Dublin - Metrolink (Swords to Charlemont only)

You and I will be well dead before the system gets built.

This Dublin <-> Swords won't be completed until 2035 at the absolute earliest, and the way things are going it could be 2045 (I'll be retired by then hopefully)

They "probably" won't start the second part of it until the first be is completed. The situation in Dublin could be vastly different by then and it might not be needed.

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It adds reality and pragmatism based on experience and historical prescident to the conversation, and last time I checked this is not North Korea. Well not yet anyway.

It’s not North Korea.

They have a metro!! 😄

Large scale political corruption in Ireland, the type that would involve contracts over €100m, died a violent death in the early 2000s it was effectively banned by EU led rules. Political corruption still exists but you're talking about catering contracts, a few toilet role dispensers things that go under the value of tendering rules.

To give you an idea, a few months ago the government and opposition were slinging mud at eachother over a matter of €40.50 in delivery of undisclosed election posters. That would have been laughed at in 1980 by politicians in their personal helicopters. The companies involved in metrolink will be billion or trillion euro valued global companies with reputations worth many multiples whatever contract they stand to get through coerce means. Assuming they've found some way to bypass the thousands of checks in a multi layered tender process.

Ireland suffers very little corruption in comparison with the rest of the world. It's mostly bobbed about at around the top 5% in lists of the least corrupt countries globally. You should look around the world a little bit - a smidgen of international perspective could help temper your endless, tedious and generally unfounded negativity about the country.

Why would it? Its not like they have to write a €5-10bn cheque in the morning for it. The glacial speed of the project should protect it from fluctuating yearly tax returns.

Wow the posts on here are completely missing the point.

It’s the planning system that is responsible for not just the metro link debacle- but the state of all infrastructure and housing in Ireland at the moment.

Until that’s identified by the media and a political party that will make this a core reform project- the status quo will continue.

Corruption has very little to do with it.

The issue is ABP and the minister who has responsibility for ABP.

Yes and the bill will more than likely be defeated or be subject to a judicial review.

ABP needs to be expanded massively to deal with the backlog and the future infrastructure that needs to be built will all the excess money we have.

We can both look forward to taking a metro trip to Swords on our bus passes so... But I'm baffled by your "might not be needed" comment, are you contemplating global nuclear war or a 90% death rate pandemic or something?

CT take last year was inflated by one-off factors, this was flagged at the time.

Fewer staff there means fewer staff making decisions which get appealed and often overturned anyway.

It's just a small blip.

We've plenty of money for the Metro since it's spread out over 10 years.

We could easily build two Metro lines at the same time.

If we have another crash, it might derail the plans but I don't think a crash is coming. A slowdown or small recession might happen though with China, Germany, UK having problems.

You'd really have to wonder where the money is being wasted if they can't ring fence money for infrastructure projects. Especially those, that we are told time and time again, are to protect our futures with greener transport.

Not only that, but its a single metro line and some upgrades to existing heavy rail, they're not overly conplex projects. Just get them built for crying out loud.

Companies are already concerned about investing in Ireland due to lack of housing. These capital projects will help ease that crisis. The country can't afford to not do these projects.

So you're not claiming it'll be defeated any more?