General Election in January 2011: roads policies of different parties.

marmurr1916

The Green Party have just announced at a press conference that they want a General Election to be held in the second half of January 2011.

Unless FF can miracle a coalition out of the current Dáil, the election is a certainty.

Given that, it would be interesting if contributors could post details of the roads policies, if any, of the political parties and how these may be affected by the conditions attached to the EU/IMF loan/bail-out.

Sponge Bob

Tralee Bypass not as high a priority I suspect.

marmurr1916

Definitely not now that JHR has announced he's no longer supporting the government.

Jayuu

Given that everybody is talking about the need to give a stimulus to the economy in addition to cutbacks, perhaps there may be some emphasis on infrastructural projects given that they provide employment and also give a long term return.

Also with land prices still dropping now would be the time to use some of this stimulus money to buy required land for such projects thus getting even more value for money.

Zubeneschamali

Here's how I think it will go:

The Parties: We have lots of ambitious plans!

The ECB/IMF: Oh no you don't!

The Parties: Not our fault!

limklad

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Here's how I think it will go:

The Parties: We have lots of ambitious plans!

The ECB/IMF: Oh no you don't!

The Parties: Not our fault!

I could not have said this any better.

Tech3

Edit: Just seen the press conference. This will be important now to see what is priority. The ratio of public transport to roads wont be 2:1 surely

NRA's priorities are:

M18 and M20 Cork to Galway
N11 to Dublin Rosslare
N25 Cork to Rosslare

Amtmann

tech2 wrote: »

Edit: Just seen the press conference. This will be important now to see what is priority. The ratio of public transport to roads wont be 2:1 surely

NRA's priorities are:

M18 and M20 Cork to Galway
N11 to Dublin Rosslare
N25 Cork to Rosslare

Thankfully the N25 plans are extremely undeveloped at present (in several cases, not even route corridors have been selected for the Type 2 DC that will eventually be built). The N24 plans are ahead of them, at the EIS or route selection phase.

Chris_5339762

With presumably Newlands/M11gap right at the top of the list!