Brian Caulfield
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189 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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I think we should be the latter because it is starting to happen.
And Olivia's done a great piece today in the Irish Times and
When you look at the cost of the spend that's been done so far, if you think of if you were building a house or building an extension, about 10% of the total cost would go into architects fees, engineers fees.
So 10% of the reported cost for Metro is about 1.6 billion before you get into land acquisition.
So we're about where we should be, I suppose, in terms of the spend.
In terms of what they're going to do on O'Connell Street, Olivia brings up a lot of interesting questions, what they're going to do above ground.
You can only imagine what they're going to do is what you see in other cities that have metro systems, so above ground.
There could be retail, there could be commercial, there could be hopefully residential as well.
And equally, the redevelopment of that site that's been derelict for longer than I've been on this planet could also tie in with the redevelopment of the GPO and Parnell Square.
And it could be a fantastic resource for the city.
I think, you know, hopefully, I think now the train has left the station and we're going to hear lots and lots of big numbers for the next decade.
It would definitely be cheaper and quicker to build, but then you get into where did the cars go?
Do we remove cars from that part of the city?
Do we put them somewhere else?
The original alignment of the old Metro North line, there was an awful lot of that that wasn't underground.
And that would have happened and that would have been a lot cheaper.
But we had to change that because Metro North was cancelled.
We built the Lewis Cross City instead.
And I suppose it's almost kind of like we are where we are.
We could replan this and be talking about this in 2060.
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