Under the plan, Waterford city’s Plunkett train station will be relocated to a new site on the north side of the river Suir, where it will be the lynchpin of a new public transport hub, with rail and bus access and bike parks and cycle lanes.
“This has been coming for a long time but it’s now a reality,” said Mr Varadkar at the launch in Waterford on Monday, adding that he wanted “to see many more projects of this scale breaking ground all across the country”.
Parts of the plan have changed since the project first emerged amid a mix of excitement and a degree of local scepticism in 2016, including the retail element which has been “significantly scaled down” from the original, ambitious €500 million vision involving a Saudi Arabian investor. Key to this ambition is the integrated transport hub, which is due for completion in 2025. With €100 million in funding from the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund and the rest coming from the National Transport Authority, the hub will link up to an extended Waterford greenway, which will run all the way to New Ross in the east, with proposals for it to eventually stretch as far as Youghal in the west.
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