Bridges & Boardwalks
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Yay! Great news about the kiosks.
But why would two be left :confused: …. some desperate face-saving effort by the Council? Let’s just quit our losses DCC and remove the lot!
We want this:
.GrahamH said: Also here they are about a year ago – nothing’s changed except the blind shop has closed I think
Nothings changed except the original sliding doors were all removed and roller shutters were added instead. And the blind shops changed awning (remember they all had the same awning that needed to be tied to the benches – surely a design classic) is still in place long after it vacated.
Get rid of these things. Poorly conceived, poorly designed and poorly managed. They are a blight on this bridge. Perhaps they can be used elsewhere in the city (I would suggest some modifications to them though) but they certainly should be removed from this location. I would be disappointed if only two were removed and two left in place. Take them all away.
Also on Grattan Bridge – how about the glass-backed bench that has been broken since last year…anyone considering repairing it?
And further down at Ha’penny bridge: I walked across the bridge last night and unfortunately no one thought that when they installed uplighters at each side of the bridge they might need to replace the bulbs every so often. They have been out for months now, maybe years … only two working. Shame on you DCC!
Where oh where is that Calatrava bridge ? If I didn’t know better, I’d say Dublin City Council put it’s construction out to tender, chose a company and instead of the construction beginning in ’06 the company in question promptly went out of business. The whole tender process begins again and we can look forward to another year delay before commencement. 😡
They could stick one of the kiosks in Wolfe Tone Park by Jervis St, which currently barely has a purpose and even less seating. That tennis table from O-Connell St is currently there, among a nice little copse of trees I think. A newsagenty shop woudl actually be welcome there, especially in summer as apart from the super-Spar at Jervis St Luas stop, there ain’t much like that there.
@fergalr wrote:
They could stick one of the kiosks in Wolfe Tone Park by Jervis St, which currently barely has a purpose and even less seating. That tennis table from O-Connell St is currently there, among a nice little copse of trees I think. A newsagenty shop woudl actually be welcome there, especially in summer as apart from the super-Spar at Jervis St Luas stop, there ain’t much like that there.
That is a good idea Fergair. Nice atmosphere there during warm summer days. A Kiosk could add quite nicely to it. Hard to know where to put it though (Without moving more headstones!!!).
Law preventing begging struck down
Thursday, 15 March 2007 12:15
The law preventing begging has been struck down by the High Court.A young Dublin man charged with begging on Parliament Street in the city more than three years ago challenged Section 3 of the nineteenth century Vagrant Act.
Niall Dillon claimed the act breached his constitutional right to freedom of expression and his right to communicate.
Mr Justice Eamon De Valera rejected his argument that it discriminated between rich and poor.
But the judge found that the act provided for a prison sentence of up to three months and this was disproportionate to the offence.
He also found that the act did interfere with the constitutional right of freedom of expression and freedom to communicate with other people.
The legislation has been struck down and Mr Dillon’s prosecution will not now go ahead.
Free for all on the boardwalk it seems
This from today’s Times (much anticipated):
Council to move kiosks as book market idea fails
Aodhan O’FaolainDublin City Council is being forced to relocate four kiosks that were originally erected on the Grattan bridge over the Liffey as part of a scheme designed to give a more continental flavour to the city centre.
The kiosks, which were constructed in 2004 as part of a €2 million project aimed at turning the bridge linking Capel Street with Parliament Street into a European-style book market, have been unoccupied for some time.
A spokeswoman for Dublin City Council confirmed that it intends to relocate the kiosks to another part of the city because they “are not viable in their current location”.
She said the concept behind the kiosks “had not worked” for a number of reasons, including an insufficient number of pedestrians crossing the bridge and the weather conditions.
While a new location has yet to be identified by the council, she said they were in the process of “looking at various options”. There is no timetable as to when the kiosks will be taken off the bridge and re-erected.
“We won’t know when they are coming off the bridge until we can figure out a suitable place to put them,” the council spokeswoman said.
Up until recently one of the four kiosks was used to sell sweets and newspapers but it has now closed. Earlier this year another was used on a temporary basis to sell tickets for a theatre festival.
The kiosks formed part of a €2 million project that included the reconstruction of the bridge deck, new granite paving and a set of benches with wooden seats and toughened glass backs.
The spokeswoman added that while the kiosks had not been a success the council was satisfied the overall works to the bridge had enhanced the view of the Liffey.
© 2007 The Irish Times
Where should they go? Apart from the scrapheap….
Landsdowne Road
They’d be great as programme vending kiosks!
Grattan Bridge will now be the crossing of choice!
Wolfetone Park?
Am I the only one why actually thought these things were ok? The problem was with the idea of selling bokos from them, not tha fact they they were there.
My solution:
Keep two of them – The ones on either end. Then invert them so that they face each other. One will be a cafe kiosk, the other will be a tourist info kiosk. Put landscaped trees and some seating in the middle. Simple.
As for the other two, put them in another location such as St Stephens green, with the same uses as above.
Speaking of, whats happened to the ones for O Connell St?
Yes I think you are! They’re ugly – plain and simple.
Inverting them will simply reduce pedestrain space further….but it sounds like a better setup alright.I’d say the OC St kiosks are lost in the ether somewhere…never to be seen again. Much more important to remove trees and leave a great swath of the street bare and stick in a tacky Jesus statue.
@archipig wrote:
Put landscaped trees and some seating in the middle. Simple.
Trees on a stone (or is it a metal bridge? I can’t remember what the bridge actually looks like. I just remember the awful kiosks) bridge?
@PTB wrote:
Trees on a stone (or is it a metal bridge? I can’t remember what the bridge actually looks like. I just remember the awful kiosks) bridge?
In containers of course.
UK’s Flint & Neill wins bid to plan Dublin bridge:
from tcm.ie, http://breaking.tcm.ie/business/mhcweycweyoj/
UK consultants have been hired to work on a new bridge in the shadow of the planned U2 Tower in Dublin’s Docklands.
The multi-million euro link between the Docklands and Ringsend will accommodate public transport only and will feature two bus lanes and two footpaths. A cycle lane and space for a possible future Luas extension are also proposed.
The Flint & Neill Partnership in London has won the 340,000 euro contract to draw up a preliminary design of the bridge.
The consulting engineers have already worked on bridges and viaducts in Britain, Sweden, Finland, China and Hong Kong.
They were also involved in the design of the roof of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and a Baha’I Temple in Delhi, India.
Chongming Bridge in Shanghai, Sweden’s Malmo Swing Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland are among the landmark structures they have worked on.
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