Dublin should have higher density housing with an underground with radial LUAS type connections out to large park and ride facilities such as the one at the Red Cow. The connection between the red and green lines is at Broon Bridge in Carba. There is no park and ride facility there.Lusk should have thousands of more houses and apartments because of its location to Dublin ,
Lusk should have thousands of more houses and apartments because of its location to Dublin ,
I agreeDublin should have higher density housing with an underground with radial LUAS type connections out to large park and ride facilities such as the one at the Red Cow. The connection between the red and green lines is at Broon Bridge in Carba. There is no park and ride facility there.
You'll get better transport once there are more houses Built out that side of Dublin ,I know well it will take some time for supports to be put in place ,That's Ireland for you,It doesn't matter where you build them if you don't have the infrastructure. Have you ever tried commuting from Swords to the City Centre. I have flown to London quicker on occasion.
You'll get better transport once there are more houses Built out that side of Dublin ,I know well it will take some time for supports to be put in place ,That's Ireland for you,
That's not green then is it? And it's not just transport. Its electricity, water, broadband, cycle paths, recreation facilities, schools, local retail. Building houses before any of that is in place is how we have been planning for the last 30 years and look at the mess we are in. That is why we are so car dependent. Houses are always built with the promises that everything else will be provided but it never is. Swords have had successive Governments and councils promise a train line while thousands of acres were rezoned and built on. And they are still waiting.
I see where you are coming from but you had a vote and still have , Time to vote green, or proper planning,That's not green then is it? And it's not just transport. Its electricity, water, broadband, cycle paths, recreation facilities, schools, local retail. Building houses before any of that is in place is how we have been planning for the last 30 years and look at the mess we are in. That is why we are so car dependent. Houses are always built with the promises that everything else will be provided but it never is. Swords have had successive Governments and councils promise a train line while thousands of acres were rezoned and built on. And they are still waiting.
I'll believe that next time I see a flock of pigs flying by. We have been trying to get better transport infrastructure for years. And where are you planning to have the children living in these extra thousands of houses go to school? The roads are already beyond capacity, the schools are overflowing, public transport is getting worse with the revised bus routes and timetables.You'll get better transport once there are more houses Built out that side of Dublin ,I know well it will take some time for supports to be put in place ,That's Ireland for you,
I see where you are coming from but you had a vote and still have , Time to vote green, or proper planning,
People voted for what you have at present no point in complaining , and because they voted for 30 years of inaction the will now have to put up with the results of the population increase in Dublin and no forward planning but new high rise houses/apartments have to go up near planned transport routes in and around Dublin for Ireland to become green ,
You can take the man out of Cork...As I see it . . . . . there are too many people living in Dublin. The city and the greater city are too big. Only the North Strand was bombed in WW2. If the whole city had been bombed, the roads would now be straighter and wider. Simplistic view you may say. I don't have an acceptable resolution. Every weekend in Dublin is an Event Weekend. Try moving rugby international games to Cork; have Trinity open an additional university facility in Waterford; build a few huge Event Centres in Galway and Kilkenny; move some government departments to Sligo, Athlone, Monaghan; have international soccer games played in Limerick etc. But, nobody in Dublin wants any of these. Consequently, Dublin people are getting all that they wished for and the traffic and gridlock to go with it.
Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) owns Cork Airport. It won't leave Ryanair take over the old terminal building in Cork and Ryanair put a hub in Bristol instead. Dublin Airport is unfriendly and has far too many flights. I'm sure Shannon and Cork would gladly take some of the superfluous routes, but DAA won't hear of it.
I don't care about the gridlock in Dublin. It was caused by "Dublin thinking" by people living in Dublin. To get a plane Cork to Alicante two weeks ago I spent all of 4 minutes going through check-in and security. We boarded immediately; we didn't have to wait in a holding area (like we did in Dublin Airport a few weeks ago to travel to MIlan) and didn't need a bus to bring us from the terminal to the plane. I bet in many instances it would be better and faster for people in Templeogue to use Cork airport as a faster option than Dublin airport.
The cure to Ireland's problems are in Dublin, but the Dubs can't see it.
If the whole city had been bombed, the roads would now be straighter and wider.
In the 6 weeks leading up to the dropping on the atomic bomb the Americans dropped more bombs on Tokyo every day than the Germans dropped on London in the entire war. That was one of dozens of cities and towns bombed. In those 6 weeks they killed over a half a million Japanese civilians (dropping the A-Bomb saves 4-5 million lives).The evidence presented by Coventry and Dresden, the two most bombed cities of WW2, would suggest that is not true.
The evidence presented by Coventry and Dresden, the two most bombed cities of WW2, would suggest that is not true.