It's only when you travel in Europe, you see just how far we are behind in infrastructure, cities half the size of Dublin with undergrounds, motorways and rail linking major cities, nothing gets done in this country until everyone gets their share.
Monaghan, Armagh, Clones, Cavan, Omagh and Strabane could certainly do with a railway revival. There should also be lines to Donegal and the Dingle bay.
Most people are reluctant to pay the toll on the M3 from Dublin to Navan ever since it opened - the traffic through Dunshaughlin village at rush hour at 4pm is as bad as ever, which I saw for myself when visiting family there from Manchester U.K. in October 2022
I’ll believe it when I see it - we wasted so much EU funds on motorways that people won’t use because of tolls, yet we closed down so many railways in the 1960’s that we now find need to be rebuilt and we don’t even have any truly high-speed rail lines in Ireland, let alone the high speed rail tunnel link to Holyhead - we don’t even have DART or LUAS to the Irish Ferries/Stena Passenger Terminals in North Wall and we have poorly designed bridges that don’t raise to allow ferries to travel further upstream, nor has enough money been spent on widening and deepening the Liffey Channel to allow bigger ships to berth nearer the Custom House
Thank God dreams are free in Ireland if they weren't I'd be broke. That's all this is is dreams which at some point in the distant future will come true by a future civilization.
I note how many projects have no timeline and those that do will most probably never happen on time - I suggest you revisit and update this video 10 years from now (i.e. in 2033). We Irish are not the best at planning and even worse at turning plans into reality! Apart from that we're grand! 👍😉
Why so much road traffic projects in a country that definitely lack of a good railway network? more roads lead to more cars and to a chaos in the cities. It would be better to reactivate some disused rail links that most people won't need a car anymore for most of their journeys.
Over half the projects are rail projects. Most of the road projects will move intercity traffic off local roads, helping those communities immeasurably. If you’ve ever been on the N20 between Cork and Limerick, you’d have seen now the traffic divides towns now.
@@johndevine2868 between Limerick and Cork, there are only 10-12 daily train connections and not a single one without changing trains at Limerick junction. Why not improve intercity train services so that most people needn't to use their car when travellung between cities. In that way no additional highways are needed - just some improvements in train traffic. What about electrification?
All costs in this are imaginary as construction inflation is running above 10% a year and timelines aren’t available as the process takes so long. Also priority order gets rejigged by government periodically. The N24 project is listed incorrectly as in fact it will be more like 140 km.
For transport projects we're generally pretty good these days. We made a lot of mistakes in the 80 & 90s but we're actually pretty accurate in budgeting these days. (Inflation aside) Healthcare on the other hand...
Where is Mohon and Nayvin? We are great at planning projects in Ireland but very poor at building them. The metrolink has been talked about for 30 years 300 million has been spent so far and not a single track has been laid.
Just completely ignoring the actual transport projects that will actually change Ireland such as the Limerick Shannon metropolitan area transport strategy
M20 is a waste. Purpose is to get traffic to Ringaskiddy and makes more sense to build M24 as it would join existing motorway network. This saves billions as there would be no need for North ring around Cork to get traffic from Blackpool to Dunkettle. M24 also opens up the Southeast to the West
Most large infrastructure projects will require expert input from large international OEMs, expertise etc yes.. trains by alstom, electrical equipment by siemens Hitachi etc. that's really a non point. However we have had the vision and ability to transform Ireland in the past. Look at the electrification of rural Ireland, the Shannon scheme, turlough hill etc. When we have the political will to get things done, we can.
