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Luas Connecting Line - Green / Red

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  • 24-03-2011 10:00am
    #1
    [Jackass]
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    Hi, I'm just wondering why on earth there still isn't a connecting line from the Green Luas line at St. Stephens Gree to the Red Luas line, connecting at Abbey street.

    This is less than 1km of tracks, which could be completed in a month or two.

    When the Green line Luas gets to St. Stephens green, it follows the Green around to the right, where the U-Turn for Taxis are, completely unused stretch of road as it is, then it turns left onto Dawson Street, and shares the large Bus corridor already on that street, all the way down to Nassau street, turns left and merges with trafic and goes around by Molloy Malone and then goes straight up Westmoreland St., over O'Connell Bridge, up as far as Abbey Street and turns right onto the existing Red Luas line, down to IFSC / Connolly station and terminates there (with option to leave Connolly and follow Red Line Route or back on to Green Line Route.)

    This small extension would be 800 metres of track (according to google maps) would link up the entire system, it would link Dart and Luas to the entrie city and would actually make the transport infrastructure quite comprehensive.

    Am I missing something here as to how simple this would be? And there doesn't seem to be any plan to do this...


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    #2
    Victor
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    Mary O'Rourke decide that it shouldn't be done and successive ministers have sat around doing nothing since.

    The current plan: http://www.rpa.ie/en/projects/luas_city_broombridge/Pages/default.aspx

    Oral hearing expected after the DART Underground one.


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    [Jackass]
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    It's a damn shame.

    This extra streth of line could have stops at Dawson Street, Trinity College & O'Connell Bridge and then Abbey Street. It's probably the most crucial piece of infrastructure needed in Dublin right now, as it's basically the centre piece of the jigsaw that's missing, whatever about pipe dreams of subway Dart and the long drawn out process anything like that would take (10 years), this is a quick and cheap project that should take precidence imo.


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