Our fucking government!
We have an orbital motorway around Dublin, a huge big semicircle, 2 lanes each way. The infamous M50.
Between 7.30 and 1030am, the whole thing slows down and you'll literally be 10 feet, 1st gear, stop.
It literally becomes the largest car park in Europe, and again at 4.30 - 6pm. Absolutely shocking
When they bridged (a very high, quite long bridge over the Strawberry Beds next to the river Liffey) they designed and built the bridge, then put a fucking Toll Gate on the end of it, can you imagine? The queues were measured in hours, literally.
So they built a 2nd bridge at fantastic expense right next to it, allowed 2 lanes in each direction, then they realised their mistake and widened the bridge to allow 3 lanes in each direction. embraced technology and did away with the toll booths and installed electronic tagging.
Then they built a tunnel under half the city to the quays (Dublin Harbour), after finishing it at huge expense and upon testing it the dozy fuckers realised that the measurements and clearances for the whole thing was based upon 8' containers on the backs of flatbed trucks. Never considered bigger containers etc like 8'6" ones and different flatbeds etc, so they had to strip out thousands of curved preformed concrete liners and rebore the fucking thing, now....
Having just seen that Dublin is the 7th most congested city in the World!! they've revisited old abandoned plans to run a rail link north to south to help get people off the roads, Many billions have been allocated to this projected, but they have assured residents that NOT A SINGLE STROKE OF WORK WILL BEGIN...... BEFORE 2042!
Twenty fucking forty two!!
Ireland can certainly Plan for the future.
2042!!!