Re: Re: Metro North

As always more hot air

Midleton Rail line cost €75m

http://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/letters/new-rail-link-brings-hope-of-better-days-ahead-97755.html

Swords could be done for probably €30m a mile or €90m absolute tops; I have embellished this with a 40% contingency

The airport could be done for €30m a mile where a contingency of €110m on top of an inflated cost equating to fuill motorway cost has been given

Allowing €100m change for signalling

Luas to Point €54m for a mile in length; as BX goes to O’Connell Street leaving a total distance less than 4 miles or a cost of €216m

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/luas-set-to-pull-up-outside-the-point-in-54m-plan-233555.html

I am confident that if the first two projects were managed prudently that costs could be less than €300m on those and if the RPA managed the Ballymun Luas it could be done for €150 a long way from the €500m you suggest it would cost to get a luas line from O’Connell Street to Ballymun; on that basis the metro would cost the €5bn the RPA originally costed.