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The Luas Cross City has been running since December. Sam Boal

New longer Luas tram blocks traffic after its back carriage sticks out past O'Connell Bridge

The end of the tram jutted out into the quays after it stopped on the bridge.

STAKEHOLDERS IN THE Luas Cross City service have said they will conduct a review of signalling in and around O’Connell Bridge after a new longer tram caused issues this morning.

The new trams are longer than the width of O’Connell Bridge and one tram saw its rear carriage protruding out into traffic on Dublin’s south quays this morning.

The longer 55-metre tram can carry up to 380 passengers, more than the current capacity of 320, and are due to be officially introduced before the end of March.

Luas operator Transdev is trialling the new service ahead of that and this morning’s running of the 7.47am tram from Bride’s Glen caused problems once it got to the junction at O’Connell Bridge.

Because the tram is longer than the bridge, the longer Luas has to proceed straight over O’Connell Bridge from Westmoreland Street without stopping on the bridge.

This did not happen this morning and Transport Infrastructure Ireland has now said signalling will likely have to be changed at the junction.

“We will conduct a further review of the signalling arrangement and optimisation settings with Dublin City Council,” TII said in a statement this afternoon.

We are running trams only occasionally in the morning peak to ensure that the city gets a chance to get used to them. We will continue to work closely with all the stakeholders, particularly DCC and the National Transport Authority to ensure traffic signals are optimised and that disruption to all those travelling in the city is kept to a minimum as the system settles in.

Speaking after today’s problems blocked traffic on the busy quays, Fine Gael Senator Neale Richmond said the ongoing issues with the new Luas Cross City are eroding public confidence in the service.

“It is the latest in a stream of farcical incidents that have all been well-flagged in advance yet responses have been lethargic at best, if existent at all,” he said.

Since the launch of Luas Cross City we have seen reduced frequency across the Green line, overly congested trams to the point that safety concerns were raised, the inability of commuters many of whom have prepaid tickets to even get onto to trams and absolute traffic carnage across much of the city centre on a daily basis.

Fianna Fáil’s Dublin spokesperson John Lahart TD also said that these issues were predictable:

The situation over the past 48 hours was predicted, it was warned that this would occur and yet the Minister for Transport ignored his duty to provide safer conditions for all road and transport users.

“A reasonable resolution must be found to this chronic congestion and must involve adequate input between all stakeholders operating in the city centre,” he added.

Lahart said that all parties will need to devise a solution before the longer trams are fully introduced next month, he explained the challenge they face:

“The tram will be longer than the width of O’Connell Bridge which means that when it passes over O’Connell Bride it actually has to clear it in one go. ”

“They estimate that the minimum crossing time is 55 seconds, the maximum crossing time is 90 seconds. Now at peak, a longer tram will cross every three minutes, if it takes 90 seconds, a minute and a half, that tackles 90 seconds for all the buses and cars and bikes coming off the four quays, to make their movements.”

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    Mute John003
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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:08 PM

    Easy mistake to make…Forgot to measure how long it is….Like buying something in IKEA and then it won’t fit in car….

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:11 PM

    @John003: yeah give them a break for god’s sake, I did this with a curtain rail once. Easily done.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:55 PM

    @John003: Agreed easy mistake to make. But unless you took years to get to Ikea, cost endless traffic jams, significant loss of economic opportunities to the city centre and once there you spent hundreds of millions of tax payers money then, hardly comparable.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:07 PM

    @Hank_Scorpio: Hank sucked the life out of that joke.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:17 PM

    @John003: Actually LUAS Traffic Control KNEW the tram would be too long for the Bridge and determined that it should be given right-of-way at the junctions whatever the traffic lights showed.

    ‘Twas a stupid taxi driver who blocked the tram’s right-of-way.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:59 PM

    @Grumpyoldtroll: should have gone underground!!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:08 PM

    @Grumpyoldtroll: i rather have two short ones instead of one long one.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:36 PM

    @Hank_Scorpio: But the gov weren’t spending millions shopping in IKEA.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:41 PM

    @Hank_Scorpio: mah

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:49 PM

    @Tomas: said no man ever.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:11 PM

    Do we have one public body that is in any way competent?

