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New Dart station due for south Dublin

The Government yesterday announced new plans to help build houses across the country.

A NEW DART station is set to be built in south Dublin.

The Government yesterday announced 34 strategic infrastructure projects across 15 local authorities to be financed by the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF).

The projects will cost a total of €226 million, with the Government hoping they will result in 23,000 additional homes being delivered by 2021.

Local authorities across the country submitted proposals last year to the Housing Department around the building of new infrastructure in their areas.

Among these proposals were plans to build a Dart station in the Woodbrook area of Shankhill in south Dublin.

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council submitted proposals for a number of infrastructure developments in the Woodbrook-Shanganagh area, among them the Dart station.

The Housing Department confirmed yesterday that the National Transport Authority (NTA) had agreed to fund the construction of the new Dart station at the Woodbrook location.

The station itself is not part of and will not be financed by the LIHAF, but will be a separate venture funded by the NTA and constructed in conjunction with Irish Rail.

Infrastructure projects financed by the LIHAF coming to the area include:

  • Revision of the Woodbrook roundabout on the old N11
  • Road improvements to support housing development
  • Access to the future proposed Dart station.

These developments (excluding the new Dart station) will cost an estimated €4.15 million to develop and will be funded by the Housing Department and the local authorities.

When completed, they are expected to help add 1,000 new homes in the area by 2021, with a potential for 2,300 homes to be developed on wider lands.

Read: Bridge to Poolbeg among 34 infrastructure projects worth €226 million given green light

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    Sep 14th 2017, 11:08 AM

    Thankfully no one was killed or seriously injured! Thinking back of the 2005 crash in Meath..

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    Sep 14th 2017, 11:07 AM

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    Sep 14th 2017, 11:36 AM

    @Fank Pulman: what do you mean donegal again? Everytime theres multiple road deaths in anyother county its, soo sad this, rip that, but as soon as its in donegal its do they even know how to drive up there? Same crap everytime with you lot.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 12:29 PM

    @Jonathan Kerr: “with you lot”??

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    Sep 14th 2017, 12:54 PM

    @Dave Murray: most people here making comments on the journal.ie can’t stand donegal.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 12:57 PM

    @Jonathan Kerr: the point been made is that you complained that everyone tars Donegal with this big brush. yet you have tarred all journal commantators with the same brush. Pot kettle black sort of situation

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    Sep 14th 2017, 1:31 PM

    @Michael Hayden: ok im sorry about that.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 2:01 PM

    @Fank Pulman: what do you mean ? Plenty of road deaths this week unfortunately were you on those saying cork or mayo again.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 2:32 PM

    @Jonathan Kerr: for a county of a population no more than 160k…. Donegal has way too many accidents. Standards of driving and or the roads must be sub standard.

    Can’t argue with statistics.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 2:48 PM

    @Fabio Dillon: there were 10 fatalities on Donegal roads in ’16. 21 in Dublin. 158k ppl in Donegal and 1.8 million in Dublin.

    Donegal roads are a joke.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 11:21 AM

    Make everyone in that county resit their driving test.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 11:27 AM

    @Pat Troy: or ban all vehicles¿!

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    Sep 14th 2017, 11:33 AM

    @Pat Troy: glad no one seriously injured in this incident. Jog on Pat

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    Sep 14th 2017, 11:42 AM

    @Fank Pulman: please explain

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    Sep 14th 2017, 11:51 AM

    @Pat Troy: yes cause its not like theres car crashes in any other county in ireland.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 1:42 PM

    @Pat Troy: Or maybe fix the roads which chuck vehicles off them as soon as a wheel slips off when someone coming the other way refuses to move over.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 2:40 PM

    I live in donegal the roads are the problem not the drivers , the government needs to fix our roads too many Potholes and bad attempts to fix them on the cheap rain washes the temporary fillings out of potholes, i am relived nobody injured badly.

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