Re: Re: O’ Connell Street

The substation will be camouflaged by being incorporated into a kiosk planned for this location. Two more kiosks are meant to go in this summer outside Easons and Permanet TSB.

I think the bicycle parking issue on the street needs to be dealt with. Its getting out of hand. Leaving aside the fact that the original thinking behind the plan was to remove all ‘services’ on the street the median thereby leaving the side pavements free for people, the fact that so many biks stands are provided and allowed is as someone mentioned the worst form of visual clutter.

I was thinking of what a lost opportunity the Luas works on Abbey St were to reinvent the street. It now looks so windswept and bare – not even enough traffic! A move pedestrain centred scheme here, with lots of planting could also have incorportated bike stands that would lessen the demand on OC st.