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:27 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: No

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:43 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: No, again.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:50 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: Fifi. The only competent public body in Ireland

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:20 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: Actually LUAS Traffic Control competently KNEW the tram would be too long for the Bridge and determined that it should be given right-of-way at the junctions.
    ‘Twas a stupid taxi driver who blocked the tram’s right-of-way.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:48 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: No its impossible to a single public body to do anything right, but sure it looked great on the 3D presentation though.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:18 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: The answer is…No! Another question is…”Do we have accountability in state bodies?” The answer…again…is No!! Absolute joke.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:37 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: seems Not

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:42 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: do you really need to ask that question!!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:48 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: private run company

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:52 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: I am presuming you were joking, competent public body and Ireland should never bi included in the one sentence.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 10:23 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: And yet people keep wanting the government to do more.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 10:41 PM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: The answer is no, we have more than one. It is a pity that private companies are not open to the same scrutiny as the Public Service. The Luas is operated by a private company.

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    Feb 9th 2018, 1:31 AM

    @Gerard Anthony McBride: and amazingly people complain when private companies get involved in the provision of homelessness services!

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    Feb 9th 2018, 7:29 AM

    @Bryan Whaley: It’s exactly the opposite.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:05 PM

    One job to do!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:51 PM

    @Bob Lynch: actually no, this project has involved many thousands of things to do, your comment suggests that you don’t really know what it takes to implement a project such as the Lisa Cross City

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:58 PM

    @Vocal Outrage: Are you seriously saying that not fully taking into account the length of the new ‘Lisa Cross City’ is an ok oversight because they had a bunch of other little things to do?

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:12 PM

    @Kevin O’ Brien: Lisa cross city? She must be a big girl

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:13 PM

    @Vocal Outrage: you’ve got to work for them?

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:38 PM

    @Vocal Outrage: neither do the donkeys that actually had the task of planning for the introduction of the new trams …..

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:49 PM

    @Rudy de Groot: Why does Laurel and Hardy come to mind, although somehow I do believe that they would do a better job than the lot that’s acting the Maggot now.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:57 PM

    @Scottyyyyyy: Too big to fit on O’Connell bridge, as per Vocal Outrage.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:38 PM

    @Bob Lynch: yes. Sack them allow

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    Feb 8th 2018, 8:10 PM

    @Vocal Outrage: shut up will ya

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:09 PM

    And yet if we just did the central city part underground none of this would be an issue, sure it cost more, but no disruption and would be there in 200 years time like the underground, just maintain it. Simple logic and no study would have told you this! DUHHHH

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:13 PM

    @kevinhunt101: not sure if they would make the hole big enough to fit the train .. they have form after all in relation to the port tunnel.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:37 PM

    @Ian Kavanagh: Would have cost hundreds of millions more and meant excavating most of St. Stephens green West, as well as relocating all of the underground power and sewage pipes along the route…Not to mention building of stations all along the route, further large earth works…

    When they can just exclude private cars from the route and further integrate and re-design existing bus routes..

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:04 PM

    @kevinhunt101: how would it go under a bridge ;)

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:53 PM

    @kevinhunt101: they should have built it from o’connell/parnell to finglas and out to PayPal . And have the metro north do the underground link up bit

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:59 PM

    @Dotty Dunleary: and the same people asking why we didn’t spend all this extra money are the same ones wondering why we can’t build more houses or hospitals. No concept of money or how generous they’re benefits are

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    Mute Ian Kavanagh
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    Feb 8th 2018, 9:41 PM

    @Michael Powell: What extra money ? The last time I check FFG have brought the National debt past 200 Billion ( 8 Billion + interest alone / year ) and still don’t run a surplus .. I was merely pointing out the FFG would screw up any underground – the last thing I would do is trust them with an infrastructure project like this – only an idiot would. Would you ?

    Then again, for you to indicated that anyone with an aspiration of having real infrastructure like a normal city, as been on welfare .. well that really says all that needs to be said about where you are coming from.

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    Feb 11th 2018, 1:37 PM

    @kevinhunt101: Everybody has to get up earlier now to go to work because of Luas traffic snarl up!

    Why did Leo think that people could not walk the short distance to or from Stephens Green to O’Connell Street??

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:10 PM

    We shall call it Kim, due to the large back carriage.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:17 PM

    Taxi blocked the box ahead….

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:20 PM

    @Paul: Can’t we blame the cyclists?

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:09 PM

    @Paul: taxi driven by cheddar man

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    Feb 8th 2018, 8:02 PM

    @john bennett: with blue eyes?

