I have to admit lads, I was bricking it this afternoon. Afterall Ive stuck my neck out both here and on the national airwaves in terms of doubt on Navan and the Interconnector. A lot of Rail projects in T21 are slipping. Todays budget fuels that slippage.
I had the banjo on my knee for some practise. Its now back in the attic.
It was a positive budget in many ways and in transport terms, those roads will be built! But as Ive been predicting, there is no definitive committment to rail. Can next years budget be any better? I doubt it.
I now think that Metro North may just be slipping into the same "holding area". I really hope Im wrong. I don't want to be right. But it does need to be said on record. I cannot see where the money is going to come from to sustain all these plans.
That is all from the "Eamonn Dunphy of rail transport".
