End of Westland Row (gate)!!

The Westland row gate is being closed for good

That, with the two disused entrances to the O'Reilly building is probably going to look very shabby...

xebec

Oh well, they're doing some nice work in that area at the moment, repaving and such. That corner is starting to look better than it ever has since I came to college. There's a nice view of what's going on from the Lloyd building.

Not sure how much sense there is in having a busy gate on Pearse St, but it will be the main access to the gym too which does make sense.

caffrey

thats lame, just keep them all open, lessen conjestion at all entrances, or if its a case of not wanting to have loads of people trapsing through just make it swipe access all the time

Crash

There were plans at one stage for a new proper entrance to college there, not sure whatever happened to that...

John

Damn, that's my entrance into the college for my weekly walk down memory lane when I get off the train at Pearse.

Pet

It's only a little bit around the side, practically on the corner of Pearse/Westland, so you won't have to walk too much further. Plus, it'll take you past the Lloyd.

King.Penguin

how do goldsmithes go in and out now? Via the sports hall? 24/7?

ApeXaviour

Overpass will be opened very soon. Making it feel more "on-campus" I suppose

New Pedestrian Entrance



The new pedestrian entrance at Pearse Street (East), adjacent to the Sports Centre and CRANN Building, will open with effect from 0730 hrs on Wednesday the 28th of March 2007.



The new gate will open daily at 0730 hrs and close at 1930 hrs until swipe card facilities are operational at which point the access arrangements at this gate will be exactly the same as the current arrangements at the Westland Row Pedestrian Gate. All staff and students will be notified when the swipe system is operational.



The Westland Row Pedestrian Gate will continue to operate as normal (in parallel with the New Gate) until 2330 hrs on Thursday the 5th of April 2007 at which time the Westland Row Gate will be permanently taken out of commission.



Noel McCann

Facilities Officer

Is it me, or does 'permanently taken out of commission' sound like they're going to blow the gate up?

ApeXaviour

It conveys (to me at least) that they're going to melt it down, for the war effort.

Nietzschean

aye it does sound alot like it, i wonder why the ORI never used its entrance to westland row? or did it for a while? too much taffic through the ORI foyer?

Always seemed like a bit of a waste.

fluppet

&#231 wrote: »

There were plans at one stage for a new proper entrance to college there

With the grand title of 'The Millennium Entrance' or something like that, I believe.

Crash

They didnt want to pay the costs of a full security presence at that desk, iirc. (The O'Reilly entrance, that is.)

xeduCat

There's currently a plan for a grand entrance as part of the Pearse development (site between Beckett theatre and Luce Hall). AFAIK that scheme is still somewhere in the planning process though; there was a dispute over the removal of some fronts and they still have to figure that bit out.

http://www.tcd.ie/Buildings/projectspearcestreet.php

(yes they spelled it wrong)

Papillon87

oh for god's sake, that's my entrance from the Dart. Grrr :mad:

xeduCat

xeduCat wrote:

http://www.tcd.ie/Buildings/projectspearcestreet.php

(yes they spelled it wrong)

You'd think College would actually hire some architects that could come up with the idea of a nice looking building.

caffrey

they should go back a few hundred years and find one of those lads who designed the museum building

caffrey

caffrey wrote:

they should go back a few hundred years and find one of those lads who designed the museum building

Best building on campus. Plus it was originally designed to be a green building.

Nietzschean

caffrey wrote:

they should go back a few hundred years and find one of those lads who designed the museum building

aye or could they just make a new bigger version of the same thing if they don't have any archtects capeable of doing something themselves...

cianclarke

&#231 wrote: »

They didnt want to pay the costs of a full security presence at that desk, iirc. (The O'Reilly entrance, that is.)

A very fair point, which is why they should make it swipe access!
If they closes that gate, that's my quick rush for cheap spar rolls gone. I'll have to walk another 30 metres... I mean really. :rolleyes:
The front of the O'Reilly looks disgraceful, and all it needs is a good power hose. At first I thought it'd be getting it once the building work is done, but I'm not so confident now...

europerson

Myth wrote:

You'd think College would actually hire some architects that could come up with the idea of a nice looking building.

Hear, hear. Whoever designed the Lloyd Institute, SNIAM and the Parsons Building Extension ought to be hanged. The SNIAM and the Lloyd Insitute are so mind-bogglingly ugly, it's really beyond comprehension. The Parsons Building Extension is nothing short of a disgrace: they just tried too hard and failed on every conceivable level.

Pet

At least you don't have to walk by the Lloyd on a regular basis.

I despise that building. It has not one redeeming feature, at least not architecturally. There are better-looking buildings in UCD..

The Parsons building extension is kinda cool however. That tree growing up in the middle of it is rather funky, and on the whole it's not so bad.

