[article] Greens pour cold water on Dublin orbital motorway plan

[PaulM]

The Green Party has said it has 'serious reservations' over Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey's plan to prioritise the building of the Dublin outer orbital motorway.

The junior coalition partner claimed that building more motorways will lead to greater urban sprawl and will not solve the country's transport problems.

The Greens said priority should be given to new commuter rail projects and they said they will make this clear to their Fianna Fáil counterparts.

Nice to see a little sense at Government level. :)

[Mark]

As a transport planner if I had the power I would only allow the bypass to happen if it could only be accessed from junctions at the major N routes and no interchanges in between. That would stop ribbon development but ideally more effort should be put into our car dependancy problems, land use planning and lack of public transport infrastructure.