I live in Marino Dublin 3 for the last 29 years. It seems in all of the time that we are constantly under pressure from services to the city whether it be the port tunnel that caused extensive disruption 20 years ago to various utilities digging up the roads continuously. I appreciate and understand that Marino lies at the confluence of several major arteries coming into the city - Malahide Road, Howth Road, the Clontarf Road; not to mention being close to Drumcondra Road, Griffith Avenue, Richmond Road.
We are now coming to the end of a very welcome and expensive upgrade to the bus corridors and cycle routes and Plaza and amenities space development in Fairview.
Marino continues to be under considerable pressure from motorists running through Marino despise lots of mitigation and traffic calming measures being put into place.
Hence imagine my horror when I look at option B on the proposed Finglas North Wall connector to note that it runs along Alfie Byrne road into Marino Mart and up the Malahide Road, as far as Collins Avenue.
We really just cannot take anymore quite apart from the fact that works to the grid would be undoing millions of euros worth of recently installed infrastructure.
Its not really any use is telling me that there won’t be disruption because inevitably there will as my experience living here for the last 29 years tells me.
I also don’t wish to be accused of NIMBYism but our backyard in the Fairview / Marino area has had more than its fair share of disruption.
Marino is celebrating 100 years next year as heritage gem of past Dublin city council planning. It would indeed be a great shame for those centenary celebrations to be marred by further infrastructural disruption.
An alternative route is imperative.