Dublin - Metrolink (Swords to Charlemont only)

I hope they'd have the foresight to be granting permits for 15 stories right beside metro's. Why wouldn't you put dense apartments right next to a metro station.

Lidl want to build it on top of the metro, and apparently only decided as much yesterday.

Ballymun flats didn't end up the way they did because they built too tall. They ended up that way because they have no amenities. If somebody is willing to foot the bill of building tall, let them at it.

Let’s be honest, ML will probably run over on cost and time - let’s,not write a blank cheque, but let’s also be honest, this is adult, serious engineering with all sorts of complexities, most of which hopefully have been factored in, but this is what happens- experience elsewhere tell us this. However, the benefits will be enormous and this will be forgotten, indeed the clamour will be to,extend …

The height of the towers made them much more expensive to maintain than if the same number of dwellings had been built at 5-6 stories: money that would otherwise have been used to encourage amenities to be put in place had to be spent on maintenance.

High-rise residential only makes sense in city centres, where tenants will pay the higher costs in order to be close to everything in the city. In suburbs, and especially as social housing, it has a very poor record.

The high density of Barcelona, London or Paris is from swathes of five to six-storey residential blocks, not towers.

Thats hilarious that they twice previously tried to look to demolish it themselves.

A lot of articles seem to be referencing more detailed information that I haven't seen elsewhere. Are drawings available on the website or is it just the CGI renders?

Irish Times taking a few liberties with the headline there. Same way their reporting of the ‘hse’ objection to the Dun Laoghaire living cities initiative that Irish Times were happy to report on.

it would be in keeping with Dublin transport tradition to name a station after a building that was no longer there - half the bus stops in the city are named after some obsolete business or other. They should name the Swords stop "Smyths Toy Superstore"

I'd be fine with Brian Boru Station or Cross Guns Station tbh. It adds a little touch of personality/ whimsy to the network. I don't think it makes a blind bit of difference to anyone navigating really, locals know what and where it is, and anyone else just plugs their destination into Google Maps and it tells them to disembark at Brian Boru Station, that's fine, it's just as meaningful to them as the word "Glasnevin"

So long as they don't allow estate agents name the stations we should be fine.

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How customer-friendly is Glasnevin (Brian Boru !) planned to be?

I was just thinking that people have talked about going from say Sligo to the airport with a quick 5 minute change/wait in Glasnevin. Which is great because it doesn't really matter when your Sligo-Dublin train turns up, there'll be a metro along imminently.

But the reverse journey is potentially more complicated - your wait in Glasnevin for the next Sligo train could be an hour or more. So is there plans for restaurants/bars/toilets, comfortable seating areas etc. Or is it just a bog-standard transfer station? For a station which is going to be such an important part of the network it probably deserves to be done properly, but there might be space restrictions?

Well there's already a massive pub (The Bernard Shaw) directly across the road, with connected Eatyard full of foodtrucks. Next door to TBS is a row of eateries - a pastry café, a great Greek gyros place, sushi, pizza ,a Chinese.. I reckon you'll be sorted. If you wanted to do your shopping there's a Tesco 1 min walk away.

The Metrolink stations themselves are not designed for people to hang around in, they're not rural train stations.