Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Revised National Development Plan: Discussion

Mr. Hugh Creegan:

The definition of MetroLink is that it runs from north of Swords to the Charlemont station or stop, just on the south side of the city. it does not include the Green line upgrade. We did put that out as an initial proposal. In the long term, we believed that an upgrade of that line was needed but when we did further assessment it became clear that we can increase the capacity of the Luas green line that will carry us through the next decade or two decades. It is at that stage it would need to be looked at. Over the last year so, all of the trams on the green line have been lengthened. Previously they had been running at 40 m and now they are running at 45 m. There is scope to add additional trams in the future. They may not be able to run all the way through the city centre but they would be able to run as far as St. Stephen's Green, which is a large destination point. There is a plan there to increase incrementally the capacity on the green line as required over the coming two decades. At that point in time there will be other plans needed for the green line. MetroLink runs from north of Swords to interchange with the green line at Charlemont.

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