GregF
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I utterly agree….It would be very attractive. But such appealing finishes for roads would soon be afflicted no doubt by road works, seams, scars and black tarmac pot hole filler.
So there goes the Scots/Irish Euro 2008 bid……..sure were we ever in the running? Seems that we could’nt fulfill our side of the bargain by delivering at least a couple of stadia. The Jocks have Hampden, Parkhead, Ibrox…..etc etc but we could’nt deliver even one….such was our apathy and stubborness. Well done to Mary Harney and the Regressive Democrats for enabling us to lose this high profile international event. Well done to Minister McDowell for once describing the Bertie Bowl as something out of the Ceaucescu era. How was it then that they were backing the proposal of a National Stadium for Ireland a day before UEFA announced the venue. The wooly headed GAA’s attitude did’nt help either. The Europeans were only too aware of inept Irish poltical and sporting shennanigans. I feel sorry for the Jocks. Our Paddy Blarney charm charade did’nt work this time. Maybe take a leaf out of the steely Teutonic peoples book and we might start to get things done properly in this State of Inertia.
I suppose they’ll let it lie idle for years and then they’ll have to knock it down when it goes to rack and ruin.
I’m sure alot of folk would use it particularly country folk who when travelling home have to get the 79 or 90 bus at Aston Quay to travel up to Heuston Station….and many folk coming from the country could get it at Heuston to travel to the city centre.
As for the newly emerging docks with its new population a ferry service would be an appropriate venture.Probably ‘allegedly’ started by disgruntled republicans aka Real IRA, Continuity IRA, Sinn Fein, IRA…………….those great ambassadors for Irish culture and architecture.
Look at the irreversable damage they committed in the past, the gutting of stately homes and their contents, the irreversable destruction of the Custom House and the Four Courts and all the historical records , the removal of the Pillar, the continuous bombings of cities…. etc
Ok….they were symbols of the Brits….but were of historical value. A more sympathetic approach and intellectual perspective was really required.
All these proposals are great are’nt they…….but will they ever come to fruition.
This was’nt as hyped up and publicised as other past developments probably due to the fear of objections.I agree. Tall and notable structures stratigically placed add a sense of easily finding locations within a city. They also add variation to the skyline.
Dubin of old had this too in the form of the church spires and domes stretching into the sky. Somehow this concept has been lost today with our planners, making for a horizontal and rather drab city.This bridge was overlooked was’nt it when all the bridges were supposedly illuminated as part of the Millennnium celebrations 2 years ago. What a disasterous and unsuccessful project…..moreso a waste of taxpayers and European money.
To think that this bridge has the most impact on the city too.Don’t these look good ………could be Dublin, if planners, thinkers, developers and politicians got their fingers out.
Remove the ads, they’re tacky. I’m all for adverts….neon signs and the lot in a city scape, adds life and colour….but this bridge as bad as it is, is done no justice either by the cluttered effect hoardings. Remove them and remodel the bridge………..and light up the new bridge’s profile/outline as like what has been done abroad in other cities. Pure wallpaper, but effective and far more aesthetic.
Maybe the Corpo should employ some of those Neandarthalish Boucers that ye get at clubs and place them at the base of the column to keep guard as part of the installation……just like Landseers Lions at the base of Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square.
If the Spire gets damaged, after all the tax payers money ploughed into the project, the Coppers aka gardai should be run out of a job and Dublin and the culprits should be hanged by their scraggy necks until dead from a Judas Tree. Would make a wonderful Xmas Tree….well with Haughey, McCreevy and other politicians (not forgetting the Green Party TD’s too) and characters of the same ilk dangling in the breeze.
It’s an awful looking thing is’nt it ……..I used to give it credit as an example of Victorian railway engineering……but it is mediocre, purely functional and visually awful. I’m not going on about not being able to see the Custom House that shell of a building because of the obtrusiveness of the bridge but because the bridge is just bloody awful in itself as it spans the Liffey. A makeover is required ……aka wallpaper, something that will benefit the views from O’Connell bridge, an arch stretching into the sky or something, rather than that drab horizontal featueless feature. It is now nearly 2003 AD not quaint dear auld imperial Dublin.
Saw on the Irish Times letters page recently that some member of the general public suggested calling the Spike …..’An Cleadamh Solais’……the Sword of Light.
Even Frank McDonald says much the same in todays Irish Times…………it has the potential as I have said before on countless times of being a morass of mediocre mundanity. There’s alliteration for ye.
