A powerful letter sent to Councillors from Carmel Cummins in Inistioge this week. Ahead of Mondays Borough Council meeting, please, please take a couple of minutes to drop your Councillors an email letting them know that they dont represent you when they allow this scheme to go ahead, addresses here: kilkennycoco.ie/eng/Your_Council/Your_County_Councillor/ A chara, I am proud to be from Kilkenny and love the city where I lived for twenty years. I oppose the ‘Central Access Scheme’ road development plan, and, even at this late stage, am asking the Council to withdraw support for it and to support the completion of the Ring Road When I lived in Sligo, I saw a lorry/car-centred traffic management agenda providing an Inner Relief Road’ which physically destroyed streets and, socially, a whole neighbourhood. The area lost its coherence and has never recovered. CAS is based on the same outmoded model which it has been proved increase volumes of traffic in towns and cities with little or no easing of congestion. The only difference I see in the CAS plan is that the potential effects are even worse. This road and bridge and the traffic they will attract will isolate the site of the early Christian settlement permanently from the city that developed around it. It will cut across the backbone of the city itself at one of its most historically sensitive and important points. Whose idea was this? Yet, while this potential impact is clear, Mr. Crockett continues to speak of this road and bridge, (now ‘a street’ in Joe-speak, during an interview on KCLR Sue Nunn show 11th June, 2013) as going through ‘two industrial sites’ as if it had no reference to or impact on any other part of the city. On 23rd September, 2013 on RTE Radio 1 (Today with Sean O’Rourke) he repeats ‘building a new bridge…. across 600 yards of derelict site…three houses that are of no architectural value...We are not doing any interventions up there (St. Canice’s Cathedral), we are just going through this derelict land.’ Mr. Crockett may think it is acceptable to insult citizens’ intelligence. Do you? Any support for this scheme from any political party or politician, national or local, is not in my name. Yours sincerely Carmel Cummins
Posted on: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:51:23 +0000
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