Dundrum LUAS bridge
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I pass the construction site for the LUAS crossing of the grand canal every day, and it looks like being just a flat bridge. The canals aren’t really respected as navigable waterways anymore.
As for Ranelagh road, all I can find is the map on the LUAS website. Does anyone living in Ranelagh have an idea on the scale of this bridge?
Oops! I just realised which Grand Canal crossing you were talking about… The one on the Tallaght line is the unimpressive one.
Just looking at those Maps on the Luas website, seems that the actual stop/platforms will be integrated into the bridges at both Ranelagh and over the Canal.
This could be like the Drumcondra railway station; the station is at ground level but access to the platforms is up a stairs. The platforms don’t extend onto the bridge much, but it wouldn’t be too hard.
The two bridges at Grand Parade and Ranelagh have stops located on them. Both will feature lifts and access stairs and drawings of both can be viewed in the planning offices of the city council and the council offices in Dunlaoghaire.
The bridge at Suir Road over the canal is pretty basic and sits rather awkwardly between two existing bridges. Part of the work includes rebuilding the canal basin and Waterways Ireland plan to upgrade the canal in this area.
JJ
There are also two pedestrian bridges along Davitt Road one a replacement and one new.What’s all this I hear about the Luas bridge in Dundrum being too low, or one of the slip roads being 10 inches too high. Can they really have made such a basic error? Ireland on Sunday said the whole thing will be delayed until Christmas as a result. Such a shame for what appeared to be a marvel of modern engineering
Ireland on Sunday seemed to be making a big deal out of this. I don’t trust that newspaper – it’s really just a badly written tabloid.
But their info is probably correct. The thing to remember is that they’re only talking about a single sliproad leading from churchtown road to the dundrum road into town (see below). The rest of the bridge is fine.
Can it be that hard to lower that little piece of road??? Anyone who’s seen the phenomenal work they’ve been carrying out lately wuold take this as the smallest of problems that can certainly be carried out with very little disruption (work on the bridge so far has caused very little disruption in general).
Below you’ll see a current photo of the night work on the bridge and a detail showing the corner where the road is too high.
fjp
(sorry about all the pictures – I’m having a very pictured week)(oops – image lost in a server incident – click my www link below for the photos)
The slip road from Churchtown road to Dundrum Road is about 250mm too high as it passes under the bridge. This work was done as part of the Road realignment contract by the council’s contractors, not the bridge contractors. Its a simple thing to correct and will not delay the bridge in the slightest. The last sections go into place this wekend so if you want to see the gap being closed then get up there on Saturday night.
Got up to the top of the pylon during the week, spectacular views !!
JJ
I checked with the site office and they tell me that the last section will actually be placed tomorrow night ! Delivery expected at 8pm and it takes about three hours to complete.
Cheers,
JJI must say how impressed I am with the progress here, – this bridge is really racing along. Sorry now I did not do a series of photos.
congrats to all
BTW Is not the decision to build the Dundrum bypass one lane, each direction, seriously strange?
There’s a single lane roundabout at one end of the bypass, and the Taney Junction at the other. All it really does is deliver you that little further into the congestion that eternally awaits. So two lanes would have just created a bottleneck, as opposed to one big long thin bottle all the way.
fjp
No doubt some of you were there tonight. I was the guy on top of the St. Vincent de Paul wall, just in case you were being exceptionally observant.
For those who weren’t there, the bridge now spans the entire junction. It looks extremely good (I understate). And somehow I managed to take a little over 250 photos of it in about two hours – a personal best/worst.
fjp
(oops – images lost in a server incident: click my www link below and go the “dundrum” to see all the luas bridge photos)
fjp,
Cracking shots!
Were those night time photo shot on your FujiFilm Finepix 1400?
If they were, they are perfectly exposed & colour balanced, had you much Photoshop work to do on them?
I’m about to purchase the Canon S40 to replace my EOS 650, have you any opinions on this piece of kit?
Or have you any recommendations – portability is an issue for me (I tend to leave the EOS at home), as is having as near to SLR functionality as possible.
Sorry for all the questions.
Hi 42
Yup, it’s all done on the old finepiux 1400. It generally gets the colour pretty alright, and then I hand correct the levels/curves/selective colour/saturation in photoshop.
To be honest, my present lack of money means that I have no idea of the current digital camera market. All I know is that mine is fast becoming obselete and I can’t afford a new one. The good things about the finepix are that it’s fairly small and has that optical zoom. The bad thing is that the wide angle tends to “pillowcase” the image, the night exposure max of 2 secs is too short, and sometimes the pictures can be a bit noisy and jpeg’d.
I just finished uploading the rest of the luas photos to my site, so anyone who wants to see the whole thing should pop by. I had to add 289 new photos. It took bloody ages……
Still though, that bridge does looks great.
fjp
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