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Has anyone else noticed the blobs of tarmac on the footpath around Kylemore? They seem to be the remnants of the repair work of the collapsed basement but they’ve been there for a while and there’s no sign of the paving being replaced. Surely this is something that DCC should be all over like a rash since they won’t (shouldn’t) have to pay a penny to fix?
@StephenC wrote:
Thats true SmithfieldResi – but now the signage has changed (its a Nokia sign now) and substantial works have taken place which I would argue required permission.I think they could take enforcement action and have the sign removed by refusing retention permission.
I submitted a complaint to them last week. It’s probably a waste of time but it can’t hurt. It was assigned to a case officer on Monday.
Why was the Royal Dublin hotel knocked before planning for this was granted? Are they not part of the same scheme? I hope something progresses because one giant hole on the street is bad enough but a second is worse.
They’re pretty dire. Why do they need to break both the horizontal *and* vertical street lines? What on earth is that god awful structure encompassing the Carlton front? There’s not much point keeping the existing front if they’re going to destroy it like that.
@missarchi wrote:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0806/1224252079438.html
The article is completely contradictory.
Now that a proper network of Quality Bus Corridors around the city is finally coming into place, bus journeys for commuters across Dublin will be more reliable and more efficient.
followed by
So how has Dublin City Council used its on-street parking policy to promote retailing, leisure activities and tourism to date? The answer: not very well. Premium parking in the city is a prohibitive €2.90 per hour
On street parking and bus corridors are anathema – you can’t have cars parked in the bus lane and call it a quality anything. You only need to look at Camden St and Georges St after 7pm to see the effect on-street parking has on inbound buses. People commute outside of rush hour. Even if they didn’t, if you make the bus system inefficient after 7pm, you dissuade shoppers from uses buses. What she’s saying is that she should be allowed and encouraged to drive her car into the city centre at a cost to the bus system.
@igy wrote:
This was also my recollection, having been in Dr Quirkey’s large ground floor pool area a number of years back, which my sense of direction told me was a few metres behind the façade of the Carlton. I think it was recenty enough kitted out as a casino or something, and now it’s this ‘4D’ theatre.
I was in there a number of years ago when it was an internet cafe and I have vaguely remember the internet part being in one of the old screens. It was reasonably intact back then.
@Alek Smart wrote:
I must assume that some form of punishment,either in this life or the next will befall those responsible….It makes Dr Quirkeys look like an example of restrained decency……
Sums it up perfectly. I tried to take a photo but something terrible happened the lens on my camera 😉
If the oral hearing is still ahead of us, what’s going on behind the hoarding at Parnell Mooneys or the RDH?
@notjim wrote:
I hope they show some steel with this and do it.
At least one (FG) member of the Transport SPC has said he’ll vote against it.
That would mean leaving the office 🙂
Anyway a complaint has been filed. Lets see how long it takes to do something about it.
An advertising banner has appeared on the blank space beside the Carlton where the faux Quirkeys fascade used to be. Planning have no record of it and won’t start an investigation without more details but I won’t be passing there for a while. Can anyone tell me what the advert is for?
@ctesiphon wrote:
Re the car parking issue- the development proposes 1,111 car parking spaces
Yikes, 1,111!
Does anyone have the planning file number? I think an objection is in order if it’s not too late.
I think when it’s lit with pale blue/white lights it’s fine but the rest of the colours are a mixed bag, I think it detracts from it. I’m still not a fan but I can live with it.
Actually I think it looks better in johnny21’s photo than in real life 🙂
@ctesiphon wrote:
If this doesn’t demonstrate a case for widening the footpaths on the bridge, I don’t know what else might.
It might have been an option if the council hadn’t put the taxi rank there. I suspect any attempt to remove the rank (without replacing it) will result in more taxi drivers blocking bus stops and bus lanes like outside Connolly.
This thread has slipped from the front page so it’s time to bump it 🙂
rte wrote:A planning application for a €]It’s good to see _anything_ happening at this end of O’Connell street after so many years of neglect, especially now with a huge magnum ad hanging in the gap. I find the idea of moving the Carlon facade a bit odd though.
Ah… thanks to boards for finding this on the Visit Dublin website:
Julian Opie Walking Down O’Connell Street will begin the centenary programme by opening in 20th January 2008.
The genesis for this installation was born out of the success of the Barry Flanagan installation of giant hares, which leapt up and down O’Connell Street from June to September 2006. That exhibition, curated by Barbara Dawson was part of the
celebrations for the re-opening of the Gallery and its new wing. As a result O’Connell Street has now become another public platform for contemporary practice curated by the Hugh Lane.Julian Opie Walking Down O’Connell Street comprises of five animated LED installations placed down O’Connell Street and on Parnell Square outside the Gallery. His images are elemental in appearance though amongst the most complex and sophisticated in contemporary practice. Opie is widely recognised as one of the best artists working with public sculpture today.
I have to admit I thought they were advertising structures too. I think they’re fairly ugly, especially the mounts. The only saving grace is the fact that they’re parallel to the road so they’re fairly unobtrusive.
Dunno if anyone has been on OCS this morning but they’re in for a lovely surprise. Four digital displays have been mounted on bare concrete slabs in the median footpath. The slabs are about 4 feet high, the displays are another 5 feet on top of that. They’re opposite Easons, GPO (!), Flanaghans and Quirkeys and are currently classfully displaying brightly lit orange animated men and women walking. I’ll have photos later.