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    Feb 8th 2018, 9:04 PM

    @Remi Thomas: Hard to blame the cyclists for this one. There’s no cycle lane on O’Connell Bridge. Mustn’t be wide enough.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:27 PM

    I dont understand why trams need to wait at lights, a sensor coming to up to all lights, program them to give trams get right of way, times far more accurate.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:33 PM

    @Píaras McNeill: DCC wont allow Luas priority in the city center. There is little to no wait at lights outside center.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:18 PM

    @Paul: it’s almost as if they don’t want it to be efficient.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:52 PM

    @Píaras McNeill: What about the buses? but sure they are only Northside scally’s anyway why would their buses get priority over this multi million white elephant.

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    Feb 9th 2018, 10:58 AM

    @Píaras McNeill: It DID have priority, but a stupid taxi driver in the yellow box blocked its way. There should be cameras at all these junctions, and automatic fines for infringements, like they have in other countries

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:09 PM

    But…. I thought we all knew this was going to happen anyway. It’ll be graaaaaand!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:12 PM

    They couldn’t actually have made the mistake of not measuring, more likely just couldn’t care of the consequences when they realised they wouldn’t fit. Then again.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:10 PM

    Paddy factor ……..

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:25 PM

    Even when told that it would be too long they still did it. Sack the lot of them.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:43 PM

    @Steve Austin: ah now …. that’s a bit harsh, no? Since when were civil servants sacked for not doing their job properly ?? Would set a dangerous precedent …..

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:50 PM

    @Rudy de Groot: not civil servants.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:29 PM

    Any other country in the world someone would lose their job but ……

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    Mute Paul
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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:30 PM

    @Brian O’Leary: other counties wouldn’t allow taxis and motor cars rule the city center….

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:47 PM

    Being allowed one lane each side of the river hardly amounts to “ruling the city centre’.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:01 PM

    @Neal Ireland Hello.: the plan was no cars on N side of OCB and DCC were told it would cause problems after watering down plans.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:45 PM

    @Brian O’Leary: That would set a dangerous precedent …..

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:53 PM

    @Paul: or buses

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:31 PM

    Dublin is overcrowded and is only going to get worse, almost impossible to get either a bus or the luas in the morning both buses and trams filled to capacity, The queues are unbelievable. I over heard a couple of girls from London on the Luas saying it was much worse than London for the crowds.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:43 PM

    In fairness there was no way of knowing in advance how long the trams were going to be and what route they were they going to take

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    Mute Michael Fehily
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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:01 PM

    I heard somewhere that some countries actually build commuter trains in tunnels under congested cities.
    I’m not sure if it has ever been done but it’s something maybe the Paddy govt should investigate. I’m not sure if it’s possible but it’s worth looking into..

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:25 PM

    Dublin city Council can easily fix that problem , they can just widen the river and the bridge .
    Seeking tenders , don’t forget to make the bridge too long , that way they can pay you to make it smaller again .

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:02 PM

    Measure twice, cut once!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:14 PM

    Hahahahahaha!!!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:18 PM

    The failure to built the Luas system underground is, once again, causing big problems. The consequences of this bad decision are plain for all to see. It has become a joke at this stage.

    Why could we not have the wisdom and the foresight to do what London did, when they built their magnificent, comprehensive and un-obstructive Tube urban railway system underground?

    We do definitely need new urban railways in Dublin and elsewhere, but the short-sightedness and false economy of putting a new railway system on the already narrow above-ground Dublin city streets and thoroughfares, where it has to compete for the very limited space with the existing modes of transport such as cars, buses and bicycles, is illustrated for all to see.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:47 PM

    @John Reid: John London and Dublin are not comparable.
    However cities like Copenhagen, Brussels have similar regional populations to Dublin. Copenhagen for example has 11 commuter lines and a further range of metro lines all integrated. Brussels also has a range of metro and commuter lines.
    Dublin’s problem is the parochial nature of govt decisions. If any infrastructure investment is proposed for the Dublin region, Ringer, Kenny and Co block it. This is exactly why Dublin needs an elected Mayor to stand up for Dublin.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:16 PM

    Put er up on stilts lads. Problem solved!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:25 PM

    @Darren Sheils: monorail

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:29 PM

    @Pat Bateman: I hear those things are awfully loud

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:31 PM

    @Crocodylus Pontifex: it glides as softly as a cloud!!!!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:38 PM

    @Pat Bateman: Every single time this story pops up… the Monorail!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:42 PM

    @Dlow Brown: Is there a chance the tracks could bend

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:51 PM

    Shut up gimps.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:41 PM

    @j4VEpUO8: not on your life, my hindu friend

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    Feb 9th 2018, 12:33 AM

    @Darren Sheils: mono rail

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:44 PM

    Ive often seen luas drivers honking at cars who are blocking their paths and being completely inconsiderate to the driver, sometimes they havent any option and a huge tram making noise at them doesn’t help situation. I hope the Luas drivers got a taste of their own medicine today and will be more mindful of drivers next time

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:39 PM

    @Jack Coldrick: wait, are you actually defending the divers that block the intersection / luas????

