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Metro North route via Depts Health & Education

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  • 08-04-2009 10:56am
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    IIMII
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    Anyone know why Metro North wasn't proposed to have stations say at the Department of Health (Hawkins Street) and Education (Marlborough Street) to avoid digging up O'Connell Street etc? I heard recently that the Department of Health building is almost 'life expired' (plus an eye-sore) so would this proposal not have made some sense?
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    SeanW
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    Why would you not want to have a station on O'Connell St? The long term benefits of having a station on the city's main street will surely negate the short term digging?


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    IIMII
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    I didn't say I didn't want a station in O'Connell street, but sackville lane (or is it place) is only what 100m long? I'm not arguing either way, just asking


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    Stupido
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    IIMII wrote: »
    Anyone know why Metro North wasn't proposed to have stations say at the Department of Health (Hawkins Street) and Education (Marlborough Street) to avoid digging up O'Connell Street etc? I heard recently that the Department of Health building is almost 'life expired' (plus an eye-sore) so would this proposal not have made some sense?


    They are protected structures at Marlborough street...why would they be life expired?

    I think you refer to Hawkins house on Hawkins Street.


    BTW the station hole would have been too great for the green area at Marlborough street I believe


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    L1011
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    Stupido wrote: »
    They are protected structures at Marlborough street...why would they be life expired?

    I think you refer to Hawkins house on Hawkins Street.


    BTW the station hole would have been too great for the green area at Marlborough street I believe

    He said it was Health's building which was life expired. That would be the horrific, almost brutalist (but not brutalist enough to give it architectural merit) Hawkins House.


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    IIMII
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    Cheers lads. It just seemed an obvious question to ask (completely irrelevant at this anyway whether it's built or not, and I do like the O'Connell street stations etc) but it seemed like an option which might have taken away some of the ire of the business community (and gotten rid of the pig-ugly Hawkins house).


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    ODS
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    IIMII wrote: »
    it seemed like an option which might have taken away some of the ire of the business community

    This is correct - not closing down O'C st during excavation, and also the futility of building 2 underground lines at two different widths.


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    Victor
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    Actually, if you go throguh the evidence on the RPA website, they talk about this. They would have to acquire and demolish several properties.


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