dave123
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does anyone know why can’t they build a flyover at newlands cross N7??
the government have the money to buy private aircraft to beat the traffic, so why can’t they get rid of serious traffic blackspots ?
when naas road is finshed it will funnel into the cross and cause more delays to the already snarled cross!wow, there is a lot retail development happining, im not a big fan of retail parks but i think there are well planned, as there are not just popping up everywhere because they are really centred around ballysimon and parkway where there is a lot of infastructure and its a commercial core of the eastside of the city .I woiuld have no problem with the retail parks going ahead as long as there is counterbalance in the city centre as well, Dunnes and Roches need a good kick up the a***
There is plans for trainstop for the parkway when all the development takes place there, (rumoured)
The Parkway roundabout is a deathtrap!! when the shopping centre goes ahead it will have to be ripped apart. and build some kind of interchange , even though it might be the impossible !will Limerick city centre have a cinema in the future , as the savoy is up for other development? Henry street will be very grand once the Savoy centre is developed , it wil be a hive of activity.
also the Castletroy cinema opened recently….There is a fantastic picture on the front page of the limerickpost if anyone want to see it (i can’t post it sorry}
it will be open within weeks , and will have a thousands people living and working there!around of appluase for Turbog!
government just can’t plan roads at all!!!
they wont finish the N7 i think because they are at the moment spending a lot of money on the existing road , noticably in laois to roscrea , plus they don’t want dig up the nenagh bypasss
which was OUTDATED before it was built !!!!!!
i can’t understand why they can’t just DO the N7 once and for all its 1 of the shortest distance road between two cities.
kerry and clare traffic have to via the N7 to go directy to Dublin
BY THE WAY NOTHIN CULLEN !!!!1 BUT THAT ROAD ONLY WENT AHEAD BECAUSE THATS WHERE HIS CONSTITUNCY IS HAHAH !!!!!
now theres some realisation of why the N9 is going ahead. up to a year ago the plan from Dublin to waterford was nearly scrapped . oh well limerick loses out again!!!!!!!1someone mentioned the newlands crooss junction ????? flyover????
The NRA really dont know how to build proper roads in the first place
they should keep high priorthy routes that need extra investment
like the Nenagh to Limerick Motoray , which was the first section of motorway planned before the official inter urban plan came about , No sign of that coming anytime soon ,
anyone travel on the N7/N8 are seeing villages along the route been cut in half with the new kildare motorway just s brings it to the next bottleneck
Classsic example!!!
build 1 little road (bypass) then free of traffic as soon as your back on the old road again u sit in traffic and it keeps goin on on
then they go ahead and build a super road near Naas obviously , but still crash into the newlands cross which already gets tailbacks frequently?????????????? what is going to happen when all the inter URBAN ROUTES join up ????
talk about back to the drawing board….im interested to know about the old Cork to Dublin route T6 via kikenny a good few years back or when did they they changed it???
awhy did they change the route in the first place and join up at portlaois with the main limerick to Dublin roadRichar
i have to agree with you on the reasons you stated as the N7 was not to be Motorway standard ,the main reasons is that a dual carrigeway is cheaper than a motorway as their are different designs and speeds.
there is a alternate route, as their are building a road from Naas to Castlewadern near Rathcoole there. which is for regional and traffic travelling that not need to use the N7,
the Road is served by a motorway route the M7 and M50…how can you explain the reasons for supposed to be M7 Nenagh to limerick section which was planned long before the national roads plan was carried out . the road has an alternate route (the old N7) and on greefield site and has a lot of traffic for a motorway to be built but yet it s now going to be a dual carrigeway!
i believe there will be som sort of tunnel there sometine in the near future probaly when wer all botoxed !!!!!!
Anyway how will they get air down there ? how will they see with No sunlight down there ?
and how will they get passed the Mid Atlantic Ridge which is part od a major tectonic plate wit tremors ,mountainns, volcanoes and trwenches there ????oh well i guess i opnened the can of beans!!!.
dave123]Limerick needs to be seen and recogniesed as ireland’s third city ! its a beautiful city with the majestic shannon flows through the old english town and the splendid georgian town. there is a lot of bad press about limerick been an rough and derelict city . its as safe as any other city in ireland if not safer!The city is really changing with its bold new designs and high rise buildings at the limerick doclands .
