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The proposed light-rail system received support from the president of University College Cork, the Cork Chamber of Commerce, Tánaiste Simon Coveney, [14] and former Lord Mayor Mary Shields. [15] In 2020, the Cork Transport and Mobility Forum proposed a combined tram-train system for Cork based on the Karlsruhe model to the Cork City Council. [16]
The interchange includes a Luas tram stop (Red Cow), the main depot for the Red Line, a Park and Ride facility with 727 spaces, [3] and the control centre for the whole system. The Luas complex added extra traffic to the already-busy junction when it opened in 2004. [ 4 ]
Luas is operated by Transdev, under tender from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). (Prior to the later RPA merger with the National Roads Authority to form TII, the tender was originally under the defunct Railway Procurement Agency jurisdiction). The Luas was a major part of the National Transport Authority's strategy (2000–2016). [5]
It opened in 2017 as a stop on Luas Cross City, an extension of the Green Line through the city centre from St. Stephen's Green to Broombridge. [1] It is located on Dominick Street Lower and provides access to Rotunda Hospital , 14 Henrietta Street , and the Dublin Institute of Technology Bolton Street Campus.
Construction of Luas Cross City began in June 2013 and it opened on 9 December 2017. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Rosie Hackett Bridge carrying the new line over the river Liffey was opened on 20 May 2014. The new section begins at the former city centre terminus, St. Stephen's Green , crosses the Red Line near the Abbey stop , and continues northwards ...
Heuston is an interchange with Dublin's Luas light rail tram system. Opened in 2004, [29] Heuston Luas stop is located in front of the station building; the tram tracks run perpendicular to the main line tracks. To the north of the stop, trams cross the River Liffey on the Seán Heuston Bridge, which
The Red Line (Irish: Líne Dhearg [2]) is one of the two lines of Dublin's Luas light rail system. The Red Line runs in an east–west direction through the city centre, north of the River Liffey, before travelling southwest to Tallaght, with a fork to Citywest and Saggart. The Red Line opened on 26 September 2004.
In April 2021, the Gluas Group held a webinar in which Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan announced a feasibility study on Light Rail for 2022. [11]In October 2024, a feasibility study commissioned by the National Transport Authority found that there was a case for constructing a fifteen-kilometre light rail line from Roscam to Knocknacarra via Eyre Square and University Hospital Galway.