We’re nearly there
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The cheapest time to build infrastructure was in the past, the next cheapest time is now.
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Let the cost overruns begin
If only the current parties in government had some power or influence to get things done in the intervening years.
Why is everything always 3-5 years away?
That’s just how “the future” works
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But when the future becomes the present, the timeline hasn’t changed. What gives?
No one is ever held accountable to an ECD that far away. Government ministers change as do economic events and so do the plans continuously where they get refreshed with a new lick of paint with an army of advisors, consultants, architects, engineers and lawyers kept on the gravy train, if you’ll pardon the pun. No one actually really wants to deliver anything substantial and there seems to be no percussions even if it’s in someone’s objectives.
I’ll be interested to see whether the revised national development plan objectives when they come out actually demonstrate any ambition.
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Given what was presented recently had little or no detail I think you know the answer to that question
Huh?
New Woodbrook station is opening this weekend.
DART+ Fleet is getting tested daily
DART+ Fleet infrastructure is getting built
Cork-Middleton electrification is underway
Bus Connects line one commencing construction
Loads of things going on, we are in the first year or so of the most substantial rail investment in the country since the 19th century.
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It would require more discussion if some of the stuff wasn’t so long overdue.
But should we even be undertaking large infrastructure projects at a time when the economy is boiling over and we have a massive housing crisis.
Where will we find the construction workers to build it? We’ll end up having to bring them in. Where will they live?
I think all the work to have it shovel ready should continue but actual project starting should hold off. We will probably be well in a recession by the time they get around to it I suppose
People say this but it isn’t true. Quite a bit of Transport 21 was delivered. The Luas projects were delivered, for example.
Yes economic conditions change and also plans change which is reasonable. Metrolink is actually a much different project to Metro North (for example), but people seem to correlate Dublin Airport connection to being the same thing.
Bear in mind that when the plan you posted was dreamed up the country had zero motorways. That was the primary investment of the country of the 1990s and into the early 2010s.
They only announced headline figures. Departments have to announce what they’re going to do with the additional allocations. Seems a backwards way of doing it to me but there you go.
I imagine - but don’t know - that they’re a different set of construction workers for the most part than those we need for housing. How many companies can actually do the thing. Some might be international, maybe they bring in workers for different parts of the project?
Sort of related, apparently we’re a good bit behind Europe in output for the size of our workforce due to slowness adapting to modern construction methods. Upskilling the workforce is a priority they’re starting on now, supposedly.
The housing crisis won’t be long disappearing when the economy goes kaput
Repercussions.
Percussions are what rugby players get.
Do the rugby players play music?
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Eamo eano eamo
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