The city of Dublin has submitted plans for an ambitious six-line metro system that will be formed of a central loop operating underneath the Irish capital. Should the project get the official go ahead it would be up and running by 2025 and would reportedly cost a third of the cost normally expected for a project of this nature, coming in at €9 billion (around £8 billion).
That’s the word from the Metro Dublin CEO, Jed van der Poll, who said on Irish radio this week that the project would be privately funded, thus lowering the reliance on the public purse. Helping to keep the costs down, he told Newstalk, would be achieved by echoing a construction method undertaken on Madrid Metro using plans from its architect, Manuel Melis Maynar.
“[Maynar] built 120 kilometres of metro in just seven years and at a fraction of the price that, say, London Underground paid for the Jubilee Line,” reducing the capital and making it more suitable for private investment. “We would be looking for half of that funding – so approximately €4.5 billion – from the European Investment Bank,” a form of funding ideal for Dublin owing to its “extremely low” rate of interest.
That’s confusing. Having lived in Dublin everything on the map appears to be existing infrastructure. Not even a hint of MetroLink (non-statutory consultation delayed until next year https://www.metrolink.ie/#/news ).
Indeed, the map comes from an entirely separate story in the same article that a new map has been published.
Real proposal seems to be at http://www.metrodublin.ie/ . Looks less likely than HighSpeed UK. The “web site” is a simple, single page affair with title “Page Title” created with Microsoft Office. Red crayons show lines arranged around a circle that neatly avoids going anywhere near the town centre, plus one north-south line.
Agree with Tom, this appears to be crayoning via a website, and has no more credence than me suggesting a metro network for Hemel Hempstead