@ninjarifter @sportandstuffs @eoinyk Dublin is a small city by international standards yes. The only city by international standards in Ireland.
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Almost 465,000 passengers are expected to pass through Dublin Airport this May bank holiday weekend, with over 110,000 passengers moving through each day from Friday to Monday.
Today is forecast to be the busiest day, with around 121,000 passengers travelling.✈️
Passengers are advised to arrive two hours before short haul flights and three hours ahead of long haul departures to ensure a smooth journey.
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@AlexLanghe12493 @naoiseomuiri It can’t because that’s how much the company tendered for.
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@naoiseomuiri You know that decimal point will move to the right.
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Invitation issued to bid for €7.3bn MetroLink contract irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin…
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@ninjarifter @sportandstuffs @eoinyk Not to the level in Dublin. Those “cities” are barely big enough for a street tram.
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@jamesswrblx @sportandstuffs @eoinyk There's plenty of congestion in other cities too, like Cork and Galway. Metros for them also?
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@cormacDublin @jamesswrblx @DublinLoop @DaraghCassidy More regional development in Aviation will be possible with Electric Aviation diverter even more away from Dublin Airport
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I still don’t think I’ll believe Metro is actually happening until I see the tunnel borer break that first piece of ground. The project is going to transform Dublin. And almost everyone in the country will probably get some benefit from it at some stage.
Darragh O'Brien@DarraghOBrienTD
🚇A major milestone for MetroLink today. The tender issued for trains, tracks and stations. A 25-year contract, with works starting this August/September. Fully funded by Government and we’re committed to delivering it
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@cormacDublin @DublinLoop @DaraghCassidy Metrolink will be extended in different directions/new lines once it’s finished like the Luas was. The M50 is just at capacity. Did you want them to add 100 more lanes? It’s up to the government to expand public transport and provide the funding which they haven’t done.
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@jamesswrblx @DublinLoop @DaraghCassidy M50 proves they are brutal at forward planning with planned obsolescence so a fix will be required ever 10 years Metrolink is just another example of something that is obsolete now before it gets off the drawing board never mind in the late 2030s / 2040s
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@JoeK1798 @DaraghCassidy No the tender is the same price including all of it and it includes operation for the next 25 years
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@jamesswrblx @DaraghCassidy Understood but in programme terms the rolling stock is useless without the infrastructure, are the garages being expedited to take early delivery of rolling stock to hedge against inflation ? Can that happen to leave them idle
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25 year contract as in 25 years to build it?
Darragh O'Brien@DarraghOBrienTD
🚇A major milestone for MetroLink today. The tender issued for trains, tracks and stations. A 25-year contract, with works starting this August/September. Fully funded by Government and we’re committed to delivering it
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@Some_Dose The updated cost will be released in June or July. Probably slightly higher than 9.5 now due to inflation as that figure is from 2022. It will actually cost ireland more to not build it. Congestion will cost the tax payer 2 billion euro a year from 2040 at the current rate.
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Are they still sticking with the €9.5 billion estimate?
Regardless, whatever the estimate is, you can at least double it.
We can't build a fucking hospital; imagine the holy show we'll make of ourselves when we start tunnelling under the Liffey.
Darragh O'Brien@DarraghOBrienTD
🚇A major milestone for MetroLink today. The tender issued for trains, tracks and stations. A 25-year contract, with works starting this August/September. Fully funded by Government and we’re committed to delivering it
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@NoelRock 2001 cost estimate €2.5 billion
2025 cost estimate €25 billion
2101 possible completion date cost estimate a gazillion euros
Tendering is big news now ffs
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Starting to feel real now.
After years of advocating for it and meeting scepticism everywhere, I sort of can’t believe it myself!
Fair play to all who pushed it this far.
Darragh O'Brien@DarraghOBrienTD
🚇A major milestone for MetroLink today. The tender issued for trains, tracks and stations. A 25-year contract, with works starting this August/September. Fully funded by Government and we’re committed to delivering it
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@DaraghCassidy No mention of tunnelling. Is that a separate contract?
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@JoeK1798 @DaraghCassidy The construction tenders take longer and will be completed by the end of the year
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@DaraghCassidy I’d agree , so it looks like we are tendering for the rolling stock but not worried about the building , hopefully it won’t end up
Like the Electric Buses
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@pulse_carbon @DaraghCassidy We are building electric rail infrastructure and the metro is not costing 20 billion euro so that source is bogus
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@DaraghCassidy Makes little sense to pursue the Metro when all that money could be used to build the electric rail infrastructure needed throughout Ireland. As the IEA said, this is the "biggest energy crisis in human history". We'll be building a 20bn Metro as fuel is being rationed.
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@Craicthewhip_ @DaraghCassidy Enabling works will start early 2027, so that is the time you’ll see actual diggers. 7-9 months from now
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@DaraghCassidy We’ve heard these announcements time and time again to no avail
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@William50012942 @DaraghCassidy They are waiting on chargers for the buses. Metrolink has approval to connect to the grid. Ordering buses and having them ahead of time also is something that happens in every country, that isn’t a scandal. They don’t affect any schedules or delays to services.
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@DaraghCassidy They are still waiting on electricity for those parked up electric buses and no electricity for Metrolink.
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@tecnurd @DaraghCassidy BAM is not the reason for the NCH delays. They’ve completed dozens of other projects while the NCH was underway. So it doesn’t make a difference. Special companies specific to tunnelling and metro construction will be required.
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@DaraghCassidy I am afraid to ask; but is BAM involved in this project by any chance. If so your children's children may very well or probably ride on it...
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@ninjarifter @DaraghCassidy There will be plenty of people from those places who might be in Dublin for different reasons so they will avail of it. People who take the Kerry to Dublin flight will be able to get straight to the city centre in 20 minutes.
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@DaraghCassidy Yes it will help people in Donegal or Kerry immensely 😄 That 20 billion it will cost would help to build new rail lines all over the country and improve the current ones
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@DublinLoop @DaraghCassidy TII have a really great record of getting projects finished on-time and in budget. The same mistakes with the NCH can’t be made. Planning won’t be changed.
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@DaraghCassidy It will make the Children's Hospital look like a bargain and will be woefully primitive transport in the late 2030s/2040s
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@colmmahon7 @DaraghCassidy It will most definitely be transformative. 30,000 cars taken off the road daily. Opening up land for 35,000 houses along its route. 20,000 passengers per direction per hour. The reason it doesn’t follow the green line is because of NIMBYs in south Dublin. Blame them.
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@DaraghCassidy I believe it will be good for dublin, transformerstive no.
The bottled it by not running it the entire length of the green line
It does not solve dublin real rail problem - no proper connection between Houston and Connolly. Build dart underground!!!
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@JoeSmyth10 @eoinyk Celtic tiger gave us everything. Luas and Luas extensions, M50, Aviva Stadium, 3arena, Terminal 2, etc. The only proper thing we’ve done since the crash was Luas Cross City which I’m surprised we were ever able to do that.
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