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Melborne have this system where all cars had to be fitted with an electronic device which was activated each time you entered the charge area. Each roadway has a kind of electronic toll booth on it. You then have until midnight that day to pay off your charge or else you face a fine. Its very high tech and simple. I think thats what they plan for London
Im not convinvced of the need to introduce congestion charging in the city centre. The CC is quite a small area – I would be mush more in favour of banning cars outright from the area and only allowing buses, taxis and motorbikes. Improved public transport in the form of an expanded LUAS, better crosscity bus routes and proper cycling lanes would all benefit.
Interestingly, photos on fjp’s site show the street as being treeless in 1944! Which puts the 1916 rubbish to bed.
Do you remember in the heady days of the late 80s when it was proposed to put a canopy over the whole of Henry Street…. now that could be quite interesting. Personally I think the street is more suited to being under the open skies…its charachter would change to much.
Roches are in the midst of a revamp arent they so you can expect and improvement on their 70s monstrosity sometime next year. I think the biggest eyesore on the street is the Ilac centre. A redevelopment of this whole site has been touted for a couple of years now. I tried fishing for some info when I worked at Irish Life but there’s nothing mentioned on their websites.J
I wasn’t suggesting anyone HAD to get it listed. It was more a rhetorical comment. You’ll recall from earlier times when the Wiggs Teape building was demolished that many people were astonished that it hadnt been listed for protection. It was just a comment.Any idea what its going to look like? I am a bit concerned taht both Eden and Wellington Quays are being developedin a piecemeal way. There are some fine period structures on each quay and the overall scale of the quays has been quite uniform until now (with the exception of the Irish Press offices). I hope the new development will complement its surrounds.
There is great potential here. Hopefully the Abbey will be able to opt for a river fronting facade and teh proposed pedestrian bridge from Malborough to Hawkins Street will be built. Together with a reductiion of traffic on the quays there should be a chance to creat a nice little entertainments spot on Eden QuayI think the most disturbing thing about this proposal (apart from the fact that Ryanair will be responsible for the design and construction of suchy a high profile building) is the plan to make 10.000 car spaces available at half the present charge. Great! thats exactly whats needed. Not a dedicated light rail link or an underground like as a priority but room for more cars. What about the extra pressure on the M1. Its chokkablock as it is. What about the land that this car area will consume. What about the environmental impact.
You can bet Ryanair wont be that interested – O’Leary is after only one thing and he’s not really the type of guy who likes to sit down and consider the bigger picture.
Aer Rianta most definately have a case to answer at Dublin Airport…but is Ryanair really the best way forward?I think O’Connell Bridge is badly in need of a makeover. It cant be waiting on the street revamp or LUAS surely….its been like this for years! Again I cant see why they cant just get on with elements of the redevelopment plan while they are waiting to make progress on other more difficult areas like the Spire or the Carlton site or the LUAS area.
Why are we like this? Why does this disrespectful attitude prevail here (and in the UK). You just dont seem to hear of it on the continent. I know that’s probably a generalisation but I reckon it has more than a ring of truth.
It really gets me why people would have so little respect that they would destroy or damage their own surrounding and the environment they have to live in. There is another thread about council estates. Have you even seen the Pearse Street flats – they are a listed structure. They are popluated (by definition) by less affluent people who cant afford their own flat. The occupy prime city centre location. They are at the centre of a renewal project by DDDA. Tenants have no transport costs to get into the city and no hassles with public transport. Everything that the city has to offer is on their door step. Yet they are a state. Neglected, dirty, squalid. The buildings themselves arent that bad (as the new revamped flats in Sean McDermott St will show). So why do the people that LIVE there allow them to lie in such a bad state.
I agree, I think our media have a duty to try an educate people on just how better our built environment can be. I suppose it all boils down to resources but as all three dailys publish Property sections tellings us how wonderful its is to live in a cardbaord estate in Balbriggan (‘only three hours of traffic jams into town’) then they should balance their output with more ‘aspirational’ articles on better urban design
I wonder how many people have complained about this to the station master. And I wonder how many comments they have had about the poor condition of the station in general…?
Im going to write them a bloody letter now! Hands up who thinks I’ll get a satisfactory repsonse!Did Anne Graham say why its a taken so bloody long to get this far? Did she mention how long the rest of the street redesign will take?
language..!
On the theme of trees: Im in the UK at the moment and the current big story is ‘leaves on the line’, a huge problem at this time for the train companies. It seems that up until the 1960s BR cut back all the trees but stopped this for cost reasons (now theres foresight!)
However, try as the rail network company might to reintroduce the programme they continually come up against objections from eco-campaigners ot local activists.
I suppose the issue is the same everywhere.
