The €368 million project will link the Luas Red and Green lines and deliver an additional 10 million journeys per year when complete.
The contract for the main works, which follows earlier preliminary ones, encompasses all the civil engineering works required to prepare for the connection of the existing Luas Red and Green lines.
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The works include:
• Track laying
• Installing new paving, drainage and ducting along the alignment
• The erection of Overhead Catenary System (OCS) poles and the fitting of building fixings
• The building of new stops and extending of old to accommodate the future 53.5 metre trams
• The construction of a new depot building, sanding shed and wash plant in Broombridge
• The rebuilding of a railway line in Broadstone railway cutting.
(CD/MH)
