Five Years

Fish Market demolished?

and was Croke Park finished in those 5 years?

Thats a great list Graham! When is the book coming out… Or when are you going to take charge of the PR dept of the City Council? :p

Okay one or two more to add;

– The shocker at the bottom of Henrietta Street

– The screamer surrounding the former Presbyterian temple fronted church on Sean MacDermott Street, opposite the councils Dublin NE offices

– Good Local Authority housing on Wolfe Tone Street; Wolfe Tone Court – on par with the corner of Werburgh St in terms of quality (I think it was 2000)

– The demolition of Dominick St flats, so as to regenerate

– The preperation for demolition of Mountainview Flats on Summerhill, also Lourdes House – already gone

– The preperation for demolition of Sean Tracy House on Buckingham Street

– The entire redevelopment of Cork Street, with the completion of the Coombe bypass yet the barmy dual carraigeway system thankfully abandoned

– The redevelopment of what was primarily a Shell Garage at the top of Harcourt Street into an excellent top quality building, with wonderful finish of well proportioned green glass and stone – complete with roof garden

– The Port Tunnel, due to open anyday now, with its foolishly low roof

– The redevelopment of Smithfield, with new pedestrianised streets linking through to Queen Street

– Opening of Cow’s/ Cows Lane 😀 off Lord Edward St

– New Art Gallery on Foley St/ Corpo St, now politely known as James Joyce St – appropriately enough in Monto

– Delivery of New Apartments, well designed, all along James Joyce St up as far as Sean MacDermott Street

– New shop and apartment block on the corner of Summerhill and Gardiner Street – again well designed, and much more successful than the dissapointing schemes that went up along Gardiner St in the 90s

– The quite dissappearance of the Wax Museum on Granby Row, as owned by Donnie Cassidy – Yeee Haa!

– Likewise the SFX – now standing for Subsequently Feckin’ Xenomorphic! 🙁

– A decent new apartment block on the townward side of the canal bridge at Summerhill

– Good quality apartments between Dominick St and Parnell Square – another example of how high density does not have to equate with high rise

– And of course the O’Donnell + Tuomey school in Ranelagh – altough imo their UCC gallery is far better

Ah Im sure I’ll think of more, but sure theres a bit to be getting on with 🙂

Mews buildings of good quality started to spring up all over the inner suburbs

Dublin Airport opened a new pier albeit in portacabin

Fires in run down Georgian buildings ceased to occur

Moore St came to life as a multicultural food market

Parnell St fromO’Connell St to gardiner St changed into Chinatown which I consider positive

Cycling became much more dangerous due to a lack of segregation from the evergrowing traffic volumes

The north east docklands became really hot development property and the once suburban Eastpoint looks like it will be bordered by streets within ten years

Transport other thantwo unjoined Luas lines made no significant progress and that unfortunately will be the defining characteristic and legacy from the period

@Thomond Park wrote:

Transport other thantwo unjoined Luas lines made no significant progress and that unfortunately will be the defining characteristic and legacy from the period

No, TP, you forget that the M50 extension to Cherrywood opened – that is a boon to anyone in the SE of Dublin. Outside of peak times I can get from Dun Laoghaire to Clondalkin in 25 mins. and even less to Mad Cow.
KB2.

@KerryBog2 wrote:

No, TP, you forget that the M50 extension to Cherrywood opened – that is a boon to anyone in the SE of Dublin. Outside of peak times I can get from Dun Laoghaire to Clondalkin in 25 mins. and even less to Mad Cow.
KB2.

Perhaps – and yet on the new section there are 4 junctions within 5.5 miles; something that is bound to turn it into a carpark over the next few years. BTW how long does it take you to travel that journey during peak times?

@hutton wrote:

BTW how long does it take you to travel that journey during peak times?

I dread to think…. which is why I will not drive M50 during peak times! When working from Dublin I decline meetings that will put me on M50 at the “wrong” time. I can get away with doing that for about 95% of the time. Going to the West I leave v.early and stop somewhere for breakfast. Going to airport for a red-eye I drive via Eastlink, not M50 as it is too busy even at that hour. Driving to the Kingdom I leave at lunchtime (to avoid the evening traffic jam at Adare, etc.)
Years ago it cost me 250 quid to go to London and I could get to Dublin airport and board a plane in just over an hour; today I can get to London for 2 quid + taxes BUT I must allow 3+ hrs to get to airport and check in. Makes one wonder!
Similarly, years ago it took me about 5 hours by car to S. Kerry, knew all the short-cuts through Naas, around Kildare, etc. when the traffioc built up. Even with all the new motorways it still takes me 5 hours on a good day, or 8 hours on a bad one.

Yes, for all its woes the completion of southernmost leg of the M50 was still progress of a sort – also the new West Link bridge.
But if anything it is the lack of progress on the ground with broader infrastructural projects in the city that is the hallmark of the last five years, including even the basic provision of much needed extra buses on an adequate level. A least the building of cycle lanes received a much-needed boost at the beginning of the period; it seems to have slowed down of late.

hutton’s emphasis on the northside is good to see – massive regenerations have taken place, many instigated by DCC with their various properties, of course including the huge Fatima Mansions project south of the Liffey too. Saying that, the northern Georgian core is like a step back in time – it hasn’t changed in the slightest from the 1980s. It needs targeted investment at this stage.

As well as the many developments that have taken place, what is equally notable is the lack of change in certain areas – namely the city’s principal streets: Westmoreland, D’Olier, Dame, Nassau, Lower Grafton and upper Pearse streets all haven’t changed in the slightest, and are still crying out for public domain and property improvements. And that’s not even mentioning the most important one of all: College Green.
So much is being held up by the Luas Central which doesn’t help matters.

2 more to add:

Refurbishment of two-fifths of the Gandon Crescent at Beresford Place

Refurbishment of the Gilbert Library