SANDYFORD LINK ROAD NOT NEEDED

There's been loads of correspondence about the Sandyford Link Road recently. Lest anyone be in any doubt, I will be voting against this road. I said from the outset that I didn't think the road was necessary and I don't feel any different about it now.

Press statement reads:

Cllr Aidan Culhane (Lab, Dundrum) said in advance of today’s vote on the Sandyford Industrial Estate Link Road that it was clear that the road was not needed. “The bottom line on this road is that it is not necessary. Not only does the road adversely affect adjoining residents and compromise the Airfield estate, but it simply doesn’t make sense”.

The proposed road would run alongside the Luas line from Sandyford Industrial Estate to Dundrum. Cllr Culhane, Labour’s general election candidate for Dublin South, went on to say that the road would increase traffic through Dundrum, would cause chaos on the Drummartin Link, and would cause untold inconvenience in the wider area. “It’s clear that there isn’t a real purpose to this road except to facilitate development in the Sandyford Industrial Estate, but at the expense of the wider neighbourhood and the environment. We don’t need this road, and I will be voting against”.