Fears planned Metro line in south Dublin will create ‘Berlin Wall’

The planned new Metro line in south Dublin will create a “Berlin Wall” severing communities, forcing people to use cars and creating urban blight, residents have warned.

Concerns were yesterday relayed to the Committee on Transport by residents in south Dublin about the proposed project which will stretch 26km from Swords in north Dublin through the capital and into Sandyford on the southside.

Rethink Metrolink Group spokesman Peter Nash compared the construction of the line through suburbs south of the Liffey to the likes of the Berlin Wall.