This is excellent news, well done to everyone involved. I see we've gone from "no mined stations" to at least two.
I found this on our intranet at work:
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Chambers welcome new metro route
The Chambers Ireland Transport Users Council today welcomed
Minister Cullen's choice of route for Metro north, in particular
the interconnector with the Maynooth line but has urged the
Government to proceed with its construction with minimum delay
Chair of the council Dan Loughrey said, "Chambers Ireland's
Transport Users Survey showed that workers in Dublin lose 9 hours
a month due to traffic congestion last year.
"In this context," he said, "it seems foolhardy to wait until 2009
to commence work on this line. The Spanish Government built a
metro in three years, we should be able to do the same and not
wait until 2012 for it to be completed.
"This again raises the urgent need for the full establishment of
the Dublin Transport Authority. Having committed to establishing
the body within two months of announcing Transport 21, the
Minister now says it will be established in March 2007 - sixteen
months late. Even at that, consultations with the affected
agencies have not yet taken place so the Minister is writing
legislative solutions without assessing the problems," Mr.
Loughrey said.
This external information has been sourced from Business World,
a service of Media World Ltd.
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