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Old 2nd Nov 2010, 05:23
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A project such as T2 should properly be designed to last for 30 years or more. If it were full "anytime soon" or even in the next 10 years, then it would be a failure and the designers and planners would rightly be condemned for their lack of foresight. I think we should be pleased to see it operating at less than design capacity for some time. It is easy to forget that T1 has been operating above its design capacity for most of the past 15 years and even the current reduced traffic is still greater than that which it was intended to accommodate. Short term thinking and a lack of foresight have been the bane of public policy in Ireland for years. The original plans for the M50 were condemned as unnecessarily extravagant and its capacity was reduced accordingly. As soon as it opened it was "full". This did not make it a success.
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