new motorway? E55 million?

crockholm · 02-05-2014 11:05AM

Well congrats to the beleaguered Citizens of those Towns,however,if we were to spend 550 million on a motorway,should we not prioritise linking Cork to Limerick? No disrespect to the good folk of Galway.

Davarus Walrus · 02-05-2014 11:10AM

To cause some genuine outrage, a visibly drunk Minister James Reilly should announce that he intends to close down all 'shítty useless hospitals in rural backwaters where you'd be better off dead' and force the patients to work on the building of this road.

Fozzie Bear · 02-05-2014 11:17AM

Have you rang Joe yet? Ring him for the love of God, ring him!

Do you drive this route regularly? I'm going to guess no.

First its €550 million, not 55 million. 300 million of that is funded by the Europen Investment Bank and private investors.

It will create 500+ new jobs and pump badly needed millions into the local economies along the route plus the new PAYE/PRSI and VAT payments back to the government. (Spend money to make money?!?)

It will bypass 6 Towns/Villages plus Galway city and I can tell you now it will knock a hell of a lot more than 20 minutes off the Journey from Tuam to Gort. Especially during rush hour. You can spend up to 30 minutes+ just getting through Claregalway village right now at rush hour.

It is long over due and will make life a lot easier for 1000's of citizens and businesses in the West and return Villages like Ardrahan and Kilcolgan back to the locals.

Kermit.de.frog · 02-05-2014 11:17AM

That's a big construction job boost for the west.

Sir Arthur Daley · 02-05-2014 11:18AM

crockholm wrote: »

Well congrats to the beleaguered Citizens of those Towns,however,if we were to spend 550 million on a motorway,should we not prioritise linking Cork to Limerick? No disrespect to the good folk of Galway.

Cork will get their motorway soon enough, this motorway is more wanted.

fleet_admiral · 02-05-2014 11:18AM

they'd do better spending it on public transport. the dart underground and metro north are desperately needed

danniemcq · 02-05-2014 11:26AM

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

Have you rang Joe yet? Ring him for the love of God, ring him!

Do you drive this route regularly? I'm going to guess no.

First its €550 million, not 55 million. 300 million of that is funded by the Europen Investment Bank and private investors.

It will create 500+ new jobs and pump badly needed millions into the local economies along the route plus the new PAYE/PRSI and VAT payments back to the government. (Spend money to make money?!?)

It will bypass 6 Towns/Villages plus Galway city and I can tell you now it will knock a hell of a lot more than 20 minutes off the Journey from Tuam to Gort. Especially during rush hour. You can spend up to 30 minutes+ just getting through Claregalway village right now at rush hour.

It is long over due and will make life a lot easier for 1000's of citizens and businesses in the West and return Villages like Ardrahan and Kilcolgan back to the locals.

Hey, you and your logic aren't welcome in this thread, next thing you'll be saying that the improved links to Shannon airport will help investment in Galway and Mayo

Micky Dolenz · 02-05-2014 11:28AM

Money spent on infrastructure is money well spent although the price can be debated. I know a few lads who'd do it for half that.

danniemcq · 02-05-2014 11:34AM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Money spent on infrastructure is money well spent although the price can be debated. I know a few lads who'd do it for half that.

I know a few lads that'll set it on fire so we can claim insurance on it then for original quote.

02-05-2014 11:51AM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Money spent on infrastructure is money well spent although the price can be debated. I know a few lads who'd do it for half that.

Yeh but will they know which way is south and which way is west?

The Backwards Man · 02-05-2014 12:09PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

they'd do better spending it on public transport. the dart underground and metro north are desperately needed

Yeah, the next time I have to take someone from Malin Head to the Oncology Dept in Galway we'll take the DART!

danniemcq · 02-05-2014 12:10PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeh but will they know which way is south and which way is west?

stuff like that doesn't matter, sure I have the north to the east and am in the north despite being in the south

02-05-2014 12:12PM

danniemcq wrote: »

stuff like that doesn't matter, sure I have the north to the east and am in the north despite being in the south

But what if the signs are pointing the wrong way?

We'll be sorry we don't have more hospital beds then, so we will.

danniemcq · 02-05-2014 12:17PM

Deleted User wrote: »

But what if the signs are pointing the wrong way?

