Re: Re: Before the Bulldozers: Images of a Doomed Suburb

@Andy O wrote:

It fills a very obvious gap in the local network. I don’t support road building for the sake of road building, but I do support it when it fulfills a logical function for the larger community.

The current journey from Dun Laoghaire town to the Stillorgan/Dundrum/Sandyford area is at the moment a choice of varying rat runs. There’s no “main” route so to speak.

Agreed, pretty obvious, also obvious that street does not equal road, and also obvious that new road gets traffic off streets.

Also fact, that the planning authority should be impartial (An Bord Pleanala) not the scheme promoter (the Council). Also obvious and a fact, that the experts (An Bord Pleanala) took into account the EIS and weighed it as part of a number of planning considerations and rightly judged that the benefits far outweight the drawbacks.

The idea that this road will encourage traffic is laughable notwithstanding the general point. Fact: you guys lose! or truthiiness!!