Westlink Action Group - Wasted Focus?
I've been commuting on the M50 now for the last 3 weeks. From 7-8am in the mornings and from 4.30-5.30pm in the evenings.
I was dreading starting this because of all the furore created mainly by Sen.Shane Ross, 98fm, and Eamonn Dunphy - and reading some of this stuff - [broken link removed].
Yet, in the last 3 weeks, I'm not sure if I'm being stupid or what, but it's not the M50 that's causing the traffic delays on the M50.
It takes 10-15mins to get from the start of the Blanch turnoff to the far side of it. And the same, if not more for the Lucan and Naas exits. Yet, it's taking me no time to get up to and go through the toll.
Does Sen.Ross even travel this road to see where the problems actually are? Are we going to be in a situation now where we'll possibly end up spending a fortune to buy a couple of bridges when the money would have more positive impact if we implement motorway junctions similar to the UK rather than putting traffic lights on every off-ramp?
Seems to me that if the Government themselves had come up with the idea of buying the bridges and opening them up, they'd have been attacked "Eddie Hobbs" style for wasting public money on something that wasn't a problem.
I've been commuting on the M50 now for the last 3 weeks. From 7-8am in the mornings and from 4.30-5.30pm in the evenings.
I was dreading starting this because of all the furore created mainly by Sen.Shane Ross, 98fm, and Eamonn Dunphy - and reading some of this stuff - [broken link removed].
Yet, in the last 3 weeks, I'm not sure if I'm being stupid or what, but it's not the M50 that's causing the traffic delays on the M50.
It takes 10-15mins to get from the start of the Blanch turnoff to the far side of it. And the same, if not more for the Lucan and Naas exits. Yet, it's taking me no time to get up to and go through the toll.
Does Sen.Ross even travel this road to see where the problems actually are? Are we going to be in a situation now where we'll possibly end up spending a fortune to buy a couple of bridges when the money would have more positive impact if we implement motorway junctions similar to the UK rather than putting traffic lights on every off-ramp?
Seems to me that if the Government themselves had come up with the idea of buying the bridges and opening them up, they'd have been attacked "Eddie Hobbs" style for wasting public money on something that wasn't a problem.