How to get our infrastructure up to scratch

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    • May 27, 2003 at 4:23 pm #706222
      Andrew Duffy
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      For the filming of the movie “The Matrix Reloaded” a 2 mile stretch of six-lane motorway was built on a naval base in the USA. The cost of this road was $2.4m. This is several hundred times better value for money than any road recently constructed in Ireland. Should we invite Joel Silver here to finish the M50, and see his thoughts on the Metro line to the airport?

    • May 27, 2003 at 6:01 pm #726984
      d_d_dallas
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      Hahaha! Yeah – but Alameda is an abandoned waste land owned by the US government already… probably made things slightly easier when you don’t have to plan a route through any existing areas, or land that gets suspiciously rezoned…

    • May 27, 2003 at 8:25 pm #726985
      dc3
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      Even more creepy is that roads in the USA seem to e constructed to a much higher standard, at least in terms of road surface. Despite the incredible temperature variations motorway road surfaces are in general far more long lasting, with less potholes, visible damage from trucks etc. Yet the specs are not, apparently, wildly different.

      Here our relatively recent motorways are often in poor shape.

      Another Irish scandal?????

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