Update from sources at the DART+ West oral hearing.
Regarding @Spidey and his mates complaints over the stables at Ashtown.
Ashtown stables. The stable owners made fools of themselves, they looked and acted like a shower of agressive crusties, no substance in their claim at all as they’re only loosing less than 4% of their land and they were caught out lying multiple times, they’re barely affected by the project thanks to a last minute decision to route the road through land owned by a motor show room and land owned by a building supply company. The building supply company will have to cease trading as a result and the motor show room will be severely impacted but may still operate. They made a great case against the current option, pointing out the impacts to their business, employees etc all to save the Ashtown stables which frankly is a bit of a waste of space, but Leo backed the stables up (much to his regret now as they’re still not happy and they’ve been harassing his office and dumping horsesh!t at train stations in protest, so it is what it is.
You’d think so but it’s his party councillors throwing in the current objections. I told Dimmy to get HQ to get the boys in line but it seems nothing has been done. Maybe orders from a central council make sense after all…
Interestingly enough I was in the company of Leo and said councillors at a separate event on Saturday night. When Dart+ was brought up, the response was ‘the project was more complex than initially envisaged’. I didn’t ask whether initially envisaged referred to election promises in the 80s or the current plans with ABP.
If not built anyway the N3 and N4 should suffice to service the mooted stadiums in west Dublin for hosting a future rubby World Cup.
The various OAPs had their day out to vent about how things used to be much better. Leo and the councillors will give an airing to the selfish locals but that’s just optics.
Priority from the government is getting at least two of the heavy rail projects started before the election.