Criticisms National Roads Authority

Lazairus

Maybe this has been mentioned before but here goes

Recently new upgrade for the arklow bypass have been passed to ensure that there are rest stops along the upgraded motorway at set distances .


Read this article http://www.goreyguardian.ie/news/truck-stop-protest-stepped-up-1507569.html_ _ _ _
Wednesday October 22 2008

UP TO 100 residents of the Inch and Scarnagh area are expected to confront NRA officials in Gorey today (Wednesday) as they continue to protest against plans to site a 'truck stop' near their homes.

Locals agreed at a public meeting held in The Golden Anchor in Castletown on Friday night to go en masse to today's NRA information meeting, which is to be held in the Ashdown Park Hotel between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m.

An estimated 120 people, along with Deputy Michael D'Arcy and Cllr. Lorcan Allen, attended that Friday night meeting, to discuss their grave concerns about the proposed development on the western side of the dual carriageway at Scarnagh.

'THERE WAS an awful lot of concern at the meeting about this. People are worried about lighting, noise and all the other implications of this development,' said Ballyellen residents association chairman, Tadgh O Scannail.

'We want the NRA to listen to us. We are not against the siting of a service area on the N11, but we object that they want to put it in the middle of a rural residental area.

'We want them to put this facility in an area that won't encroach on peoples lives or investments,' he said.
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Basically what is happening is the NRA decided to upgrade the road from dual to motorway M11

Basically my problem is this on October there was a person out surveying a field beside the house

No idea what he was doing

then 2 weeks later in the letterbox mail with compulsory purchase declaring a new truckstop (faciliting road upgrade)
24 hour station.

no planning permission, no way to stop them ????
Any ideas???
before you post just imagine living next to Dublin airport because thats how loud it will get.


please see this post
http://wwww.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055400741&page=2

munchkin_utd

before you post just imagine living next to Dublin airport because thats how loud it will get.

Thats nonesense. Have you ever been to a Motorway rest stop?
Its not the trucks resting that makes the noise.
Its the other trucks bailing at full tilt down the motorway that are noisy!

So you should be blocking the motorway completely if you want peace and quiet (and rural harmony and whatnot)

And in the article there it mentions that the service station will affect someones investment.
Thats also wrong.
Its the noise and fumes from the thousands of cars and trucks on the MOTORWAY that will already do that.

I dont think people in this area quite understand what an impact this mortorway will have on them regardless of the service station being approved.

crocro

Lazairus wrote: »

no planning permission, no way to stop them ????
Any ideas???

This is the planning application.
http://www.pleanala.ie/casenum/HA0017.htm
Contact Bord Pleanala for copies of the application and information about how to participate.

Quint

They're finally building truck stops? Great! It should be a requirement to upgrade a road to a motorway if you ask me

L1011

They're full MSAs, not just truck stops. We're finally entering the 1960s it appears.