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sorry, i ment filling in to a depth of .75 metres. i get the docklands newletter so i have heard all this about the stage, but wasn’t so inclined to believe it really.
as it happens i am a rocket scientist and i don’t think you are right about the shot-peening and staining.
it seems to be working quite well, the developers will still get the heights and density they want, but the east and north wall community will get a say in the location, nature and organization of public space and amenities. what it will hopefully mean is that the new developments will be more permiable and outward looking, the adversarial keep them out approach certainly hasn’t worked.
why are the ddda filling in the basin beside the stock house a, is it really so bad if people swim and fish?
isn’t the metro supposed to do more than link us to the airport brian, its is supposed to allow people to get in from ballymun, it is supposed to link dcu to town and it is supposed to be the first part of a metro system. a mainline link to the airport would also be good and would get people from the airport into town faster, but wouldn’t remove the need for a metro system. of course, an alternative would be a heavy rail link to the airport and a luas line linking ballymun, north fringe, dcu etc, but that might not be much cheaper, it would have a lower capacity and it would take up road space.
“the jury has commenced its deliberations and it is expected that a decision will be taken before the end of the summer”
for the docklands news, delivered free to houses in the ddda area.
Ok, that’s more in line with what I thought. Pity about the eight storey blocks, they are quite handsome. Obviously these were terrible to live in in the past, but refurbished and with suitable aid to the tenant communities and with more amenities and so on in Ballymun itself, couldn’t they have had a future.
i am mildly obsessed by the idea that tcd should buy this and turn it into student accomadation. at the moment most dublin students live away from the center of town, now i know students can get under foot sometimes, but lots of things the student dollar goes on are desirable from a city living pov and having a few hundred students in hawkins house would be a boon, it would certainly help make rebuilding and extending the screen worthwhile and might make the temple bar more interesting. on the other hand, maybe the footprint is the wrong shape to allow conversion to residential use, if so, that would explain why nothing is happening, there is no market for second hand offices at the moment.
on a similar note, i never understood while they don’t leave some of the ballymun spine buildings standing and put dcu students in them. i can see the towers had to go for symbolic reasons, but the rest?
I am normally quite pro An Taisce, I mean I usually disagree with them, but they represent an opinion and argue for it in a rational way, but this is bizaar, how can someone be called to resign for holding an opinion in good faith. Stupid.
redeoin, dublin airport is used lots of people from outside dublin, it would be useful to link to mainline rail, at the moment none of our airports are easily accessible by rail and if you live outside dublin this is a real hassle. If the metro is going as far as d’olier street, how much harder would it be to link to pearse? the link to connelly and the otherhand is an irrational ir/rpa obsession and it is right to drop it.
Rory W, connecting to Tara Street doesn’t connect the Metro to the main line rail, it would be good if someone could get from Kildare to the Airport with only one change, getting a Dart from Connolly to Tara and then a metro north would be a pain in the arse. However, the discussion above provides a partial answer: connect to the platform 11 d-connector and run some of the trains through from Heuston, this won’t help you if you are coming from Maynooth, but you can’t do everything with a single line.
no link to connelly, no link to pease, stop at o’cll and another on d’olier street with a travellator to tara. mixed feelings myself, seems silly to have a big curve in the link, but this simplified version is inconvenient i guess to people getting a mainline train into dublin and then a metro to the airport.
indo is free by the way, you just have to register.
well nothing could be done about paddy powers: changing a bank into a bookies doesn’t count as a change of use. actually, i am quite pro having a bookies on o’connell street but that’s a different story.
hey, do remember there was a plan to put up a spike or something up on o’connell street, they should have gone ahead with that, does anyone know why they didn’t, its so typical of the lack of imagination in this country.
hey naz78, i didn’t mean to suggest you didn’t have the right to an opinion, i just wanted to mock your question about the metro, arguement, and indeed mockery, is not censorship.
i think there is some similar point to be made about skyscrapers etc, i lived for a while in new york, which of course has a fantastic skyline, along with all the other good things, and, of course, part of the reason for that is that there are lots of people who are very critical of every proposal, along with a lot of proposals, out of the mediation of extremes comes excellence. The other important thing is that for geological reasons there are only two areas in nyc with high rise, it will be three in the future, and they are all grouped together and land in the high rise zones is much fought over. Just wanting to build skysrapers to make some point is a disaster, equally well, capping the height in the ddda area is foolish when there is no cogent planning or architecture reason to do so.
As for the area of Dublin Port with numbered streets, that is the actual port where ships come in and are unloaded.
