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Posted by
Olog-hai
on Sat Nov 9 16:31:32 2013, in response to Metro North won't be built after all, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jul 24 13:46:26 2011.
edf40wrjww2msgDetail:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d A whole bunch of other new lines are part of the plan too. They want to do surface running within Dublin though, which won't work out too well; they ought to elevate. Also, there's no need to run under Swords when they can run alongside the motorway instead.
Irish Independent
Private group revives plan to build €1.9-billion Dublin Metro serviceCormac Murphy
09 November 2013Dublin's shelved Metro project has been revived by a private consortium, which says the scheme can be built for €1.9 billion ($2.5 billion).
Metro Dublin is proposing a public/private partnership to construct the long-delayed underground rail line linking the city's airport with St. Stephen's Green.
Detailed plans will be presented to Dublin City Council's transport committee next week outlining how it can be built for less than half the original €4.5 billion ($6 billion) estimate.
A submission to the committee describes the new plan as a 53-kilometer (33-mile) "mass rapid transit system", with 33 stations, that would also incorporate the DART Underground proposal.
It would run on "totally separate tracks" to Irish Rail services and operate in "the most densely populated areas" and the "commercial districts".
It could carry at least 130 million passengers a year and extend the population living "within 1 kilometer of a new high frequency rail service by 50 percent to 768,000".
Three lines have been proposed — M1 from St. Stephen's Green to the Blanchardstown shopping center; M2 from Malahide to St Stephen's Green and M3 from Adamstown to the Docklands.
The designs show M2 would start at Malahide DART station and travel above ground as far as Swords, where it would go underground.
It would surface on the other side of the town before going underground at Dublin Airport. It would run above ground for a short distance on the city-side of the airport and then travel into a tunnel, passing under Ballymun and Glasnevin.
Upgraded surface tracks would be used to take it to Heuston Station, where it would go underground again and run to St. Stephen's Green.
The project would also create a "critical mass to make rail the best option for a much higher proportion of journeys than today", Dublin Metro says.
Apart from the lower cost than the original Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) plans, Metro Dublin would be built in 26 months as opposed to 70, cover a greater distance and carry 62 million more passengers a year, the group says.
"Developers will be able to develop far more intensively than is possible with the urban transport network that is in place at present," it adds.
Among the various sources of funding, some €200 million ($267 million) could be raised through rates and residential taxes.
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