or why not build it on a green field site in the midlands somewhere, if people go to Glasgow/ UK they surely could make it out there. I find the "500 jobs, a bit of a moot point - surely wherever they locate they will fill the jobs.
Its not fair to deprive the Irish people of the joys and choice that IKEA offer, as a result of the lack of planning and investment in our roads infastructure. In every other counrty that IKEA operate in there are lots of cars on the roads, but the infastructure is in place to cope.
Does it take a shop to want to open in Ireland for society to realise that this government has squandered the biggest opportunity to invest in our infastructure -ever? What they are at now is years too late-10-15years too late.
If they build it-the roads will come. That is the reactionary approach or this government. IKEA to be our field of dreams-and ease our pain-eventually!
Do you do PR for them?!
So we now punish a company that wants to bring cheaper prices and create jobs for the failures of our politicans to see more than 2 weeks into the future and rather taking envelopes than using common sense?
DublinTexas said:I don't see any restrictions on when people are allowed to leave the new apartment/housing mega complex next to the M50 which surley is creating more traffic than the IKEA store.
DublinTexas said:Instead of banning them we should overhaul our public transport system and look more into the future than 2 weeks when building new roads.
But sure what the hell. Let's just let them build and we'll see how it works out.
... other furniture retailers with a smaller sales to employee ratio will go out of business resulting on an overall Nett loss of jobs to the country.
Why should the main consumers (Dublin folk) drive half way to the midlands to go to a shop, they can have in easier reach?
Why should the main consumers (Dublin folk) drive half way to the midlands to go to a shop, they can have in easier reach?
Surely it is this Dublin-centric type thinking that is the reason they are proposing to site IKEA in Ballymun. The obvious solution is to site it off the the 6-lane N7 or the new N6 to Galway. If you think about, putting IKEA in Athlone gives it a far larger catchment than just in Dublin. Of course the nearly €1 billion of taxpayers money being spent on the M50 will play perfectly into the hands of a private company. Effectively the state is paying to upgrade a road that will help to line the coffers of IKEA!!!
Only in Ireland...
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