Projects finished next year 2010
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@Cathal Dunne wrote:
What is going to be built in that massive hole beside our version of the Burj al-Arab? There have been cranes and builders working away at it for some time with very little in the way of identifiable structures emerging. Are they building underground car-parking before building new blocks of residential and commercial development or is it something else?
I believe that it is going to be some kind of low rise hotel – it is beind the gardens at Kilmainham so i guess it can’t be towering over them.
I moved into HSQ a couple of months ago and i dont think much (that is visable anyway) has been done with it to be honest.
@youth-decay wrote:
I believe that it is going to be some kind of low rise hotel – it is beind the gardens at Kilmainham so i guess it can’t be towering over them.
I moved into HSQ a couple of months ago and i dont think much (that is visable anyway) has been done with it to be honest.
I see youth-decay. Thank you very much for the response.
The Times building on Fleet St/D’Olier St should be completed by 2010. They had a crane above the site doing what seemed very little for a year or so. The building is shooting up at the moment and it should be filled out by 2010.
@Frank Taylor wrote:
The new Waterford cable-stayed bridge will complete this year.
The Limerick tunnel farce is due in 2010.
More IFSC and Sandyford office/apartment completions or abandonments as there are many cranes in place in both sites.Explain? I’m not aware of any issues with the tunnel and I’ve been following it closely.
@pippin101 wrote:
Explain? I’m not aware of any issues with the tunnel and I’ve been following it closely.
ya i thought it was on time and on budget?
I’m sure he just means it’s a farce that a petty provincial town like Limerick is getting a massive infrastructure project while the poor folk in the Pale have to make do with a couple of light rail lines, some QBCs, the M50 and a public bike scheme.
As far as I’m aware the tunnel scheme is one of the biggest infrastructure projects outside the Dublin area since Ardnacrusha right?
That kind of dough would have been better used cutting 10 minutes off a commute from Dundrum.@foremanjoe wrote:
I’m sure he just means it’s a farce that a petty provincial town like Limerick is getting a massive infrastructure project while the poor folk in the Pale have to make do with a couple of light rail lines, some QBCs, the M50 and a public bike scheme.
As far as I’m aware the tunnel scheme is one of the biggest infrastructure projects outside the Dublin area since Ardnacrusha right?
That kind of dough would have been better used cutting 10 minutes off a commute from Dundrum.the city is the 3rd largest urban area in the country, and it has a terrible traffic problim, the tunnel will divert 40,000 vehicles from the roads a day to ease the congestion in the city, anyone who has ever drivin through the place will know what im on about!
@foremanjoe wrote:
I’m sure he just means it’s a farce that a petty provincial town like Limerick is getting a massive infrastructure project while the poor folk in the Pale have to make do with a couple of light rail lines, some QBCs, the M50 and a public bike scheme.
As far as I’m aware the tunnel scheme is one of the biggest infrastructure projects outside the Dublin area since Ardnacrusha right?
That kind of dough would have been better used cutting 10 minutes off a commute from Dundrum.Well its gonna be needed in the future if not now anyway, thats usualy the problem with this country not looking to the future e.g putting 2 lanes on the M50.
@D-A-V-E wrote:
the city is the 3rd largest urban area in the country, and it has a terrible traffic problim, the tunnel will divert 40,000 vehicles from the roads a day to ease the congestion in the city, anyone who has ever drivin through the place will know what im on about!
Was my cynical tone not evident enough in my previous post?
The tunnel is of course a justified and relatively far-sighted project, it’s certainly a long way from a farce!
@pippin101 wrote:
Explain? I’m not aware of any issues with the tunnel and I’ve been following it closely.
Actually the farce revolves around the Port Authority.
When the construction work began, the “Shannon Foynes Port Company†decided it wanted to close its Limerick Port facility and invest the proceeds downriver at Foynes thus making the tunnels necessity for shipping a farce.
Obviously the Tunnel was the most expensive option. Facet the taxpayer and the toll payers will have to cough up more money than for say the cheaper Low Level Closed Bridge which would have also been just as intrusive on the landscape as the Shannon Bridge.
Still though even when the port will move down river, it’s nice to keep a maritime link for visiting naval ships or cruisers. Limerick Port has a long history.
Mid-West Roads see “Crossing the Shannon†and “Crossing Selectionâ€.
See also Shannon Foynes Port Company sales pitch to sell the port.
According to http://www.limericktunnel.com
There is an open day Sat week (June 19th from 10am – 5pm) for the public to walk
through the tunnel before it opens to traffic. It’s approx 900m long under the river shannon 🙂
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