Bertieland: Tales Of Artificially Large Irish Humans

by Terry Tue Mar 08, 2005 15:24

In reply to:
'I and 90% of dunshaughlin can not wait for the m3. we have been waiting for 16 years. There was plenty of consultation 6 years ago .It is time to go ahead with the road, some objectors have never been to the hill of tara, get real the motorist of meath and cavan are fed up of this nonence.'

For your information (FYI), the all clear was given for a bypass of Dunshaughlin almost 6 years ago, back in 1999! This would have cost a few tens of millions instead of the estimated 1000+ million that the M3 will cost. Further a bypass for Navan was also in the pipeline too.

The reason neither of these bypasses were built were mainly fold, but some of these reasons would be:
1) Building the Dunshaughlin bypass would have greatly weaked the argument for the M3. Since Dunshaughlin is the first in the line of the bottlenecks from Dublin, it has the greatest amount of traffic. By the time traffic gets to Navan and beyond, there is less, since not every passing through Dunshaughlin is driving to Cavan town.

2) Likewise building the Navan bypass would have weakened the arguments even further.

3) In the past few weeks, it has been revealed that there are many land deals depending on the arrival of the M3. Already the leading FF candidate had to pull out after Frank Dunlop said he was involved in a land deal with him.

3) There is a huge amount of money to be made by those owning land along the proposed M3, those involved in the construction of it and whoever it is that will own the cash-cow of the tolls. Given Irish political history as revealed by the planning tribunals, it defies belief that 'brown envelopes' and corruption are NOT involved in this whole scheme in some way.

4) The current N3 is a right-of-way and tolls cannot be placed on a right of way, so that is why a brand new road is being proposed.

There are probably other reasons for the delay which we are not privy too.

By holding up or rather cancelling the Dunshaughlin bypass, those vested interests have insured that they would generate sufficient frustration and anger about the traffic problems that this could easily be channeled into support for the M3. I suggest this is why you are pro-M3 and at the same time make a dig at those who object to it.

It is worth also noting that a motorway is designed for a traffic levels of over 50,000 cars per day. It is extremely unlikely these levels will ever be reached and are currently even for the busiest sections way below this. You will pay for the damage of the M3, by a) massive increase in urban sprawl, b) through your taxes to finance this corrupt scheme, c) through being fleeced by the tolls and 4) and loss to our national heritage and what it means to be Irish.

Alternatively you could argue that the bypass, given the all clear 6 years ago, be built for a tiny fraction of the M3 price and you will get most of the benefits of a reduction in conjestion without the costs outlined above.

And on a last note, I think anyone is entitled to object to the M3, whether they live in Meath or not, whether they travel on the N3 or not, and whether they were ever even there. Practically all the objectors are in total agreement about building bypasses, but this of course purposely and intentionally is hidden from people in the mainstream press and other media, so that public opinion can be manipulated into this absolutely crazy, destructive and corrupt scheme.

So in response to:
'I and 90% of dunshaughlin can not wait for the m3...'

...You could have had the bypass 6 years ago!