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The planned second Dublin runway is on hold (appropriate term) in the light of the Aer Rianta breakup plan. It will cost a shedload of money, but sadly Shannon or Cork will not be asked to contribute to Dublin’s capital debts – unlike Dublin Airport to theirs.
The Second Terminal is still being considered.
Light , or conventional rail links to the airport are much discussed but dont hold your breath.
Eventually, – the penny drops that buying a lot of sites, from differing owners, who know that the purchaser is well heeled and can be held to ransom, and then build on a small plot, restricted by roads on three sides, to rebuild the Abbey, which does not fill all the time anyhow, is not really a good idea.
By the way, poor old Michael Scott tried to persuade Ernest Blyth to rebuild the Abbey elsewhere. But then, as until now, nostalgia for one of the Abbey sites won out.
Why not move the Abbey out of Dublin – after all Knock Airport is good enough for government work!
“electric buses “
Electric vehicles are usually less energy efficient than diesel and just because the emissions dont happen in the tailpipe does not mean they do not exist at the power station. Ireland has a relatively dirty electricity generating mix. A billion windfarms, on sliding bogs, are still to come.
Despite claims to the contrary, I do not know of any comparable city to Dublin, with the same sprawl, that has managed the car.
PS Bergen is not comparable to Dublin
PPS Waited 30 minutes for the bus to work this morning, should have been three in that time.
Interesting try but we need to know what is in the buildings – rest home for developers, demented engineers etc?
The lack of Georgian pastiche suggests no private sector involvement.
Now it just came to me what these new kiosks resemble.
Huge scaled up versions of the huts for the car park attendants at BCP car parks in the UK.
Luas running after 12am
I suppose so, – we would need to get home from work!
I assume what is meant is after 12 p.m. but given the lack of planning in evidence in this country, nice to have this more explicit.
Also be aware that the State may own the property, if there are no known heirs of the previous owners, now dead.
Most places in Ireland have names, which most people, even people from abroad have heard of. Road numbers are unknown to most people. They are far less clear than words like Belfast, Cork etc.
Neither is it at all obvious that “J xx” on the signs means Junction xx either.
Nothing seems to exist to tell you where or what Junction is Junction number xx – unlike the motorway exits, where in many countries they follow in number order (not in the USA now) xx, xx+1 etc. Here the Junction numbers, if they have a logic, do not seem at all transparent.
Does anyone know what the “Two canted elipses” logo means – some agency or the sign of the Red Cow? Why on a small sign do we need to have two logos taking up space.
The signs are way too low, and way too small, -even if you actually know what they are supposed to mean.
Do not underestimate how far cellars used to extend under the street.
Next time you walk around Merrion Square just look at the coal holes at the path edge.
Both Kildare Street and Leeson Street, and as we all now know Harcourt Street, have cellars or wine vaults which run well out into the street.
Presumably, O’Connell Street, when widened, did not lose the cellars from earlier building.
O’Connell Street also had underground toilets until fairly recently.
They also closed Merrion Street later on, diverting buses any which way with no warning. A 50% longer bus commute last evening and shoals of passengers left at the bus stops
The Dublin Evening Mail offices were in what were, I think, later on to become the Dublin Corporation Rates Office, when the Mail closed forever sometime in the 1950’s, – This is a rather nice building just beyond the upper gate of the Castle on the other side of the street.
I seem to recall a connection between the Evening Mail and the Irish Times. Could this have also been the Express office?
Thoms is your man.
By the way it is by no means infallible.Interesting – Just read this, but at 18.10 on the21st however.
PS Is there any cities that are not global cities, i.e. cities we know of that are off this globe?
One encouraging sign that LUAS is getting close to the Planet Red Cow is that vandals, yes vandals, indeed, in saintly Ireland have been stoning the Luas on test.
“Men are from Mars, Luas is from project planners”
I opened this thread up in the hope you were proposing to levy rates on Irish politicians – commercial rates of course.
There is an idea!
Sounds like a very good subject and good luck,
you possibly already know that the Irish Sweep published two books on the hospitals built with its support.
I do not have the earlier volume which covers your period but it should be findeableThere are several useful photos in a recent book, well a booklet really, called
” A walk through rebel Dublin 1916″
by M o’Farrell ISBN 1 85635 276 5
