Kildare Re-Zonings
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rte interactive wrote:100 jobs for planned N7 service station
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0906/kildare.html
06 September 2005 12:18
100 jobs are in the pipeline for Monasterevin after Kildare County Council gave the go-ahead for Ireland’s first motorway service station on the N7.The development, which includes a hotel, truck stop and food outlets, will be styled on the motorway facilities in Europe and will provide 100 jobs when completed and a further 100 jobs during construction.
It is the first major employment in the area for 50 years.
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This is one I will be keeping a close eye on and I would say that the number of planning submissions made will prove a more accurate measure of ‘local delight’ than a single sound bit or two.
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Thats great news!
It will be interesting to have a motorway service station for the first time in Ireland. 🙂
But in my opinion i’d only like to see one on each of the main inter-urban routes .
As Ireland is still a small country and these stations could further suck the life out the bypassed towns and villages.And I really feel the monasterevin is an arsed location for the sevice station considering its only 40 mins drive to Dublin, I believe this is part of the monopoly of the Dublin area or some local developer
. Its pointless stopping or having it hereThe whole idea of it is to service long distance traffic that need to stop on a half way point, between to major centres of population,in my mind. :confused:
They should have it soutwest of Portlaois near the new toll collection area.
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@dave123 wrote:
The whole idea of it is to service long distance traffic that need to stop on a half way point, between to major centres of population,in my mind. :confused:
They should have it soutwest of Portlaois near the new toll collection area.
Spot on Dave its called locational justification; to my mind any point in Co Kildare is too close to Dublin unless there are too be multiple motorway services all over our Dual Carriageway network.
Potlaoise would have a made a better location; there are significant environmental concerns of a location around Monaterevan due to its proximity to the hydrology feeding both the Barrow SAC catchment and the Pollardstown Fen SAC catchment.
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