This morning.

MetroLink – for which the cost is reported to have increased to €10bn – will not see construction start for at least another ten years.

This would mean its earliest completion date would be 2037 – ten years later than originally planned.

The project’s business case is currently being assessed by Government and according to the strategy it is still expected to go for planning approval next year.

Luas Finglas – the first of the Luas extensions – was originally meant to be built by 2028. The earliest completion date is now expected to be around 2034.

Meanwhile other Luas extensions that will not be going ahead until after 2031 are Poolbeg, Lucan, and Bray.

Dublin’s MetroLink postponed for ten years – NTA draft strategy (RTÉ)

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13 thoughts on “Arriving 2037

  1. Sara

    Did anyone ever think that the building of the Metro would go ahead? Does anyone think that it ever will? Pie in the sky stuff.

  2. Mr.T

    We are in decline. Its a depressing thing to acknowledge – this country is actively regressing.

    Expect things to get more expensive, services to get cut, and quality of life to deteriorate, slowly but certainly so.

    1. Hetty

      Run on electricity between the electric cars trains data centres all the homes heated by electricity where the hell will they generate it from
      Oh yes got it gas powered stations coal fired and oil fired stations outside the country supplying us by way of cables
      We missed the boat with renewables in the 1970s
      It will take thirty years to build the ones they need

      It’s all codollogy a dog and pony show as they tax the bejesus out of us
      COP was a abysmal failure

  3. Zaccone

    Interest rates are 0% or close to it. The state can effectively get free money from the markets. Why on earth isn’t this being used to massively improve our infrastructure?

    1. Mr.T

      There is a massive clog in the system and nobody wants to remove it.

      The civil service has bloated so much its doubtful it can ever be saved – the country is strangled by this parasite full of makey-uppy jobs that dont need to exist, but will slow down any decision on just about anything.

    2. Cian

      1. it isn’t fee money – it is *interest-free*. The principal will still need to be repaid.
      2. you need to decide how much to borrow, and what to spend it on. Is a metro the best use of 10bn? or Luas? or a motorway in Galway? Or a nuclear power station? or…

      1. Zaccone

        1. Interest free money is free money when inflation, and economic growth, are both positive. If you borrow €10bn today and repay it in twenty years time but in the meantime have had 3-5% p.a. GDP growth and 2-3% p.a. inflation you’ve made a *significant* profit. The outstanding principal becomes a negligible amount.

        That also not taking into account the large economic gains from investing in infrastructure with said money in the meantime.

        2. Its not remotely hard to decide what to spend it on when we have multiple large infrastructure projects crying out to be built. The Dublin Metro, DART extensions, LUAS upgrades, the Cork to Limerick motorway etc etc – there is no shortage of large infrastructure projects that would benefit the country, and its people massively. “how would we even decide how to spend the free money” is a fairly hilariously ludicrous argument given the state of the country.

        FF and FG are desperately afraid of giving the go-ahead to any large scale spending because they’re ideologically committed to a low tax, small government state. Thats the real reason we aren’t doing this.

  4. theo kretschmar schuldorff

    I heard this confused item on Claire Byrne earlier – RTE’s John Kilraine obviously got his tracks crossed, confusing Dart Underground and MetroLink.

    He’s since corrected his article.
    “Dublin’s Metrolink will not be completed for another ten years according to a draft strategy published by the National Transport Authority (NTA).”

    So MetroLink to be running ~ 2031, rather than the unfeasible 2027. I think the news story here is “RTE hack makes alarmist mistake”

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