All aboard the Luas, at last Tickets, please: the low-down on Luas
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Will the Red Line be ready for 30 August? Unlikely I should think. Most of the stops in the City Centre remain to be completed.
Heuston Plaza will look great when all the works are done. Lots of complementary planting of trees as well and a smart new contemporary look. However I think Abbey St has been a missed opportunity. Its getting a bit by bit paving job but it looks so starka nd plain and drab. Seeing as the Luas is taking so much of the trafffic off the street I would have thought tree planting and a better choice of street furniture would have been in order. A boulevard connecting soon to be revamped Capel St, with O’Connell Street and an improved Beresford Place and Busaras. Seems more like a case of get it done and get out of here.
September 29th is the new provisional date for Red Line, though it would be nice to have it a week earlier for Car-Free day . . .
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There’s an interesting article about the Luas line and dereliction in Dublin 7 on Indymedia. I don’t agree with most of the sentiments and there’s the usual crap about squatters. However, there are some good photographs, which are impossible to argue with.
HaHa: The economic illiteracy at IndyMedia is hilarious, as is their belief that anyone who owns a second house is “ruling class”. That would make my barber ruling class, since he owns 2 houses – and rents one, or so he said last weekend. He just got lucky on the capital appreciation from when he bought the first house.
A “marxist” philosophy that pits lumpen squatters against working class people with two houses bought with mortgages is probably not going to get the critical mass of “proletarian” support they think – quite the opposite.
( I should point out that I am in the renting sector myself)
That’s the first time I’ve seen Indymedia’s site. It’s quite possibly the most “right on” site I’ve ever seen – LOL at the hey kids lets turn the old butchers shop into a vegetarian drop in centre!!!
Reasons for Benburb street’s dereliction problem – Drugs & Whores hopefully the Luas line’s opening will allow this area to be reborn. Most problem areas go through the dereliction/blocking up process before coming out the other side. Give it time….
Groan… that article.
I used to live in that area.
Hooker central.
Other than that – all those derelcit buildings? Well now – let’s turn the tourist agency into an “info shop” cos you know that will be financially self sustaining and keep the shop open! Commerce dictates the viability of a “high street”.
These abandoned premises were trying to operate in a very dodgy area – not gonna attract many shoppers!!!The owners are probably also waiting for a squatter to “accidentally” set a fire and gee darn the buildings will have to be demolished and redeveloped along the lines of the fine examples of built environment around the corner on Arran Qy.
But they wouldn’t do that if commercial rental income was high now would they?!?and the reason for “Drugs & Whores” ?
so who’s worse the owner who sets the building on fire or a squatter who lives in it?
The Sunday Tribune reported (29/08/04) that on the Luas line from Connolly to Tallaght the trams were taking up to one hour to complete the journey and were failing to reach the target time of 42 minutes.
and the reason for “Drugs & Whores” ?
Beside’s that it’s the oldest trade in the world (whoring not drugs but the usually follow each other) they’ve pretty much always been in benburb street (you can blame the brits for building the biggest army barracks in Dublin there if you’re that way inclined) but they have always traded from around that area.
B’god ’tis almost a Dublin tradition…
I have to ask who runs Platform 11? Who is behind it? This is the same crowd that is against the Western Rail Corridor as it would be ‘unviable’ – a bit of an odd remark considering that rail/public transport by its nature is usually unprofitble. The problem about public transport in Ireland is its lack of integration – no more highlighted than the fact that almost all journeys between cities are via Dublin or ridiculously close to dublin.
The Luas is another disaster. Fine they look nice and shiny, but they are a failure. If there was just one line it could be excused, but having two lines that are disjointed is absurd. Furthermore, those lines being biased towards the southside smacks of pure prejudice or downright ignorance of dublins traffic crisis. Why on earth are traffic problems northbound not as urgent as those on the southside.The interconnector is a good idea but it appears again to be biased in favour of southside commercial interests. Lets have proper balance in the development of Dublin’s public transport, regarding all commercial and public interests.
Originally posted by J. Seerski
I have to ask who runs Platform 11?Originally published by Platform 11
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IrelandFrom what I understand they were formed at a public meeting in the bankers club on Stephens Green in January 2003, initially to lobby for better facilities at Hueston Station, this led to the call for the Phoenix Park tunnel to be reopened to passenger trains. They then came up with the ‘interconnector’ proposal or backed Iarnrod Eirrean if they devised a similar one.
I’m not so sure that the interconnctor favours the South Side at the expense of the Northside, as the North City has the Luas and Drumcoundra line, large areas of the South Inner City have Nothing connected to the Dart System. Particularly Stephens Green and the un-integrated Luas, also Christchurch/Dame St
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