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i am really sorry about this but not suprised, the management were so annoying. for example, about three monthes ago they introduced a coffee to go style counter, about time, with danishes etc and put three tables in lobby, great, it was really well used and so, about a month ago they removed two of the tables. why? what were they hoping for when they put the tables in. another example, they recently made the ground floor table service and moved self-service upstairs, that’s exactly the wrong way around, self-service people want to be able to just walk in, people having a sit down affair like the sense of occassion that comes with going upstairs.
i hope to god that the only effect of this is that the grafton street cafe will be taken over by someone who can run it.
having people trying to live inside the line to get reduced charges is a plus but making it free would be a mistake.
yeah, well, for proper international conference need a unique selling point and dublin being dublin has that, city of joyce, dublin pubs, national gallery, 1916, shelbourne park, blah blah blah, a spencer dock confernce centre can market all of that, city west can’t , any city, say sheffied or leeds or whereever can build a conference centre on the ring road, only dublin can be dublin. it has to be in the city centre.
i am amazed that the chewing gum industry hasn’t come up with chewing gum that is stable for the time scales involved in chewing but degrades over longer time scales. perhaps they haven’t really tried, well, here’s a way to make them try: tax non-degradable gums.
i am amazed that the chewing gum industry hasn’t come up with chewing gum that is stable for the time scales involved in chewing but degrades over longer time scales. perhaps they haven’t really tried, well, here’s a way to make them try: tax non-degradable gums.
i guess this is all a sequencing problem: it will get better when the macken street bridge and the port tunnel are ready, in the mean time its a disaster.
i was also kind of amazed by this, the ormond and the york street terrace at the same time is a bit of a shock.
its clear that there is a solution: a variety of traffice reduction measures, short of complete pedestrianization, along with pedestrian lights arranged so people to cross at any point.
i think it is a great shame to know these buildings, it is both handsome and historically interesting.
so what are the key benefits of joining the two luas line in terms of likely passanger journeys compared to other possible luas extensions of similar expense? is it just to let people from sandyford go as far as o’connell street, in which case there must be other priorities, such as point depot to east point or north from smithfield to phibsboro.
won’t the interconnector be a bored tunnel terminating at spencer dock? in this case the only work at stephen’s green would be a station, that could presumably be cut and covered with the closure of just one side of the green.
kaisersosa, the thing is to have something for dcu and ballymun and the north fringe, if not the metro then a luas line, a luas line might be more appropriate for the densities.
J.Seerski, why isn’t the internconnector a good idea? it is clear that something has to be done to increase capacity across the liffey and something needs to be done to allow through running of the kildare commuter trains to somewhere people want to go.
so isn’t the point just that the green line from the canal south has better clearance so as to allow it to be upgraded to a metro, so, there is no problem with integrating the two luas lines as luas lines but it wouldn’t be easy, nor of course sensible, to convert the red line to a metro.
i’m with phil, pedestrianization has a very particular affect on streets and can detract from their character on occassion. capel street needs traffic reduction, it needs it badly, but it would be a pity if it lost the diversity of specialist shops or its commercial feel.
i think it is difficult to find a use for the aib banking hall, it is protected in a very detailed way, as is right, and the offices above and around it are in use. the original plan was to use it as a single point of access for college services.
if there was access from the street as well as from the station, it would get you across two busy roads and, if it would have spectacular views. the big difficulty would be building it with wheel chair access from the street.
