Transport plans for Grangegorman area?

[lolly]

Hi,

I hope I am posting this in the correct place. I am just interested in what the latest plans are for any Rail, LUAS, Metro, etc services in the Grangegorman area - specifically Grangegorman Road Upper/Rathdown Road area.

I am considering buying a house in this area and have heard rumours that some transport stops could end up here especially with the proposed new DIT campus planned to locate here.

I just don't want to buy a house and end up with a train running right behind my house!

Anyone know the latest? I have scoured the internet but all the plans I see are different!!!

Help me please,

Lolly

[Thomas J Stamp]

I have scoured the internet but all the plans I see are different!!!

Same for us.

TBH, if you are thinking about a house choose one near a rail alignment, it can only help the potential value.

At the moment, the precise nature of the Grangegorman LUAS plans will depend on the resolution of the current city centre connection between the Green and Red lines. This is of course stupid, as both lines should have been unified in the first place. Even more stupid is the fact that we have a line form Lucan planned to head into the city centre but the current proposed alignment is somewhat vague. This suggests that there will be the exact same problems when (if) the Lucan LUAS line is constructed, and also, when the line through Grangegorman comes to the table.

Doing one big plan, for all these lines, appears to have escaped someones thought process in the DoT and its many many little quangos. Instead we are presented with a selection of lines, whose routing is fairly set in concrete until they get within three miles of O'Connell Bridge, resulting in delays, and cost over-runs.

[Colm Donoghue]

Originally Posted by Thomas J Stamp

Doing one big plan, for all these lines, appears to have escaped someones thought process in the DoT and its many many little quangos. Instead we are presented with a selection of lines, whose routing is fairly set in concrete until they get within three miles of O'Connell Bridge, resulting in delays, and cost over-runs.

You make this sound like it's a bad thing. What would all those civil servants do otherwise while not moving where their political masters want them to go?

Seriously, I concur about living near rail transport. Only cycling is anywhere as fast and then only in the city proper.