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M7 to get a Services Area

Berty · 2010-04-01 14:52:28

M7 is to get a services area just off the M7 at Birdhill. See the link to the Nenagh Guardian http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/NenaghGuardian/ What do I find funny about this? 420km of a motorway and they are annoucing this as a break. Just 1!!! Apologies if posted previously.

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#32 05-04-2010 11:42AM

Mc Love

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Berty wrote: »

Why should we have to leave our Motorway system for services? The whole point of the Motorway is to bypass towns and speed up the journey from A to B.

Every other developed country has services on their Motorways. The UK even have Hotel/Motels in theirs along with KFC/McDonals etc, fuel and playgrounds.

I will give you that their Motorways are incredibly longer but the point of the Motorway still stays the same. Services ARE required and not a few minutes away in the town in the old run down stations that some towns along the N7 have.

From Limerick to Dublin you have Dalys Cross (Old and not a nice Deli), Birdhill ( Nothing), Moneygall (Nice Centra), Templeglantine (Nothing), Roscrea (1 Nice Shop off even the bypass let alone miles from the Motorway), Borris in Ossory (two terrible stations and 3 terrible shops), Mountrath (1 Nice Overpriced shop with non branded fuel). After that you are on the M7. So nothing really to write home about there is there?

What the services needs is Fuel, Food, Some Class of QSR, Toilets and even Showers, Picnic area/Playground, Parking for trucks and whatever else people might like.

Forward thinking and future planning is what is needed.

You must be taking the long route if you are going through Templeglantine Berty

If you mean Toomevara, they have a good texaco station with deli there. and ATM machine.

BTW there is a gatso van parked in Birdhill facing cars heading southbound

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