[Article] Minister supports cross city rail link

[eugene]

Thanks Mark for the clarification.

What is your opinion then of the actual status of the upgrade for the Maynooth line? It is going ahead as it is an central part of the resignalling effort?

Maybe it is bad journalism which is giving the impression that the electrification has been postponed (see the Indo article I posted earlier)

I still see the "Pelletstown" station down on the future Maynooth line in the latest Interconnector diagrams of this week. Hope that still is build of course

[Mark Gleeson]

Its very hard to know what is going on, however in the order of things its signaling first then electrification

Bear in mind it took 4 years, to relay, re signal, electrify, modify nearly every bridge, build several stations back in the 1980's for the DART project, we are talking about half the distance on the Maynooth line and only need to re signal and electrify with minimal civil works