Reply To: O’Connell Street Hype

Indeed this culture really should be adressed prior to any development on the st, imagine the state of the new paving, steel street furniture & new shopfronts etc after a multitude of Friday & Saturday nights. Although how you deal with it…

During the day however, it is essential that a permenant strong Garda presence is maintained on the st, a friend had her phone nicked straight out of her hand only the other day.
And 2 permenant litter wardens purely for the st are also required.
Cleaniness and safety breeds quality stores, which breed money, which breeds quality architecture, which breeds proper maintanence, which breeds ‘quality people’ on the st (in the broadest sense of the term) who in turn breed cleaniness & safety and the circle begins again.

But its the powers that be that need to begin drawing this circle, and NOTHING is being done.
The O’ Connell St team told me the paving was to be started in first thing in the new year, and only now are services being laid.
More PVC has crept into the st in the 6 years since the IAP, the pavements were never cleaned after Patricks Day, there are no litter wardens on the st, the Spire still isn’t finished and won’t be for another 5 weeks at least, in the 6 years no facades have been cleaned, bar one, the paving falls into a worse condition by the day, piles of commercial waste are still thrown out onto the roadsides, there has been no developments on the safety aspect to the st, no public urinals that rise out of the ground at night have been installed, the LUAS is delayed by 7 months on the st, public lighting is as apalling as ever, the GPO still not floodlit…………………

The IAP was compiled 6 YEARS AGO, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 YEARS. It is an absolute disgrace. Whatever about the Spire’s delays etc, the record on the street’s improvement is abominable.