When the Dutch found out that the Irish government were spending billions of euros of European dosh on installing a tram system from scratch in Dublin, they fell about laughing. It's going to take ten years to install (like that will come in under budget and on time). The technology is dated. Not event he Dutch would install it again given the choice. But the real thing that pisses me off is that the government are taking full credit for supplying the public transport system to the targetted areas when they were the ones responsible for ripping out the overground train service in the first place. Most of the money being spent on the Luas is going towards the repurchase of land they sold off in the first place when they ditched the rail system...........
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kevin (11.12.03 01:12) Latest details. Original Estimate 150 million euros, current (incompleted) cost 775 million euros. Its paltry 23km costing more than Australias 2800km trans-desert railway. For full details and other tales of govt finance fuckups check out Justine McCarthys article in the Irish Independent Sat 4 Oct "The real victims as the State throws away our money"(available on line) |