[Article] SBP - Metro North bid tenders to be received this week

[Mark Hennessy]

Originally Posted by comcor

Personally, I don't see that Metro North is all that vital a piece of national infrastructure. It certainly doesn't compare to the Interconnector.

Agreed, there is a massive distance down the pecking order for Interconnector v Metro. The interconnector as discussed here many times unifies everything we currently have. If it is a PPP and it gets the go ahead, fantastic.
However from a macro economic perpective, both MN and Interconnector should provide a jobs boost for 5-7 years. Once again, if it is an either/or, the Interconnector must take priority.

The arguments that it will spur development in Fingal carry as much weight as arguments that the WRC will bring development in the West. There will be no development in this country for the next 5 years.

Again, no arguments there, we blew everything on poor planned and designed shoeboxes all over the country far from proper transport. Even if the cash was there for new developments, there are so few people waiting to buy houses with massive unemployment, tax hikes and little job security. Already Dublin City council are owed in the hundreds of millions of developer levies, most of which will have to be written off, I believe some of these were used in the funding models for MN.