We'll be sorry we don't have more hospital beds then, so we will.

what if we equip hospital beds with engines and use them as cars?

cheaper than a car and we can then use all the cars as hospital beds, thats millions of new beds and each one would be nice and private and could be outside of current buildings meaning less costs for expansions

02-05-2014 12:19PM

danniemcq wrote: »

what if we equip hospital beds with engines and use them as cars?

cheaper than a car and we can then use all the cars as hospital beds, thats millions of new beds and each one would be nice and private and could be outside of current buildings meaning less costs for expansions

Ooooorr, everyone can just get health insurance and get access to private health care, then we would have more money to spend on roads \o/

danniemcq · 02-05-2014 12:26PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Ooooorr, everyone can just get health insurance and get access to private health care, then we would have more money to spend on roads \o/

Thats communist talk that

02-05-2014 12:27PM

danniemcq wrote: »

Thats communist talk that

Do you even pay road tax?

02-05-2014 12:29PM

From someone living on that side of the country the motorway is needed.

The whole country should be connected by Motorways this day and age in fairness.

Getting there slowly

floggg · 02-05-2014 12:30PM

Graces7 wrote: »

over and out on this thread from me as clearly seeing why ireland in in the toilet...for the elucidation....the whole thing is hypocritical and obscene

I am equally outraged. I can't believe this.

The country's economy is struggling. How dare the spend money on a road building project that will create jobs, reduce travel times and transportation costs, facilitate investment in under developed regions, and boost the local (and by implication national) economy.

There are people on hospital waiting lists and trolleys. How dare the government spend money on projects which will boost the country's finances in the long run and help us pay for those hospital beds.

02-05-2014 12:33PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

Getting there slowly

Pun intended?

danniemcq · 02-05-2014 12:34PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Do you even pay road tax?

What's tax? Is that some pale thing? We don't have that in culchie land

Kalel · 02-05-2014 12:47PM

"they'd do better spending it on public transport. the dart underground and metro north are desperately needed "

You do know that there is a whole country outside of Dublin and that we can't all drive the tractors across fields to get where we need to go.
We need the odd road here and there too.

danniemcq · 02-05-2014 12:53PM

Kalel wrote: »

"they'd do better spending it on public transport. the dart underground and metro north are desperately needed "

You do know that there is a whole country outside of Dublin and that we can't all drive the tractors across fields to get where we need to go.
We need the odd road here and there too.

No we need even roads.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-05-2014 01:17PM

Graces7 wrote: »

over and out on this thread from me as clearly seeing why ireland in in the toilet...for the elucidation....the whole thing is hypocritical and obscene

You might want to educate yourself as well on the difference between capital expenditure and current expenditure. Spending like this is good news for the economy. We actually are in dire need of capital investment at the moment and motorways are an excellent investment.

conorhal · 02-05-2014 01:20PM

comongethappy wrote: »

What is the point in dismissing every cent of government expenditure with the tired "how many hospital beds" logic.

Come back to me on that when you're getting chemo in a corridor......

Yay! I've saved 20mins getting to the hospital so that I can spend 48hrs in a chair in A&E!

padd b1975 · 02-05-2014 01:23PM

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Will there be a toll on this new motorway?

Toll free I believe.

Barely There · 02-05-2014 01:24PM

We'd get far more bang for our buck as taxpayers if the Govt faced down the public sector unions, cut pay and pensions and used the savings to fund capital expenditure on schemes such as this.

beach_walker · 02-05-2014 01:24PM

Badly needed imo. If you want to see a waste of money OP, look at the Galway-Limerick train line.

Joe Doe · 02-05-2014 01:51PM

Roads, trains, ports, airports, trams etc are all baseline essential infrastructure.
Essential - as if they're not in 'tip-top shape' surely the economy and it's people will suffer time loss and production inefficiency.

'Costly' would be the '£42.6 billion' for (uk's HS2) + contingencies (15%+/-) + £7.5bn for trains., but this does offer nice choo-choo trains on major routes at up to 250mph. across 192 kilometres.
California is also advancing toward goal of building a '$69 billion' high-speed rail network sf-la-sd.
Spain/Belgium/Italy/France/Tiawan/Korea/China all have trains doing circa 200-300mph

So never mind new roads, lets get some Transrapid TR-09 mag-lev (world's 2nd fastest) technology monorails built for 280mph journeys. That's Cork-Belfast in 49.58mins.

To free up tens of thousands hospital beds longer-term, lets just be ground breaking and completely ban smoking like what Bhutan does.

the culture of deference · 02-05-2014 01:52PM

conorhal wrote: »

Come back to me on that when you're getting chemo in a corridor......

Yay! I've saved 20mins getting to the hospital so that I can spend 48hrs in a chair in A&E!

Each hospital guarantee's a free infection too.

new motorway? E55 million?

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