{"id":185,"date":"2021-04-01T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T09:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2021-04-01T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T09:52:33","slug":"no-dart-for-ballyfermot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2021\/04\/01\/no-dart-for-ballyfermot\/","title":{"rendered":"No DART for Ballyfermot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Initial plans for extending the DART to Hazelhatch and Celbridge are being prepared. Early drafts of this plan included a station on the Kylemore Road in Ballyfermot but, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dublininquirer.com\/2021\/03\/31\/a-planned-dart-line-may-pass-through-ballyfermot-without-stopping\">Dublin Inquirer<\/a>, this will not now happen.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With trains terminating in Heuston Station, a station at Kylemore Road probably does not make sense, however, with DART running through the Phoenix Park Tunnel to Grand Canal Dock or even a new Spencer Dock station beside the existing LUAS station of that name, this would work as part of an overall network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will declare an interest here &#8211; I live on the Kylemore Road &#8211; about 500m from the bridge over the railway. A DART station on my doorstep would work wonders for property values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, I am currently considering moving home &#8211; likely to be to somewhere along the Maynooth Line in advance of the price rises that will follow commencement of DART construction work on that line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Ever conscious of the date, the Dublin Inquirer article is dated 31st March 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial plans for extending the DART to Hazelhatch and Celbridge are being prepared. Early drafts of this plan included a station on the Kylemore Road in Ballyfermot but, according to the Dublin Inquirer, this will not now happen.* With trains terminating in Heuston Station, a station at Kylemore Road probably does not make sense, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}