NRA accused of being "industrial terrorists"

[Cael]

Found this on the Tarawatch site. Looks like Cllr Nick Killian is hell bent on proving Tarawatch right that the whole M3 is just a pork barrel project to make a few fat cats even fatter and to put a few dig outs together for their crony politicians:


The National Road Authority (NRA) has been accused of
being "industrial terrorists" who are trying to kill the economic
development of Meath.
At a meeting of Meath County Council on Monday last, councillors
warned that if the authority's powers were not curtailed, the county
was doomed. Councillors were furious at recent objections by the
authority to planning applications for commercial developments
adjacent to new motorways.
Cllr Nick Killian had sought the suspension of standing orders to
discuss An Bord Pleanala's refusal of planning permission for a
commercial development at Gormanston.
He pointed out that Meath County Council had granted planning
permission for the project but the NRA had appealed to An Bord
Pleanala who refused permission.
"This is the third time that the NRA have interfered with a decision
of the council's planning department," he said. "I have described An
Taisce as economic terrorists in the past but now I'm calling the NRA
industrial terrorists," he said.
Cllr Killian said the council were working very hard to promote
business and tourism in Meath, but now, when the necessary
infrastructure was on its way, the NRA were "knocking everything".
"We are in recession and we need development and construction. A lot
of people are very annoyed that this was refused," he said.

[CountyWarrior]

More visit with my councellor again ?

Not only that see the rule of the road signs and know the industrial estate symbol aswell. l.o.l

[Cael]

Why don't you just put up the link?

because it was in the form of an e mail.

[alonso]

Cael for God's sake. The NRA are protecting their road - they are doing the exact opposite of what you are saying. You are making no sense. Surely if they wanted to make a few fat cats rich they wouldn't object to the developments on their land!!!!

They did the exact same with IKEA which threatened the viability of the M50 upgrade. The M3 is a motorway, it is NOT a carte blanche for major retail and office parks all along it. It goes from one urban centre to another and the only development should occur in these locations

Meath COunty Council are nothing but environmental vandals - they rezoned their entire coastline ffs. If it wasn't for An Bord Pleanala this country would be one giant septic tank filled with traffic jams. They have consistently defended the National Road Network in order to maintain it's status as a strategic network linking centres of trade and industry.

(I agree with you on the M3 project itself but not on this particular post)

[Cael]

Cael for God's sake. The NRA are protecting their road - they are doing the exact opposite of what you are saying. You are making no sense. Surely if they wanted to make a few fat cats rich they wouldn't object to the developments on their land!!!!

They did the exact same with IKEA which threatened the viability of the M50 upgrade. The M3 is a motorway, it is NOT a carte blanche for major retail and office parks all along it. It goes from one urban centre to another and the only development should occur in these locations

Meath COunty Council are nothing but environmental vandals - they rezoned their entire coastline ffs. If it wasn't for An Bord Pleanala this country would be one giant septic tank filled with traffic jams. They have consistently defended the National Road Network in order to maintain it's status as a strategic network linking centres of trade and industry.

(I agree with you on the M3 project itself but not on this particular post)

The point you are missing, a chara, is that there never would have been an M3 in the first place if it were not for the promise of land rezoning scams and all the millions of quick bucks that go with them. The only thing the NRA has against the Meath councillors is that the dirty little gombeens cant contain themselves until the crime is in the bag and
Tara destroyed. After that they will just chop away at any zoning restrictions in the usual way.

[dissident]

The NRA, eurolink m3 and its partners have repeatedly violated article 40.6.1.i of Bunreacht na hÉireann. Feck them and their road, I say petrol bombs and ******************** slinging if the Garda don't enforce the law! its funny how the state has been talking about making that section invalid.

[lostexpectation]

isn't he up as ff mep candidate?

[alonso]

The point you are missing, a chara, is that there never would have been an M3 in the first place if it were not for the promise of land rezoning scams and all the millions of quick bucks that go with them. The only thing the NRA has against the Meath councillors is that the dirty little gombeens cant contain themselves until the crime is in the bag and
Tara destroyed. After that they will just chop away at any zoning restrictions in the usual way.

Yes but Cael those promises never came from the NRA. It is never in their interest to have development along their network and they vehemently oppose any such proposals in no uncertain terms. Read the IKEA appeal - they actually appealed it themselves and their submission to the Local Authority was extremely unambiguous in it's opposition. I've never seen a govt agency write a submission to another govt agency like that, in direct opposition to Central govt policy.

Have i simply misinterpreted your post? In this specific case the NRA are in the right.

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[dissident]

They're in the wrong since the work is illegal!

[ame=http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=SXZVc0h8Gok]F*ck the National Roads Authority[/ame]

[alonso]

They're in the wrong since the work is illegal!

F*ck the National Roads Authority

if you're gonna post Pennywise I'm not gonna disagree with you - although in this specific case they are correct to stop development along the M3

Anyway this is the Pennywise video

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV80jLvp1ug]YouTube - Pennywise - Same Old Story[/ame]