Eirgrid to go ahead with interconnector cable at Rush
It’s been a while since i posted something so will keep it brief; busy, busy, busy! Well there you have it yet another piece of our major infrastructure upgrades is continuing at a pace. More information on the project can be found on the Eirgrid website: East – West InterConnector Project TIM O’BRIEN EIRGRID HAS said it...
RPA to submit railway order for Metro West to the Bord!
Well this pretty much snook in under the radar! I hadn’t heard a peep from this project, I assumed it was dead and buried for another time, how wrong was I!? Very happy to know i was wrong! From the RPA: The Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) has today (20th October 2010) announced its intention to...
Gotthard Tunnel breakthrough. Could Ireland create a high speed rail link to the UK?
The longest tunnel in the world is now in Switzerland. This 57Km train tunnel, to be completed around 2017, at a cost to the tune of 930€ per person in Switzerland. Just for clarity that’s almost a 1,000€ for each and every one of its 7,593,500 citizens. The video below shows the momentous occasion for the Swiss-Italian venture....
National Children’s Hospital plans lodged, uniquely designed with children
Welcome to autumn folks, and to my first post from the greatness that is the Bolton Street canteen on such a chilly morning. Great news today, the Planning Application for the new Children’s Hospital has been lodged with an Bord Pleanala. Will leave it up to Frank to explain the unique approach to the hospital design, well...
Dublin City Council erecting Real Time Passenger (RTP) information signs
This pole appeared over night at the 41 bus stop on Abbey Street, so I am assuming it is only a matter of time before we have signs attached and working real time passenger (RTP) information similar to other european cities. According to a recent tweet by Minister Ciaran Cuffe RTP is to be launched before the...
Poolbeg incinerator work set to restart
OLIVIA KELLY CONSTRUCTION OF the controversial Poolbeg incinerator could restart within months following the decision of An Bord Pleanála to grant permission to Dublin City Council to compulsorily purchase land required for the facility. An Bord Pleanála will this week write to the council to say that it does not intend to hold public hearings...
More Dublin Bikes stands await deployment!
I was on my up to training tonight and I put my DB into the station on Stephens green south and look what i found, newly commissioned stands. The scheme is expanding! Excited much? Because I am!!
How would you protect the canal on your site?
Based on our recent visit to our masterplan site, i figured that this little humpback bridge deserved its own little post just for how pretty it looks! I believe one of our major planning issues for the site is how to treat the royal canal and the tranquility of it! Any suggestions on possible solutions...
Trains do run on the Dunboyne Line
As part of our course this year, we have to prepare a masterplan for a client. Our site happens to be beside where the Maynooth Line splits with the Dunboyne Line, and yes trains run every 20 mins on it as far as i could see. It will be nice when the already built railway station gets...
Planning for new children’s hospital set to be lodged
Paul Cullen writes: A PLANNING application for the new national children’s hospital on the Mater site in central Dublin is to be lodged later this month. The development team behind the new hospital confirmed yesterday that it was pushing forward with the project, despite renewed criticism in recent weeks from retired heart surgeon Maurice Neligan...
Transport plan would transform green
I can’t say I’m a major fan of the look of the new green with the lovely mature trees removed. But I suppose it is a necessary evil in order to get these much need projects off the ground. Maybe some new trees can be planted and it will look as fantastic as it does...
Review of decision on Fingal Landfill sought
AN APPLICATION is to be made to the High Court seeking a judicial review of the decision to grant a licence to Fingal County Council for a landfill site at Nevitt near Lusk in north Co Dublin. Gemma Larkin of Walshtown, Lusk, Co Dublin, a member of the Nevitt Lusk Action Group (NLAG), is seeking...
