Dublin - Metrolink (Swords to Charlemont only)

The Dart Underground (actual route) thread was ruined a long time ago by our resident Don Quixote tilting his windmill of imaginary alignments. This thread has been otherwise quite useful and it would be nice if it could not be ruined with umpteen useless posts doing the same thing. So can people please stop engaging with Don Quixote?

There is no plan to sit around 7 to 8 years though. Current plan will see main contractor on site in 2025. Where have you got this 7 to 8 years from? In any case we've an active railway order for the current plan so no need to crayon.

I would encourage any posters who has had enough of Stassenwo!f's constant spamming of the thread to report one of the posts. This shıt has been going on for years, the mods need to act, enough is enough!

I feel like I'm losing my marbles.

4.5.16 indicates the number of factors which went into choosing its current station location, it also goes into why OCS -> Tara -> SSG was the preferred routing.

I cannot even understand why there are still people out there either on this site or even outside of boards who think that they can change things around for ML on a whim.

They constantly think of ways of how they can "improve" this project when the actual ongoing status of this project under the realms of the planning authority right now is currently very different in reality.

It's like that great bit of irony coming from The Fat Controller in Thomas the Tank Engine. You sometimes have people that are so hellbent on changing things around on a whim just to add more confusion and delay to their workload when the certain type of work that you are already told to do from the people in charge is clearly the one that is set in stone.

It is becoming a real pain in the neck for posters like myself and others to constantly reply to people here on this site that the RO for Metrolink has been submitted to ABP ages ago and cannot be changed from now on.

It is like some people here just don't want to have any form of patience within themselves or want to see any progress in anyway shape or form so it can apparently hurt their egos.

It is a really annoying trait coming from some sections of Irish people these days. It clearly has an effect on how we can actually make progress on things as a country and as a society. If we want to provide proper clarity on the inconsistencies of this peculiar belief system. We need to cop onto ourselves and ignore this constant negativity.

Anyway ORS has been appointed to carry out pre construction surveys along the metrolink route. Atkins was appointed as preliminary works detailed designer last week.

It appears the project is moving at full steam. Hopefully we'll see enabling works getting to site early next year.

Amongst other things like building demolitions, potential structural works, removing trees/vegetation, etc. It all needs to be designed and tendered first (and yes that would take at least 10 months in a any other country, there's a hell of a lot of utilities under Dublin and things by and large need to be kept live, this is incredibly complex work).

No I get that but has stakeholder engagement not happened before this point?

Ie would the metro link PM team not have been in contact with ESB,Irish water etc to flag utilities that would need to be moved? I mean all services are available on a central mapping system/office for ESB so I presume metro link would have engaged ESB a good while ago to design diversions.

They would have agreed costs and a general diversion route but detailed design still needs to happen particularly in the case of rigid services, water, gas and the larger fibre broadband lines

Everything has to be designed.

Those designs have to be transposed into tender packages (based on the different types of works) along with necessary pre-qualification requirements and technical merit criteria (method statements, etc.).

Those tender packages need to be issued and wait for tender submissions to be returned.

Those returned tender submissions need to be assessed and evaluated, then preferred tenderers identified.

Those preferred tenderers need due diligence, clarifications if necessary and then appointment, including statutory waiting period for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the process.

The appointed contractors need to gear up and mobilise.

From the article on Atkins appointment linked before that clown caused a full page worth of spam;

What's pathetic? Why wouldn't Smyth's ask for a replacement store when they'll lose their current one? Do you expect them to take one for the team?