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    • May 8, 2003 at 12:19 pm #706187
      urbanisto
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      I was delighted to see the high quality materials being used along the LUAS line in the city. Smart granite flags and cobbles. The project team seem to be paying as much attention to adjoining area as they are to the line itself. I wonder what the pols will look like? Will they be the same as those out in Tallaght?

      Also on a brighter note….. work is underway on the west side of Smithfield and its seems the slump in the ecomony has not dampened the prospects for other rundown buildings in the area if the profusion of new planning applications is anything to go by….

    • May 8, 2003 at 2:38 pm #726616
      Niall
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      try Gabriel Conway’s excellent site, bit hard to navigate, but the pix are very good!!!

      http://www.allaboutbuses.com/1820-lu1.html

    • May 8, 2003 at 11:09 pm #726617
      GrahamH
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      Yes, beautiful granite kerbstones are being laid everywhere along it’s route, including the top of Earlsfort Terrace and Abbey St.
      The part I’m most interested in seeing materialising is the Harcourt St section, arn’t the cable’s brackets to be attached to the Georgian terrace?
      Going to be a major feat of so called ‘sensitivity’, something I’ve confidence in being executed, judging by the quality of all the LUAS works.

    • May 9, 2003 at 9:38 am #726618
      urbanisto
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      Is that whats planned for all the inner city routes… brackets to the surrounding buildings. I think it would be much less intrusive than poles.

    • May 9, 2003 at 12:51 pm #726619
      JJ
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      As far as I know the poles in the city will be the same as the ones out at Tallaght but generally there will be plenty of fixings to buildings.

      I have also been told that the cables will not be fixed to the old Harcourt Station facade after all. The reason for this is that there are poles required on the stops for PA and cameras so they may as well use them for the cables too.

      I agree that the new footpaths look great but how long before some idiot digs them up and slaps some tarmac back ?

      JJ

    • May 9, 2003 at 3:26 pm #726620
      Rory W
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      Harcourt Street “Georgian” well there is only about four original georgians left there. The rest are all facades with modern office behind

    • May 9, 2003 at 5:41 pm #726621
      Gabriel-Conway
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      Hi all,

      I *promise* to add LUAS Update No. 5 to my site by Monday morning. No. 6 will follow in very short order.

      I note the comments about the navigation being difficult on the site – that’s my fault – the LUAS Updates were originally just tacked on to the rest of the site (which is bus-related) and so didn’t fit in to the overall structure very well. I will be making some changes, icluding creating an index page for all LUAS-related bits.

      I’ll check back in here on Monday and update on progress. And as an apology for spending a bit of your bandwidth talking about my site, I will also be putting up something that you may find quite interesting as well, in a special page just for your guys . . . see the Harcourt Street thread for details 🙂

      Gabriel

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