An Bord Pleanala is to begin an oral hearing into the DART Underground on Monday, 22nd November. The ambitious Irish Rail project is designed to join Dublin's various existing rail lines with a 7.6km tunnel under the heart of the city.
The project will connect via tunnel the Spencer Dock, Pearse Street (interchange with existing DART lines), St. Stephens Green (interchange with Metro North), Christchurch, Heuston Station, and a new surface station at Inchicore. It will allow Iarnród Éireann to run two interconnecting DART lines, from Balbriggan to Kildare and from Greystones to Maynooth.
Dart Underground is expected to cost about E2.5bn but is likely to employ 7,000 people over a six-year period.
The oral hearing into the project will take place in the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght. There have been close to 250 submissions made to an Bord Pleanala regarding the project, with a large number from residents in the East Wall area which is close to where one end of the two tunnels will finish.
"I have no idea how long the hearing will last - it could be three weeks or three months," said one transport industry source. "There has been a lot of criticism of an Bord Pleanala over how they handled the Metro hearing, including a lash from the Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey, so they may want to get this one done faster."
source: Business and Finance
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