Nine Arches Bridge (LUAS)

Originally posted by Gabriel-Conway
I note that metal railings are being attached along the top of Nine Arches Bridge in Milltown. This does not look too good, though perhaps it will look better when it is finished.

You’re right, they don’t look that great.

Lots of shots of the bridge – I got carried away and climbed all sorts of places I shouldn’t have to get good shots 🙂

That’s what its all about, isn’t it? 🙂

more then likly need the railings in case a tram stops on the bridge and punters need to be taken off.

yeah I saw the new railings too Gabriel, they don’t look good at all, will have to wait and see what they’re like when finished …

nice pics btw 🙂

Why was the decision made to terminate Luas Line B at Sandyford rather than allow it to continue along the old Harcourt Street line to Bray?:confused:

CIE sold the land as soon as they could. The only reason the alignment from Harcourt Street to Sandyford is there is becuase Dublin Corporation saved it for future rail use and CIE could not understand why even though thousands of houses were to be built along it’s course. CIE closed and the try to destroy it.

Now just let that sink in…

Anyone see Nation Builders last night… a civil servant named Andrews who closed much of the CIE routes interviewed in the 80s maintaining that closing the harcourt line was the correct thing to do

Nation Builders is right… Builders Mates more like

Originally posted by Brian Hanson
CIE sold the land as soon as they could.

CIE sold the alignment to the individual houseowners along Torquay Road in Foxrock as late as the mid 1980s.

With a lack of vision like that, they don’t deserve to be in charge of anything to do with the railways.

Anyone notice that a Carrickmines M50 style situation is threatened over the proposed route south of Sandyford, the route chosen to overcome this decision?

How is Andrews a nation “builder” when he is mainly remembered for buggering up the nations railways.

I think Kevin Myers must have seen this show hence his “lets close the railways and turn them into QBCs based on my own spurious economic theory” article