National Development Plan 2021

[habanerocat]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

if someone invented cars now rather than 100 years ago and said they will are convenient but:
will kill millions every year including millions of kids
will destroy the planet & lead to mass extinction
will be inefficient for driving in cities
will sit idle for 90% of the time & takeover public space

people would say its a shit invention

You left out that it can get you from A to within a few yards of B while sitting on your fat arse.

[Mac]

@tallback

@Mac

Sure why not

Because there’s probably other projects that have a higher return/higher priority and it’s not an infinite well of resources would be my first reason.

I can’t imagine as a Wexford man you give much of a fuck about that though

Damn fucking right

[Lazarus]

Could National Development Plan mean the end of the Galway City Ring Road?

While it has been put forward by many as a solution to Galway’s traffic problems, many others point to the fact that the more roads that are built, the more cars there are to fill them. This is known as ‘Induced demand’, the idea that increasing roadway capacity encourages more people to drive, and as a result fails to decrease traffic levels.

As the former environment correspondent at The Irish Times , Frank McDonald, has said, such roadways are "locked into outdated 1970s thinking about transport planning – particularly the utterly discredited idea that you can solve traffic congestion by throwing more roads at it”.