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I don’t know why we’re laughing. That Lego Project is marginally better than what has and is being built out there.
Isn’t there some kind of monument to Mr Barnardo up at that little park beside Jury’s at Christchurch.
Anybody got any pictures of developed Bus Station. And by way of a PS, Wagamama really isn’t that nice – harmless enough fare but not the tastiest food in the world.
Cullen opens €4m Government investment in Cork Bus Station
Minister for Transport, Martin Cullen today (24th January 2005) officially opened the newly refurbished Parnell Place Bus Station in Cork. The €4m redevelopment of one of Cork’s landmark buildings will provide new improved facilities for the station’s three million annual customers.
Speaking at the opening, Minister Cullen said the new Memoranda of Understanding between CIE and the Department of Transport is contributing to an improved and consistent quality of service for CIE passengers.
A key part of the Memorandum is a Service Level Agreement which details the quantity and quality of service provided the three CIE companies on the back of Government investment. Arrangements have been put in place to monitor the delivery of these targets with results reviewed each year.
Minister Cullen said: “Like the 42 Service Indicators I introduced to monitor Local Government performance, the CIE service level agreement ensures the public sees where their money is going and the results this investment is producing. It is also a useful tool for Government in identifying where deficiencies might exist so they can be tackled. It is an arrangement that works for passengers, CIE and Government.â€
Commenting on the new €4m development of Parnell Bus Station, the Minister welcomed the completion of the project ahead of schedule to coincide with the European Capital of Culture.
A complete internal re-furbishment of the two storey building has taken place with a re-designed passenger concourse, an improved bus marshalling area, nine new bus bays, a complete upgrade of all passenger facilities and new passenger information systems. A striking feature of the design is the new tensile fabric canopy at the front of the station.
Minister Cullen welcomed the significantly improved accessibility of the station for people with disabilities. €1.1 million of the capital costs were directed at improving access and comfort for those with disability and for the elderly. New accessibility features include a lift, automatic doors, improved signage and audio communications.
The Minister said the redevelopment brings to €24m the level of Government investment in Cork Bus Eireann services in the past five years.
He said: “Government investment has brought about a significant improvement in services, including the addition on new routes and increased frequency of services. City bus service departures have increased by 35%. The addition of northern and southern city orbital routes has attracted thousands of new customers. 109 new buses have been provided with 92% of buses wheelchair accessible.
“In addition to the improvements on Cork City services, there has also been significant frequency improvements on all Expressway departures from Cork with hourly services to Limerick, Galway, Waterford and Tralee, 6 daily services to and from Dublin and numerous services daily to places such as Athlone, Clonmel, Kilkenny and Rosslare Harbour.
“All of this means better services, increased customer numbers, improved working standards and a better return for taxpayersâ€, he said.
The Minister also announced the extension of the No.5 bus route to Kent Station in the coming months to facilitate commuters going to U.C.C., C.I.T., and FAS offices. “This will provide a quick, reliable journey time for people on the western suburbs of the Cityâ€, he said.Irish heroes are often honoured by adding their names to the worst city council housing in Dublin.
For instance, the signatories of the declaration are all remembered in the various names of the towers of Ballymun: Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, Austin Clarke, McDonagh etc.
Pearse and Collins are remembered by their names being attached to street names, Pearse Street and Collins Avenue in Dublin. There’s a statue of Michael Collins in Clonakilty, Co Cork, and the memorial where he died. There’s also a statue of De Valera in Ennis, Co Clare.
I don’t think there’s any question of them being airbrushed from history but O’Connell Street already has too many statues, none of which are maintained very well. I would much rather see the O’Connell Monument cleared of bird crap and the Wellington Monument in the Park cleared of graffiti than more new statues.I’m told by Dublin City Council that there was a delay in having the wooden boards delivered because of a shipping strike (???) in December. There’s no issue apart from that and they’re due pretty shortly. Council seem confident it would only be a month or two after that before the extension will be open. Also the work that took place before Xmas re flooding was the construction of so-called Dutch dams (that’s what it sounded like). Somebody else can probably enlighten us on what exactly they do.
The RPA can never back this plan because they would be effectively voting themselves out of existence (and a job)?
If there is no Metro, then the only projects left for the RPA are integrated ticketing and the extension of the Luas lines.
With the integrated ticketing project almost finished, tortuously late but not as noticeably, they will have little or nothing to do. The plans for the IFSC, Cherrywood Extensions are well advanced and by no means justify the existence of a separate Agency at this point. If the Metro plan dies, the RPA’s raison d’etre (apart from connecting the two lines they built separately) disappears.What about building a new Abbey on the site of the Garden of Remembrance?
Close Parnell Square North to traffic and turn it into a new park/public space including whatever features considered worth retaining (the Children of Lir statue). It would turn it into a Square of Remembrance, facing on to Hugh Lane.
The Colaiste Mhuire site could then be sold for residential development with a stipulation that the ground floors would have to hold a restaurant/cafe/and pub etc.
That way, we would could address the serious failings of the Garden of Remembrance, not squeeze the Abbey into ill-fitting surrounds, regenerate Upper O’Connell Street/Parnell Square, and it wouldn’t cost much at all.
