"It's a pointless delay, and we know the reason why. It's because it's a new government and they have new priorities," he said, adding that money for new roads was now being "nicked" from public transport projects. "Public transport moves real numbers, it's what serious cities do ... if we keep taking money away from these projects and delaying them, we're just going to condemn more people to slowly losing the will to live in gridlock and missing out on time with their families."
"The Dart+ South West route, which would upgrade commuter rail along the Dublin-Cork line as far as Hazelhatch/Celbridge, enabling the latest batch of housing, was scheduled to begin construction next year. But in a recent update to the National Development Plan, the Government has pushed its proposed start date date back past 2030. The delays to the line upgrade, which would quadruple capacity for commuters to 20,000 people an hour, drew the ire of Dublin councillors on Monday."
"What's going to happen now is we're going to build these houses in Kylemore and they won't be able to get on in the morning because of all of the people in Adamstown and all of the people in Clonburris who are packing into that railway line."
Councillors approved rezoning of 52 hectares at Kylemore and Inchicore to enable about 5,300 homes as part of wider rezoning for tens of thousands of new houses. The Dart+ South West upgrade, intended to extend commuter rail along the Dublin-Cork line to Hazelhatch/Celbridge and quadruple capacity to 20,000 people an hour, was scheduled to start next year but has been pushed past 2030 in the National Development Plan update. Councillors warned that delays and the diversion of funds to road projects will leave new residents facing severe overcrowding and gridlock on existing rail services.
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