What is Pace ?

[zag]

This might seem a bit irreverent to the residents of Pace (if there are any), but what exactly is Pace ?

It doesn't sound like an ancient townland and I've never heard of it other than in terms of railway plans. Google maps shows (eventually) a place that looks suspiciously like a crossroads near Dunboyne. It took me a long time to realise that Pace wasn't PACE - as in the new DART or Arrow.

Is it a very large field which has been rezoned and awaits the diggers or is it an actual town already in existence ?

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[packetswitch]

Dunno but there's definitely a Littlepace - it is used on a lot of postal addresses and there is a Littlepace Shopping Centre and a Littlepace Residents Association - perhaps Pace is "Bigpace"?

[Mark Gleeson]

Pace is a townland north of Dunboyne on the East side of the N3, there isn't much to see

The new station in Pace will be on the West side of the N3 just before the right turn which has the remains of a platform in the distance

Little Pace is a huge development of houses (classic semi'ds and garden routine). The 70 bus makes a ridiculous trip through which involves the bus driving the whole way in and then returning the exact way it came back to the N3

[packetswitch]

OT: There's a reason for that, according to a friend who was canvassing there in the last election - the (insert expletive)s who designed the place and the (repeat expletive)s who gave planning permission only provided for one main road through the development so there is genuinely one way in and one way out. Not sure how true that is but it sounds credible to me!

[Mark Hennessy]

OT: There's a reason for that, according to a friend who was canvassing there in the last election - the (insert expletive)s who designed the place and the (repeat expletive)s who gave planning permission only provided for one main road through the development so there is genuinely one way in and one way out. Not sure how true that is but it sounds credible to me!

Sounds typical, I mean why would proper planning want to get in the way of a new development?

[Mark Gleeson]

It adds a good 10 minutes to the bus trip

Little Pace is of course on the Dublin side of Dunboyne

[Mark Hennessy]

It adds a good 10 minutes to the bus trip




Doesn't Dunboyne have the highest rate of car usage in the state for getting to/from work?

[Navan Junction]

This might seem a bit irreverent to the residents of Pace (if there are any), but what exactly is Pace ?
It does have residents - I've even met them! Their biggest preoccupation is that their road (the old N3 before the current stretch was shifted onto the railway alignment) will become a big unofficial carpark to avoid the charges on top of tolls from the new road..

They had a GAA pitch which they have just lost to the M3 and now that field you referred to is to be converted to a huge carpark / floodplain.

Pace is the last thing they are getting where the live at the moment! There are huge mounds of spoil in that field now, and rubble and the place is tipper truck city.

And that's before people even mention the word 'railway'

But you are right, it's more of a field that a place. In fact it's more of a floodland than even a field.

[Thomas J Stamp]

Sounds typical, I mean why would proper planning want to get in the way of a new development?

it was mooted that that road would connect south towards Sheepmoor/Ongar/Clonsilla but it never happened.

[Colm Moore]

Note that quite a few developers own all the surrounding land. That said, aparently developers have options on half of Leinster.

The area has some very low density housing (bungalow on 2 acres type of stuff). There are lots of country lanes to the west with similar unsustainable development.

[Colm R]

Doesn't Dunboyne have the highest rate of car usage in the state for getting to/from work?

I've heard a similar statistic for Carrigaline, albeit worded dfferently.

Carrigaline is the most car dependant town in Ireland.


So, if you are to take the two phrases, Carrigaline is the largest town in Ireland where you are required to use a Car to function (work, school, shops etc.)

Dunboyne, has the highest rate of people who use a car. Perhaps not out of neccessisty. Actually, wait, this is Co. Meath we are talking about. Or little America as I call it where the car is King.