Infrastructural development in Ireland

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    • January 14, 2003 at 3:28 pm #705909
      Andrew Duffy
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      GregF’s post in the Luas Pylon thread set me thinking about the amount of development we have seen in the last few years, despite all of our moaning.

      World Class infrastructural projects:

      Port Tunnel – longest (4.5km) road tunnel in the two islands
      Boyne road bridge – longest spanning bridge in Ireland and a decent bridge by anyone’s measure
      Second M50 Liffey Valley Bridge – major by our standards, anyway
      LUAS – At last!

      Dublin developments:
      Smithfield
      Docklands (boring, I know)
      Spire
      Stack A
      National Gallery
      Relaxed planning re building height
      DDDA
      Reflecting City

      Countrywide:
      Motorways outside of Dublin and Kildare
      Jack Lynch Tunnel
      Railway network improvements

      It’s not all that bad. I know we can moan about the Notional Stadium, the Dublin Metro and the terminal state of Dublin Airport (enough puns already, sorry) but think of ten or even five years ago. We’re finally getting somewhere.

      Of course, the more people like us who moan intelligently to policy makers, the better. Anyone fancy lobbying the FAI and IRFU about building a decent stadium somewhere?

    • January 14, 2003 at 4:09 pm #723709
      lostcarpark
      Participant

      Yeah, a lot done… (oops, not going to even finish that one).

      I hope the government has the sense to see that we need to keep investing in infrustructure or we’ll be a second world economy again.

      Dublin needs a world class transport system, and we can’t wait fifteen years for it. We need the rest of the LUAS lines. We need the Metro. We need the proposed DART extensions to Kildare, Wicklow and Balbriggan.

      And of course we need to improve the rail connections to other cities. The fact that we are even considering closing railway lines is disturbing.

      James

    • January 14, 2003 at 4:31 pm #723710
      Niall
      Participant

      yeah, but we need action not talking and stalling.

      We need fast-tracking and outside help with construction.

      We need bold and visionary leadership, apart from Brennan and Harney, the others are useless, including ‘yes’ man Ahern.

      We need action, projects finished on time and no more bloody papers, quangos, talking shops and nimbys!

      AND NO MORE EXCUSES!

    • January 14, 2003 at 4:35 pm #723711
      J. Seerski
      Participant

      and re-open broastone station!

    • January 14, 2003 at 4:37 pm #723712
      Niall
      Participant

      darn computer playing up

    • January 16, 2003 at 7:40 pm #723713
      CiaranO
      Participant

      Is there a link to any official port tunnel site?

      would be very interested in seeing the full scale of this project and any images available of the progress.

      C.

    • January 16, 2003 at 8:29 pm #723714
      flysrmd11
      Participant

      I can only find this website on the port tunnel:

      http://www.dublincity.ie/porttunnel/

      BTW, did anyone see the programme on RTE some months ago where they suggested continuing the port tunnel under Dublin bay to close the ring road/motorway around the city?

      Jeremiah

    • January 16, 2003 at 8:43 pm #723715
      CiaranO
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      never saw that, but sounds very interesting AND expensive.

      thanks for the link…quite a boring machine! Looks almost exactly identical to the channel tunnel borer, are these Japanese machines?

      C.

    • January 17, 2003 at 8:13 am #723716
      Andrew Duffy
      Participant

      They are Japanese. The company building the tunnel is called Mowlem-Nishimatsu-Irishenco. As for the cost, it’s stated as €448m but I don’t know if that’s fixed or an estimate.

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