The Denouncer
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Yeah I always liked the view from the Grand Canal onto the Treasury Building and Grand Canal Plaza, though a walk down Barrow St. and the top of Pearse St. disappoints as it always seem so far from completion.
I would love to see litter wardens 24/7 armed with tazers..seriously the last time i was on O’Connel St. a lady with babe in arms just dropped ice-cream wrappers on the ground, not a bother..nobody to report to, nobody caring..the usual.
Very interested in this as I work right beside it, and those concrete slabs are an eyesore! Can’t wait for them to be either demolished or regenerated into a mean, clean, glass gherkinesque structure..
Ah, I am beginning to see improvements at Tara St. at last.. an incredibly slow rollout, but looking better. Pearse St. could do with a lick of paint though..in fact, why don’t they install large plasma screens in the station or something to help give the station a bit of a modern sheen? Would enable a multitude of advertising to be shown at a quite the pretty penny. Irish Rail seem to be very conservative.
Yep a nice Metro. If I want to go to Dundrum I’ll jump on the Metro, which will stop at the airport. Tourists will get on impressed at the beautiful light rail transportation. 20 minutes later I will be at St. Stephens Green. Then, should it please me, I will head on to Dundrum knowing that on the way back I don’t have to drag bags of shopping or whatever on the bus for a 1.5 hour trip to Swords.
Swords is getting that way anyway. I don’t think you’d find a single person in Swords who would be against the Metro, Because everyone knows how bad the buses are.
If I got a bus into my job the whole journey would be closer to 2 hours than the hour it currently is by driving to Donabate and getting a train. I once listened to a girl on the train moan about people driving from Swords to get the train in her beloved Donabate, as that has loads of new apartments going up too.
However if you’re moving to Swords you have to take everything into consideration, and look at all modes of transport..and I’m afraid if you work on the DART line on the Southside of the Liffey the buses just don’t cut it.
Still you could watch a 90 minute movie on the bus.Originally posted by a boyle
It is also a fact that the port tunnel provides an enormous amount of space for a bus service to fly people in and out of the city,swords, and the airport. Finnally buses using the port tunnel will get to the city faster than the tram. This was not, i repeat not examined by the consultants when examining the case for the metro north .It is quite clearly a gift from de taoiseach to de north side.
It is so wastefull and will have such little impact for the first 15 years of operation that if we continue this discussion much further i might just explode!!!
Well the southside has de LUAS, the Westside has de LUAS, the East coast has de DART.
I for one CANNOT WAIT for de Metro, as I live in Swords. I currently drive to Donabate to catch de train..Donabate with a tiny population compared to Swords, a growing, crowded town (the capital of Fingal) served by Airport feeding bus routes in most cases, taking up to 1.5 hours to get into the City Centre.
As for de Port Tunnel..that will be a jam packed route off the M1, during peak hours would take 40 minutes to get that far from an Airport serving bus from Swords and then what? Chaos. the stink that will be kicked up by truckers..the congestion..WELCOME TO DUBLIN tourists, here is the famous PORT TUNNEL from hell.So “a boyle”, let me light de fuse!
i would like to see a huge vistor centre built, with information on Irish history as well as a full rundown of city events, and touristy things to do. A huge model of the city could be laid out, with future developments as well as existing landmarks..and large screens showing a virtual map of the City Centre which tourists can use to plan their day. I believe Cardiff have something similar – we badly need one here in Dublin..perhaps on the site of the Carlton Cinema or is that too small?
Anyway it should be close to O’Connell St.Keeping an eye on this development out the window here and they have piled a load of muck up outside, loads of activity. Seems to be motoring.
If everyone on this Forum got into power, within 10 years Ireland would be transformed into a gleaming, modern, high rise city, with superb transport, health service, education and gardai on every street corner!
Yes whats going on with this – it would look great gleaming in the Airport, as visitors to the country would remark “Wow, this leads me to the conclusion that Ireland is a wealthy modern European country, and I will return”
Originally posted by a boyle
There’s no need to capitulate ! if you don’t like it, you don’t like it !In fairness if they cleaned off the marks .. and maybe when the street is complete, it’ll pass the test of my approval.
Well, I was prepared to give it the benefit except I’m not too crazy on those marks near the base. Every time I see them it puts me off, it looks like it got damaged when it was wrapped up and they didn’t realise until the whole sculpture was unveiled, then took off the wrapping to reveal a damaged base. I read some stuff about “making the design equate to the soil particals” or some such nonsense but I don’t believe it for one moment. It’s a mistake, a testimonial of ineptitude permanently ingrained on this monument to fallacy. Hate the damn thing.
The Dublin view in the paper in comparison to the rest is crazy, from Guinness Gravity bar. St. Patricks cathedral and loads of cranes, with the ‘huge’ Millennium Tower sitting pretty in the distance! I think they should put a CNN Tower-type somewhere in the city..never really liked The Spire..its good for giving directions though..”Do you know where the famous Arnott is?”..”See that big pointy silver needle there? Well, follow that.”
