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@PVC King wrote:
Why a town with a population of 75,000 people needs a motorway connection to another settlement 90 miles away was never clear to me though!
To bypass the large settlement of 1m perhaps? It doesn’t make sense that a truck travelling from Belfast to Cork/Limerick/Waterford/Galway should travell via Dublin and the M50
Two things of note on that article
1) “the road will not connect with the N11” – nice to see RTÉ is concerned only with the road that runs past Montrose rather than pointing out that it will meet with the M9 to facilitate traffic that goes on to Waterford.2) “the cost has been estimated at €2bn” – it was €1bn last week – where the hell do they pluck these figures from ‘ah sure what’s another billion euro anyway’ – bonkers
it’s in the UK – note the British Rail logo on the sign
Also they could be the locing bollards which can be lifted – sorry to ruin the gag
Agree about the shit paving job though
Ah ‘progress’ yes that word was used in exactly the same context as when the ESB pulled down houses on Fitzwilliam Street, and when the Hume Street Houses were demolished, etc etc etc.
This road is not progress, it is merely to facilitate more unsustainable planning in this country
Seriously though – will they have a centra, spar or Londis shop on the ground floor, your bets now please:D
@JoePublic wrote:
There’s a lot of land between Pearse street and grand canal dock where trains are parked etc where perhaps a tunnel could be sunk without affecting the current line. I’m not familiar with the dart line north of Connolly. Obviously the current line would have to remain open until a tunnel was built. I’m not an engineer perhaps it can’t be done. Anywho, there’s no harm in tossing out ideas, just in case the money is still rolling post transport 21!
It’ certainly couldn’t be done, unless the dart was turned into a roller-coaster.:)
No way on earth this is ever going to happen, and given that rail commuters were hacked off by the closure of the Dart line for the demolition of the West Stand at Lansdowne for a weekend there is bugger all chance of the busiest rail lines in the country being closed for such a long period of time just so a ‘nice view’ could be made available to the 50 or so people in Dublin who are interested!!!
@Radioactiveman wrote:
Looks great, but CIE haven’t a hope in hell of delivering any of it. CIE have been promising very similar stuff for Cork’s Kent Station for many, many, many years now and they’ve not even come close to thinking about considering maybe getting started. CIE really don’t give a sh*t about the other cities in the country besides Dublin and produce these sorts of ‘masterplans’ and glossy brochures for Cork, Limerick , Galway etc. just to keep well in with Dept. of Environment and the local authorities. It won’t happen any time soon, if ever. Which is a shame, because it looks good. Expect lots of reports, launches and announcements and people ‘giving it the go ahead’, etc. but nothing will actually happen.
That’s a terrible thing to say about CIE – they don’t care about Dublin either
@Andrew Duffy wrote:
The Swords bypass isn’t a national route, it’s the R132. It is still cheap and nasty though.
True but it’s a very busy dual carriageway
OK – whose bright idea was it to propose building the airport stop over the far side of the airport i.e. next to the exit gates of the short term car park – could we not use a bit of joined up thinking and INTEGRATE it into the terminal buildings! Especially T2!!!!
Also – Swords Stop – I assume this part of the run is overland but why for god’s sake have the metro stop for the town in the middle of the Dual Carriageway opposite the Pavillions centre – could it not be in the town at all or are we going for the el cheapo job as usual?
Honest to god these people are mad
I see they have a section for the ‘Integrated Ticketing System’ and are referring to it as ITS – Pity they didn’t include ‘The’ into the acronym as it would sum up those responsible for implementation to a tee
The road is not needed in the first place
All it is being built for is to continue the sprawl.
It should be stopped on the grounds of planning sanity if nothing else
@Seamus O’G wrote:
Obviously I understand what the interconnector is intended to achieve. But we had public consultation about the LUAS link-up, the metro north, the original LUAS, LUAS extensions, etc. Why must the highest capacity line ever proposed in this country be routed through St. Stephen’s Green without proper discussion?
Well if the interconnector is to (a) loop around the south City centre serving Pearse and onwards to Heuston and (b) meet with Luas and the metro then surely St Stephen’s Green makes sense for a stop. I can’t see what the problem is here Seamus?
Alternatively make the M3 a Spur off of the completed M(N)2 which is motorway grade as far as the Northside of Ashbourne to the M50. Continue as per the red lines marked in the map below (note that there is a plan already to continue the upgrade works on the N2 to Bypass Slane anyway).
Also look at the scale of the map in the bottom right corner and tell me that this area warrents 3 motorways through it.
Why change the Dail at all – it’s only ever full on about 6 occasions during the lifetime of a government (vote on a Taoiseach and 5 budgets). Aint broken don’t fix it.
On the point of having a Taoiseach’s official residence – why? We’ve survived without one since the foundation of the State and Farmleigh is suitable for all official government entertainment. Just because we have one of the highest paid heads of state in Europe doesn’t mean he should be housed in palatial accomodation – at least if they use their own accomodation they can retain some link with reality.
@Maskhadov wrote:
dublin apartments ? refurbished house in phoenix park ? what a joke. Leinster House should be the offical residance and they should build a new capital hill styled building in phoenix park
Words fail me…
@J. Seerski wrote:
Broadstone is hardly phibsboro – it is TWO STREETS FROM PARNELL SQUARE!
But it may as well be Heuston as perceptionally this area is quite a distance from the core of the city.
(And it’s only1 road from Phibsborough :rolleyes: )
@markpb wrote:
Broadstone, regardless of it’s other virtues, its close to the city centre and serves well as a boring old bus depot. Perhaps as a compromise, OPW should be tasked with maintaining it while DB and BE operate out of it, along the lines of the GPO?
Yeah but broadstone as it currently is is just a depot – you cannot actually get a bus from there as you can from Busaras – much better if the area was a hub where bus meets Luas
