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@Angry Rebel wrote:
From Wednesdays NRA announcement about the “Longest New Road Project in Ireland to be Built”
“The NRA announced today that the longest new motorway project to be built in Ireland will commence work this October. At 40 km in length the M8/N8 Cullahill-Cashel Project will take the inter-urban connection between Dublin and Cork one giant step forward.”
Longest motorway eh? Sounds impressive….but wait…..
“The M8/N8 Cullahill to Cashel Road Improvement Scheme comprises 30 km of two-lane dual carriageway and 10 km of motorway, with associated grade separated junctions, underbridges, overbridges and accommodation works through primarily a green field site. “
Why the F&*K are we building bits of motorway and bits of dual carriageway on the same route. We were promised motorway between the major urban centres and now they’re sticking bits of dual carriageway in between sections of motorway?!?! 😮
The total cost still works out at €10m per km……
there is no difference between them (almost). It has to do with designation. dual carriage ways can accomodate farming equipment. Not a big deal. Motorways also have to follow very strict criteria which are considerably looser for dual carriage ways.
no it is just right, the open side lets the sun in wonderfully and during concerts the setting sun provides a nice background . as a horseshoe it is fantastic, i think.
yes a co-bid for a large sporting occasion would be great. However with respect to the olympics or the world cup it would be some decades away , since both were just recently held in europe.
Also the GAA would have to be convinced to allow croke park to be redevelopped , for the olympics say .
But such thoughts are not impossible, and it would indeed be a great honour.
@paul h wrote:
is it possible to ‘sink’ the stadium a little?
i noticed during the world cup (cant remember where) the stadium was huge inside but wasn’t too imposing from the outside shotsno it would be phenomenally expensive.
the berlin stadium is almost fully sunk in the ground as it is built in a natural hollow. (or at least hitler made a hollow appear) either way it is tremendously expensive first to move the earth and secondly the stadium can simply be pushed en mass 40/50 odd feet into the ground, it would have to be redesigned.
I think the residents need to be very carfull that they don’t get exactly what they wish for …
This stadium will be substantially quieter than the current one as the arching roof will bounce the noise straight up into the sky . As the roof is curved light will bounce off it into peoples gardens , reducing the over shadowing.
A different design that satisfied their height objections would most probably disapoint in other unforseen ways.
@Maskhadov wrote:
Im disapointed. We could have done with a proper stadium in Dublin. I just hope the government will now press ahead and build a 30,000 seater stadium in Cork and Galway for soccer. With 4 stadia and one in the north maybe we could host the European Championships
maskhadov we are a small country. aside from an ego boost we could never afford to host a large scale sporting event. The stadiums that we would have to build to be idle for years following their completion.
We could and should try to host a large scale event with scotland at some stage (olypimcs , world cup, the list is endless. )
i think croke park a proper stadium.
@Rusty Cogs wrote:
In fairness, where are you going to mount a plate that will always be visibe and large enough to be photographed by a camera (whilst in motion) ?
Let the council collect the bikes. As I said, I’d start with the obviously trashed ones. Then move on to the ones that are locked to (non bike specific) street furnature. You could give them a bit of notice with a tag or an advertisement in the paper. If you got rid of all the abandoned bikes it would clean up the look of the streets a fair bit IMHO. It’s not a matter of clearing every bike off the street. Just the ones that are obviously going nowhere. Can’t be that difficult surely ?
And I think that Kevin st. auction is recovered stolen goods etc. not bikes formerly locked around the city.
sure , i think we will be waiting till the next century before anything is done however. I would agree with you that the bicycles locked to things other than bike racks is quite unsightly . i would give the clampers a set of bicycle locks to ‘clamp’ bicycles.
@sw101 wrote:
that’s a dreaful idea. one day of the month you’re not allowed bring a bike to the city centre?
obvious wrecks should be removed and put in storage. if they’re not claimed within a specific time period of (say) a month, scrap them. it’s not as if the owner can claim they had much value.
no no.. the day before (or days before) all suspects wrecks and abandoned bikes are marked with a sticker. if they are not gone by the next monday ,take them away.
@Boyler wrote:
a metro stop should be near by like they’re planning to do in croke park. if this is included in the plans there will be less appeals to go through.
there is a metro stop there already .
an idea would be to remove all locked bikes on the first day of the month (first monday say).
on the last day of the month a sticker could be placed on any suspicious bike, warning of removal.
yes but it is not impossible . just a little bit of effort . such plates don’t have to be very big to be readable, not if they are made of the similar shiny material to signposts.
As a cyclist myself i know all too well of the crazy dangerous things cyclists do.
I don’t think the gardai would be allowed to simply collect the hundreds of wrecked bicycles . Even if they were allowed they won’t do it as it would cost them a fair bit to dispose of them all. they would want to be able to charge the owners.
with all the computers and things around , a fairly simple system for registring you bicycle could be put in place at modest cost.
that playground seems like a really nice idea. it is about time that effort was put into making the city a better place to live and raise families, otherwise there will be no way to reverse the suburb mindset of people.
seems like a good idea,
if bicyles had small license plate you could easily remove the wrecked bicycles locked all over the city, and either charge the owner for getting rid of them , or return them to the owner.
