This afternoon.
O Connell Bridge
Finishing off the Luas cross city connection. Taken from the 10th Floor of O Connell Bridge House, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2 (Heineken Building).
Soon we will all walk those lines.
FIGHT!
Sam Boal/Rollingnews
Everything. As It Happens.
will be some city when it’s all connected!
All connected and nobody driving the Luas
The Luas drivers are demanding the rails be made of gold so they can glide along like the essential infrastructure royalty, they so super are.
can’t wait to see how many junkies we see in Ranelagh/harcourt/stephens green once the Luas is done.
They’ve been finishing that off for a very long time now to be fair.
Traffic in the city is a catastrophe every morning now.
And before anyone says anything to me about public transport, that’s all I use in the city and it’s incredible. Fifteen minutes from O’c bridge to college green this morning via D’olier st. Incredible.
Moany pants
Try walking, it’ll do you the world of good.
Get a bike, you’ll be faster.
It’s a 3 min walk, you could try that !
Aahhhhgghhh!!! The Tomb of Some Unknown Gurrier is no more!!
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What’s the point in this post? The track is being done in sections/chunks and this is just one more piece, it’s not all connected up yet.
Sure even when its built the Luas lads will be on strike so often it will never run.
But, but… Luas drivers are so brilliant, *we* should be driving *them*!
Oh, and their latest round of action is to target Leaving Cert students sitting exams. A qualification you don’t actually need to drive the Luas…
But aren’t they wonderful all the same!
Yes. That was the joke.
Nobody seems to have read that due to the the Green and Red lines linking up, the Red line will only travel as far as Jervis Street inbound from 21st May to some time in July.
Exactly Burnyballs2.
I haven’t read the rest of the comments yet but the planned ‘4-hour’ strikes are predicted to take up to six and a half hours, with taking trams out of commission and getting them running again.
Nobody’s talking about that.
-It should be a laugh.
(I am a Luas user myself. I love the Luas. I’d like to know that my driver is happy. That’s all.)
I trust they know that digging down into a bridge with heavy machinery can cause hydraulic issues.
Hi (“Hola”) Manolo,
I’m the senior site engineer on this project. I’m a teeny bit put out by something you just said. Could you please elaborate (as a matter of urgency)?
Thanks (“Gracias”)!
Hola mister ingeniero,
My comment is based purely on a visual observation, very rough estimates and some wild speculation about the structure of the bridge, which I am sure pales compared to your expertise and the quality of the data available to you.
I had guesstimated that there is about 1000-1200 mm of solid matter between the road surface and the top of the arches under the bridge. At least half of that appears to have been dug (?) by the excavator, leaving me to entertain thoughts of how far the structure would allow digging before a catastrophic collapse occurred.
While I may have implied that mechanical properties of liquids should be considered, I was in fact thinking of the submersibility of your equipment.
I hope my speculative thoughts do not impede your good sleep.
Saludos,
Manolo
Joder.
Estamos hasta las orejas en la mierda ahora. Voy a estar en el vuelo de las 6 a Málaga. Le sugiero que se unan a mí.
Holé Jayziss!
Some of us don’t speak French!
Show some decency.
Sorry bad.
Don’t cross that bridge.
-‘Don’t cross that bridge‘
Very good Spunx. I get it.
-So you’re doing jokes now, are you?
I’m looking forward to this.
pardon me
it won’t happen again
(got a fierce itch in the sack just there)
Biggest waste of money
Tram to the airport should be priority
They should build a genuine bona-fide electrified six-car monorail. Or at least a Luas on stilts.
I’ve heard those things are awful loud
It glides as softly as a cloud.
Is there a chance the track could bend?
I’m still curious if there will be an actual junction between the LCC and the Red line i.e. a single luas from St Stepehen’s green to Tallagh or the Point. The LCC website talks about an interchange, so I reckon one will still have to walk from the green line to the red, albeit a much smaller distance.
Was about to get peeved about this then thought of good old London Underground where you’d happily, hotly, sprint in what you thought was the right direction when changing lines. Mind The Gap!
I think you’ll actually have to change (and wait for a Luas) TWICE – once at Stephen’s Green to get on the new line, then hop off/on again at Abbey St to get on the Red line.
Wonder what way they’ll be charging for that…3 journeys? 1 journey?
Good one SPANX! Not lost on me….
The beauty of not being a native speaker…. admittedly a big swishhhh over my head.
Je voudrais pouvoir fuppin comprendre. Est-il grec?
The point my dear friend is CABRA WEST. The Luas Lady will soon whisper it gently in your ear.