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‘Republic now two hours wide’ M6 finished

Colin Broderick on 12 20, 2009 | No Comments

THE REPUBLIC is now just “two hours wide” with completion of the first “inter-urban” M6 corridor between Galway and Dublin. Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey marked the little bit of hist

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Luas Red Line extension to open on Tuesday

Colin Broderick on 12 5, 2009 | No Comments

[singlepic id=17 w=220 h=340 float=left]THE LUAS extension from Bus Áras to the Point is to open on Tuesday and will face its first big challenge within hours, the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) sa

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Labour calls for retention of €8m funds for rural transport programme

Colin Broderick on 12 2, 2009 | No Comments

THE LABOUR Party has called for the retention of some €8 million in funding for the rural transport programme, which is “critical” for tens of thousands of people living in the countryside. L

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Underground DART plans on track despite €3bn price tag

Colin Broderick on 11 24, 2009 | No Comments

IARNROD Eireann will seek planning permission early next year to build an underground DART line in Dublin costing up to €3bn. The proposed new line would run from the Docklands to Inchicore. Capa

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Gormley opposes decision on Dublin ‘bus gate’

Colin Broderick on 11 4, 2009 | No Comments

MARY MINIHAN MINISTER FOR the Environment and Green Party leader John Gormley has described the decision to temporarily scale back the College Green “bus gate” as “a retrograde step”. Dublin

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First tracks laid for initial phase of reopening of Dublin-Navan rail line

Colin Broderick on 10 31, 2009 | No Comments

TIM O'BRIEN THE FIRST tracks of phase one of the reopening of the Dublin-Navan railway line were laid yesterday. The 7.5-km double-track line begins at Clonsilla where it will branch off from the Ma

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Bus gate halves journey times in capital

Colin Broderick on 10 27, 2009 | No Comments

[singlepic id=11 w=420 h=340 float=left]BUS journey times through Dublin city centre have fallen by half since the controversial bus gGate started operating last July. City traders claim the

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Shannon rail bridge nears completion

Colin Broderick on 10 27, 2009 | No Comments

THE FINAL stage of work to replace one of Iarnród Éireann’s three railway crossings of the Shannon, a bridge near Lough Tap, between Dromod and Carrick-on-Shannon in Co Leitrim, gets under way tod

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A time for building bridges

Colin Broderick on 09 21, 2009 | No Comments

Only noticed this in saturdays irish times today. This article was accompanied with images of the Viaduc de Millau, which I had the pleasure of crossing the year it opened to the public. A truly in

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Dublin Bikes – Over 6000 sign up!

Colin Broderick on 09 18, 2009 | No Comments

Got my Dublin Bikes subscription card today, can't wait to have a go on one of these bikes! This is the card you get below, the same size as your credit card: [singlepic id=1 w=320 h=240 float=center

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