Anybody that has not been in Limerick latley there is to high rise building been built at spaights courner and are 15 storeys and 12 storeys high , looks quite cool !!! its opposite that clarion hotel and really overlooks and enhances the area.
Please keep new developments and news posted!!!!!
the riverpoint building is really coming on well! the building is really fantastic , on such a nice spot to.
there is a new development on steamboat quay of luxurios apartments etc… has anybody have any idea of what it will look like and any photos either?
i read an article on the limerickpost on the roches stores site on liddy street and the oold dunnes will they ever closes the dunnes on sarfields street is totoally pointless to have a crappy old shop just barley up the road from the new one, is it not common sense in the first place ?????
heres an article on pedestrianisation i read from limerickpost….
Pedestrianisation of lanes for the summer
A NUMBER of the city centre’s streets will undergo a process of temporary pedestrianisation for the summer season to acclimatise the public and the business sector to the impact such a development will bring about.
City councillors have been advised by John Breen, director of Transportation and Infrastructure that in order to highlight an awareness of the benefits of pedestrianisation, Little Catherine Street, Augustinian Lane and the area of O’Connell Street in front of Penneys Store will be pedestrianised for the summer season.
“The scheme will involve the closing of streets to through traffic, the installation of planted features and a general upgrade of the area but full business access for deliveries will be facilitated,” said Mr Breen.
He stressed that “extensive consultation” with business owners is taking place.
“It is hoped that such an initiative will be welcomed by business owners and that they will be a necessary party to its successful implementation,” he said.
Reacting enthusiastically to the scheme, Deirdre Martin, proprietor of Mickey Martin’s pub in Augustinian Lane said there is a unanimous welcome from the 10 business owners directly involved.
“We had two meetings recently and the response from all of the owner occupiers is a very positive one – there is absolutely no opposition to the scheme which will provide a wonderful showcase for how attractive successful pedestrianisation will be. The Council will put in trees and planters and bollards, one under the arch at the Catherine Street entrance and another at the Thomas Street entrance to the lane,” she said.
“I would eventually love to see this and other laneways cobbled, painted and with canopies and lights. Compared to Dublin, Cork, Galway and even Tralee, they are yards ahead of us on this but I’m very optimistic that the Summer Season Street Enhancement Scheme will prove a great success and lead on to a very attractive pedestrianisation scheme for the city centre.”
I agree totally with Jimg, its totally the norm to have motorways connecting all the main cities of ireland, not just all to Dublin Which i think is a big mistake , it will cause major commuter problems and everything will filter out of the countryside as the as all the motorways will lead to Dublin .it takes hours and hours to get to any of the cities on a good day? its ridiculous that you have to snarl through towns that not need not to go through.
we have been blessed that you can go from Dublin to the bogs of ireland without gettin stuck in kildare town anymore !!!!
when you have a fantastic motorway !!!its a real eyesore for sarfields street, as you said that it is an important entrance as its a major bridging point etc… Dunnes stores should be shot for letting there premises turn into a heap of crap! its need to be buildozed.
it would be very interesting to see if a skyscraper would be built there with interesting arcitectre , it would realy fitt in nice to the othe high rise buildings overlooking the shannon and make a real urban quarter as you cross over the shannon from any of the bridges! it would put limerick on top !
i thought it was a greart programme. although i dissagree with the docklands being one of the most beautiful waterfronts when its finished ,in my opinion most of the buildings are very uniform and flat , whereas most new waterfronts in cities such as london and sydney have higher buildings and bolder designs etc….
it will be a great relif to get all the trucks out of the dockalands area, ITS AN EYESORE to see trucks trundling through the communtiy.
god bless the M50!!!