All of the sites concerned are in public ownership and the only road closure would involve a little used road, which with a ibt of imagination would not be missed. A chunk of the development could also be funded from the sale of Colaiste Mhuire.The directors of Knockrabo are as follows. Anybody know who they are:
JOHN FITZGERALD
LAWCUS FIELDS
STONYFORD
CO. KILKENNY.
12-Oct-1964
NIALL MELLON
SUNSET AVENUE
LLANDUDNO
CAPETOWN
SOUTH AFRICA.
19-May-1967Totally disagree. It’s full of drunks, very dark, and was always heavily littered.
Admittedly, the litter is the fault of the City Council.
I saw models of this two years ago and it proposes a nice little public square and was a very good looking development.
I think this a positive step. I actually believe crappy parks are worse than no parks at all.I would think there’ll definitely be an adjustment and a new application.
A lot of effort was put into getting this parcel of land together and it is NABCO, so they’re not in a great position to just sell it off to a developer.
I would think the original was a test to see how far they could go and I wouldn’t be too surprised if they have a Plan B and Plan C up their sleeves.I particularly love the line in the Irish Times report about how the 86-metre tower would dwarf the 120-metre Spire. Paper of record, I fear not. Is this a record? Yours etc.
They have put a kind of mock-Tudor skin on it. I don’t think there was anything too significant about the old Thing Mote facade. They would presumably have had to go through the normal planning process for something like this. If anything, I think it looks better now.
A redevelopment of Hawkins House would be one of the five most important developments in Dublin’s city centre over the past twenty years. If done right and not just a giant apartment block, I think it would give major impetus to the proprietors of Apollo House and the other monstrosities of the area to clean up their act. Could also encourage Trinity to open up Pearse Street.
The new Laughter Lounge is worse than both the Jury’s and the Penneys extension buildings on Parnell Street.
One of the points that I was trying to make but which appears to have got lost is that it looks nowhere near as good as that little picture on Lisney. Also the picture on lisney.ie is deceptive because it includes the next door building, a pub called Eden, which is already open and some kind of hanging silver box as an extension. This makes it look better than it is. If this does in fact exist, I am completely blind because I’ve never seen it and see no evidence of its construction.
Another article crippled by exaggeration and bad logic.
For example: ‘A little known European Community report from 1988 makes for interesting reading. Authored by a Professor Serratosa … Going North, Serratosa recommended one motorway from Dublin to Belfast along the N2 Slane road, which would have serviced Drogheda and Navan with feeder roads. And because the expense for only one motorway was required, it could have been toll-free.’
That is not interesting – it’s suicidal. Expecting a single junction at Finglas to manage all the traffic currently using the N1, N2, and N3 when it cannot manage as it stands is just ridiculous.
“Three motorways in Co. Meath – all parallel within a few miles of each other, and all with the same destination – Dublin.” – One of these motorways (the M1) passes through Co Meath for just a couple of miles, services Dublin Airport and also has a destination of Belfast and the entirety of eastern Northern Ireland.Doesn’t look too bad on Lisney.
Here’s the image attached.
Finishing looks a lot cheaper in reality.That’s the thing about the Tara plan I just can’t believe. The government is, with full knowledge, walking in to a legal and financial quagmire, which will put the Carrickmines and Glen of the Downs (GOTD) episodes in the shade.
Glen of the Downs was held up for years and ended up being the most expensive piece of road ever built because of a widening project, which most everybody wanted. The M50 project has been held up for years for an unremarkable heritage site and for a road that had full support as well.
Tara, which symbolically puts the other two in the shade, will be a long fight and the anti-campaign have already rallied an incredible selection of experts, conservationists, archaeologists, historians for a necessary road, but one that really won’t have the impact that GOTD or M50 completion had.
I think your prediction is absolutely correct.Diaspora, it’s actually my post you’re querying.
I am challenging the Guardian article as a piece of journalism, not the general sentiment behind it.
In 1997, 73,561 cars travelled past Dublin City Council traffic monitors on the Royal and Grand Canals. By November 2002, the number of cars had fallen to 64,721. May have changed since but it’s a remarkable and little remarked-upon statistic.
I just personally feel these quotes by Ian Lumley are an embarrassment: ‘You have to look at this as an American country.’ But then again in a country where Michael Moore’s books top the bestseller charts, this kind of insulting meaningless nonsense is to be expected.
This one is nonsense: ‘The Irish mentality is inherently antiregulation and anti-officialdom. One of the theories is that this goes back to British occupation, to dodging the constabulary, dodging the revenue, getting away from the landlord, hiding pigs under the bed, hiding chickens in the roof and so on.’
I’ve been listening to that crap for years and I don’t buy it. It’s the lazy man’s way of excusing the fact that the regulations have not been enforced by officialdom. Eg Penalty Points, which worked when people believed they would get caught. When they realised, they had f**k all chance of getting caught, they began ignoring them.
Re Stonehenge – fifty metres versus 2400 metres. You are not comparing like with like. The situation in Wiltshire is the equivalent of having the main road running so close to Newgrange that the visitor centre has to be connected by a tunnel.
I don’t what Independent story you mean about Cullen – is it the Ireland on Sunday stories about Monica Leech?
