Eamon Ryan has issues with Dublin Port developmnt plan

[spudfan]

There are lots of places to read this. Eamonn Ryan does mention putting more freight on to rail in this piece.

Kildare Nationalist — Eamon Ryan raises climate concerns about Dublin Port expansion | Kildare Nationalist (kildare-nationalist.ie)

[MOGUL]

He is right.. it's madness to put more Lo/Lo capacity on the South side of the river for a number of reasons but mainly that the Glass Bottle site is about to have a ton of apartments build on it, the residents of which will not want the noise of container handling on their doorstep, also stacks of containers aren't nice to look at to most people(a few individuals on here spring to mind as notable exceptions) and gantry cranes with running lights at third story level accross the road.. 

A better plan would be: 

1) Move the liquid oils and Tar business out to Bremore(with provision/future proofing to hydrogen), overcome the lack of deep water by building a Dolphin offshore connected to land by a undersea pipeline.. The presence of so much petroleum products in the port area actually limits the development of the surrounding areas under SEVESO regs.. This could be served by a siding of the Belfast line is demand sufficed..

2) using the space made available on the north side, expand lo/lo ops all along the river bank.. Close Alex road and incorporate it into the new terminal. This has the added benefit of keeping Lo/Lo on the Northside which has rail connections

3) Build a new Ro/Ro terminal on the south side, Ro/Ro has less of the issues than Lo/Lo, so is a better neighbour than a container terminal.