The first new railway station in Dublin city centre since Tara Street station in 1890 is under construction at the moment. What is the purpose of this, I hear you ask. Surely we have enough darts, trains, trams and buses clogging up the streets of our fair city!

Well, the Spencer Dock railway station is being built as an inter-connector system. In other words, the missing link in the existing rail network to end the remoteness of Heuston and eliminate the bottleneck between Connolly and Tara Street stations that prevents additional commuter services being added. It is also proposed to relieve Connolly Station which at the moment is at or above capacity.

It is also proposed that the project will bring in an extra 20,000 passengers into the capital, whether that’s a good or bad thing I’ll let you decide!

In 2008 the Navan line to Dublin will be reopened which would remove more than 4,000 cars per hour from the N3 during peak times and means we’ll have more farmers in the city centre!

The good news for motorists, though, is that this station is proposed to remove 10,000 cars a day from our roads when it opens in 2007.

We’ll see!