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Yeah theres loads of tiny places in the US called cities, and they tell you that too, Junction City, Great Plains City etc.
What is the population limit for a city in Ireland? And are there any places that might be a city soon? I think Sligo and Clonmel are going that way.
I remember people suggesting that a tram go down Patricks street. Surely that is impossible given the extremely acute bend at Daunt square?
@KerryBog2 wrote:
In the Irish vacuum there also was punitive taxation (Hearth Tax, Window Tax, Tithes, etc.), KB2
I was talking about this with the da a while back when we entered an old house with a very low doorway. While I argued that this was because people were smaller in those years due to poorer nutrition, he argued that there was a door tax. Is this right?
And how did you tax a hearth? By its homeliness?
@AndrewP wrote:
If I was from Cork, I’d say nay very loudly and insist on light rail. There’s no such thing as a Luas-style bus system. It’s like promising an aeroplane-like boat system.
That’d be a hydrofoil
Has anyone actually seen this plan? Does it offer anything new at all other than hackneyed phrases and suggestions?
@Coolbawn wrote:
Yep, tis in Rathnure!
I can seen it from the end of my lane!
Tis actually falling down around the sides! The picture shows the walls that are intact still!
Floors are all burnt out as well, so quite a steep fall if you go into it!!Thats! Wonderful!!
It would be a bit of a disgrace if the second city of Ireland was left out of such a competition.
I remember back to the time when ireland bid with Scotland for the Euro 2008. It was a bit silly considering that the only stadiums offered by Ireland were in Dublin. Also none of the Irish stadia were actually confirmed at the time. Croke Park was not open for soccer at the time. The new Landsdowne was only at the very start of an uncertain building process. Abbotstown was a grandiose pipe dream.
Twould be great to see intermnational matches being played in Cork. And the concerts we could have! U2, Killers, Chris De Burgh, Big Tom – all selling out. Please God I’ll live to see the day.
Just as a matter of interest, does anyone know what the oldest building in the city is?
Other than the city walls or anything of course.
Brownswood house actually used to be an ordinary Georgian country house until 1896 when it was converted into a mock Tudor mansion, which was the reason why Gray disliked it.
There’s pictures of the two in Collins barracks.
Yeah, I remember when a dutch submarine pulled up there about 18 months ago. I asked if I could board and have a look around, but to no avail.
Does that bridge look like a Shinto gate after collapsing to anyone?
phil wrote:Something tells me he wasn’t the most humble of characters]Within months, however, and with Badovici’s encouragement, Le Corbusier had begun painting a series of eight murals on the walls of E-1027 (Fernand Léger had painted his first mural on the garden wall of Badovici’s house in Vézelay in 1934). Gray called Le Corbusier’s murals “an act of vandalism.” After the war, in 1949, he published photographs of his “murals at Cap Martin”, without mentioning her. “The villa that I animated with my paintings was very beautiful, white on the interior, and it could have managed without my talents,” he admitted, before claiming that the murals “burst out from dull, sad walls where nothing is happening . . . an immense transformation, a spiritual value introduced throughout.”
@THE_Chris wrote:
In other words its a long bus, NOT a tram. I wish they’d stop advertising it as a tram, because its not.
I wish that they’d stop calling them guided busses too. All busses are guided. Its not as if they roam the city streets independently, foraging for diesel and passengers.
That wright streetcar is exactly the thing that was outside the city hall a few months ago.
@pleanala wrote:
Why are they [Bus Trams] a farce?
Bus trams are a farce because they are nothing more than busses being run off of overhead power lines. I see them as being quite pointless as they offer pretty much the same service as busses, but have a fancy tag on them. Perhaps the city council plans on using them because they wish to fool people into thinking that they have trams.
”look, look” they say, ”Look at our progressive and exciting bus trams”
They are sometimes refered to as guided busses, but why not use normal busses. The variation is slight, and i’m sure that Bus trams cost more as the overhead lines have to be sorted out. Why don’t they give us proper trams if thery are going to do it at all?
@blue wrote:
I’ve seen a few anti-war/anti-globalisation stencils in Dublin and some are very good.
Stencils certainly beat tagging as a street art form.
I quite like the use of blood red in this one:
An anti-war stencil in Dublin.Bah
I saw some of that reverse graffiti in london a few weeks back. It was an ad for a taxicab company sandblasted or powerwashed onto the pavement. Fairly cheap form of adverising I’ld bet.
@jungle wrote:
I never understood why the motorway network had to so closely mirror the existing road network.
If you’d created a motorway from Dublin that went west of Carlow and east of Kilkenny and then split for Cork and Waterford with another motorway going west that would split for Limerick and Waterford at some point in the Midlands, you could have achieved the same coverage for much less motorway built. Instead, we have to get motorways that follow almost the exact route of the N6, 7, 8, 9 etc where there were already decent enough roads.
Actually that was the way that the road used to go until thirty or forty years ago. I calculated that it would be an extra thirty or so miles to go from cork to dublin that way. That makes an overall saving of 50 miles (give or take 20 miles) of road that would have to be built.
How much does a DC cost per mile?
Yeah I thought that the tower would be a lot taller and slender, but once the elevator shaft went up I thought that it looked fairly small. Hopefully the spire will add to its impression of height
