Innaffiare la priorità degli autobus nel West Dublino “Betrayal of Promises Made” e fa “beffa” di fondamenti di BusConnects
di dkeenaghan
Innaffiare la priorità degli autobus nel West Dublino “Betrayal of Promises Made” e fa “beffa” di fondamenti di BusConnects
di dkeenaghan
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Fairly typical of Irish public transportation planning — everyone gets involved in objections to absolutely everything, you’ve save our iconic roundabout etc etc etc
Nothing gets delivered and we remain a congested mess.
I hate how government agencies only ever bend backwards for NIMBYs and no other sector of civil society. All that planning, all that consultation, all those endless reports and environmental considerations on nearly every 100m block of the bus lane just for the entire project to be shanked right before the shovels go into the ground.
If you’re going to go this far, you might as well go the whole hog. The local People Before Profit still won’t be happy because their precious “heritage roundabout” is going anyway.
Bus Connects needs to pure Bus Connects, otherwise it won’t work at all. Commuters need to be able to feel both their inbound and outbound journeys go as quickly as possible if you’re going to make bus journeys more attractive in the crucial years where we approach net zero.
How is it even legal to do this? Surely it doesn’t comply with the planning permission that took years to get approved
Also makes a complete mockery of the rounds and rounds of public consultations that they can just force through stuff like this after the fact just to appease some nimbys
Why didn’t they write a law declaring this critical infrastructure (which it is) and just be done with it? I seriously don’t get it. Unless they think people are stupid enough to vote for a TD that opposes work their own party is trying to implement. Wait a minute that might be it…
> The location has received media attention in recent years with a “save our roundabout” campaign and a local parish, Fr Adrian Egan, stating that “part of the identity of Ballyfermot is being taken away” by the removal of the roundabout outside Our Lady of the Assumption Church.
Exactly what sort of a community spirit does your “village” (that’s actually just a suburb of a capital city) really have if its entire “identity” is that a roundabout exists in it? That’s a frankly bizarre take, especially coming from the priest of the local church.
People shouldn’t have that much power to have a say in what can be built. If a project is required for overall benefit or actual survival, then so be it. This is something that non-democratic countries are good at – big projects delivered quickly. There is no need for all this red tape. All it does is delay, overprice or destroy projects all together.