r/Dublin • u/Both-Corgi-2289 • 10h ago
Metro progress ?
Anyone working for metrolink ?
Any progress ?
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u/DanDangerx 10h ago
The roundabouts by Swords are being removed and the roads along the proposed terminus are being prepped. Properties are being bought that will be directly in the zone of stations and works. And thats where we are at.
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u/Dr_Eloyd 10h ago
Lol exactly what swords needed was more roundabout trouble the exit to the village is already a death trap.
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u/I_cantdoit 10h ago
The conglomerates have completed (or nearing completion?) of the pre-qualification questionnaire and will be getting invited to tender for it after that. Next year til they get awarded the contact.
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u/CrispsInTabascoSauce 10h ago
Forget about metro, it will never get built. Consultants will earn a lot of money though.
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u/Playful-Prior-5084 10h ago
If that story is true, that Japanese offered to build the metro back in the 90's, then someone should be tried for treason
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u/SirJoePininfarina 10h ago edited 10h ago
Unless a major war involving EU member states breaks out in the next 4 months (and I wish I could rule that out but I really can’t), the Metrolink will get approved by government at the end of this year to commence major works in 2027-2028.
Once tenders for supplying trains, building the tracks and stations etc. are awarded and it starts construction, the government are kinda stuck with it for 25 years.
So if they were to get cold feet again, tough - they’d have to pay such enormous penalties to the winning bidders for not following through that they may as well pay for the thing and have something to show for it.
They’re spending €50m a month at this stage already and are buying up properties left, right and centre. On this iteration of the project alone, they’ve probably spend close on €600m and that’s tiny compared to the overall cost, which is likely to be the wrong side of €15bn.
But that’s what these things cost. And it would’ve been cheaper to do it 20 years ago. Ffs it would’ve been IDEAL to do it during the crash, when we had thousands of construction workers out of a job - the Metrolink is going to need 8,000 of them and it’s going to be hard to recruit them.
We’ve no choice though, the Metrolink is the least we could be building in terms of critical national infrastructure at the moment. And tbh we’re behind; we should be building these things speculatively, across empty fields, to promote housing construction. Maybe we’ll get good at that on the foot of this, who knows?