Status of Metro West?

Breezer

I'm curious as to what exactly is happening with Metro West these days. My understanding was that it had been "delayed indefinitely," but I happened to look at the RPA's website the other day and found a reference to a public meeting recently held about it, and all sorts of development and planning work being done on it:

http://www.rpa.ie/en/news/Pages/MetroWestBelgardPublicMeetingNotice.aspx

Is the RPA just ploughing ahead to get it as advanced as possible in the hope that funding will appear, or is the project back on track? Or what is happening?

KC61

The RPA is under instruction from the Department to bring it, Metro North and the other LUAS schemes to Railway Order stage and that is what they're doing.

dowlingm

MetroWest should be recast as LUAS Line G, with construction being initially between Blanchardstown and Belgard. An orbital route makes sense to me, especially diverting people out of the city centre who want to get from Pace to Kildare or Maynooth to Hazelhatch, but a non-grade separated one which likely would not interline with Line A or F (or a D extension beyond Finglas) because the cars would not have compatible stop platforms due different widths makes no sense to me.

richardjjd

The RPA do a good job of maintaining timely information here.

Latest news:

"The next steps in the process will be to finalise the preliminary design, based on feedback received on this update, and complete the EIS and Railway Order application documents. It is envisaged that these documents will be concluded during the first half of 2010 and a Railway Order will be lodged thereafter".

FlameoftheWest

With construction costs coming down and highly competitive tendering, ironically there is probably more chance of MetroWest being built than when the celtic tiger was roaring along. Apart from it being so much cheaper to build now, it would generate loads of jobs for unemployed builders.

I would not be at all surprised if this goes ahead.

gjim

FlameoftheWest wrote: »

With construction costs coming down and highly competitive tendering, ironically there is probably more chance of MetroWest being built than when the celtic tiger was roaring along. Apart from it being so much cheaper to build now, it would generate loads of jobs for unemployed builders.

I would not be at all surprised if this goes ahead.

I imagine that the opposite is the case. I presume the fact that preferred route for Metrowest winds through lots of fields outside the M50 for a reason - potential developer levies.