Luas Depot
The tram depot for the Luas Red Line, a halt (Red Cow) and a Park and Ride are located at the interchange.
The Luas complex added extra traffic to the already-busy junction when it opened in 2004. The tramline crossed the slip roads on the southern side of the junction, as well as crossing half of the road from the city centre before it met the junction (the tram line reaches this point by following the median of the road). The issue of the traffic disruption added by the tram system was seemingly ignored during the original planning of the Luas system. After an outcry over this, government ministers were involved in discussions about the system passing over the junction on "stilts", while the actual construction of the system was underway.
The new interchange keeps trams separated from all other traffic.
Read more about this topic: Red Cow Interchange