Re: Re: O’ Connell Street

In the case of Westmoreland St, unfortunately there is an even a higher level of ‘use and abuse’; it is used even more so as a pedestrian and vehicular corridor.
If a ballot were to be held for the zapping into oblivion of Westmoreland St from the city of Dublin, probably 95% would vote in favour, in the knowledge that it serves no function at all other than to lengthen the journey from Henry St to College Green, or to act as an inconvienient place to get (off) the bus.
Unfortunately as said before, the closure of Bewley’s has merely added to this.

It is extraordinary that the three most important streets in Dublin in spatial terms, are those that are most neglected in terms of use. Were it not for the historic importance of O’Connell St, D’Olier St is the one that really should have been the first to be tackled of The Big Three.