Bushy park skatepark build starts tuesday

shagman

It's been a good week for skateparks.Preliminary work on Bushy park will start on tuesday (mondays a bank hol).

da7a

excellent! any idea how long it will be under construction?
Im really looking forward to skating it!
its only up the road from work for me so im sure ill be spending a lot of evenings there....

skate4evr

deadly! cant wait for that! any idea when its gonna be done? im gonna spend like most of my summer there! its only 20 mins from y house so it shud be good

FX Meister

Looks pretty fly. Long overdue too.

Mimikyu

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Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Where abouts in the park is it going to be?

FX Meister

Duh, where the tennis courts are. Tennis is gay anyway.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Oh be nice...!

skate4evr

FX whats ur deal? u wer being a faggit before saying kids needed their tennis courst and stuff now you're being cool about it. It's great you're being cool about it and all but like, why the sudden change of heart?

FX Meister

I've had no sudden change of heart? What are you on about? You must have me confused with someone else dude.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

skate4evr wrote:

FX whats ur deal? u wer being a faggit before saying kids needed their tennis courst and stuff now you're being cool about it. It's great you're being cool about it and all but like, why the sudden change of heart?

He also secretly has a crush on Chuck Norris...!

skate4evr

hey does anyone kow when its gonna be done by?

seamus

If only this had been built when I were a lad....

Good to see it

JahEerie

The preliminary stuff is scheduled for today - fencing/site clearance, etc.
Its scheduled to take (approx) 10 weeks, but with builders ya never know....
That said, Geth Noble (Mr Airspeed) is overseeing things so it should be bangin!

Keep a crafty eye on the site (far end of the tennis courts) cos I'd expect to see some of the disgruntled local residents lying down in front of JCBs
- they don't want this type of thing in " their park ".

Good things come to those who wait...etc.

JohnBoy

fisheye

Something similar happened at a concrete park in Wales last year. The local residents ended up smashing up the construction machinery and ruined damp concrete in an effort to waste some of the budget - the guilty parties were convicted of criminal damages IIRC...

skate4evr

10 weeks eh? deadly! so whens the actual building beginning?

68 lost souls

Was in the park today, work has started but they havent really got much done, just put up the fences and startedt clearing. They still havent finished putting all the fences up but there was a mixer running for concrete which means they must be close to putting some down.

Jello

Woo!! About time too.
About a minute walk from my school, so I can see myself spending an awful long time there next year.

red_ice

Jello wrote:

Woo!! About time too.
About a minute walk from my school, so I can see myself spending an awful long time there next year.

about a minute walk from my old school too

it will take a total of 4 minutes for me to get from my house to the park - sweet!

skate4evr

so any update on how its goin?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Well, they've dug up the ground.... and that's about it!

skate4evr

are they gettin anywhere with this? like what've they got done now?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Still digging. Some nice baby cygnets on the pond though!

Am working 10 mins away from it, will drop over middle of next week with a camera.

skate4evr

ah cool thanks

Skatedude

excellent, some photos would b good.

FX Meister

In the local free paper the Rathfarnam Times it has been reported that they have found remains that are believed to be from a early Viking settlement. All work has ceased until the area can be provisionally excavated to determine if the find is of value. It says this may take anything from 6 to 12 weeks depending on how much material they have to work through.

68 lost souls

You better be ripping the **** Ive never even heard of the Rathfarnham Times.

FX Meister

Really? You can pick it up in a lot of the shops around the area. I'll try and the article and scan it tonight.

Jello

68 lost souls wrote:

You better be ripping the **** Ive never even heard of the Rathfarnham Times.

Me neither.

Very funny FX.

skate4evr

i was just up there today and i didnt see any stuff from vikings, there'd be ALOT of media attention from it if there was stuff there! and so somehow i doubt that there really is

nellieswellies

I would not be surprised, there has been a fair amount of archiological finds around the rathfarnham area over the years

68 lost souls

No I was there today at lunch and they were working away. Plus they are going nowhere near deep enough to find anything of any archealogical value.

