Socio-economic Impact of Navan M3 Motorway
- €12 per day, €2880 per year, Toll per worker to Dublin.
- Navan Toll until 2047.
- Second Toll to be introduced on M3 beginning 2009.
- 2012 Contract Terminates, any Toll Company can bid after that.
- Double Taxation, no real transport alternatives to choose from in Navan.
- No U-Turn facility at Tolls or Tunnels.
- CO2 emissions increase with more roads, contravening EU directives.
- Road deaths increase with roads.
- Navan Railway Station put forward for private development.
- Trainline land rezoned for private development.
- 50,000 commuters through tolls each day.
- European Funding and tax payers paid for building of Toll roads and Port Tunnels - why pay again?
Show your support for TARA...it is more than just a heritage campaign...
Tar didn't derive from Tara It's not too late to save the Tara Valley. In 2007, after £37 million spent on developing proposals, the UK government abandoned a plan for a tunnel to replace the A303, which passes Stonehenge, on the grounds that it is too valuable a tourist attraction to Britain. If the Tara Valley complex, (with some sites older than Stonehenge), cannot be deemed to be a valuable tourist attraction, then how can its decision be justified on fiscal terms? Taking this area into consideration, (including Newgrange, 3,200BC, being approximately 1,000 years older than Stonehenge), is it an important asset to tourism in Ireland. Destruction of this valley is surely putting our future economy under threat. We are solely replying a a few sources of revenue, roads and tolls? What happend to marketing Ireland as a tourist attraction. In a more recent Stonehenge archaeological case, stark differences in the UK and Irish Monuments acts were made very apparent. Britain has such a watertight Monuments Act, that special permissions are required from The English Heritage, guardian of the Stones. Anything which affects the monument goes through rigorous inspection. The remit of this recent dig is to establish if Stonehenge's blue speckled stones have healing powers. If Stonehenge could have been the "Lourdes" of prehistoric times, then the area spanning Tara Hill Valley must be something special indeed. We will never know for sure if the diggers are allowed to desecrate the ancient seat of our long gone Ard Ri. The forest at Lismullen was chopped down two years ago in preparation for the Rath Lugh section of the motorway, where the front line is now. Lisa "Squeek" Feeney recently buried herself in a tunnel in an impassioned plea for change of policy. A brave young woman who felt strongly enough about what she sees to put her life on the line. Her negotiations floundered when the NRA reneged on the deal. The woodhenge found at Lismullen would have been meticulously preserved if it were in England. The Fortress is falling after thousands of years to yellow diggers and insane decisions based on plutocratic red tape. So who are the guardians of Tara Fortress and Rath Lugh Fortress? In 1989 Stonehenge was declared a World Heritage site. UNESCO attempted to do this for the Tara Skryne Valley in 2006. In 1929, thousands of acres of Avebury's surrounding farmland, bought by public appeal for the National Trust to preserve the area. Tara Valley needs this done urgently. The issues at hand are simple. There could be a Tara Towers Hotel in this valley before you know it. This beautiful landscape being marred by floodlit interchanges, and motorway junctions. Like at Newgrange, you would have to book buses to the hill, to see what once was the seat of our Kings. The gentle ecosystem disrupted by noise, artificial light and smog. Its ascetic beauty lost forever. There are few sites in the country where the eye can see all boarding counties. This view will be lost forever when the floodlight interchange on Soldiers Hill, where the Fianna are buried, has its lights switched on. The National Road Authority (the NRA) started archaeological work on the areas of most sensitivity first. These sites are generally not visible from the Hill itself. This tactic, allowed anyone who bothered to visit the hill not to see any evidence of the destruction. They wonder what the fuss was about. While the Stonehenge site is being meticulously excavated, documenting pollen grains, snail shells and using carbon dating to capture the site accurately, a company which seems to be the cheapest and the most controversial is bulldozing Tara Valley. Recently, security has been very heavy handed with protesters. It seems, just like Shell to Sea protesters, anyone who doesn't tow the party line is kicked out of the way. Presently protesters are being evicted from Rath Lugh, it seems the Fortress will finally fall to the diggers. No matter what you may think of the protesters on the hill, they have been a source of information that may have never reached the public domain. The living conditions are more than most people could bear for a few days. Lismullen Henge is but 20 metres away from Rath Lugh, beside Opus Dei, were the Druids and priests of old have rested for centuries. A Neolithic Boulder was found recently which has been bagged and tagged, sent to some warehouse somewhere... All of this was done quickly and destructively before anyone realised what was happening. Sites such as Collierstown unearthed the first beautiful French Gaul Burial site ever found in this country. The legal and planning system has been abused by SIAC Ferrovial/ NRA (national roads authority) to disrespect a countries heritage to the point of selling the family silver. Who knows where those artefacts are now.... This trap of a road is no more than a cash cow to replace European Exchequer funding for the last 25 years. It will have the second toll bridge introduced beginning 2009, which will be €12 round trip for workers to Dublin. The years of EU funding is slowing down, and it seems the government has a policy to replacing replace this, with tolls. As has been shown in England, build more roads, people buy more cars and you end up again with gridlock. The present road N3 could have been widened to three lanes, thus saving the destruction of this area. The point is, that they cannot put a toll on an existing road, hence this new scheme. There is an astronomical clock, from the triangle of Newgrange straight through to Tara, that has been accurate for 8,000 years. It is based on observing the constellations of the stars and equinox's filling light chambers through the Valley. It will be no longer visible when drowned out by the floodlit motorway that will run through it. Continually building roads, is also contravening EU climate directives for CO2 emissions. It will create carbon decay on the hill itself. It will lead to more road deaths, a problem that is never considered when decisions are been made concerning road policy. This is a part of Irelands ancient history, which will be lost forever. QUANGO's (Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation) such as the NRA, do not have to work inside the normal legislative parameters. But have been given governmental powers. Tara really must be a special place. It is one of the few road-building sites in the country where the workers work throughout the night to get the work completed in time. If they are not going to open a disused railway at a fraction of the comparative cost, the least they can do is give the road some fiscal longevity. Perhaps, I'm making light of a very serious situation, but I envisage Podge and Rodge sitting on the hill with Father Ted and Doogle saying "that's Mad, isn't it Ted?".
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