Issue 18 June 2013
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New LUAS BXD to undergo pre-construction June 24th
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Written by Joe Shields in Dublin city centre crossing a newly built bridge on Marlborough Street and interlinking with the Luas Red line on O Connell Street. Eleven new stations will be created, including stops at Trinity College/ Dawson Street, Westmoreland Street, Broadstone DIT, Phibsborough and the new DIT campus at Grangegorman. In anticipation of major traffic disruption throughout the city centre The National Transport Authority has set up a coordinating information office and website to keep businesses and the public up to date with traffic restrictions. Traffic flow systems in the south of the city will be transformed, with buses, cars and parking spaces being removed from Dawson Street and Kildare Street on St Stephen’s
Green North. Kildare Street will become a two-way system and car parking will be removed around Stephen’s Green east. The cross-city project will provide a muchneeded source of local employment with the potential for the creation of up to 800 construction jobs during the next four years and around 60 permanent vacancies upon completion of the project. Construction work is due to last for over four years. The initial preparatory work includes filling in basements and cellars with a special synthetic mix of concrete and foam. Laying of the tracks will begin in 2015. The project is expected to be operational in 2017.
The new Children’s Hospital may not be completed until 2019 or 2021 due to delays in planning. Although Minister for Health, James Reilly, said in November that the hospital would be opened in 2016, it has emerged that the planning process is taking longer than expected. Construction is believed to begin at the St James site by 2015 and will take three to five years to complete. Reilly announced that St James’s was awarded the site for the new children’s hospital six months ago but sources have said that nothing has happened since the initial announcement. Dr Reilly has replaced the project board with a number of senior
government officials from his department and hopes to get planning permission by December 2014. In addition to the new board, Dr Reilly informed the Dail that he is aiming for a brand new design team to facilitate the construction. The hospital is estimated to cost up to €600million. The State will provide €450 million while the remainder will come from other sources. The government hoped to have the hospital completed by 2016, in time for the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising, but the changing of construction site altered the completion date. The Mater Hospital was originally meant to be the new site but An Bord Pleanála rejected planning permission.
Once construction is finished on the new hospital, the existing three children’s hospitalTemple St, Crumlin and Tallaght will be merged into one. The boards of these hospitals will be merged also under the chairmanship of the president of NUI Galway, Jim Browne. A spokesperson from Sinn Féin, Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin, has urged the Minister for Health not to forget about the existing hospitals and to make sure they were sufficiently resourced and funded while the new hospital is being built. Ó Caoláin has said that the delay is ‘hugely disappointing’ and has encouraged the minister to speed up the process.
High Speed O’Keeffe Broadband Groundwork for Dundrum Knockananna, Wicklow
distance to individual homes is covered by the traditional copper wiring. South Dublin TD Olivia Mitchell has welcomed the early roll out plan this week for the Dundrum area saying, “In the coming days Eircom users will be contacted to inform them that they can now register for the new high speed broadband, which will involve no extra cost for users.” Eircom, however, won’t be the only provider offering this new high speed broadband as the use of the cable will be shared with other providers, such as Vodafone and all other providers who intend to offer packages like Eircom’s offer of TV, mobile, fixed landline and broadband which they’ll be offering later on in the year. The new high speed broadband is being aimed primarily at domestic users insuring that homes will now have access to a much faster internet connection. But while this new high speed broadband seems great only a few of us will be able to avail of it with this early
roll out plan, unfortunately for now the only homes that will able to avail of this glorious high speed broadband is Dundrum while the rest of will just simply have to struggle on with our slow, ordinary broadband till sometime in 2014.
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Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar announced that work on the new 5.6 km cross-city Luas line in Dublin is due to start imminently. Reports suggest June 24th as the starting date for pre-construction work on the new cross-city line known as Luas BXD. The exciting new project, costing an estimated €370million to construct will change the way people travel across the city and beyond, with a dramatic reduction in car journeys expected. The construction of the Cross City line will link both existing Red and Green Luas lines together, along with the Sligo/Maynooth line, thereby providing access for commuters to the entire Luas network. The line will stretch from St Stephen’s Green to Broombridge in Cabra with a loop
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Buffering, slow to download, pages freezing or shutting down are all the nuisances we have to deal with almost every day when using the internet, but with the new high speed broadband that is being rolled out in Dundrum these problems may now become a thing of the past. The high speed broadband is around six to ten times faster than what Eircom is currently able to provide. The Fibre network has been installed over the last few years to local cabinets while the remaining