Metro Dublin metro procurement to begin this year

[skinner75]

On 27/11/2025 at 12:45 PM, Auto-Train Original said:

The Midnight Hour JR stinks of a cynical political ploy to constantly delay and delay to find more reasons to kill it off. The objectors are all well connected political types so it's all the same clique. Very sus.

 

CPO & bulldoze their houses!

[flange lubricator]

3 hours ago, skinner75 said:

CPO & bulldoze their houses!

And get the bulldozer driver to deliver the CPO in the bucket of the bulldozer. 

[Flying Snail]

Judicial review into planned MetroLink rail line is withdrawn

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2025/1223/1550368-metrolink/

The application submitted by residents of Dartmouth Square was withdrawn following mediation. The Minister for Transport has called it, 'an early Christmas present for us all.' 

[Flying Snail]

A little more detail emerging this morning than what was in the original RTE article above. It appears that residents who took a legal challenge to the multibillion MetroLink rail project are set to accept an offer from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to buy their homes on Dartmouth Square.

There's more detail on the agreement in this Irish Times article: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/12/23/tii-to-buy-dartmouth-square-objectors-houses-as-challenge-to-metrolink-is-dropped-2/

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 08:52 by Flying Snail

[226 Abhann na Suire]

This is absolutely fantastic. Some people arguing that it’s a negative due to rich people “winning” by being paid off and getting even richer, but realistically, if this is what had to be done to get the Metro done, then it will be worth it ten times over.

Plus, whatever price that TII buys the properties for will be calculated at November 2025 values, and sold at Metrolink-opening values - ie. Georgian close to city properties, with a high-speed, high-capacity, high-frequency metro line on their genuine doorstep with a direct link to the City Centre, the airport, and high frequency heavy rail stations.

No matter what way this goes, yes the rich will get richer, but the project will get built, and the public won’t be fleeced because of it, in fact public money will turn a profit!

It really is a miraculous outcome, and I can’t lie I never thought it would happen, but am so glad that it has. I’m sure we can expect a formal update and maybe a drop of realism vis-a-vis timing and dates in the new year, but for now we should all be incredibly pleased with this outcome, it is somehow, a win-win-win and a true Christmas miracle. Merry Christmas everyone