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  • #52
    Culchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,047 ✭✭✭Culchie


    darealtulip wrote: »
    it's hardly a traffic jam anyway. at most you have a 15 minute delay and only at certain times. I don't think the traffic is bad at all.

    I think I'm just more used to traffic then most people here, being from Rotterdam where there are traffic jams at 3 in the morning.

    Saying that, is the traffic around sligo really worth spending millions? And is it worth disrupting the landscape etc around sligo?

    There are only two a very short rush hours. I normaly started a half hour earlier end went home a half hour early and had no problems with traffic at all.

    As I said it's probaly what your used to.

    Exactly, well said.
    I have vans on the road 8.30am to 6pm, 6 days a week .... traffic around Sligo and the North West is a pleasure after 10 years in Dublin.

    I think the going rate for 1km a road is up on €10 million .... so excuse me for thinking we have better uses for that sort of money than trying to eliminate a 5 minute 'traffic jam'.


  • #53
    Crotchety
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Crotchety


    Culchie wrote: »
    Exactly, well said.
    I have vans on the road 8.30am to 6pm, 6 days a week .... traffic around Sligo and the North West is a pleasure after 10 years in Dublin.

    I think the going rate for 1km a road is up on €10 million .... so excuse me for thinking we have better uses for that sort of money than trying to eliminate a 5 minute 'traffic jam'.

    Aye. It's not that bad people. I'd rather see a bypass in Ballybofey!


  • #54
    Culchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,047 ✭✭✭Culchie


    ♫ wrote: »
    Aye. It's not that bad people. I'd rather see a bypass in Ballybofey!

    Aye, now that's a town worth bypassing!!


  • #55
    ryanch09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 380 ✭✭ryanch09


    i would say sligos a city just look at the amount of effing traffic we get in the mornings and evenings:pac::pac::pac:


  • #56
    Crotchety
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Crotchety


    ryanch09 wrote: »
    i would say sligos a city just look at the amount of effing traffic we get in the mornings and evenings:pac::pac::pac:

    :rolleyes:


  • #57
    redarmyblues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭redarmyblues


    Eastern bypass makes no sense, it would not connect to the relief road, as the interchange would be at Ballindrehid.


  • #58
    redarmyblues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭redarmyblues


    Here is the link to the EIS for the bypass.

    http://www.sligococo.ie/media/SEA%20REport%20A4%20pages.djvu

    You need DJVU to view it.

    Here http://www.celartem.com/en/download/djvu.asp

    The routes are mapped on page 65 of the document.


  • #59
    GG66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭GG66


    Roads open up green field land for development ... would be interesting to see who owns the land along the proposed western bypass, when it was purchased etc...

    The proposed road across Cairns Hill has land owned by two (recently ex FF councillors) and a former member of the planning dept....

    it's still in there despite objections to development from the Dept of Environment, Bord Failte, Archeologists, local residents ..

    the lack of a FF majority on the council will be interesting to watch when it comes to votes on zoning, planning & development.


  • #60
    redarmyblues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭redarmyblues


    I read that the members of County Council have refused to approve the route identified by the executive for this road. My information is that this may be irrelevant becuase it forms part of a propsed national route and is the responsibilty of the NRA rather than Local Government.

    IMO this road ought to have been built years ago instead of the Inner Relief Road which the local technocrats now accept as having failed in its purpose. Whether Irelands future economic conditions require such a road as part of an Atlantic Route is yet to be seen.
    However if it is built the road will more or less follow the route rejected by the CoCo on Monday.
    Anybody with the faintest knowledge of the Geography or Topography of Sligo Town will realise there is no Eastern Option and residents of the affected areas have not seen that last of this.


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  • #61
    GG66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭GG66


    redarmyblues wrote: »
    I read that the members of County Council have refused to approve the route identified by the executive for this road. My information is that this may be irrelevant becuase it forms part of a propsed national route and is the responsibilty of the NRA rather than Local Government. ]

    Addendum Agreed to Section 10.2.7 On 20th July, 2009 Protects Areas Between Sea Roads, Cummeen & Carraroe


    Sligo County Manager Defends His Position


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