[Article] Hearing into Luas red and green line link-up opens

[Colm Moore]

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Hearing into Luas red and green line link-up opens
OLIVIA KELLY

DUBLIN’S CROSS-CITY Luas line linking the existing red and green lines could be completed ahead of the 1916 centenary celebrations if there was “timely Government approval” of the project, An Bord Pleanála has heard.

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Council seeks 'wire free' city centre for new Luas line

OLIVIA KELLY

DUBLIN CITY Council has urged Bord Pleanála not to permit the use of overhead power cables on the proposed Luas Broombridge line through Dublin city centre.

In its submission to the hearing on the plan to link the existing red and green Luas lines, the council said the area from St Stephen’s Green to Parnell Square should be a “wire free” zone.

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