Transport Infrastructure Ireland

Little doubt MetroLink would get the green light, but what will be the bottom line?

Cost of largest infrastructure project in the history of the State will be far north of €3.5bn estimate back in 2010

Two consortiums will bid to build long-awaited MetroLink

Dublin line expected to begin operating in mid-2030s, providing 20-minute airport-to-city journeys

Planned Dublin Metro linking city centre with airport and Swords could open in stages

Testing and starting services on railway in phases could cut multi-billion euro project’s costs

Ireland and the world must do megaprojects better

A megaproject is a large-scale, complex and often transformative venture, typically costing $1bn or more

Surplus Co Cork land owned by transport body could be converted into native woodland

Bank of 36 acres would be managed ‘into perpetuity’ by the Nature Trust under move to help address TII’s carbon footprint

Dublin’s MetroLink: How much will it really cost?

Plenty of people, including Michael O’Leary, have come out with countless different figures, some proclaiming them with great certainty

Sydney got the Opera House and we had Ardnacrusha. It’s time for that kind of ambition again

Megaprojects from supergrids to forests and ambitious railway schemes need to be part of our climate goals

Will the Government’s big projects survive the next downturn?

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Judicial system is on the front line of the fight to avert climate catastrophe

Looming legal battles over transport and energy projects will determine which direction we take

Pretax losses at Luas operator Transdev reduce by 61%

Tram badly damaged in Dublin riots will be back in service in 2026

Decision on €9bn MetroLink rail project expected within weeks

First confirmed timeline for progress on 16-stop line serving airport and city centre

Future of the Luas: suburban routes and circular services around Dublin by 2050

Work on new lines should begin every one or two years to build tram network fit for future, transport officials say

‘We’ve dropped the ball’: Ireland’s housing targets will be missed because the water, electricity and roads required can’t be delivered

Badly needed scaling up of house-building is threatened by transport and utilities projects stuck in the planning pipeline. What is to be done?

TII expects to seek planning permission for €2bn M20 Cork-Limerick motorway next year

Project co-ordinator expects travel times between two cities to be reduced by 30 minutes

How St Stephen’s Green went from a mucky marsh to Dublin’s most famous square in 400 years

Roaming pigs and geese, the obnoxious Whaley family, one of Ireland’s first Michelin stars and ‘shocking destruction’ of the city’s built heritage from the 1960s ... the green has seen it all

Engineering consultancy Ramboll interested in Metrolink bid

Executive says airport rail project, promised for delivery by 2035, is badly needed

Dublin’s €70bn infrastructural upgrade: how it breaks down

KPMG reckons Irish capital needs €70bn investment in housing, transport, water and energy

ATM joins Alstom to bid for Luas contract

Transport Infrastructure Ireland tendering for the contract to operate, maintain and overhaul the Luas

MetroLink job vacancy: could this fixed-term contract become a job for life?

Plus: death of a behind-the-scenes Irish music legend; Enoch Burke sees out a second principal; and Doireann Garrihy loses ground

Jack Chambers criticises people who object to housing on basis it affects their ‘area’s character’

Minister outlines plan for taskforce to tackle ‘some of the slowest systems of delivery’ in world

Cork pub owner thought it was a prank when told by customers of plan to demolish his business for Luas route

Con Dennehy, who runs Venue Bar in Ballintemple with partner Kate Tierney, thought texts part of elaborate prank

Luas Cork mapped: Preferred route for €2bn project unveiled

Proposed line from Ballincollig to Mahon would feature 25 stops and connect key destinations along the route

Investment in public transport is key to success of revised national planning framework

Either we spend a lot more on public transport, especially in regional cities and on rail lines serving new commuter belts, or the framework will be meaningless

Crashes on the M50 are ‘due to volume of traffic and lack of attention’

Number of fatal crashes involving motorbikes have occurred on same stretch of the motorway in recent years

Cost of long-delayed Dublin Airport Metrolink could rise to more than €23bn, Minister told

Briefing for Darragh O’Brien warns true cost of link between Swords, Dublin Airport and city centre will only be known at procurement stage

Man (43) died from traumatic brain injury after losing control of motorcycle, inquest hears

Edward Scallan died after a collision while travelling home from work at Dublin Airport

Ten people died in a furnace of twisted metal in Creeslough. Now the owner wants to build another filling station

‘They plan to install petrol pumps on part of the site where my wife took her last breath,’ wrote Derek Martin, whose wife Martina died in the explosion

Three steps that could clear the housing roadblocks to boosting the supply of new homes

Residential property output is stagnating, but immediate government action on three key issues could jump-start the market

Dublin law firm received €15m for advising State transport bodies responsible for roads and rail infrastructure

National Transport Authority and Transport Infrastructure Ireland paid consultants more than €30m over four years

Moaning about cycle lanes is a symptom of our inertia on road safety and climate

Untold story about our roads is the dramatic rise in serious injuries in 10 years

Proposal for Finglas Luas to stop near Dublin Airport was rejected

Dublin City Council ultimately said it accepted that ‘providing a bridge over the M50 is not within the scope of the project’

Cameras to catch drivers breaking red lights to be introduced in Dublin

Red light cameras will capture registration numbers of drivers putting pedestrians and other cars at risk

Truckers warn they face rising costs

Haulage sector group demands Government stalls toll road and safety charges

Finglas Luas application to be submitted on Monday

Green line extension to north Dublin suburb due to be running by 2031

State paid consultants €514,000 for 33 pages of Dublin metro plan reports

Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy accuses State bodies of ‘out of control’ expenditure on consultants

Europe ‘must spend on green energy and charging capacity, not roads, airports expansion’

Europe needs to spend €39bn every year to ensure its green transport technology is fully deployed, says study

The Irish Times view on the Metrolink: slow train coming, possibly

Commuters on the proposed route, many sitting in daily traffic with few other options, will hope that a decision is forthcoming shortly

Paschal Donohoe criticises toll road price increases

Minister for Public Expenditure ‘reluctant’ to see anything that adds to the cost of living as TII announces 10 cent increase on M50 tolls for unregistered vehicles

Lidl says Metrolink must not be built at expense of its future use of Dublin lands

Lidl owns sites at the proposed Northwood metro station, just south of the M50 in north Dublin

Dartmouth Square residents criticise ‘wholly inadequate’ MetroLink compensation payments

Payments ‘considerably in excess’ of the maximum compensation of €75,000 would be required, according to new submissions made to An Bord Pleanála

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