[Article] Motorway plan will link major towns on east coast

Victor

I would love to know how they are going to take the motorway over the wicklow mountains. :rolleyes:

http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/2186648?view=Eircomnet

Motorway plan will link major towns on east coast
From:The Irish Independent
Thursday, 18th December, 2003
Treacy Hogan Environment Correspondent

A NEW M50-type motorway linking four major towns is proposed in radical new planning guidelines for the east coast.

Forecasting that the population of the greater Dublin area will soar to 1.63m by 2020 the guidelines set out a blueprint for rebalancing jobs in Drogheda, Navan, Naas and Wicklow.

The guidelines, which are being put out for public consultation, also predicts an increase of 133,504 houses in the region over the next six years.

The new guidelines envisage a network of "self sufficient towns" with "only limited commuting to the metropolitan area".

The Regional Planning Guidelines for Greater Dublin Area drawn up by Mide-East Regional Authority (Wicklow, Kildare and Meath councils) and the Dublin Regional Authority (four councils) are being published tomorrow.

The guidelines predict development in the metropolitan area must be consolidated by a "much enhanced multi-modal transport system".

For Dublin city centre the guidelines urge further increases in overall residential housing densities and well-designed urban environments.

Outside the capital, towns will be developed by increasing overall housing densities in places close to good public transport corridors.

The seven local authorities in the two regions will have to zone additional land for housing than is "strictly needed" to cater for the expected growth in the number of houses required in future.

mike65

Naas to Wicklow via er M50 and N11...?

Mike.

jd

I wonder are they proposing another orbital route?