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:48 PM

    @Seth Cheffetz: Divers …. next we will be using submarines …..

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:52 PM

    @Seth Cheffetz: not in every instance but in some cases yes.

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    Mute Steve B
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    Feb 9th 2018, 11:01 AM

    @Jack Coldrick: “They haven’t any option”? You mean, they choose to enter a yellow box when they don’t know if they can clear it without stopping, the same regarding Luas tracks.

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    Mute Toomasu Sumitsu
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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:53 PM

    They knew this would happen. They knew this for years. Basically they want cars off the road so they’re making traffic worse on purpose.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:16 PM

    Comments by Fine Gael Senator Neale Richmond would p1ss you off. The Luas is a great service, take it away and let the government try to provide something and he’ll know all about a lack of confidence.

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    Mute Rudy de Groot
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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:50 PM

    @GizmoIrl: Spelling not your strong suit is it. It is spelled PISS …..

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:17 PM

    It’s a trial period, thus named to ascertain issues like the one this morning. Duh!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:52 PM

    @GizmoIrl: trial periods are to sort out teething problems not for discovering major design flaws. That’s what planning phases are for. But this is Ireland where public services are designed on the back of a beer mat in the back of a boozer on a Friday afternoon.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:46 PM

    @Arfer Daly: what is it? Trail or Trial. Make your mind up ….

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    Feb 9th 2018, 1:39 AM

    @Sean @114: 6 sheep hanged following the sheep trials last year

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    Mute John Reid
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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:36 PM

    Far from providing an alternative that would relieve traffic congrestion, the above-ground-built Luas is actually adding to traffic congestion and the length of traffic lines by causing longer waiting times at junctions, and narrowing the above-ground city centre road space for other users even further.

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:37 PM

    All ways thought it was mad we ever got the port tunnel built. Only good thing be take the toll off and the one on the east link would help city center traffic.

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    Mute Ciarán Cuffe
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    Feb 8th 2018, 9:59 PM

    Taxis will have to be taken out of College Green during peak hours so buses and trams can get through. New Luas trams can carry 369 people, a bus 92 and a taxi at best 8.

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    Mute Susan O'flaherty
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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:38 PM

    again not proper planning put in place. And again will affect buses travelling cross city. also every time there are issues with traffic congestion since Luas cross city went live they bring up the proposed change to make area around dame city only accessible to Luas. How then will people like me get to work in George’s street south from glasnevin as Luas of no use to me and many other bus commuters.

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    Mute Tom Lavin
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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:33 PM

    The words risk assessment and design review come to mind.
    How could this not have been spotted.

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    Mute Rudy de Groot
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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:57 PM

    @Tom Lavin: see my reply to @Alan Cullen ….

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    Mute Todd Hebert
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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:27 PM

    Oops!! :o
    Looks like more trams is a better answer.

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    Mute James Hickey
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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:58 PM

    Corrupt government up to their old tricks, we will never learn, banana republic without the bananas

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    Mute Drive for show & putt for dough
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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:25 PM

    Assume the NTA & Shane Ross are gone underground, no pun intended !!

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    Mute Ciaran
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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:59 PM

    MONORAIL

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    Mute Sean c
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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:37 PM

    Hahahahahahaha,,,hahahahahahaha

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    Mute Adrian
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    Feb 8th 2018, 8:10 PM

    Our gombeen politicians and councillors seem to be adding to the traffic mess in the capital. Whose bright idea was it to make it go through that bottleneck past trinity!

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    Mute Radioska
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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:18 PM

    Maybe they could change the roads to where the wide pavements are on O’Connell bridge and have a nice bigger walkway and cycle lane down the middle?

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:36 PM

    Next brainwave is to widen the bridge

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    Mute Dotty Dunleary
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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:39 PM

    @Joe Johnson: Already done… between 1877-1880

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    Mute Paul Coughlan
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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:47 PM

    Haha. Easy solution is to add two more carriages. Problem they forgot that plan A sets out an optimum number of carriages. Plan B – 2 extra carriages- failed. Why – traffic lights at fault, other drivers at fault. Shows lack of planning.

