Tunnel to prove waste of space

WHAT kind of fools do they think we are?

Fri, 23 Aug, 2002 - 01:00

After we, the residents of northside Dublin, having endured an unwanted and unwarranted project the Dublin Port access tunnel through our communities, comes the news that the tunnel will be too small to take many of the generation of super trucks in the first place.

According to the Irish Road Haulage Association and many other independent and non-biased people and organisations, up to 20% of all trucks will be too big to use the Dublin Port access tunnel when it opens as scheduled in two years' time.

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