JPD
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You have to wonder why the trees weren’t taken down last winter when they didn’t look like much. I just hope that no one chains themselves to them now.
It is an ambitious move to try to convert a bar in Parnell St to a corporate strip club, the main worry I’d have is the mix between drunken suits and teenage girls coming out of the cinema. I think the cinema and the bar are next door?
Good luck to her if there is a market I’m sure that now is a good time to get a US airline with the drop in internal US business, I saw that Continental recently launched a Belfast to Newark service.
Sadly I don’t think Dublin will ever get a decent skyline, we are stuck with the IFSC type development pattern becuase no-one had the vision to develop them and those that proposed them were shot down.
The Savoy could have done a lot better, putting money in to that new signage was akin to throwing money in to a river. 🙁
@lexington wrote:
Cullen announces major redevelopment of Horgan’s Quay Cork
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words like ‘world class’ are mere political spin. The fact is, this will not provide Cork with a world-class public transport system – but it is a major step and it may provide a foundation of sorts for future development of a transport system that works. Indeed the south side of the city is under-serviced – but East Cork is a rapidly growing commuter area of the city and at leat it is being given something of a support for prospective growth.Granted the well founded vision is Midleton as an urban settelement of national importance with a population in excess of 25,000 and to develop the existing Mallow rail line in a sustainable manner a la CASP. But it is important to acknowledge that this is the third time that the Midleton Rail Line has had a fanfare and that no effort has been made yet again to give to give the Majority of Cork City a proper public transport system be it rail or Luas. I have to keep thinking of Radioactiveman’s biggest thread Cork, Mahon point, etc, etc and I would have to ask what will this do for Cork, Mahon point and at least half the Ect?
Who gets paid to write Cullen’s press releases?
Where does this leave Roger Flack’s lecture position of Cork becoming an important European City, these type of decisions make it easy to object to four storey buildings on the basis of no planned transport infrastructure.
JohnPD
Three Questions,
Firstly how many acres will MPH be acquiring and what price will they be paying in hard currency?
Secondly what was the last fund valuation per acre put on Water St?
Thirdly how can Cork be receiving a World Class transport system when the Southside or majority of the population of the metropolis be left yet again without a train system?
John P Durack
I agree Westmoreland is not a very nice place and I can’t remember ever buying anything more than a cup of coffee here because with bus lines during the day and the number of drunks at night it is not a very inviting place. I use Pearse Station to get from the Dart if I am going to the Dame St area or Temple Bar it is more comfortable.
Is that what is being built in Spencer Dock?
There seem to be a lot of buildings very close together, although the one in the front looks good.
Looking good but I would be careful going on about how good a price it was or else the contractors will probably double their next tenders
Even more bizarre when you think about the size of many European Cities that have fully integrated transport systems that include an underground. It is not only Dublin that needs investment in additional rail lines but if the RPA over-spend on Luas was repeated nothing else will happen for a very very long time.
