Monkstown Ring Road Protest March Sept 30th

http://www.dublin.ie/forums/showthread.php?p=86127#post86127

An Bord Pleanála, against the advise of it's own inspector, has granted permission for the building of the Monkstown Ring Road.

The local residents have organised a protest march in advance of a county council meeting where a motion will be put forward to have the Ring Road removed from the Development Plan.

The march will take place this Saturday, September 30th, starting at 2pm from the green at the entrance to Brookville Park, Blackrock.

This road does not only affect residents of Fluerville, Brookville and those of Yankee Terrace whos houses are to be compulsory purchased but this road is to extend to Bakers Corner (already a bottle neck) and on to Sallynoggin, Glenegeary and Killiney.

This road and further proprosed roads in the Development Plan 2004-2010 are going to bring further traffic congestion to already congested areas such as Deansgrange and Mountown.

One of the arguements given to An Bord Pleanála by the planners was that this road would provide a link between Stillorgan and Dun Laoghaire; as the road doesn't go to Dun Laoghaire and instead filters into smaller bottle necks this arguement is flawed in the extreme.

Pleanálas' own inspector argued this point and many others at the Oral Hearing earlier this year. The oral hearing went in favour of not building the road but the Bord choose to ignore both the inspectors report and the affected residents and granted the permission.

A letter and email campaign, petition and also a march has been organised in the hope that the councillors will remove the road from the plan at their next meeting.

Such councillors as Barry Conway (FF) and Nessa Childers (Green) are against the Ring Road and Councillor Childers, I am led to believe, will be putting forward the motion to have it removed at the next meeting set for October 9th next.

I am appealing to all members and their families who live in the affected areas to come to the march on Saturday and to those who wouldn't be affected we would appreciate all your support.

The proposed development plan etc are on the councils website: www.dlrcoco.ie