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WORK TO THE roof on Dublin’s Pearse Station will begin in the second half of next year, Iarnród Éireann has said.
Extensive works worth up to €10 million are needed to upgrade the roof, which dates back to the 1880s.
Because of the extent of the work involved, the station will close on 13 weekends between August 2018 and June 2020. This closure is to allow for “round-the-clock works”, which involves lifting in sections of the new roof.
During these weekends, the northside Dart, Maynooth and Drogheda services would operate to and from Connolly Station, with the southside Dart and Rosslare services operating to and from Grand Canal Dock.
Iarnród Éireann says the current roof “is in poor condition”, and protective mesh netting has been in place in the station below roof level in recent years to protect customers and rail services, due to the corrosion which has occurred.
The project will be funded by the National Transport Authority, Iarnród Éireann said.
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Ffs, two years to do a roof. The Chinese would do it in a week.
@JJ: aye cén fáth go bhfuil sé fada??! Dúr.
Yeah, why is everything so long?! Stupid!
@JJ: And not even starting the refurbishments till August next year.
@JJ: The Chinese are a great bunch of lads so no comparison.
@JJ: Will you and the boys sign up to do it for €300 a month ?
@JJ: It’s not like they’re fixing a flat roof on a extension. Obviously the idea of plastic surgery on a leaking roof appeals to your taste. But when something dates back as far as 1880, it requires a bit more expertise than a week long botch job.
@Paul Linehan: its not exactly predating Roman times either. I didn’t see any Leonardo DaVinci ideas applied or any Gothic or Ionian type pillars a that were used 2000 years ago. C’mon lull the other one. I would like the Irish renovate Castilo De Angelo in Rome.
@JJ: The Chinese may have lovely roofs cut they have to employ people just to to push them more tightly into trains.
@JJ: They do seem to have a greater sense of urgency than our own glorious planners, perhaps we could offer to link CIE to their new transplanet belt system http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/rail.htm PS: great bunch of lads as we often saz..
@Brendan Mason: Your comparison of something 2000 years ago and 140 years is strange. It’s a bit like comparing a Dublin Georgian building and the Newgrange monument. Neither looks the same, but both have the same historical value.
Talk about dragging the arse out of a project. 2 years for a roof? Is Stephen Hawking doing the construction work?
@Dj: 13 weekends over two years, so I presume 26 days in total.
@Dj: maybe just maybe someone who knows what they are doing has sat down and worked out how to do this with minimum disruption to the public but I’m sure your right DJ……quick back to your keyboard there’s another article up on the journal for you to comment on
@(((Noel Hogan))): two years for , as ye said 13 weeks , get it done quicker , none of us are getting younger , am thinking ye might be pals with said fiscal reasons .
@Declan Crowley: pretty sure they are spreading it out to cause minimal disruption to the dart and rail lines. 13 weekends running 24 hours a day would account to over a normal week per weekend. You’d rather close the station for 13 weeks straight and shut down the commuting line right in the middle? Cop on t’fck
@Dj: i love it Dj great comment !!!
@Dj: naaaw he retired to Barbados after the latest Luas project.
@Declan Snow: It wouldn’t be closed for 13 weeks. 26 days is less than a month. They could use Tara Street Station to let passengers off and have it done and dusted in February of any year.
Not much fun playing that piano under a leaky roof.
That’s the reason Ireland didn’t get the rugby world cup. It would cost ten trillion euros to run it. Too many snouts in the trough.
Any word on who got the contract?
@joe oneill: William O Rourke.
@Dj: O’Rourke you say…is he a blow in ?
The roof must be made of gold. €10 m for a corrugated roof.
I find this astonishing. Paddington Station in London has gone under a huge roofing redevelopment over the last few years with noise and construction but it was never closed !! Seriously guys this is just taking the you know what.
At this stage , nothing shocks me , , sorry ! Actually , it does , WhaF , and why . its a roof , 3 months and not a second longer . some , office is spending too much time recruiting ghost jobs for their , Friends, #getitdonefolks
@DustinOfficial would get it done in two days!!!
Look, this is IE we are talking about;
1) the project will already be padded and over costed – however
2) when the time comes it will likely be – late, over-budget and faulty – as is just about everything else they do…oh and the roofers will go on strike half way through so that the can be on the same pay scale as some lads that did a roof on a cow shed in Kerry
AND
the staff that would otherwise be working those weekends will negotiate some kind of disturbance money (for lying at home ) and still come away with more money….
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