Macken St Bridge – Santiago Calatrava
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New hording posters have gone up at the south side of the bridge works and we have a new completion date, 2010 😮 .
2010…it’s not that big a bridge.. I thought we were gonna get it soon,
Again, this was in Pat Liddy’s book about a decade ago so how in the name of all that is holy is this not up yet?Valid point.According to the first post on this thread , this project went to tender in July 2004. Four years before they even get to start on a feckin bridge. Says it all..
A bridge linking Cardiff Lane and Guild Street was proposed by Patrick Abercrombie in 1941:
http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/city_development/abercrombie_1941/1newbridge1.htmlThe alternative proposal was basically the East Link, but a completely different approach to it was built rather than bridging the Dodder and Grand Canal.
http://www.dublindocklands.ie/index.jsp?pID=218&nID=297
Docklands website now says 2009http://www.spencerdock.ie/transport/under_way/samuel_beckett_bridge
Spencer dock website says late 2008/ early 2009to look at it, you would say it’s half finished. One would wonder what the GD hold up is
A rather sever case of
No, this would be more a typical case :rolleyes:
Heard today that the whole project has been frozen. They were certainly taking their time. :confused:
What?! Are you sure? Whole plans for traffic on O’Cnnell Street, College Gn. etc. are waiting on that bridge ..
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Heard today that the whole project has been frozen. They were certainly taking their time. :confused:
Where did you hear this? :s
Not an official source. Bumped in to an old friend who laughed when he saw me and said ‘I hear your bridge is been scraped’ (as I’d been moaning about it long enough). They are still working on it at the moment but there seems to be little to no progress TBH. The 2011 completion date was a bit of a joke anyway considering the structure itself was being fabricated off-site.
Are you sure he wasn’t having a laugh with you?
And is this person in a position to know about the bridge?
No there was a piece in the Sunday Times (which seems to be turning into a glorified mail on Sunday – defo not the paper it once was) impling that the Bridge wasn’t going to happen but with no proof to back it up. That’s probably where your mate heard it from
I wonder are they mixing it up with the pedestrian bridge proposed down there. I cant see Mackin being shelved..its essential and surely must be under construction (the superstructure I mean).
Probably, it was a piece that lumped it in with a load of Celtic tiger projects (U2 tower, watchtower et al) which they said won’t happen ever. Sloppy journalism, the only suprise is they didn’t mention Declan Ganley and Libertas (who they seem to be in love with)
I dont know if this is progress, but it is since I last saw it. Zoomed camera phone at night, so crap, but here you can see the pylon, behind the steel bobber. I couldnt get a better angle without some effort:rolleyes:
howya, this is on my cycle home and yes, what appears to be a bridge pier is now resting in the river
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