06-12-2018, 15:15 | #466 |
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Well the Tuam Herald did us all a service this week!
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14-12-2018, 09:58 | #467 |
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http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/518http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/5187676
There is enough Irony in this to fully Ferrous Oxide the tracks from Sligo to Athenry. |
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14-12-2018, 18:10 | #468 | |
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You could imagine a German MEP (let's call him Helmut Fritz) looking at a map of Ireland and thinking - "Yes, there is no rail infrastructure there. There should be." Unfortunately, Herr Fritz is basing that analysis on the belief that Ireland is planned like Germany, where only people who work on the land live on the land, and everyone else is in a well-planned town or city. That is not Ireland. Here, we scatter the houses throughout the countryside like confetti, hence no critical mass in our towns, hence no demand for rail services from those towns. Bus and Rail Park 'n Rides on the peripheries of the cities are what's needed here. Not empty trains meandering around the countryside. |
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14-12-2018, 20:42 | #469 | |
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15-12-2018, 08:18 | #470 | |
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Matt....Did the SF/WOT high command ask you to keep quiet about all this! Perhaps a few press releases into the right email boxes in Europe might do that! |
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25-01-2019, 21:42 | #471 | |
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All the greenway groups along the route are actively now making submissions to the North West Regional Assembly after it was spotted that some WOT shenanigans were underway.
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10-02-2019, 23:28 | #475 | |
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11-02-2019, 20:19 | #476 | |
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Here is a reminder of how intolerant some politicians are of debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7G_Zd47HRc |
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17-02-2019, 11:21 | #477 |
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Sources suggest that the NWRA got just over a thousand submissions on the new Regional Planning Strategies, unofficial indications are that about 80% of all submissions called for the Western Rail Trail to happen on the closed railway from Athenry to Sligo. Submissions in support of the greenway came in from several of the TDs in Sligo and Galway, businesses, sports clubs and hundreds of members of the public - Mayo TDS were conspicuous in their silence. Several cllrs also made submissions and Sligo county council executive made a greenway supporting submission to counter any attempt by West on Track to try and stop the Sligo Greenway from happening, but you never can tell what might happen on that one.
It would appear that the myth of all councils in the west now only supporting the railway option is just that ......a myth. The TDs who made submissions supporting the greenway were from FF and FG, it can be safely said that the only party that clearly has a one track mind re the railway is SF, although privately party members do support the plan to create tourism jobs with a greenway. There will now be a battle of political minds in the North West Regional Assembly to get the greenway written into the regional plans and to make sure the issue gets debated by members. What is clear though is that the Western Rail Corridor is most certainly up for discussion. |
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