Crash

I love the integration stuff that was put into the SNIAM for when the lloyd was built, and then they forgot to build the other parts into the lloyd - ****ing ridiculuous.

&#231

&#231 wrote: »

I love the integration stuff that was put into the SNIAM for when the lloyd was built, and then they forgot to build the other parts into the lloyd - ****ing ridiculuous.

Like the suicide door* on the top floor of the SNIAM?

*Door which leads out to nothing but air on the top floor of the SNIAM, opposite the Lloyd. It looks like it was meant to be a walkway between the two buildings. Not sure if they have 'fire escape' on the door in the actual room. Check it out next time you're walking from the Hamilton.

xebec

I've never noticed that before! Will definitely keep my eye out for it!

And enough of all this Lloyd dissing!! That's where I live!* And if you think that the Lloyd is bad, you should see the horrible building we used to be in.

*Well ok, not really. But I do tend to spend more time there than in my own flat.

InFront

Good riddance to that gate. Does anyone else find it really really hard to cross the road there? I tend to encounter my own mortality quite a bit when I do.

xebec

InFront wrote:

Does anyone else find it really really hard to cross the road there? I tend to encounter my own mortality quite a bit when I do.

What about the pedestrian crossing? You press the button and wait until the light goes green and all the cars stop.

Tricity Bendix

InFront wrote:

Good riddance to that gate. Does anyone else find it really really hard to cross the road there? I tend to encounter my own mortality quite a bit when I do.

Have you tried using the predestrian lights?

xebec

xebec wrote:

And if you think that the Lloyd is bad, you should see the horrible building we used to be in.

Meh, you no longer have lectures beside beer barrells

I don't hate the Lloyd & SNIAM, but they're really just a big plonk of concrete & steel thrown together. Nothing creative at all. Bit of a shame when you're beside the Schrodinger & Botany & Chemistry & all...

xebec

Meh, we're just happy with what we've got. Although having lectures in a pub was fun for the first few times!

Pet

xebec wrote:

Meh, we're just happy with what we've got. Although having lectures in a pub was fun for the first few times!

Whoah..back it up. You had lectures in the pav?

Good riddance to that gate. Does anyone else find it really really hard to cross the road there? I tend to encounter my own mortality quite a bit when I do.

They can probably tell you're not a Trinner, that's why they don't stop. :P

xebec

Pet wrote:

Whoah..back it up. You had lectures in the pav?

Not quite, over in a pub in Lincoln Place, it wasn't being used as a pub at the time.

Off topic but still important:

Are they bringing back The Lincoln as a replacement for the Buttery?

cianclarke

&#231 wrote: »

I love the integration stuff that was put into the SNIAM for when the lloyd was built, and then they forgot to build the other parts into the lloyd - ****ing ridiculuous.

Haha, always wondered what that door was all about okay...

But yeah, the Lloyd isn't *that* bad - it's uninspired, but it has the best lecture theaters, and is still an awful lot better than the arts block.

xebec

original_psycho wrote:

Are they bringing back The Lincoln as a replacement for the Buttery?

No, some private group have bought/hired the lease and the licence afaik.

But does that mean that it will be coming back? Just not as a TCD venture

xebec

Not sure, I guess it'll eventually open again, but probably not aimed at students.

InFront

b.ie curious wrote:

Have you tried using the predestrian lights?

There's no pedestrian crossing there though, you have to walk to the corner and then walk back. And who has time for that when there's a Dart to catch. No, good riddance I say. This might save my life someday.

Crash

Eh, there's one in the middle of the street.

as for the Lincoln Inn, its been bought by the same consortium that owns the bailey, cafe en seine etc. - however they've claimed they'll be a student friendly bar :P

InFront

with lights? thats weird... I thought it was just down at the corner, I've never used pedestrian lights outside that gate... are you sure you don't mean a zebra crossing?

xebec

There's a pedestrian crossing just to the right of the gate as you leave, about 10 yards from the gate itself.

John

Traffic lights are big black things on poles, you can see one in this picture:


They can be confusing, sometimes they show a red light, sometimes a green light and intermittently an amber light. They're all the same species though. They have a phalangular-electronic interface (a button) that you engage to halt the steel wheelbeasts.

King.Penguin

lol

gilroyb

I think you guys are being a bit harsh, that photo clearly shows there's room for a set of lights closer to the dart station. How can people be expected to walk all the way to those lights just to cross the road? It's at least an extra three metres onto the total journey.

InFront, it's an election year, get on to your local TD and you should be able to get this sorted no problem.

europerson

John wrote:

Poor Pearse Station: it looks terribly forlorn.

InFront

gilroyb wrote:

It's at least an extra three metres onto the total journey.

Oh come on it's at least ten!! That kind of inconvenience matters when youre running for a dart. No, let this gate be gone and I'll be a happy, alive man.