Trinity students and staff can expect the Luas to begin operating outside the College in two weeks’ time, when the long-anticipated connection of the red and green line opens at 2pm on December 9th.
The Luas works for the Cross City project resulted in two years of complaints from Trinity campus residents, forcing the union to offer to re-house students who couldn’t sleep from the noise. The works also forced Provost Patrick Prendergast to temporarily move out of House One last year.
The new track will operate as an extension of the green line through Dublin city centre to Broombridge. The project began in June 2013, and is nearly six kilometres long, adding 13 new stops through the city. Stops in the vicinity of Trinity will be on Dawson St, Westmoreland St and Pearse St.
In an email to Trinity staff and students, Estates and Facilities asked pedestrians to take extra care “due to the complex arrangement of tram, vehicle, cycle and pedestrian ways”.
At the end of May this year, the Luas works intensified around Trinity’s walls, causing exams to be moved to new centres. The overall project has been costed at €368 million.
In July 2014, the remains of four individuals were found in front of Trinity in July 2014 as part of the project’s excavations. They have been dated to between the 15th and 17th centuries.
