shweeney
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good photos – though (as mentioned earlier in this thread) Dev didn’t occupy this mill – it was the other Bolands Mill.
how did you get access btw? Or am I better off not asking – the place looks fairly dangerous…
25 lids a trip – guess it won’t be an attractive alternative to the Luas then.
shame they’ve abandoned the pints of guinness idea though, that would’ve ruled!
its the money!
its the money!!
its the money!!!metro north looks great on paper and I’d love to see something like that in the city, but I don’t think we can possibly justify spending €6 billion on it. If you were to spend just €1billion on a proper bus service for the city you could something much more wide-reaching and effective in a fraction of the time.
And I’m not talking about giving the money to Dublin Bus, – we could create a new network from scratch with properly though-out routes, priority measures and passenger information systems, possibly augmenting an expanded Luas network, again with proper priority which the existing network does not have.
If we could build the Metro for a billion (how much did Madrid’s cost??) then fine, but 6 billion is outrageous and not justifiable for a project that only serves a small area of the city.
@StephenC wrote:
I cant imagine it being a very pleasant park given our environment but perhaps that will all change with global warming,
global warming is going to make Ireland wetter and windier (it may already be happening) – not good news for anyone planning a park 12 storeys up. O’Connell Street may be a plastic tacky mess, but this proposal is just a glass-and-chrome tacky mess.
it looks completely nuts to me – they’re knocking a huge hole in that side of O’Connell St, the roof garden looks daft and will be windswept and unuseable for much of the year (our climate is clearly getting windier too), and why are the moving the Carlton facade?? Either leave it where it is and incorporate it into the new development, or just demolish it. Its a nice building but its not worth the trouble of moving it…
theres been some noise on the Metro letters page this week about the impact of this development on the GPO.
Am I right in saying that its only a small section of the GPO that is involved here, and it not a publicly accessible area anyway?
@StephenC wrote:
Perhaps some cosmetic changes can be put in place. For example can the overhead wires be removed and replace with an electricity source at track level?
retrofitting the entire DART fleet to be compatible with track power might be a tad pricey and disruptive.
there should have been some increase in capacity – even if it meant moving the stadium to another location (the docks, or the irish bottle plant site) – 65,000 would probably do it. It looks nice, but i’ll probably only ever see the outside of it.
the idea of having some terracing is an interesting one – schalke 04 in germany have a terraced section in their new ground which can be easily converted to seats when they play in european matches (where terracing is verboten). Given that LR is a joint rugbysoccer stadium maybe something similar could have been considered. There’s no ban on terracing for rugby matches, and it does add to the atmosphere – an opportunity missed by the IRFU there.
