Presentation to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce's ‘Infrastructure and Transport’ taskforce by the Railway Procurement Agency on the Luas BXD project which connects the two city centre Luas lines. For more information contact info@dublinchamber.ie

1. Luas
Broombridge
(Line BXD)
Chamber of Commerce
27th October2011

2. Project Overview
• 5.6km extension of the Luas Green
Line through the city centre from St.
Stephen’s Green West to
Broombridge Station on the
Maynooth railway line
• 13 stops with 8 of these in core city
centre area
• Creates a Luas network linking the
Luas Red and Green Lines
• Interchange with Luas, Metro North,
Dart Underground, Bus, Rail
• Provides essential access to the DIT
urban campus facility planned at
Grangegorman (over 20,000
students)
• Re-uses the abandoned former
Broadstone railway cutting
• Extracts maximum value of
investment to date on Luas infrastructure

3. Project Overview
• Opens new transport corridor in north-
west Dublin (e.g. Luas Green Line)
utilising existing resource of
abandoned railway corridor
30,000,000
25,000,000
20,000,000
15,000,000
10,000,000
5,000,000
0
• Connects educational, institutional,
retail, business, leisure…..variety of
trip purposes…..
- Maynooth University, DIT, Trinity
- James’ Hospital
- Point (O2) / Dalymount
- Dundrum Centre, Grafton St,
Henry St, Tallaght Town Centre

4. Project Overview
• Between 8 and 10 million extra trips
per annum on the Luas network
• Reduces nos. of private car trips by
up to 3 million per annum
• Strong economic case for BXD with
benefit to cost ratio BCR of 1.85:1
Broombridge Depot
(modest growth scenario) or 2.46:1
(local authority projections)
• Creates employment of 800 jobs per
annum during construction
• Creates 60 permanent jobs
• Catalyst for regeneration at
Dominick St, Marlborough St,
Parnell St., Broombridge
O’Connell Street Upper

5. Current Status
• Railway Order application June 2010
• ABP oral hearing May 2011
• Extensive dialogue with DCC,
BAC, BÉ, IÉ over a number of
years leading up to oral hearing
• Agreed position with DCC for
College Green oral hearing on 107 out of 109
conditions
• Exceptions to agreement on
overhead conductor system
(OCS) and alignment on O’Connell
Street Upper
Marlborough Street

6. Route Description
• Extend stop St. Stephen’s Green
• Dawson Stop access to retail and
commercial districts and to Trinity
College
• Bus stops retained
• Removal of through traffic

7. Route Description
• Prohibit right turn
Dawson / Nassau
• Provide right turn
SSGE/Merrion
Row
• Kildare Street part
2-way
• Bus contra-flow
• Agreement DCC
and BÁC

8. Route Description
• Single track northbound on Westmoreland St
• Southbound track via Marlborough St and
Hawkins St
• Westmoreland stop and Trinity stop
• Marlborough Street Bridge

9. Marlborough Street Public Transport Priority Bridge

10. Route Description
• 2 stops on O’Connell St
• GPO and planned Dublin central
Development
• Access to Henry St retail district
• Interchange with Luas Red Line
• Regeneration of Marlborough St

11. Route Description
• Parnell stop regeneration of Parnell St
• Access to Parnell Square cultural attractions
• Rotunda Hospital
• Dominick St Regeneration Plan (DCC)

12. Route Description
• Alignment along western perimeter Broadstone
Bus Éireann depot
• Broadstone stop access to DIT planned
campus
• Future stop planned for Grangegorman

13. Route Description
• Broadstone to Broombridge
along former railway cutting
• 3 stops – Phibsborough, Cabra
and terminus at Broombridge
• Interchange with IÉ Maynooth
railway line
• Depot building at Broombridge
• Future extendibility to Finglas

14. Bus Interfaces
• Extensive dialogue
with BÁC
• All major bus routes
maintained during
operation
• Stops relocated from
Grafton St (lower),
College St, Hawkins St
O’Connell St Lr and
Parnell St
• New stops O’Connell
Bridge, Dane St,
Nassau St, Burgh
Quay
• Marlborough St
layover

15. Bus Interfaces
• Construction
stage traffic
management
arrangements
• Alternative
routing via
Kildare St to
Sth Leinster St
• Additional
journey time
of 2-3 minutes

16. Traffic Management
• Devise series of constraints
• Number of traffic lanes to be maintained – width, classification
• Footpaths to be maintained
• Worksites and durations
• Temporary arrangements to be employed – bus stop relocations,
loading/unloading facilities
• Permanent measures employed at the outset
• Approvals process for all temporary traffic management
• City centre accessibility maintained – ‘open for business’
• Traffic Management Committee

17. Timelines
Assumes statutory approval, Government approval and funding in place

18. Communications
• Face-to-face
- Community liaison coordinator
- Construction update meetings
- Open evenings
- Open forum
• Online
- Primary and secondary websites
- Social media and networking sites
- On-line feedback and reporting
• Direct communications
- Direct mail (hardcopy)
- Email (using RPA database)
- Leaflet distribution
• Media management
- Rolling programme of media briefings

19. Communications
• On Site
- Maintenance of site boundaries
- Site boundaries for communication purposes as appropriate
• Advertising
- Press and magazine
- Outdoor
- Radio
- Online
• Joint Marketing and Sponsorship
- Cooperative initiatives
- Promote benefits offset negative impacts