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Should an Outer Orbital Route be Tolled?
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Noel Dempsey is no doubt delighted that he is in the position to deliver an outer orbital route that looks likely to considerable help Meath’s commuting voters. The report delivered to him last night suggests building an outer orbital route from Drogheda (south of the new port-so what was the effing port tunnel for?) through Meath and on to Naas, cutting the M1, N2, N/M3, M4 and M7.
There are clear benefits here for those who are shepherded on to the M50 every day to endure a crawl home from work. The bulk of freight traffic can be taken out of Dublin county with this move, not alone the city and free up roadspace. Hopefully taken in conjuction with public transport improvements it may well auger for a better time of it for Meath commuters.
Except Noel hinted it will be tolled. With the reports of huge numbers (in the rigon of 8,000) of vehicles avoiding the tolled M4 motorway in favour of choking Enfield, it seems likely hauliers will remain on the old routes unless the government decided to build this road as a public service rather than private business venture.
the greens have always been in fair of tolls on roads like this for enviro reasons could be one of theres
Well you’re getting a metro to Dublin Airport, an M50 expansion, an expanded Luas, a new fleet of buses for Dublin Bus, an expanded Dublin Airport, a port tunnel etc, etc, etc.
Meanwhile Shannon airport is being looted (and it seems Cork won’t be too far behind it) to provide the Dublin/Belfast region with greater choice because no one wants to spend €40 million to bring back the slots AerLingus flogged to BA and Continental. Much needed by-passes and dual carriage ways around the country have been delayed because of lack of funds following the Port Tunnel, M50 etc. Much needed commuter railways in Limerick, Cork and Galway which were delayed over the years in order to fund the Dart and then the Luas now find themselves behind the Luas expansion and the Metro on the priority list.
Should it be tolled. Hell yes! It should be made pay entirely for itself without a cent from the taxpayer. It’s about time some decent money was spent outside the Dublin/Belfast pale and if the people of Dublin want a second M50 to augment the expanded M50 then those who use it should pay tolls for that outside the normal tax system. There are taxpayers past the Red Cow and we’re getting pissed off with our young people dying in their hundreds on narrow ill maintained old roads while the Dubs whinge about their various motorways not being wide enough. The odd bypass and 2 mile stretch of dual carriage way won’t keep the 2/3rds of taxpayers who live outside Dublin/Belfast happy any more. It’s time for the rest of the country to be brought up to the standard of infrastructure Dublin reached in 1990 and until that happens the Dubs should get their grubby little hands out of the cookie jar and wait their turn again.
The proposed motorway would begin south of Drogheda towards Navan,
pass south around Trim before ending near Naas in Co Kildare.
This route description sounds an awful lot like it would be handy to use and expand into an existing interchange like the one at Blundlestown, or Im guessing too much and being paranoid? So the interchange on the Tara Landscape is being expanded before its built.
Its just like Heathrow, BAA says, we gotta build just this one last
runway/terminal, while really they’re already planning the next extension.
I think your right to an extent john but I think that tolling defeats the purpose of building any infrastructure like this. it extends to those motorways being planned for cork limerick and galway if they are built people wont drive em if they are tolled. Though the focus on the east (considering the Aer Lingus move too) is getting more and more blatant and needs to be remedied.
Steve i think the other conspiracy is to wonder what will come of the port tunnel if the port moves to balbriggan. The tunnel has cost huge money and is only in use for a short time if the port moves. So what happens after?
The port tunnel is really intended to store our bodies with the cruciform as part of the Core’s efforts to create the Ultimate Intelligence.
The Shrike will protect us.