Re: Re: Metro North
@marmajam wrote:
a few trees get cut down and replaced
what an appalling crime against something or other.
Far from being a few trees it is obliteration of the entire North West Corner of the park which will include hundreds of trees and mature shrubs, necessitate the deconstruction and reconstruction of period stone features which if they are to be authentic will cost a very large amount of money. It will result in the severance of the main pedestrian axis from Grafton Street to Leeson Street for a number of years. Not to mention singificant disturbance to the retail environment through the large amount of truck movements over the construction phase. Dublin Port Tunnel worked well because both ends of the tunnel were either at a motorway or an area that a few hundred daily truck movements could be absorbed into.
https://archiseek.com/content/showpost.php?p=80430&postcount=1
For you to reduce the destruction of the most unique sections of this most used of National Monuments to a few trees being removed displays just how little you understand of the urban environment. When you look at the small landtake made by the Interconnector you see a much more appropriate project.
My key complaint with Metro North is not heritage protection but that it is a waste of money however the destruction of a national monument is entirely symptomatic of just how little thought went into the project in general.
