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With all due respect, there were some pretty strong gayles last week, especially in the first half of the week. I was very surprised that they were working on it yesterday, given the winds the night before.
When a project is three years late, who’s going to worry about a couple of weeks?
James
And what exactly are the eyelets for? To radiate light? To allow wind to blow through rather than wobbling it?
Probably so the crane can attach hooks to pick it up!
James
I agree, O’Connell Street should look great. I still miss the Fluzie though.
Now, if we could just get all the fast food restaurants to clean up their image. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be there. I don’t think we should turn the street into a museum or anything. However, I think without exception they could do a lot more to make their image more appropriate to the street.
Shame about the imperfections. Hopefully they’ll be giving the whole thing a polish when it’s in place. I wonder will keeping it clean be a problem. I think there’s a company that makes little robots that can trundle up and down structures like this to keep them clean.
Did you find out when the next piece is going to be attached.
James
Well, I get a good view of it from our 6th floor office in Ballsbridge. Still no sign of piece number 4 going up.
I must say it looks amazing on this sunny day.
James
Well, I stand corrected. I could see the crane from my apartment in Capel Street, so I went down there on my way to work. Looks great!
James
Was down there this evening, and there were definately only three pieces there (unless the fourth is really well hidden).
Wow, 3AM. Not tonight, I suspect. There was some breeze blowing!
James
Thanks again for the excellent photos. Did they let you onsite to take them?
I was down there last night when they were taking the covers off. I presume there will be no movement on lifting it into place until the wind levels are more reasonable.
The access ladder is fascinating. I was especially amused to see the spanner tied to the sructure. You wouldn’t want to get half way up and find, “damn, forgot the spanner.” Shouldn’t there be a bag of bolts too?
I like the finish. But it does turn black at night, except where there is a light to reflect (which around Christmas was the nearby christmas tree). It should look great when it’s lit from all around.
James
Yeah, a lot done… (oops, not going to even finish that one).
I hope the government has the sense to see that we need to keep investing in infrustructure or we’ll be a second world economy again.
Dublin needs a world class transport system, and we can’t wait fifteen years for it. We need the rest of the LUAS lines. We need the Metro. We need the proposed DART extensions to Kildare, Wicklow and Balbriggan.
And of course we need to improve the rail connections to other cities. The fact that we are even considering closing railway lines is disturbing.
James
There was definately supposed to be a piece going up last week, which I assume didn’t happen to the strong winds. One would hope that the remaining sections will go up fairly quickly when the wind dies down.
James
Yeah. You could possibly argue that they should have known about the entironmental impact study. I don’t know enough about the legal situation to say whether this is normally required, or a special case was made because someone complained.
We’ve waited nearly three years, so what’s another month or so? It’s just we’re keen to see how it looks when it’s all lit up. Should be quite a sight!
James
I thought the plans for the Metro system, including the proposed airport link, included underground sections, overland sections (but all off-street), and elevated sections.
The docklands light railway also makes excellent use of elevated rail.
Of course Metro system is so far away we might as well call it fantasy.
I wish we would bite the bullet and invest in grandiose plans, like a maglev system, and finally drag ourselves into the twenty-first century.
Careful, or I’ll start talking about internet access in this country!
James
Well, you expect a few tething problems, especially for the early adopters.
It’s not like we’re going to start on the airport link any time soon, anyway. Plenty of time for the Chinese to sort out the bugs!
James
That does sound cool, now. After all, the original name was to be the “Monument of Light”, so it figures.
I passed it yesterday evening, and it looked rather odd because the main source of light on it was the Christmas tree, which was all from one direction.
James
I was down there yesterday, and I must say it looks good!
I don’t know where piece number 3 had got to by that stage, because I didn’t see the truck in the photos around at that stage.
It’s interesting that the two arrived together. I wonder why they aren’t able to get the next one up before Christmas.
James
An excellent idea! You’d want to be careful about putting your keys in your pocket, though… could have painful consequences!
James
Well for the last few years most of the roadworks seem to have been telcos. Now that the telcos have run out of venture capital, we’re seeing a lot less of that!
It is a shame when contractors are allowed to dig up a road and when they’re finished put down a vastly inferior surface.
Back in the seventies (?) there was a phase of building roads from concrete. Why did this stop? Where such surfaces remain, they seem to still be in very good condition, suggesting they’re more durable than asphalt. Concrete is still grey, but a more pleasing light shade, and it would be easy to add dyes to improve further.
James
