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but there is no way the luas won’t help their businesses, whatever the origin woman might say about the luas carrying the wrong kind of people.
its just luck, sometimes infrastructure changes are good for you, sometimes they are bad. if there isn’t a mechanism for charging you when they are good for business, there shouldn’t be one for compensating you when they are bad.
i can’t really answer your question of the top of my head, but, i do remember that about three years ago representative of the disabled students wanted to criss-cross the area with smooth pathways for wheelchair users and the college refused on the grounds that the pebbles were historic and an integral part of the look of the college.
but alan d, how come the irish team plays better than the national league because our good player play in england, but the scots teams play worse because the national league players aren’t scottish? doesn’t having a good national league encourage good players?
i am ignorant on this topic myself, soccer to me is just what comes between racing results.
alan d, re soccer, it always seems to me that the scottish teams do ok in europe, its only the national side that’s shite, which i don’t understand.
of course, history and reputation are alot of it, but, really, based on this, ucd doesn’t have as good an international repuation as it deserves whereas tcd is better than it should be. i worked abroad for a good while, in different universities, and i would never have come back to ucd because of its international status. i think the prestigeous buildings and the city centre location have a lot to do with this, along with the winner-takes all attitude people have when there is more than one university in the same city. ucc is doing very well and probably matches or beats ucd internationally, this is partly, i think, location and appearance.
sorry, no big insult, but the discussion partly touched on the importance of a city centre site versus a site with lots of room for expansion. i am argueing that a city centre site is an important asset when building and maintaining an international profile in research. my experience is that ucd doesn’t get the profile it deserves and has trouble attracting first rate international scientists because of its location, which is a pity, espessially given the quality and commitment of its existing staff.
of course, the situation with architecture courses is different and something i know nothing about. lets not get caught into some silly ucd versus tcd arguement, the arguement was city centre versus lots of room, fitting modern lab space into a site containing old buildings versus building on green fields.
by department i mean my own department, which is the Department of Spelling.
ucd is out in the sticks. i work in tcd and we get lots of visitorsl; scientists who come to give talks; almost none have ever heard of ucd and none bother visiting the deptment out there because it is too far from the centre and they can’t be bothered. in fact, they are more inclined to go to Maynooth to visit there because it is on the train line.
Graham Hickey, i have always liked the design at the bottom, but agree that the line of discoloration is a huge problem, it detracts alot from the spike when you are close to it. is it always going to be like that, or, when the whole thing is cleaned, will it look better, without the obvious line?
thanks diaspora, its the revised and more detailed spencer dock masterplan i am looking for if anyone knows where it can be found.
further to our own previous discussion about the interconnector and the metro, i guess you and the ie articles in the paper today have convinced me that the interconnector is important, i still amn’t so sure about the metro, it seems to me that there are better and cheaper ways to connect to the airport.
its meaning is that we no longer need our monuments with meaning; it symbolizes our liberation from symbolism. it is also useful for giving directions and not really so expensive and, if it stops people crying, it was money well spent.
what you said is true blue, but with administration office rather than lecture theatres.
would hate to see nuzum bros go, also the old bicycle factory, and indeed the terrace as a whole. there is easily a better way to reintroduce access from pearse street and to build behind these buildings.
i am shocked if that’s true, i thought retention of the pearse street facades was part of the strategic plan. when was the application submitted?
as a acedemic research scientist let me comment that the city centre location and prestegious buildings is a huge asset to trinity. in a research career, one important thing is status, you try and move up, and status is linked partly to prestegious buildings and city centre locations. this help alot when recruiting researchers from abroad and any move from the current site would be stupid. tcd has a huge advantage over ucd when it comes to international perception and hiring, whatever about the domestic situation.
the way pearse street has been treated is terrible, also the lincoln corner. the college is trying to improve, it promises to renovate the pearse street fronts at a rate of two a year, it is reopening the lincoln inn and is going to build student accomadation between luas hall and the street, though there is no money for much at the moment. there are plans to build behind the pearse street buildings, but not to encroach on the existing green space. there are no plans to build between nassau street and the park, nor is it likely any development that intruded on the view from nassau street would ever be allowed.
as for the colleges ability to expand beyond the island site, there is still the an post site behind pearse station, the innovation centre on pearse street where the craft tower is, the new space on foster place and the move to the bord gais building.
I have mixed feelings about the Garden of Rememberance, it is clear alot more could be done with that site, on the other hand, the Garden itself is so typical of its time and of that old fashioned attitude to the national struggle, it would be a pity to lose it. What would be best, I think, would be to try and preserve elements of the memorial, the sculpting, the cross shaped reflecting pool, within an enlarged, redesigned and more open park.
the fact is there isn’t enough hard stand accomadation in dublin, very little permanent and virtually no temporary. before we start criticizing where travellers stop, we need to change this situation.
there is also no legal accomadation between the canals, and no discussion of how this could be provided. i have suggested before running some sort of competition, say for students, to consider how culturally appropriate accomadation traveller accomadation could be provided in an urban context. I am happy to give a small amount of money, say half a grand, as a prize, does anyone have suggestions about how such a thing could be organized.
stuck for entertainment, you need to go dog racing:
Disapora, you aren’t comparing like with like, using the Phoenix park tunnel and providing a luas link with stephen’s green wouldn’t cost more that 1/2 a billion, the interconnector would cost over a billion; a metro to stephens green from the airport would cost 2.7 billion, a spur of the dart line, a heavy rail connection and a luas line all to the airport wouldn’t add up to more than a billion and would connect the airport to the dart belt and to the rest of the country. this is real money, there is lots of things that could be done with the 2.2 billion in the difference, i would like to see more spent on scientific research and education, you persumably would like to more spent on conservation and the environment, it could even be spent on other transport projects, like extending the luas, dart and heavy rail networks. don’t just compare the interconnector and metro line to stephens green with the alternatives, compare them with the alternatives plus 2.2 billion euro.
