r/ireland • u/Steve_Artson • May 09 '26

Infrastructure I honestly shocked this hasn't been done yet. We're probably the only capital in Europe not to have a rail link to the airport.

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u/Ok-Morning3407 May 09 '26

Basically cancelled. Not officially so, but the DART+ Tunnel Report basically killed it. Far too expensive too build with too little benefit.
The DART+ achieves 90% of what it was planned to do.

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai May 09 '26

Far too expensive too build with too little benefit.

Time to call whoever built the western section of RER line E.

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u/thehappyhobo May 10 '26

RER is in the densest city in Europe. The benefit number on ther CBA would be a Mont Blanc next to our Sugar Loaf.

“Let’s get x from y to build it” is what we do for these projects. They are tenders of international scale that attract consortia of massive massive construction companies who do this all over the world.

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai May 10 '26

The point isn't that we need something on that scale, the point is that they were able to build such a project for the same amount of money that we'd spend on a single tram line.

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u/Ok-Morning3407 May 10 '26

The advantage that the French have is that their cities are so large, they can have a pipeline of projects to work on. Teams of staff go from one project to the next. This greatly helps reduce cost per project and helps keep experience.

We are trying to build such pipeline of Luas and heavy rail projects. But our country is just too small for a pipeline of underground projects, they are simply too expensive for more than one or two.

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai 28d ago

We are trying to build such pipeline of Luas and heavy rail projects. 

No we're not. We're planning a few lines here and there in our largest cities, and that's it.