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@jungle wrote:
If you went Connolly-Broadstone-Heuston, you’d end up missing the Docklands, missing the CBD around Baggot St and Leeson St and missing the High St area (which has no rail-based public transport at the moment). Instead, you’d create a line that already closely follows an existing LUAS line.
Yeah , I see what you mean, but I also can envisage the city area around Broadstone being revitalised to a great extent in the next few years and the provision of an important rail terminus will help the area to the same degree that an up and coming area will do no harm to the terminus itself. ESPECIALLY with the growing importance that any government will have in the next Dail, giving the assumption that the Greens may well be “kingmakers”.
Connelly is on the Maynooth/Greystones line, too.
Why is St. Stephen’s Green being fetishised as a destination?Well the interconnector could run northside equally, couldn’t it? It has to cross the river at some point to get to Hueston, but why particularily so far downstream?
There’s a focus on Stephen’s Green as some sort of underground Grand Central Station that seems a little overly focused.Plus, is this interconnector definitely going ahead?
I don’t believe that it is a “stretch” from the city centre. Sure Henrietta Street is across a road, behind Kings Inns. It’s an area that will see investment in the next few years, one would imagine, and a major rail terminus with all the ancillary connections and services that should imply would do no harm.
There’s a planning permission notice up on a lamp-post on Parnell St near Chapters for one at the mo.
Forgive me…I may be coming late to the game here, but as regards the tower, I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that it was taken down some time post-independence because it was seen as a piece of unnecessary, flippant Victorian embellishment.
I think it’s in Pat Liddy’s “Dublin; A Celebration”.The 12th of Never.
The saga with the Spire completely highlights how inept our public representatives can be.The sculpture, which I like a lot, is now brown in the day and invisible at night. I think the latter is currently preferable!
The Abbey on Clare Island has to be seen to be believed. It’s a lovely little discovery. Pity it’s locked up. Or was when I was there 2 or so years back.
The new inside’s pretty bad, though. A big glossy, tarty-looking place. Like Jervis (which is bad enough) only cheaper.
According to the Sunday Times, the M50 is the most congested motorway in the world…
And I think I can remember someone from the AA saying it was the only tolled ring-road in Europe.We don’t do things terribly longsighted in Ireland, do we?
It’s bad enough that practically every new office development in north Dublin city centre looks identical, at least those are max 6/7 stories. If these two look the same then there’ll be no escaping the mediocrity!
I’m not an architect, but I imagine a fairly large number of posters/observers here are…is it de rigeur nowadays to not have many original ideas?I definitely read an article recently saying that they’re coming down soon.
But I bet they won’t get them all.A councillor I know says they haven’t voted on it yet and the plan was drawn up by an independent company for the council.
Is there a curse on the upper west side of O’Connell St? At the moment, it’s anchors are a McDonalds, Dublin Bus HQ and AIB..
They could stick one of the kiosks in Wolfe Tone Park by Jervis St, which currently barely has a purpose and even less seating. That tennis table from O-Connell St is currently there, among a nice little copse of trees I think. A newsagenty shop woudl actually be welcome there, especially in summer as apart from the super-Spar at Jervis St Luas stop, there ain’t much like that there.
