LUAS Pylons
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The first of the LUAS pylons have been up for quite a while on Amiens Street, and are utterly appaling. Basic, cheap, crude, unfinished steel girders, the same stuff that is used for lamposts on motorways etc. I can’t belive it. What is going to be used on Stephens Green, or on the line crossing O’ Connell Street? Surely not that crap. Where has the vast stock of elaborate cast iron tram line pylons that once graced the city’s streets disappeared to? Could they not be recycled in the historic cores in the city, or replicated?
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It would be a great shame if alot of industrial poles were erected on ‘nice’ streets – or even just making bad ones worse! Did somebody say on this site that some of the lines holders were going to be secured to the sides of buildigns as well to reduce impact etc.?
If poles have to be erected in city centre area &/ or sensitive areas etc. it is definately a case of ‘if you can’t hide it – make a feature of it!’ .I have the same worries about potentially ugly / utilitarian/ obtrusive and so on CCTV poles been erected in the future in towns (13 towns?) around Ireland as part of a government scheme.
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There are no LUAS poles on Amiens street yet. Not sure what you are referring to Graham.
There are poles out at Kingswood near Sylvan Drive which are examples of the type to be used. Fairly basic and not particularly pretty. There are also some larger types required in some areas.
Where possible there’s building fixings ( All of Harcourt Street for instance )
The CCTV point is one worth highlighting. All the stops will have CCTV cameras ( required to cover the ticket vending machine and help points )
JJ
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Re Amiens Street – I think you mean the traffic monitoring camera that were put up earlier this year. They are all over the place. And yes they are ugly and obtrusive.
In general I think the placing of pole and pylons is getting out of control in the city. There seems to be no thought or consitancy about it at all. The fiasco of the new traffic management system of a couple of months ago hides the fact that this was yet another selection of road signs added to our already crowded streets.
Building mounted cables should be the norm for the Luas project and CCTV for that matter.
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