Jello

Was there at luch break today and they've basically just dug a big hole in the ground, after, what a month working? And they wanna have it finished soon? I think it'll take a lot longer than expected...

red_ice

they are digging up a previously built on surface. Its a former tennis court for gods sake.

I was there last week, and i took 3 pics of the site. I hope to be there every week or 2 to take pics to keep the lads up to date. They are takin on my mobile phone - its 1.3mp, so dont expect much in quality... They are clear enough.

im in the uk at the moment, so i dont have my phone stuff to get the pics off it. Ill do it when iget back(wed)

adiobam

Umm i dont wanna sound thick but where is bushy park??

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Between Terenure and Rathfarmnha, just north of the Dodder River.
Redice - where do you take the pics from...? There are no good vantage points!! I had to climb a tree at one point and still got rubbish

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

On second thoughts, got some....

Skateboard-IRL

shagman wrote:

It's been a good week for skateparks.Preliminary work on Bushy park will start on tuesday (mondays a bank hol).

Exellent!!! Designs look class!!:D

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Monday June 12th...

Doesn't look like much, but the holes are a good big bigger and deeper....

skate4evr

When are they gettin in the cement mixers? at this rate its not gonna be done for ages....

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

UPDATE....

Thursday June 22nd
Seems to be taking a bit of shape now... still looking at early August completion date, though...

nialo

Tis a ****ing joke. They closed off the only basketball court there to build the skate park... how many tennis courts have they left open! ****ing stupid the lot of them.

Ya im pissed they closed the court.

skate4evr

yeah it was a pretty ****e thing to do actually, the one place like! it woulda bin grand on any of the tennis courts but they chose the one basketball court! ah well theres alot more basketball courts in ireland, as it is, then there is skateparks

5ideshow

one of the crew said they were going to start pouring the concrete this week
ooooooooooohhhhhhh yeah

FX Meister

What? They took the basketball court away? What a pack of morons.

segasega

Ye was there the other day, they have done a few sections with concrete now, looks deep! That crazy american designer is going to kill alot of people with this bowl!

shagman

It's not deep at all it will only be 8ft deep at the deepest section of the big bowl. It was going to be deeper but allowances had to be made for the depth the drainage had been set at.
Deeper does not allways equate to being more dangerous anyway as usually a deep bowl will have a bigger transition giving more space to slide out.
They do feel scarier to ride though!

oldskool

First post today guys, been watching in the wings for a short time though.
Any photos of progress at bushy if they have started to pour 'crete? It's a long way for me ( co. antrim ) but I hope to be at ramp city on sunday morning for a skate - Do any of you guys skate there - maybe we have met?
We are trying to get a skatepark up here - check us out at : www.acusa.co.uk

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

oldskool wrote:

First post today guys, been watching in the wings for a short time though.
Any photos of progress at bushy if they have started to pour 'crete? It's a long way for me ( co. antrim ) but I hope to be at ramp city on sunday morning for a skate - Do any of you guys skate there - maybe we have met?
We are trying to get a skatepark up here - check us out at : www.acusa.co.uk

Will have something for you Monday evening, weather permitting...

Beks

It certainly does look deep, but if the transitions aren't too steep then that's fine. I've seen part of the shallow end concreted, and it looks good, but even that looks deep too. Maybe it's just cos I can't get a proper look at it though, I'm sure it will be fine. The spine looks like it's gonna be pretty steep though!! It's too early to tell yet though, I haven't really seen much of it, I might pop there on the weekend and see how its progressed. It's pretty exciting anyway because I live so close to it. Really looking forward to having something new to ride.

Does anyone know yet what regulations are going to be enforced by the clubhouse? Opening times? Restrictions? Whatever?

StephenCD

Transitions will be fine, looks like 5foot with 7.5 transitions