Re: Re: Cork Transport
Please God the good people of Cork will actually think likewise. I am not politically affiliated before anyone asks but can anyone explain how last time out we had the same debacle with the School of Music and the two City constituencies returned 6 FF TDs out of 10? If you ask me we are the lap dogs. FF must crack themselves laughing at the “loyalty” we provide to them in return for being treated as fifth class citizens. Just think of the Airport, our €4m railway station upgrade instead of the 9 figure upgrade promised, the decision to remove funding from the Sarsfield and Bandon Rd flyovers, the fact that they haven’t even carried out a feasability study on trams here, the 280 reannouncements of the opening of the Midleton railway with a 2008 opening date which changed silently last month to 2010, the shabby treatment of people in Watergrasshill over the toll road, our shambolic bus fleet (sic), the lack of any movement on trans-atlantic flights eventhough even bloody knock now has them, and all of this in transport alone. Compare this with the €15bn or so being spent on projects in the the Greatest City in the World Ever (TM) 165 miles up the road. It is 5 times bigger so give it 5 times more funding (or less if we are serious about counter balances). The ratio on transport funding between dublin and cork must run 100:1 at this stage.
The fact that this is a forum on transport doesn’t allow me to refer to other debacles such as failure to include any provisions in the Finance bill to encourage dockland development (despite EU approval to do same – do you think they’d dawdle like that if The Greatest City in the World Ever’s future was involved?), seepage of quality jobs, the shocking lack of funding for Cork 2005 etc, etc, etc…..
If this city has a smattering of self respect, given the way it is continually treated by this government, we will return 2 out of 9 (1 seat gone in North Central) FF/PD TDs as a maximum this time and even that is 2 too many if you ask me. I’d vote Monster Raving Looney Party ahead of FF at this stage.
