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- PVC King wrote:It will be interesting to hear IKEA address the traffic impacts on this and to see what mitigation they can offer on the NRA’s asserted impacts on the M50 and freight access to the €]
Ikeas dont oper before 10am, and Im not sure what time they close at.
Also worth noting that the Draft 2007 Roads Act allows for the Minister for Transport to declare a National Road a Motorway (providing all of the usual requirements for an alternative route etc are met). This means that, when this clears the Oireachtas, any HQDC can be ‘made’ Motorway, with all of the additional rules that this implies (50kmh minimum, no L drivers etc). In other words, the entire N8/N7could be declared Motorway as soon as the HQDC sections are complete.
PVC King – do your calculations take account of the fact that HGVs pay a multiple of that of a car?
Strikes me (from a position of no knowledge of the subject) that your calculations of ‘profit per vehicle’ are very low, even if they don’t. NTR have had a very substantial cashflow from the bridge(s), and their other investments notwithstanding, have probably long paid off any loans they had. PPPs really tend to start making money for operators towards the mid end of the period, particularly as the value of the loans fall in real terms and the toll amounts don’t (adjusted etc) – which is why the more recent PPP contracts are very different, and have a ‘revenue extraction’ facility for the state.
I confess I haven’t seen the whole “package”. I’ve only seen the planning notices for the metropoles on the Swords Road, along with misleading tiny x’s on the footpath, which show the location of the ads, but not the extent to which they will jut across the pavement. I suspect few people realise they will have to walk , jog, drag their shopping or push their prams around these things as well as look at them sticking out at alarming right angles to the road.
If the package included bike stations in the same locations, you would at least feel there was an attempt at a quid pro quo to the local community. But where are these free bikes going to be? Killiney? Blackrock? Putting the shite on the northside and the trade-off on the southside should not be allowed in this day and age.There was a bit about this on Morning Ireland today. Councillor Emer Costello spoke out against the disproportionate numbers of them on the northside. Otherwise, details were sketchy and the thrust of it seemed to be “we’re all getting free bikes but we might have to put up with a few ads to fund it”.
why would we drain the south channel of the lee to put in a luas? how about putting it at street level like its done in normal cities.
The dates given in the Inspectors Report are that it will be open by the end of 08 – lot of work going on around it already;
And the idea that …
planning and consultative delays could push that date back.
… is strange. Because all the planning and public consultation is over, thats what IE and Cork CC have been doing for the last 5 years.
PTB, maps of the Northern Relief Road in Midleton can be found here;
http://www.corkcoco.ie/co/pdf/182083653.pdf
Also pages 33-35 of this have a lot of detail
http://www.corkcoco.ie/co/pdf/176646608.pdf
CPO was published last year (for phase 1 only I think – Cork road to Railway station..
Its required for a few reasons Chris – the Amgen plant and the Castlerock developments are going to entail flyovers and development along the margin, and the Railway development is going to have an impact on local roads anyways – better to do it all at once, and properly.
Also, theres around 36,000 vehicle movements a day on that road at that point (and over 50k beyond Little Island) – only a matter of time before there is a very serious accident involving those non grade separated junctions. There are accidents on the road regularly enough as it stands. They should probably even consider going to three lanes on that stretch – given the volume of traffic Amgen and all the building in Midleton is going to generate. Remember the SLAP forecast over 21,000 people living in Midleton by 2020*.
* The 2006 cenus gave 26,663 in the RD (which does go to the coast) and nearly 4k in the town.
The Inspectors Report into the Midleton Line was published recently;
http://www.transport.ie/viewitem.asp?id=8748&lang=ENG&loc=845
In short, good to go, with some minor amendments. Midleton residents will be delighted to hear that Phase 1 of the Northern Relief Road is to be finished by Sept 08, with Phase 2 (From the Mill Road right around to the N25 East of the town) beginning after that point.
Don’t mean to sound NIMBY-ish, but this is totally unfair. No fewer than five of these yokes will be a stone’s throw from me in D9. More than twice what some entire postcodes are getting. Travelling in on the Swords road, you’ll get three in rapid succession on the same side of the road as you come through Whitehall.
This will visually reinforce the slicing-through effect the road has on what is a long-established residential area. And another two back on the Ballymun Road.Ive been working in London as a Conservation Officer and id highly recommend that anyone looking for planning work considers coming over here. The Government in the UK have placed a lot of emphasis on Heritage and Design and I find working here so much more rewarding than in Dublin both in terms of the work and salary I find that in Ireland concepts of planning , conservation and design are almost resented and anyone promoting these ideas can find it soul destroying. One of housing of no design quality, unserviced seventies estates still being built and gombeen men demolishing historic buildings , unfortunately thats the state of play in Ireland if you ask me.
The Irish most certainly were running what is now Irish Rail in the 1800s. It just it was a new and “sexy” industry run by the most forward-thinking business people at the time. Thesedays it’s a sluggish state monopoly with a love of the status quo and a hatred of passengers.
It’s got nout to do with Irish independence from Britain. British Rail went through a similar period of abysmal service too.
The problem, as I see it, is that Dublin remains a very dangerous place to cycle in.
OK, we do have a few extra cycle lanes here and there but they don’t really make it into the city centre where cyclists regularly have to mix with articulated trucks and double decker busses.
Cars regularly swirve into cycle lanes too which is totally unacceptable driver behaviour.
E.g. I was nearly killed near UCD on a cycle lane. A car was turning right and the car behind him decided to blindly swirve around him crossing onto the cycle lane.
I can’t understand why cycle lanes must be on roadways, why can’t they take over part of the wide pavements? They should be properly segregated from traffic, like pavements are.
I’m not sure that encouraging inexperienced people to cycle in that environment is particularly helpful to be honest.
Yes, ‘they’ were;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Southern_and_Western_Railway
Irish company, with backers from all over the then UK.
Now, if you mean the network wasn’t being run by the unio … I mean a state owned company, thats an entirely different matter.
… thus taking up several seats. Precisely why they are this shape in the first place. Not so much of a problem in Cork you’d hope, I know, but still explains why so many airports have this type of seating.
Kite, do you have any more information beyond what was in the planning app? (7 stories, retain frontage etc). Or is this your natural pessimism showing through? 😉
Coughlan DeKeyser are the architects, but there doesn’t seem to be any images of this development on their website.
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