{"id":39017,"date":"2024-05-04T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=39017"},"modified":"2024-05-01T22:39:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T02:39:46","slug":"luas-twenty-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/luas-twenty-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"LUAS\u2014Twenty Years On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year will mark twenty years of LUAS tram operations in Dublin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Construction began several years previously, and the first trams arrived in 2002 and were stored at the Red Cow tram depot prior to service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was away from Dublin for most of 2004, but returned briefly in April, where my friend Hassard Stacpoole invited me on a pre-service tour of the new Green Line, and then again in November that year, just a couple months after services began on the east-west Red line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made the photos in this selection of the Red Line extension to the Point Depot using my Lumix LX3 at the end of March this year. This route opened in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the coming weeks and months, I plan to present some of my many photos of the LUAS expose during its early months of operation. These are among the 1000’s of slide I brought back from Dublin on our recent trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The LUAS at Mayor Square as view from inside a coffee shop.<\/figcaption>
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