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    Mute Joseph Caulfield
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    Feb 8th 2018, 8:34 PM

    I’d say buses and taxis will shortly be banned from that whole area. The Luas is a flagship project and won’t be allowed to fail.

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    Mute Paul Mizow
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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:39 PM

    Japan Rail CEO resigns because trains were point 3 of a second late on average. We disgrace ourselves on repeat. Let’s build a tunnel through the city for the big trucks. The what? The big trucks and then tax everyone for it. Oh damn we got the tunnel size wrong – no big trucks, but we will keep taxing everyone and nobody will get blamed. Incidentally, the Japanese offered to build an underground and asked for 10 years ticket receipts in return. Free deal for us. But the cash laden suitcases were too much for our TD’s and developers to resist and we got the alias at three times the cost. Where is the inquiry? Oh yup, what Td would crap on their own

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    Mute Paul Kennedy
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    Feb 8th 2018, 11:00 PM

    I wish I could even get on the Luas in the morning so I could complain about it. Queues are mental , carriages full

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    Mute Joe oshaughnessy
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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:27 PM

    Irish foresight and planning at there very best as usual.

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    Mute Dave Walsh
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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:01 PM

    The”ahh sure till be grand” Irish rules…

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    Mute John Hagin Meade
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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:37 PM

    Who said size doesn’t matter?

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    Mute Thomas McGilly
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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:02 PM

    Not the first horrible looking thing to block O’Connell Bridge because its back carriage was too big.

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    Mute Oiche Fairy
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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:34 PM

    Should have just made the bridge longer – why don’t they think of these things!

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    Mute Charles Coughlan
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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:06 PM

    Now aren’t ye glad ye didn’t build a metro and are against a metro to the airport.

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    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
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    Feb 9th 2018, 11:31 PM

    No. Dublin badly needs a Metro. It would be even better if it were a real one underground.

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    Mute Phil Keenan
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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:27 PM

    Oirland oirland rapuubaaalick of oirland!!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:07 PM

    Monorail Monorail Monorail

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    Mute Paul Mc Manus
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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:30 PM

    On your bikea, boys and girls. Only way to go.

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    Mute Alan Cullen
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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:11 PM

    Idiots couldn’t organise a piss up in a brewery. That luas is a disaster from day one should have went underground never going to work

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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:56 PM

    @Alan Cullen: I reckon they actually had a piss up at the same time they were doing the planning …..

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    Feb 8th 2018, 5:20 PM

    Can’t win

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    Mute Ryo Nakamura
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    Feb 8th 2018, 9:10 PM

    That is not a tram…it is a train on public road…Look at the obvious you clowns…

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    Mute Ger
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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:35 PM

    Why can’t they widen the Liffey?

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    Mute Paddy Power
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    Feb 8th 2018, 11:05 PM

    Luas is a waste of money. Instead of luas run buses on same track ( as money already wasted on lying the tracks) will save time and traffic.

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    Mute Paul Reid
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    Feb 9th 2018, 12:50 AM

    This city is not big enough for a tram to go trough it… the government should have invested in what they have buses and trains with cheap or free park & ride stations outside the capital.. invest in more trains, designated bus lanes ( and cars fined if you drive in them ) and if you want to bring your car into the city you will pay for it.. AND it won’t be cheap.. now you have the same amount of buses, cars & taxis all in the city centre now with a 55metre tram going right trough the middle of the city to make matters worse.. Traffic congestion was an after thought when it came to the LUAS now that it’s in they are trying to sort it out.. re-routing buses taxis etc etc… LUAS going over O’Connell bridge was always going to cause major hassle for traffic… More gridlock ahead!!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 11:34 PM

    I saw this earlier and thought i was watching an episode of Father Ted. Its really not Funny. These clowns get away with murder and nobody gets held to account. These fools will destroy our capital city!

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    Feb 9th 2018, 1:08 AM

    Can’t get anything right, this has been an absolute shambles. May as well get out the millennium clock

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    Mute Trevor W
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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:25 PM

    Haha only in bloody Ireland

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    Mute Fallible Guy
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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:49 PM

    ALL YOU HAD TO DO, WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ!

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    Feb 8th 2018, 7:36 PM

    What Unsackable and Unaccountable Public Servants designed this fiasco? The whole saga is An insult even to a Banana Republic! It would be funny if it wasn’t such a serious waste Public money by faceless incompetent idiots!!!

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    Mute Paul Mc Manus
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    Feb 8th 2018, 6:26 PM

    Idiots

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    Feb 9th 2018, 8:56 PM

    Om fecking G
    Only in ireland

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