Will road projects speed up when the Greens are voted out?

A lot of roads are dangerous because of bad alignment as well and a lot of people need to drive to places public transport does not work for everyone

Yep, that claim is blatantly untrue.

They object to everything in Urban Ireland as well. Including Intensive Care Units.

An out-of-tune choir of septuagenarian, backward-thinking gombeens.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/objections-to-mater-hospital-s-plan-for-pandemic-treatment-facility-1.4692038

https://www.thejournal.ie/mater-hospital-extension-block-an-taisce-5566284-Oct2021/

Children's hospital location is an absolute disaster. It's like they took the access and parking problems of Crumlin hospital and made it 10 times worse and learned nothing.

It's almost as if there were considerations other than drivers when choosing the location of a hospital! Reminder folks: it's a hospital, not a car park.

If more roads are needed after the bypass is built and public transportation is put in place according to the Galway Transport Strategy, then yes, of course we build them.

If there isn't enough space in a hospital to see all the patients that need medical attention, you don't scold the patients and send them packing. You have to invest, build more rooms and hire more staff. When capacity is met again, as it inevitably is with a growing population, you repeat the process as many times as necessary, including building a whole new hospital if and when needed.

Separately, as to your statement that hospitals are not car parks, as someone who works in a hospital environment, the families of sick patients often come a fair distance to see their loved ones. This means cars are generally the only practical option for them, and they need some place to leave them. You may be dismissive of the concept of making their lives a little easier in very unpleasant times, but it's not unreasonable to expect a newly-designed national hospital to be in a location that is relatively easily accessible to people who don't live on the Luas line or the relevant Dublin Bus route (ie, the vast majority of the country, who will be travelling by car under any realistic future scenario).

Thats a very interesting analogy you put there for your car centric view, but not sure its the one you wanted to make.

Because they don't just "invest, build more rooms and hire more staff" in hospitals. There is a full range of services and supports so that people do not end up in the hospital setting.

I think people need to remember that in the last opinion poll, i think the examiner yep it was…on January 9th the greens went from 4% to 3% approval rating.

I think the pandemic has shown them up to be one trick ponies… adept at pointing and roaring at problems but in-adept at offering real, workable and implementable solutions..

the empty vessel makes the most noise is a very applicable and appropriate proverb with which to describe the greens unfortunately.. shouldn’t be let anywhere near the possibility to have decision making governance or influence in this state again… a disaster of a collective…

We need to get going and investing in our welfare… transport being one…let’s get public transportation designed and built to suit our populations requirements….

Still no.

The Greens have nothing to do with the emissions assessment. That’s an international treaty obligation that the Irish government entered into under the Paris Agreement - a treaty ratified by a Dáil that had zero Green TDs sitting in the room, let alone in Government.

The 2:1 budget split is pretty easy to achieve when there are massive capital projects in public transport that pre-date the Greens like Dart Underground and Metro that far exceed the cost of every road that people claim the Greens have “delayed”.

And that million a day on cycling and walking facilities is not taking from the roads budget - much of the spend is connected with construction of new roads. If adding cycle-lanes gets road improvements done, I’m all for cycle-lanes, even if I personally have zero interest in cycling.

Or, if it helps, you can look at it more selfishly: every person who gets out of their car and onto a bike (or a bus) frees up space on the roads, and unless you’ve got long-term investments in the concrete industry, then as a driver, reduction of road-traffic levels should be your main goal, not “building roads”.

Once you stop looking for bogeymen, the real reasons aren’t hard to see: an understaffed planning organisation, a slow appeals process, and a shortage of funds from the Exchequer once planning has been obtained. (I don’t consider NIMBYs a problem: it’s only the slowness of the legal appeals process that makes them an issue).