Perché ci è voluto così tanto tempo per sviluppare una Verde per la baia di Dublino?
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/05/20/eamon-ryan-why-has-it-taken-so-long-to-develop-a-greenway-for-dublin-bay/
di TeoKajLibroj
Perché ci è voluto così tanto tempo per sviluppare una Verde per la baia di Dublino?
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/05/20/eamon-ryan-why-has-it-taken-so-long-to-develop-a-greenway-for-dublin-bay/
di TeoKajLibroj
4 commenti
I’ll hazard a guess at Clontarf Residents without reading the article at all.
Posh NIMBYs, especially retirees. The upper class in Ireland never, ever have to accept something they don’t like. As someone who grew up in a working class/middle class household, I’d love to know what it’d be like to have the power to block infrastructure projects, IPAS centres, or other housing by just whining that it’ll annoy me on my leisure drives.
Nimbyism is one for sure. Can’t get past the pay wall so not sure the scope but the stacks at ringsend too used to be a factor in that they were private property. Or at least not open to the public. Or is proposal to build a promenade around it? Same with Dublin port I suppose. Plan to cut in by Point depot to get around it? Nothing much nice up there really. In fact there’s large swathes of that that I couldn’t see many people even wanting to cycle through so don’t see the point in connecting up.
There are a lot of well-connected people who have an outsized voice.
For example, the Metro stop at Charlemont is opposed by Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan, and the Metro is generally opposed by ex-Minister and Irish Times columnist Michael McDowell (who also opposed the Luas).
This impacts hundreds of thousands of people yet their wishes are nothing compared to a small number of residents in that area, presumably with a direct line to their two near-neighbours, above.
This outsized influence is also the reason we only have one Dart line going into the city and why you often have to wait on a stopped train away from the station – some other well-connected people didn’t want to lose their gardens, hence only one line.
Sandymount cycleway is just another example.