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  • in reply to: Cork, Mahon point, etc, etc. #750833
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    Could it be that CIE were worried that the noise from bus and rail together would cause problems getting high value for the remainder of the Horgan’s Quay site?

    If a developer were to offer a development on HQ that integrated say an fully or partly underground bus station (local and regional) with a walkway to the platform which Mallow-Cobh-Midleton used, and asked to purchase the PP site, and got City Council and meeja on side, it would be hard to say no?

    in reply to: Look at de state of Cork, like! #733165
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    thanks for the update on Temple Hill Lexington.

    in reply to: Look at de state of Cork, like! #733156
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    Lexington,

    would appreciate any further info on the Temple Hill proj. Have been recalling the site as I saw it last – seems a challenging project to me!

    in reply to: Look at de state of Cork, like! #733155
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    Lexington,

    would appreciate any further info on the Temple Hill proj. Have been recalling the site as I saw it last – seems a challenging project to me!

    in reply to: Rural One Off’s: Like them or loath them? #750007
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    Sadly restricted is probably the best possible outcome. Local councillors haven’t the stones to ban it (Kerry) and everybody “knows their rights” and can “do what they like with their land”. Village regeneration should be prioritised, and local ties etc. promoted but the ESB, eircom, bin charges and water charges etc. should be allowed charge full economic cost to houses built in areas where it is against the public interest. That’s the best that can be hoped for I think.

    in reply to: Look at de state of Cork, like! #733113
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    And if Aer Lingus decline airbridges in their new pennypinching regime, how are the airbridges to be financed?

    Regrettably, the “low cost revolution” combined with the high number of regional aircraft means airbridge use is destined to be for a smaller than hitherto expected proportion of movements at ORK.

    in reply to: Poolbeg new town #749379
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    the consultation docs are on the dublincity.ie website (Planning)

    in reply to: Look at de state of Cork, like! #733021
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    having worked in the Marina Comm Park adjacent to the Beamish site on Kennedy quay, if the surface there is anything like in the CommPk it might need some serious work subsurface. I believe there are some underground rivers in the area. In the comm park the road surfaces are like crazy paving, plus they take quite a pounding from trucks etc.

    in reply to: Tara street gets go ahead #720900
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    naz78 in an earlier post compared the Tara Street design to Toronto City Hall.

    Working about 200m from there as I do, I can’t see the resemblence myself…

    http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail/81.php

    in reply to: Look at de state of Cork, like! #732623
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    on the showgrounds site, access to there is quite iffy as matchgoers know, and the ability to do any better on the west side (i.e. from tunnel) is questionable given residential encroachment.

    hope any redevelopment takes this into account. also, it’s an odd place for a hotel as is kinda far from any commercial area (with industrial to east, power station to west and residential to south)

    in reply to: Look at de state of Cork, like! #732579
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    banishing the portacabiners to the bus station will be a long walk once Parnell Place Stn closes, no?

    in reply to: New Cork bridge #745343
    dowlingm
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    thanks to all who posted.

    in reply to: Roads #745304
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    Paul C – Canada governance: fed, prov, reg (sometimes), municipal – they’re the only 4 I can think of. It makes funding a nightmare but it does bridge certain projects which are too small for national and too big for municipal. Plus there’s the Quebec issue. Perhaps Ireland will get regional govt if it’s ever united to keep our own version of Quebec (NI) happy.

    Better that then Ireland’s 1 real level of govt – national – and the joke that is local govt in terms of powers (and use of little they have by jackeens)

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