YOBR, you shouldn't be angry with me. It's Fianna Fail/PDs who deserve your wrath, as well as our town planners/councillers.
Really, such language in my experience is usually only reserved for places like Calcutta or Baghdad.
Dublin's average traffic speed is around the same as Calcuttas. Fact.
Maybe that was because you could buy a house in new Lucan for 50K - 70k and they are now worth between 350k - 400k, or do people not move house in your world? I've bought three houses at this stage of my life.
Well done for you!
Really, what other examples did you compare it against? Have you lived there personally? Is there a report and/or studies that prove or back up this point?
If you bothered to read my message, you'll see that I grew up there (22+ yrs).
What is your justification for this assumption?
It's not an assumption, it's a fact. You don't seem to like facts.
Even Luas to Lucan (although great) is not a full solution. You need high density development, like Adamstown - but at reasonable prices, all around Dublin. Land should be bought from farmers with a reasonable (50%) premium over agricultural land - zoned as such by county councils. Govt backed housing boards (like credit unions of a sort) can then build the appartments (not houses) and then either rent them or sell them. Appartments must have a storage attic, a basement for communal storage (bikes, etc), and communal laundry facilities (not hanging your knickers in the sitting room).
Such developments, will probably never happen in Dublin. Pity, cause it's ruined many of my generation's quality of life - commuter hell with massive debt. Lucan being a great example of that.
I am well aware where the political responsibility lies. There has been a huge failure in Dublin planning especially in land use and transport planning. However, your comments are still vastly out of proportion with the reality and, in certain things you said, your statements are not backed up by facts.
(i). I take issue with your comment "God forsaken hell hole" this is a completely over the top comment. You cannot compare parts of Lucan, or indeed anyother parts of Dublin with Calcutta just because of traffic speeds.
(ii). You indicated that "if ever there is a recession new Lucan will become a drugs-ridden Blancherstown". What is the justification or facts for this statements.
(iii) "Lucan is the lowest point in all the bad planning for Ireland. It is the irish obsession with owning a front-and-back garden, and indifference to corruption that led to this monstrosity."
The only justification you gave for this statment is that you lived in Lucsan for 22 years, do you have any more facts? As I indicated in my earlier post have you studied other similar areas of bad planning in Ireland and compared themn against Lucan to come up with your justification.
(iv). Finally, I would agree with your points in your final main paragraph. Commuting is an unnecessary polutant to our lives which has been brought about by poor planning. Again I would opine that your comments about Lucan are completely over the top especially in regard to a "god forsaken hell hole".
