New Advertising in Dublin

I wonder if you took the classic tourist snap of the whole church above would you get the metropole in the shot

Those billboards around Stephen’s Green displaying wildlife photography… that’s not a softly softly, stealthy introduction of these things is it?

John

Yikes – that’s a grim picture!

I also notice that the positioning of the metropole means that the southbound bicycle lane (textured section on pavement) is completely obscured for any car exiting Guildford Place (as it is correctly spelt).

hmm that’s an interesting one. A single application such as this would normally be dealt with very quickly. I’d say you’re right though. They seem to be considering this as one single scheme effectively

Got letters today in relation to the two appeals I have in (Newcomen Bridge and Summerhill) saying the Board has decided to hold an oral hearing of them and to determine the appeals before December 12th.
I’m presuming this is along with all the other appeals related to this scheme and not just my two.

An Taisce queries number of billboard application hearings

Tim O’Brien

An Taisce has questioned a decision by An Bord Pleanála to hold an oral hearing into just 25 out of 120 applications for billboard sites throughout Dublin.

Under a deal between Dublin City Council and international advertising agency JC Decaux, the city is to be provided with free bicycles in return for permission to erect the billboards at key city locations.

Two types of billboards are proposed, 70 boards which are free standing and cover an area of up to seven square metres, and 50 smaller boards which are about the size of a bus-shelter poster.

The larger billboards may carry moving images and be illuminated at night. The advertising space value to Dublin City Council has been estimated at more then €8 million.

Some 500 bicycles are to be provided by JC Decaux for Dubliners to use and return, in a deal similar to that done with other European cities.

However, concern has been expressed that Dublin is getting a worse deal than other cities.

In Paris, for example, the company is to provide 20,600 bicycles in return for 1,628 billboards, a ratio of almost 13 bicycles to each billboard, three times the ration being offered to Dublin.

While the Dublin contract also envisages the provision of some street conveniences, the Paris one envisages an annual rent of more than €2,000 a unit for 10 years.

A spokesman for An Taisce claimed that in Lyon, France, a city with a population similar to Dublin, 3,000 bicycles had been made available – six times more than here.

However, Dublin City Council has refused to release the exact nature of the deal, citing “commercial sensitivity”.

Following the announcement by An Bord Pleanála that it intended to hold oral hearings into applications for just 25 sites, an spokesman for An Taisce called for each site to be afforded the same level of scrutiny.

“Some of these are in narrow city streets where their size alone may constitute a safety hazard, with posters blocking drivers’ views of traffic lights and sign posts. In other areas, there may be streets of architectural amenity which these things will destroy. It is unbelievable that the city could even consider this.”
© 2007 The Irish Times

Check out the results of the poll on the rte news site – overwhelmingly against it

@Paul Clerkin wrote:

Check out the results of the poll on the rte news site – overwhelmingly against it

Hi Paul – it’d be very interesting if you could help with a link]RTÉ News: Free bikes
A free bicycle initiative, which has proved to be a success in Paris, could soon be on its way to Ireland.[/QUOTE]

…and just to think, there’s all those nasty people ot there on archiseek that just seem to have a problem with stuff thats “free”…

BTW did anyone see the 6.1 piece? A little bit odd that the correspondant left it til the end to note in the same breath that while Paris gets 20,000 bikes for 1500 billboards (inaccurate + no mention of annual rental), Dublin gets 500 bikes for “about 100” billboards… give or take 30; but sure then what need accuracy when reported on the national broadcaster? 😮
Suffice to say that while it was pointed out that there are bike stations within 300 yards of each other in Paris, no mention as to how will the 500 would distributed in Dublin?

*cough*, EIS? Transparency? etc 😡

@Sloan wrote:

Results of a poll on RTE News website as of today at 2:20 pm

What do you make of Dublin’s bikes for billboards deal?

The 120 new billboards will be a scar on the city…………46% (1909 votes)
The bicycles will start disappearing from day one………..21% (876 votes)
A great initiative for the environment and our health…..13% (565 votes)
More cycle lanes should come first……………………………14% (603 votes)
It won’t get me out of my car …………………………………….6% (236 votes)

Total Votes: 4189

Thanks Sloan…So only 1 in 8 out of a poll of over 4000 are in favour of this? Very interesting…

It would be great if you could please post a direct link to the poll if possible 🙂

Thanks – H