Dublin - BusConnects

The liffey Valley route is one of the least technically challenging. It has no major structures and they can put the mount brown bus gate in first and slash journey times on G buses in the first few weeks of works.

The Finglas/Ballymun route has the cycle bridge over the canal and the underpass under the NCR. So quite challenging from a structures point of view. Also this presents huge challenges in terms of interface with DART+West and Metrolink. If all three were under construction at the same time Crossguns bridge would be a complete sh1tshow.

The Clongriffin corridor should be pretty easy to do, a fair bit of the work at either end will be done before it starts.

Only Blackrock has planning permission and that's stuck in the courts. Assuming that the others get planning permission, I would say the preference will be for Bray and Rathfarnham.

Yes its blackrock and clongriffin going to JR. There's no waybof knowing a timescale, it's a dark art. There are no other stumbling blocks after that though unless they go to the European court of hunan rights.

I'm honestly fine with it. The north and west of the city can have good bus service, metro, reliable frequent DART and better walkability/cyclability. The decrepit friends of judges can have the status quo.

I think a lot of objections are from people (some retired/elderly) who know these things will improve society, but who don’t want the disruption while they’re alive.

Rising house prices is only of real benefit to landlords.