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verrrry clever design – it’s quite high in the middle, and dips right down to almost bungalow height at the goal ends. Therefore preempting alot of objections from the nearby houses. read the story on http://www.rte.ie/news … no planned disruptions to the DART!!! well seeing as it doesn’t run through there for the next 18 months on weekends anyway!!!
Luas will never be able to use the heavy rail tracks so even if the EU bans such practice it doesn’t apply here. We have the honour of having a completely non-standard rail gauge across the country. We can thanks our nieghbours across the Irish Sea for that one. This is one reason why it’s no so straight forward for CIE to do upgrades to the rolling stock – everything has to be custom made and commissioned. Bearing this in mind Luas was designed to a european standard gague (which means ease of new rolling stock – but incompatible with exisiting railways)
I know it isn’t QUITE the same thing – but the “plaza-fication” of downtown Cork was stalled ala O’Connell St – delays involving the main drainage and financing causing chaos. The work when it EVENTUALLY started was crawling – but then eureka! CCC decided to commence work at both ends and meet in the middle rather than going North to South. The work has actually moved at incredible speed since and is ahead of schedule for completion. A little bit of initiative goes a long way.
I think it got a mention in the Sunday Times – described as “geological” – whatever that implies for the project…
Best menswear (name???) at corner of North Earl St is only shop I can think of that cleaned up outside.
maybe when the plaza is done we’ll see action…
Non-Taiscist – you’ve hit the nail squarely on the head.
AT are universally disliked for the two reasons above. Rural – cos of the one off’s (although AT are in essence correct). Urban – cos of quote “Old = good, new = bad, us = good, you = bad”.
Just because you have power doesn’t , mean you should wield it.
Diaspora, you may argue that AT is merely fulfilling it’s remit under law – but an objection from J Murphy carries none of the weight that an objection from AT has. Most people are just too frightened/stressed to try and overcome the hurricane force of D4 minded constricted vision that AT domineers on designs they deem “unsuitable”. Is it any wonder the docklands and “new Dublin” are so bland? It isn’t the direct fault of AT objecting to a specific Docklands design – but a mindset and culture has come about. Propose this and watch it get stamped into the ground. So why bother…?
Championing their vision of…
Bad Planning
Good architectural design
…etc etc…AT come across as though their sh!t doesn’t smell and their way is the only way. An organisation in need of some PR.
Quote: “The real stregnth of An Taisce is its membership who still have a very acute sense of all that is wrong in the Irish planning process”
I’m not saying the planning process is correct – but just because the members of AT *think something* doesn’t mean they are right.
This thread should be renamed “the everything thread” – Heuston Gateway to Public Transport to Grand Theft Auto!!!
The list is supposedly there to pacify the British who dedicated so much to the war effort and then got COMPLETELY excluded from the 1st round of contracts (i.e. they all went to D Cheny and his buddies in Haliburton etc). So in other words – the Brits want a complication free round of “tenders”. i.e. no other meddling EU members.
Laughably the most was Berite’s reaction to the news that Ireland was on the list… “of course we were – sure wasn’t I against the war all along?”Diaspora (and indeed everyone else) – no need to be so bloody personal. Let’s just debate the topic here rather than descending into mud slinging.
It’s all great for us to be making earnest suggestions regarding an integrated transport system – but with a certain Kildare man at the purse-strings it’s unlikely anything will ever happen. He knows not the difference between EXPENDITURE and INVESTMENT.
Yeah – the warfare is indeed over. The project was a pet of Noel Smyth so I’m not sure how that translates to Liam Carroll’s intentions. He’s got his own Gasworks to think of at the moment.
