€200,000 A Week - Flushed Down Toilet

bertiebowl · 14-04-2003 1:09pm #1

I've just read that Dun Laoighaire Rathdown Co.Council is flushing a mind bogling €200K a week down the toilet!!!

And why is that you ask?

This €200k a week or €10,000,000 a year could be spent on recycling, promoting sustainable living, building houses etc.

This incredible waste of money is happening because a small, unelected, unaccountable body has decided to take it upon themselves to block, obstruct, delay for as long as they can a road development that will reduce noise, traffic pollution, congestion and lost time.

The contractors for this road are rightfully seeking compensation for this delay, having employees to pay, rent to pay and other costs.

Hence the €200k a week!

WAY TO GO CARRICKMINDERS.

Typedef · 14-04-2003 1:24pm

Do you have a link or quote from printed text that can cooberate this claim?

Keeks · 15-04-2003 10:17pm

I think the €10 million they are talking about is that which the NRA has given towards the excavation of the site since the summer of 2000

Sposs · 17-04-2003 12:30pm

Its a Joke anything of value has now been removed from carrickmines all thats left is a pile of rocks and because of this thousands of motorists must sit in five mile long traffic jams every day.Its time the Garda moved in and cleared the protestors out of there.

Victor · 22-04-2003 1:17pm

Originally posted by Sposs
Its a Joke anything of value has now been removed from carrickmines all thats left is a pile of rocks and because of this thousands of motorists must sit in five mile long traffic jams every day.

The protesters have not caused any traffic jams. The government moving funding from the M50 to the Dundrum / Wyckham bypass has.

Its time the Garda moved in and cleared the protestors out of there.

There are no protestors on site and haven't been for months. Perhaps you should bring yourself up to date?

Sposs · 22-04-2003 1:39pm

Mmmm perhaps it is.

Kell · 23-04-2003 10:05am

Erm I thought that the original plans for the motorway went round Carrickmines and not through it. Methinks that Carrickmines was stated as a site of historic interest in the first plans yet a decision was made to re-route the original course of the motorway.

As far as I am aware some EU court has to decide on the historical relevance of the site which may force the motorway to be re-routed anyway. What exactly happens then if they decide "yep, you shouldent have bulldozed through it in the first place" when there is a motorway sitting on it? Do they say "now put it back the way you found in the first place?" and if so where does that leave us then?

K-

Victor · 23-04-2003 1:04pm

bertiebowl, do you have any back-up?

Originally posted by Kell
Erm I thought that the original plans for the motorway went round Carrickmines and not through it. Methinks that Carrickmines was stated as a site of historic interest in the first plans yet a decision was made to re-route the original course of the motorway.

There was a report done around 1975 which identified the castle as a point to avoid for planning the motrway. Despite parts of the castle being above ground, it's location was marked incorrectly on the county development plan. spearately, there are suggestions that the route of the motorway was deliberately routed though certain lands.

€200,000 A Week - Flushed Down Toilet

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