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Basically, what is being constructed at the moment, planned infrastructure, possible or speculative infrastructure and your own ideas or proposals on what kind of infrastructure could/should be built, both here and abroad.


This includes:

• Transport - road schemes*, rail schemes, airports, seaports, cycle paths etc.
• Energy - such as gas pipelines, power stations, wind power, ESB plans etc.
• Telecommunications - fibreoptic rollout, undersea cables etc.
• Water/Seweage - water treatment plants, flood control etc.
• Waste Management - landfills, incinerators etc
• Civic - hospitals, schools, universities, libraries, urban parks, etc.

This forum is specifically for discussing the physical infrastructure itself.

Road discussion now has its own seperate sub-forum found here.

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A quick look at the Infrastructure Index Thread, which contains links to threads about all types of infrastructure discussed on this forum, may help you to find information on a specific topic.
An archive thread, which contains links to several (closed) extensive photo threads dealing with the construction of major road and motorway projects, is linked to here.

If the infrastructure in question isn't the principal focus of a thread you want to create (in other words, the discussion is more about issues related in some way to the infrastructure than the actual infrastructure e.g traffic delays, global warming etc.), then one of these forums may be more suitable:

• Commuting & Transport Forum
• Politics Forum
• Green Issues
• Tech Forum
• History Forum
• Consumer Issues

If you're unsure, or if the thread is in a "grey area" where it's not clear whether the discussion belongs here or in another forum, create the thread here and if a mod feels it belongs elsewhere, the thread will be moved without issue.

Infrastructure announcements (subject to boards.ie advertising / spam rules), general discussion (serious and not so serious) and relevant humour are all welcome. A thread for off-topic discussion can be found here

We should be aware that some posters will be zealous about their preferred means or reason of/for putting infrastructure in place, but that this should be balanced. If you make a particular statement for or against a particular means or reason of/for putting relevant infrastructure in place, you should be willing to back it up.

If you have anything to add, or any suggestions, please, feel free to post it here.




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