Weekly Stories from the Print Edition Thu, 19/05/05
Development promised for derelict city street
FOLLOWING last week’s article highlighting local business people’s concerns over the under-utilisation of the Sarsfield Street Dunnes-owned shopping centre and the complete lack of use of an entire row of units by Roches Stores on Liddy Street, Roche’s Stores has said that they are applying for retention of the warehouses in Liddy Street because they are, contrary to local reports, using the buildings for storage. And they’ve promised to improve the appearance of the buildings. According to Mayor Michael Hourigan, the street looks “derelict”.
The spokesperson for Roches Stores told the Limerick Post this week that when the department store applied for ongoing planning permission, they had submitted ” a major overall development plan for the buildings which is ongoing”.
The spokesperson said that this development plan is taking “slightly longer” than they had anticipated.
“We are looking at a development plan for that whole area, but it is ongoing. In the meantime we will be looking to see if there is anything we can do to improve the appearance of the buildings,” he said.
Despite repeated contacts with Dunnes Stores, no comment was issued.
Last week the owner of Harry’s coffee shop in the Dunnes centre complained that half of the units are empty and have been so for the last five years. He accused Dunnes Stores of having no interest in promoting them and that business in the centre is “very quiet”.
information i got out of the limerickpost.
no… i think that a lot of people say untrue statements about limerick , information which are facts and it pathetic that they argue it … thats it
Well isn’t that lovely for Cork, I’m sure your are right!! :rolleyes: well im not going to argue against Cork ,not to mention that you have have a of much of county Cork covered
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Not all the suburbs in the CSO are mentioned in the greater limerick area , limerick also spills out past Castletroy to Annacotty and Newport ! which is in Tipperary anyway.
As with Galway,,,oranmore is a good few miles out to be a suburb or about to be one!!!
in that case stop throwing in silly things like adding the towns around the cities , that should not be the case.
Limerick is a lot bigger than the figures and boundary stats tells us , and i’m not going to mention all the towns likewisw ,around it.
Its pointless, Limerick is bigger than Glaway ,fact,no matter if you travel 15 miles out or add up all the areasAs for Cork its the slowest natural growth rate than all the ciies!!!hahaha (in terms of Populatrion)
well i Do know Cork is bigger , you wasted time typing that mickeydocs lol…..
Raheen is in limerick not 15 miles like ringaskiddy !!! which employs nearly 20,000 people ! which has a big output not to mention DELL or analog !!! and so on ……..
Limeick is the fastest growing commercial centre outside of the Dublin area ! so i don’t care what your opinions are going to actually be.
I’m comfortable sticking to facts, that you guys refuse to believe. ! because you know what the answerwill be I’m beginning to see that you are honest about your childlish behaviour.As with cheap property prices
The media like to give Limerick a bad name , so obviously that will affect prices.
the city boundary affects the land prices a lot ,
There are very expensive areas in limerick , unfortunatly You dont know it ,
you see Limerick property was doing very well before the celtic boom kicked in and in Limerick and even today there is an oversupply of housing and do on , so that is one reason why its cheaper ,what an interesting building. it should mix with old the old college well.
any interesting plans in the city centre area? there is rumopurs on the limerickpost that the arthurs quay park is sold for developments ??
who are you saying your comment to? i didnt bring up in cork in thae way you obviosly discribed, i think it is a lovely city , you mentioned the words all by yourself , glad you understood my ppoint on defending limerick even though i do not come from there !
well i cant’t help my self and this, is to ewankennedy ,i wonder where you get your facts from???? you mentioned that cork generated more econmic out put than is both galway and limerick than cork is absoulatly not true , so don’t be stating untrue facts the midwest including limerick is just as big as cork if not bigger , shannon employs as much as a medium sized city as well as , limerick is wealtheir that cork per capita fact and im not going to fall down on bluff , another thing the north circular road i think its south circular , corrrect me if i am wrong . that street was voted the poshest street outside of dublin last year , i read it out of the property magazine.
at the start i just wanted some thruths about limerick that people tend to forget or believe misleading stuff about limerick. i know the thread has got out of hand but i don;t think i should or like minded people should beleive false information about limerick. i have not said anyrhing bad about the other regional cities so…. the bla bla talk is what kept this mess all going .
i the glass tower on riverpoint is really awesome! i think there knocking the awful yellow building onto the right as you look at the picture…
