That’s the question posed by a new poll on RTE’s web site today. As for why they are asking, I do not think that it would have a bearing upon increasing the clearance within the tunnel myself…but many are of the idea that all of the “supertrucks” should be banned from Irish roads. Hmm, but that would mean that many bulk goods should be returned to the rails, and why would IE be keeping a strangle-hold on allowing that industry to re-develop…?
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Should clearance of Port Tunnel be increased…?
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Posted 6 years ago #
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More bloody nonsense from the looney left faction who want the wine and cheese for their dinner-parties to magically sprout from the table-top.
Very few of the learned commentators who are wailing and moaning about so called "Super Trucks" have ANY knowledge of what way the industry is developing.
The reality is that for High Volume-Low Mass loads such as hanging garments,foodstuffs,and packaging materials the VOLUME of the transport is the salient point not the Weight.
The rest of the World is accepting the logical arguement that fewer but larger vehicles are more efficient and environmentally friendly than a plethora of "Scut-Trucks" carrying the sub-divided loads.
This entire issue is proof once again of the sheer and total inability of this countrys administrators to get ANYTHING right.
I happened to tune in to Oireachts Report the other night,what I saw and heard filled me with complete dread.....One super-cube container could be filled with the entire contents of Leinster House and floated out to sea.
Anybody for a Benign Dictator...????Posted 6 years ago # -
Lads, I'll repeat an excerpt from another discussion.
Can you imagine what the bridge builders in Dublin in the 18th and 19th centuries were thinking of when they built all those bridges to take horses and carts? Look at them now, able to take the broad range, weights and volume of modern vehicular traffic. That was planning for the future.
Could we not apply the same kind of planning as our ancestors did and plan for the "future" as best we can. So what if there's extra clearance for the present. At the very least, provide for the future, in so far as we are able. We are probably a long way from "beaming" goods as in Star Trek, so lets use a bit of common sense and provide for some additional clearance now...just in case we might need it in the future. You never know, we might just decide, at some time in the "future" to allow these supertruck things.
We only seem to be able to plan for the present, which isn't planning at all. We have come a long way in the last 200 years, haven't we?Posted 6 years ago #
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