Galway - Dublin Motorway Open Tomorrow (Fri)

[gombeennation]

in YER face all you FF-haters - ireland now has a motorway between two of its biggest cities.
eat humble pie - you can now drive from one city to another way on a motorway and its not even 2010 yet!!!! world class achievement. well done.

[Baron von Biffo]

Great stuff. Now can we have some investment in rail please?

Not till we get the Greens out of government.

[Simbo67]

So you will be able to drive from Belfast to Dublin, Cork and Galway on continuous motorway very soon.

Great stuff. Now can we have some investment in rail please?

+1

[cgcsb2]

Not till we get the Greens out of government.

ironic and true

[cgcsb2]

in YER face all you FF-haters - ireland now has a motorway between two of its biggest cities.
eat humble pie - you can now drive from one city to another way on a motorway and its not even 2010 yet!!!! world class achievement. well done.

A similar acheivement took place in Britain in the 1950's. Well done FF, we're now only 50 years behind British infrastructure.

[joel]

A similar acheivement took place in Britain in the 1960's. Well done FF, we're now only 48 years behind British infrastructure.

Peculiar, strange isn't it - that the Irish built both! So why the hold up?

[flavirostris]

Peculiar, strange isn't it - that the Irish built both! So why the hold up?

You have to take the gombeen factor into account here i.e making sure that the land is bought from FF cronies at top dollar prices, kickbacks and brown envelopes to FF reps, gombeen planning as opposed to road strategy that makes sense. The list is endless

[dub14]

Another road completed in time and under budget.

Projects have 3 basic items upon which they should be judged - time, cost and quality. FF showed their project management credentials with the Port tunnel which failed all 3 criteria spectacularily.

They didn't like the bad PR so they came up with an Irish solution to an Irish problem namely to increase the time and budget and then we'll look great when it's finished early.You have obviosly bought into it hook line and sinker. Some of the rest of us though can see through the spin and actually think less of them for their cynicism.

[joel]

You have to take the gombeen factor into account here i.e making sure that the land is bought from FF cronies at top dollar prices, kickbacks and brown envelopes to FF reps, gombeen planning as opposed to road strategy that makes sense. The list is endless

"Every man for himself" has damned Ireland. And yet look at what they could do with social solidarity - Adnacrusha!

I guess the Catholic church has a lot of the blame for that - seeing socialism as anti-christian. Didn't they stop Ireland getting a health service in the fifties?

The Irish can't compete in the world with little firms against the big boys!

[cgcsb2]

I agree that when it comes to large scale infrastructure, the planning process in Ireland has improved signifigantly in the past 5 or 6 years. However small scale planning is a mess, and we all no that alot of small scale blunders combined make one hell of a problem.

For example, we now have a situation where thousands of Irish people live in natural flood plains. Building in these ares goes against Irish planning law, yet it still happens. Building suburban housing estates with no access to pre existing services and public transport is also against planning law, yet it still happens.