Metro North to cost 5000 Jobs

[OneHumpNotTwo]

According to the RTE Radio news headlines at 1.00pm today ,opening the Metro North may cause the loss of up to 5000 jobs. Unfortunately I was not able to stay and listen to the more detailed report.

I must admit that I am somewhat stunned to find out that the provision of public transport will result in such large scale job losses. I always thought that making it easy for people to get to work improved timekeeping , and efficiency and contributed to job creation.

How innocent can you get?

AND

it is going to cost €22.00 per journey per passenger.

Gosh---maybe-we-should-build-it-on-the-Southside

.....because it will be cheaper and we won't all lose our jobs

[alonso]

sorry what! due to disruption? This sounds like more begrdging waffle. How many will it create?

[White Horse]

Typical wingeing Dubs. Give them an expensive metro system and all they do is moan.

[DaveM]

This kind of nonsense gets depressing after a while. Some journalists just love knocking projects like this.... never let the facts get in the way of a bit of sensationalism. Same ones who spent the last few years knocking the luas and printing stories that would have had us believe that water leaking into the port tunnel would prevent it from ever opening.

[seabhcan]

How could it possibly cost jobs?

And the €22 thing has a whole thread devoted to how stupid and wrong it is.

[seabhcan]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1203/metro.html

They are saying that O'Connell st will be disrupted while the metro is being built. 5000 jobs my ass.

[Watcher]

According to the RTE Radio news headlines at 1.00pm today ,opening the Metro North may cause the loss of up to 5000 jobs. Unfortunately I was not able to stay and listen to the more detailed report.

I must admit that I am somewhat stunned to find out that the provision of public transport will result in such large scale job losses. I always thought that making it easy for people to get to work improved timekeeping , and efficiency and contributed to job creation.

How innocent can you get?

AND

it is going to cost €22.00 per journey per passenger.

Gosh---maybe-we-should-build-it-on-the-Southside

.....because it will be cheaper and we won't all lose our jobs

I dont believe it could be 5000 jobs but if the project is anything like the LUAS, many jobs were lost because of the inordinate delays in delivery resulting in a prolonged looss of footfall in the vicinity of businesses. The problem is the way the government organises these projects. Why in Gods name do infrastructural projects take so long in this country. The red herring of the objectors does not cut it. Harcourt Street businesses closed down without any disruption to construction from objectors. This government simply could not organise a pissup in a brewery.

[alonso]

just read the story. It's cr4p

[Mscully]

What is the point of the Metro?

Not being from Dublin its hard to understand the main benefits of having the Metro.

As I understand it the the thing isnt going to be that long. So what is the benefit? Its not as if Dublin is London or New York. Dosent the lewis offer the same sort of route?

[gahane]

This kind of nonsense gets depressing after a while. Some journalists just love knocking projects like this.... never let the facts get in the way of a bit of sensationalism. Same ones who spent the last few years knocking the luas and printing stories that would have had us believe that water leaking into the port tunnel would prevent it from ever opening.

It's not just the journo's, it's part of the national psyche. We just love to knock everything.