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FourWinds Jul 22, 2005 21:14:02
Replying to BrigantesNation

George:
<i>And when someone like me comes along and says "stop destroying the ritual landscape of Thornborough, all the developer can say is "we are definately not going to quarry the henges", when the Tara group say "this road will have a major impact on the ritual landscape of Tara" we get the response "We will definately not be taking the road through the Hill of Tara".</i>


Which is why I said right near the start of this thread:
<i>I'll also add that opposing the road on these grounds is really a no-hoper. The road should be opposed for the right reasons: IT'S NOT NEEDED AND IS A WASTE OF MONEY! All it will do is get a lot of commuters to the (not to change as far as I'm aware) bottleneck at Blanchardstown a little bit quicker where they willju st have to queue for longer to join the M50. The solution is to widen the existing road and put in a couple of bypasses around the smaller villages.</i>

The biggest complaint about Tara seems to be that the lights of the interchange to the north will ruin the atmosphere! FFS!

95% of the protesters are NIMBYs. They'll not bother when it's a dolmen in Co. Carlow being threatened!

B BrigantesNation
BrigantesNation Jul 22, 2005 22:10:32
Replying to FourWinds

If you define a nimby as anyone that cares about ancient sites then yes 95% are nimby's. From what I've seen the Tara campaign has much greater support than Thornborough has been able to muster so far - a lot of that comes from the states. It takes a great deal to get accademics in the UK to agree about anything so 320 on that letter is a goodly number.

Actually, I've just thought of a new term - we are not nimby's, we are winby's! We Want It In Our Backyard!

I tend to agree about the road thing, but I think Irish public opinion may not care about it's government grossly wasting European money whereas if equiped with the right information they would agree that 3km's of the route could be re-routed - although in reality there's little need for it I agree (from the albeit very limited experience I has of it).

It's odd that it is "not the done thing" for countries to question the planning decisions of others even though it is our money they are spending. Now there's a campaign idea - "Sun says hands off Tara - it's a billion Euro motorway con" ;o)