bollards
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In relation to the Stephens Green pavement works and how well the pavement looks so far, now I what about the bollards.
Personally while the Stephens Green ones look good if a bit dillapidated, I prupose that there should be a new by-law for the Dublin Area to prohibit loitering with intent to install bollards.
Those wretched black doric bollards have spread around the city centre like a bad Virus.
From Dame St to Kevin St they block and obsruct the limited pavement forcing people to step out on to the road often and are as visally pleasing as a street with it’s wheelie bins lined up on the curb for collection.
Bin the Bollards!![This message has been edited by JackHack (edited 14 December 2001).]
I cant help but agree. The Corpo seem to have a fetish for these things. They recently set up yet another pedestrian crossing on the Malahide Rd in Donnycarney. This consisted of those tactile paving slabs, some crappy-looking, unpainted poles for holding the lights and guess what BOLLARDS! two rows of them right across the pavement. They fulfill no purpose and just look plain daft. Still at least the ‘doric’ looking collumns are sturdy enough. The other type they use with the reflective strip seem to fall apart almost as soon as they have been installed. Bollards can look quite well – as on Stephens Green – pity they dont put a bit more Victorian/Edwardian era thought into it.
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