Watch out for Luas! Installation & energisation of cables at Cherrywood now complete

[Colm Moore]

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# Watch out for Luas! Installation and energisation of cables at Cherrywood now complete

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The installation and energisation of the overhead cables for Luas Cherrywood is complete and these cables are now live. As with the existing Luas Green Line power for Luas trams comes through these cables which conduct electricity at 750 volts. Part of the final phase of construction is testing the new Cherrywood extension by running Luas trams along it from mid July.
Every cable you see is now live and will remain live.

Keep clear of poles and cables for your own safety.

Click here to read or download Frequently Asked Questions about the installation and energisation of the Luas Cherrywood OCS

Click here to download the Metro herald advert alerting people to the dangers of live Overhead Cables on Luas Cherrywood

Click here to read to download the latest Luas Cherrywood (Sandyford to Brides Glen) Construction Update

Click here to read more about the Green Line extension, Luas Cherrywood (Sandyford to Brides Glen)

[Colm Moore]

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# Watch Out for Luas!

Testing of Luas trams on the Luas Cherrywood Green Line extension to Brides Glen commencing mid July 2010.

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The extension of the Luas Green Line from Sandyford to Brides Glen is entering the final phases of construction. This involves testing the new section of the line by running Luas trams along it. Test running of the trams will begin in mid July and continue over the coming months.

If you are walking, cycling or driving in the area you will need to be more careful and look and listen out for trams.


Click here to read or download Frequently Asked Questions about test running of trams.

Click here to read or download the latest Luas Cherrywood (Sandyford to Brides Glen) Construction Update

Click here to read more about the overall construction of Luas Cherrywood

[Mark Gleeson]

Testing began today

[Colm Moore]

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Luas Cherrywood extension by October - RPA
watch Thursday, 15 July 2010 20:07

The Rail Procurement Agency says it hopes to have the Luas extension to Cherrywood on Dublin's southside open for passengers in October following successful testing of the line today.

Although planned housing and commerical development along the route has not materialised, the rail body insists the extension will be a success.

The public private partnership project cost a total of €300m for an extra 7.5km of tram track on the Luas Green line from St Stephen's Green.

From Sandyford there will be another 11 stops to Cherrywood and Brides Glen.

One station at Brennanstown will be ghost stop as none of the planned development has taken place and trams will not be stopping here for the forseeable future.

But RPA Chief Executive Frank Allen said this line will provide transport infrastructure for the future and make for communities that are less car dependent.

Residents in Cherrywood apartments in the local business park say the line is needed.

The RPA says the line will carry an extra 2m passengers a year with an overall journey time from Cherrywood to St Stephen's Green of about 40 minutes.

[Colm Moore]

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First full test run for Luas extension
DAVID KEOHANE

THE FIRST tests of the long-awaited Cherrywood extension to the Luas Green Line took place yesterday.

The test began at 7am and covered the entire 7.5km of the new route. The extension almost doubles the initial 9km length of the Luas Green line from St Stephen’s Green to Sandyford.

Railway Procurement Agency spokesman Tom Manning said the test run had been successful and had resulted in the tram making the return journey faster than expected. The agency is responsible for developing the State’s light railway infrastructure.

The extended Luas line, which will service 12 stops between Sandyford and Bride’s Glen, is expected to open before the end of the year, although the agency is hopeful that it can be opened as early as October. The extension will link with the Luas Green Line at the Sandyford stop and travel southwest alongside the prominent Vodafone building at Central Park, across the M50, and will continue to Glencairn before crossing the M50 to Leopardstown and running on to Cherrywood and, ultimately, Brides Glen.

The €300 million Cherrywood Line was funded via a public-private partnership.

Property developers with projects within a kilometre of the Luas line were charged a special development levy, in a move designed to raise about €150 million of the cost of the extension.

Many of these developments were apartment blocks of between five and seven storeys which are now largely vacant.

Mr Manning said the economic difficulties now facing property developers had not affected the line’s development.

“There is a 30-year timeframe for the State to recoup the money, so that could be as many as three or more economic cycles,” he said.

Although the line came in within budget, there have been comparisons made between the cost of the Cherrywood extension and the cost of the first phase of the Luas light rail, with the new line costing about €5 million more a kilometre.

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The Luas goes over the M50 as the RPA had the first test run for trams on the new Luas Cherrywood (Line B1) extension to the Luas Green Line, Dublin, July 15th. Photoara Mac Dónaill / THE IRISH TIMESDara Mac Donaill

[weehamster]

Question.

Is the Brennanstown stop fully completed (i.e. Info displays, Ticket machines, Shelters, Validators etc.). I ask this because this stop is in the middle of a field and would be ripe for our city's finest vandals.

[Colm Moore]

Originally Posted by weehamster

Question.

Is the Brennanstown stop fully completed (i.e. Info displays, Ticket machines, Shelters, Validators etc.). I ask this because this stop is in the middle of a field and would be ripe for our city's finest vandals.

I hear George Lee is looking for work.