What a caveman did to a quiet suburban road…

What a caveman did to a quiet suburban road…

5 Aug 1979

.. and complaints go unheeded

IS IT any wonder our capital is a _disgusting sight when a suburban road is allowed to become a knacker’s yard for old cars?

Poddle Park in Kimmage was a suburban backwater until a car man began to develop his business there — with the consequences shown in my photograph.

One resident told me: “We have complained time and time again to the Gardai and the Corporation, but the situation only get worse.”

When I tried to drive through Poddle Park the other afternoon there was a traffic jam. Wrecked cars on each side of the narrow road had reduced the traffic flow to one lane.

All I know is — I wouldn’t like to own a house in Poddle Park.

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