Here we go…

by Twenty Major on February 19th, 2007

Classic Irishness:

The Government was urged last night to act immediately and build an orbital road around Dublin. A National Road Authority study has found that the new €1bn road from Naas to Drogheda is feasible on cost grounds and would divert large volumes of traffic off the M50 motorway.

Brilliant. Sort of lost in the story here is the fact that the M50 was supposed to be an orbital road to take traffic out of the city centre but as we all know that has failed miserably.

What’ll happen is they’ll build this road, slap a toll booth right in the middle of and call it a motorway even though it’ll only have two lanes. Then the traffic will build up and it’ll take hours to get from one end of this road to other, all the while the traffic in the city centre will be just as bad and the M50 just won’t move at all.

Then someone will suggest another orbital road which will start in Arklow, pass through Galway and end up in Downpatrick. When that becomes full there’ll be another big problem because we’ll have run out of land to actually build on so some bright spark in the National Roads Authority will suggest the world’s longest suspension bridge when the road, which starts in Rosslare, bypasses the previous road around Limerick and comes within sight of Iceland before it hits ground again somewhere near Portrush.

You realise what’s happening, don’t you? This is all a plot between the Government and Raleigh to make us use bicycles. The Government have invested billions of pension money into the bike making firm banking on making huge returns when using a car becomes completely impractical.

They think they’re so smart but I’m onto them. Oh yes, I am.