Il governo per esaminare le stime dei costi di Metrolink dopo che il direttore del progetto prevede un grande sovraccarico
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/05/11/government-to-examine-metrolink-cost-estimates-after-project-director-predicts-big-overrun/
di nitro1234561
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Chances of them cancelling it now they are supported by the rural independent group is massively increased I’d say.
>after project director predicts big overrun
Without having any knowledge or information about the project I could also have predicted a big overrun.
For God’s sake. My old man worked on the original design for this system (published 1976) and not a single line has been built. It’s an investment, not an expense, in what is one of Europe’s most congested cities. What’s going to happen when we need a second line, say out to the south west of the city?
Utterly incapable country.
Just grab a boring machine and let it loose under the city. Whatever path it takes will be the metro
He gets paid €550k a year so that they’ll listen to him tell them things that any fool could tell them. And, in this case, it’d be easy for the fool to be right.
A public project in Ireland predicted to run massively over budget? I DON’T BELIEVE YOU!!
An Bord Pleanala are surely to blame. Every single day they dither on the railway order, the more the future cost rises. Not a shovel can go in the ground until that takes place and it’s still another few weeks away I’d imagine. They’ve had it on their desk since September 2022. There’s nothing that Metrolink can do from a construction POV once that’s on their desk other than wait.
An Bord Pleanala / Boomers / NIMBYs / BANANAs / Mannix Flynn. All one grand coalition of people who stole our future and are now stealing our present just because they demand to never be inconvenienced by literally anything ever again.
I grew up in Helsinki, we built two metro lines in the middle of a huge recession in the 1980s.
Ireland is the wealthiest it has ever been and nothing is being built. The Irish public need to stop being so soft on your representatives. Seriously.
> Dr Sweeney was also critical of the Irish planning system, saying he had noticed since coming to Ireland that things take longer… “But the situation in Ireland, where pretty well anyone can object to anything and stop it for six months or nine months, is not good for Ireland.”
I think that this should be the main focus of the article. Don’t forget that we still have another round of oral hearings where an Board Pleanala will listen to anybody who lives within a 150 mile radius of a station, complain about how the construction work will upset their dog during walks.
There’s an interesting bit in Sweeny’s SBP interview which the Irish Times doesn’t mention here, he (rightly) calls out that the lack of support for this from the government. Even the Minister for Transport is only willing to say here that he “hopes” that construction will begin within the next 5 years. If you don’t have political backing on something like this, how will you get it done?
The government has little enough true interest in public transport, the problem now is we’re running out of road for anything else. Bus Connects was only ever supposed to be an interim solution for Dublin and Cork, (and now it won’t even be one for Cork). Dart+ can only do so much (and has had its own nonsense around level crossings).
The cost is ridiculous when compared to other projects around the world.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4nW28DUeLs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4nW28DUeLs)
Take this Metro in Thessaloniki, it is about half the size of the proposed Dublin metro and was also delayed for years. They ran into so many problems with historical artifacts being discovered which caused further delays and redesigns but it still only cost €3 billion.
We are at €10 billion already and are being told it won’t be enough.
Just 10 X then double that. And 10 X the time needed.
Irish math once again
Amazing how they never seek to examine the absolute black hole that the Asylum seekers budget is… when they aren’t even residents, and in most cases here with no grounds.
But they’ll sink billions into that without any questions yet critical infrastructure such as prisons or rail lines face scrutiny.