Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 233: To ask the Minister for Transport if the Luas BX line to Liffey Junction will be completed by 2012; if the line will be constructed in a single phase from Stephen's Green to Liffey Junction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28203/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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Transport 21 provides for the development of a Luas line from St Stephen's Green to Liffey Junction, using the old Broadstone railway alignment. The Board of the RPA decided earlier this year on a preferred route option for the cross-city on-street element of this Luas line and the RPA are now planning detailed design work on the project based on this option. Dublin City Council is undertaking traffic modelling work as part of its examination of revised traffic management arrangements in the city, which will be required not only for the delivery of the cross-city Luas line but also Metro North. In this context, the RPA is also considering ways of streamlining and combining works on the cross-city Luas Line and the construction of Metro North in order to minimise disruption to the City Centre.

Following completion of design work, consideration of combining work on both projects, and subject to a satisfactory outcome to the city centre traffic management planning work, the RPA will submit a Railway Order application to An Bord Pleanála. The construction timescale will be dependent on the outcome of this statutory approval process.