Re: Re: Dublin: What wrongs would you love to right?

Ooooooh…here we go…let it RIP!

I agree with the M50 idea above….a big problem in this country in the past was that we build without a positive outlook. Infrastructure was “developed” to deal with the then, as opposed to the potential…so I would have made it an Irish Super Highway…4 lanes in each direction…toll free…oh and with car pool lanes…and a little further out…say north of Swords down, around to link with the N7 at Rathcoole or somewhere, Blessington??

They should not have just built the DART back in the early 80’s…they should have opted for the metro, with the Central Hub with spurs serving the 4 corners of the city i.e to the North East Malahide, Howth…to the North West, Blanch and beyond…to the South West…Talllllaght and Dun Laoighre and beyond down that way…with a special spur to the airport with both express and commuter capability…The Central Hub itself didnt/doesnt (?) have to be huge, coz we ain’t that big…but every major capital has a transportation hub,we STILL have to develop one…

Buildings wise….hmmm. Liberty Hall. Still calling for a lumberjack there….AND for a re-development…hold yer horses….
Many of the Quays…Usher….Ormond….Merchants…they should be redeveloped like Bachelors Walk…lovely….keep ’em Georgian, pretty and olde conformist. Would be much more attractive

Hawkins House….is it gone yet?
Temple Bar Square…where the Haagen Dazs is…used to be nice….morto by it now.
Most of Pearse Street….very grotty looking…Pearse Street station could do with some work…and maybe some gold paint on the front facade and bridge features…very glam

Those Poolbeg Towers are mong. Yeah they are like symbols now…but at the end of the day, they’re oversized chimneys…nothing special. I’d get the lumberjack topplin’ Liberty Hall to walk down and sort them out too. AND redevelop them…the area…the PD’s idea….?? Would it work if it looks like there’s a nuclear plant bang smack in the middle of it…not the most attractive of “Gateway’s”