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Originally Posted by Thomas J Stamp
the trams (that's what they are really) will run down the meridian of the Belgard Road and the Fonthill Road and also Blanchardstown Road South.
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So you reckon it will run like the luas along the naas road?
From my local knowledge, given the vast amount of undeveloped land between ballycoolin and the airport, there should be no difficulty as regards segregating the line completely in that section of the route. The same goes for the section from when it crosses the N4 until the Porterstown interchange.
Section between porterstown and ballycoolin is tricky however. Theres space alongside the length of the blanchardstown road so that it could run in a segregated manner, however the two junctions it will cross at clonsilla rd and at the power city roundabout are busy. They should really be bridged.
I cant see any way how the line could be kept at grade yet kept away from traffic through the blanchardstown centre. Then theres the small matter of how it will cross the N3. It better get its own bridge!!
Any chance that the residents of tallaght, clondalkin, quarryvale and blanchardstown could kick up a helluva fuss and get this done right (as successfully done with metro north in ballymun?)
Also, agreed this project definitely seems to be far more similar to the tallaght luas line than the metro north. but is that such a bad thing? (
author prepares for onslaught)