Bikes on the DART, what about in Europe?
Having heard the recent news regarding IrishRail allowing the carriage of Bicycles on board all DART services at off-peak times I thought it might be a good idea to show off some other cities / countries that allow bikes on board their commuter and intercity services. I wouldn’t like to be trying to get a bike onto...
Last Stretch of the M7 opens
Image: NRA Great news, pity we won’t be driving through Borris anymore, but such is progress! THE END of a decade of motorway building between Dublin, the Border and the regional cities was marked quietly yesterday, with the opening of the €347 million Castletown to Nenagh section of the M7. The final 36km of the...
The snow it’s back! Dublin Bikes and Lights
Well folks as the title goes the snow, it has well and truly returned to Dublin. Do I hear the odds of a white christmas rapidly falling!? Well to cap off probably my shortest post, here are two pictures I took before my 2 hour bus journey to Santry. Power might be gone in the...
Seaplane base for Lough Derg approved
Harbour Flight Limited It has been quiet a while due to way too much work in college but from todays IrishTimes, Gordon Deegan writes: A NEW base for seaplanes on the River Shannon at Lough Derg was approved yesterday by An Bord Pleanála. The board rejected appeals against the proposal from An Taisce and Inland...
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...
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!!
Can we have this bicycle parking in Dublin?
I was on a recent inter rail trip around europe, something which i would highly recommend to anyone even remotely considering no matter what your age! But back to the point i witnessed some very interesting solutions to bicycle parking in cities, which i will show in some later short posts. I thought that Switzerland...
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...
Metro, Dart link included in €39bn revised capital plan
Of course lets not forget that DIT Grangegorman is approved under the plan! Well the first phase of Grangegorman at least. Woo as an alumni some day i will be able to visit DIT as a proper college with a campus. Pretty cool. Big pity to see the Navan Rail line and the western rail corridor axed...
New East Wall site for launch of Dart tunnelling machine
INCHICORE RESIDENTS have given a guarded welcome to a decision to drop plans to assemble and launch a tunnel boring machine for Dart Underground on a sports field in the historic Railway Estate. According to an application for a Railway Order lodged with An Bord Pleanála yesterday, tunnelling for Dart Underground is now to take...
