tullamore skate park

neilk32

tullamore skate park is built and open day is nxt saturday starting at 11.am if anyone wants to head down to it. theres gonna b a dj and lots of food. it would really be appreciated by the locals in tullamore. Its a modular skate park but its really good for modular. Its all just a big street couse. Pics coming soon.....

neilk32

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tullamore, for a modular park , you must be jokin , well how good is it, that looks identical to the one in dunboyne or dunshaughlin

boarderco

is it me or are these parks popping up like flys on the windscreen!
typical of ireland to be 20 years late and then do a have arsed job!
lets hope they start putting in a little thinking into the parks..
for a modular it looks ok.. but for the money they spend they could have such a better one even outa wood!
happy skating the new terrains.
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www.boardercoeire.com

neilk32

its not all about what the park is like or what not. Its about showing the locals in tullamore what the scene is like...

Kenjd

i think its a fine example of a skaterink!

ok We all know the problem with these is that they can be moved/torn down replaced etc. with ease!

JahEerie

It looks like some of the councils are workin off 1 'shopping list'
- no doubt supplied by Rhino/Eibe or some other modular playground shifter.
WHEN WILL PEOPLE REALISE THAT CONCRETE IS THE ONLY SUSTAINABLE MATERIAL FOR IRISH SKATEPARKS?????
Have they not noticed the rain......?

Bushy, Lucan, Greystones & Gorey are/will be European-standard parks
- all the other modular muck will be wrecked/burned/forgotten about in a year

If councils actually want to do something for the longterm, forget about modular & get with da 'crete.

Once again, if there's somethin happenin in your area GET INVOLVED
If we don't try to make it happen who will?
From personal experience, most council people are clueless - and da whole skatepark thing is a pain in da arse for em.
Havin helped out with Bushy & Lucan, I know that its possible to get good parks built - but it takes hard work.

Get stuck in

JohnBoy

fisheye

Amen brother.

Kenjd

Well said Jah! Although if there is free food i'd skate anything!!! Any chili dogs on the go? Got a map to this monstrousity then Neil?? Post it in the directions thread.

neilk32

From Dublin
1. N4/N6 (West) to Galway:
N4/N6 to Kinnegad exit and take the N6 for Galway. Continue as far as Kilbeggan
and take left for Tullamore(N52).
2. N7 to Cork:
Follow the M7. Take Portarlington/Tullamore exit. Continue through Portarlington and follow signs for Tullamore passing through Cloneygowan and Geashill.

there the directions anyway i'll try to find a good map of where it is in tullamore. its in tullamore town park which is pretty easy to find.

lostexpectation

JahEerie wrote:

It looks like some of the councils are workin off 1 'shopping list'
- no doubt supplied by Rhino/Eibe or some other modular playground shifter.
WHEN WILL PEOPLE REALISE THAT CONCRETE IS THE ONLY SUSTAINABLE MATERIAL FOR IRISH SKATEPARKS?????
Have they not noticed the rain......?

Bushy, Lucan, Greystones & Gorey are/will be European-standard parks
- all the other modular muck will be wrecked/burned/forgotten about in a year

If councils actually want to do something for the longterm, forget about modular & get with da 'crete.

Once again, if there's somethin happenin in your area GET INVOLVED
If we don't try to make it happen who will?
From personal experience, most council people are clueless - and da whole skatepark thing is a pain in da arse for em.
Havin helped out with Bushy & Lucan, I know that its possible to get good parks built - but it takes hard work.

Get stuck in

JohnBoy

surely there is one person near the top that deals with these things and you get him to cop on to concrete, it seems like there isn't very much time for people to get involved before they appear

JahEerie

lostexpectation wrote:

surely there is one person near the top that deals with these things and you get him to cop on to concrete, it seems like there isn't very much time for people to get involved before they appear

Legally there's supposed to be some 'consultation' but the level varies greatly from 1 project to the next.
Usually the council person 'on the ground' (meetin skaters, etc) isn't really the decision maker. As time goes on it should become easier to convince these people on the benefits of 'crete' - unfortunately there'll be plenty of modular mistakes before we get to that.

Bottom line is that any council that's considering building will have skaters/bikers in the area (or they wouldn't bother buildin anythin)
If the locals don't have the knowledge/experience to advise, they should ask for help - this site is a good example of somewhere people can bounce ideas around. There really are only a few reputable building companies workin in lil ol' Ireland, so anybody who bothers doin any research will be able to contact people who know what they're at.

The reality is that some councils are happy to go for the 'quick fix' - even tho a permanent (concrete) facility doesn't actually cost much more in the long run. Its an education thing really - they'll cop on eventually.

Later,

JohnBoy

lostexpectation

JahEerie wrote:

Legally there's supposed to be some 'consultation' but the level varies greatly from 1 project to the next.
Usually the council person 'on the ground' (meetin skaters, etc) isn't really the decision maker. As time goes on it should become easier to convince these people on the benefits of 'crete' - unfortunately there'll be plenty of modular mistakes before we get to that.

Bottom line is that any council that's considering building will have skaters/bikers in the area (or they wouldn't bother buildin anythin)
If the locals don't have the knowledge/experience to advise, they should ask for help - this site is a good example of somewhere people can bounce ideas around. There really are only a few reputable building companies workin in lil ol' Ireland, so anybody who bothers doin any research will be able to contact people who know what they're at.

The reality is that some councils are happy to go for the 'quick fix' - even tho a permanent (concrete) facility doesn't actually cost much more in the long run. Its an education thing really - they'll cop on eventually.

Later,

JohnBoy

but surely there was somebody at the start higher up who pushed this through, who does the council go to when it decides to build a park is the not some national plan or set of guidelines, or even just a budget suggestion where you could put a be big use concrete stamp on it.
where do they get the idea that there anything other then concrete skateparks.

JahEerie

There are plenty of companies out there that will happily extract a council from its (OUR!) cash. If skaters/bikers don't get directly involved, your local council wil probably not know a good park from a bad park.
Unfortunately there isn't an all-powerful official who oversees this
- if there was it would be so much easier to promote concrete & the good guys who build with it.

Use Bushy, Lucan & (under construction) Gorey & Greystones as good examples.
There are loads of bad examples out there too - Dunshaughlin, Galway, Roscrea, Tullamore, etc, etc....

If there's somethin happenin that ya know about, get involved

JohnBoy

PS - Bushy will be open next week (probably mid-week)