gone public we know the metro is just a fancy Luas. We could have had a good go at them and where ready to do so but in the context of the new information we had no case |
It is so typical of infrastructural investment practice in Ireland to gunther a major project such as the Metro to protect a Luas extension. This will be just like the M50 why build it once when you can do it twice?
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