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When is Bishops Quay and howleys quay road reopening?

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    #152
    sleepyman
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭sleepyman


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    http://postimg.org/image/nrxdhyvml/

    Two days ago.....


    They'll be doing well to have that finished by end of August.


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    #153
    sleepyman
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭sleepyman


    Well lads-any update on this?Are they making good progress on the boardwalk now?


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    #154
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    Not really. Only the beams to support the boardwalk have been laid.
    Clohessy's and Milano's front still hasn't been touched and Poorman's Kilkee is still used as a storage area.
    September/October, I'd say.


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    #155
    sleepyman
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭sleepyman


    Bloody ridiculous how slow this is progressing.I'd be well annoyed if I was Clohessys or Milanos.


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    #156
    power101
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭power101


    They've laid a good bit of stonework in front of Milano's over the past week. Lots of progress beign made at the moment


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    #157
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Was down there yesterday....lol, they are months away. 2014 at least.....


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    #158
    Buckeye
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    sleepyman wrote: »
    Well lads-any update on this?Are they making good progress on the boardwalk now?

    They're working on the hanging boardwalk, and they're laying some seriously high-quality brickwork in front of Milano's now.

    They're working through the showers (lucky that this part of the world doesn't get lightning & thunder), and with the tides so high recently, they've been working at some ungodly early hours; the machinery wakes me up long before my alarm goes off.

    They definitely way underestimated the time it would take to complete, but it looks like the final product is going to be very good.


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    #159
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    Saw some of the brickwork up by the Glasshouse side not sure is some of it painted stone or that's the colour on the little walls.Looks like something that will weather bad,hope its not very slippy stone like all the other Limerick street projects


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    #160
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    Hello September! :)

    Wonder if it'll be done by the time we reach October? :rolleyes:


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    #161
    Cookiemunster
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,938 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cookiemunster


    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    Hello September! :)

    Wonder if it'll be done by the time we reach October? :rolleyes:

    Doubt it. Had a walk down there yesterday. From the roundabout to Clohessys looks basically finished. From Clohessys to Milanos however is another story. Very little paving down and poor mans Kilkee isn't even started. Also less than half of the steel work for the boardwalk looks to be in place.


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    #162
    moby2101
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    Will be lucky to be ready for Crimbo at the rate it's progressing


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    #163
    Mc Love
    Registered Users Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    This truck was blocking the area earlier

    1174773_10153204560310052_106748938_n.jpg


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    #164
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    Buckeye wrote: »
    They're working on the hanging boardwalk, and they're laying some seriously high-quality brickwork in front of Milano's now.

    They're working through the showers (lucky that this part of the world doesn't get lightning & thunder), and with the tides so high recently, they've been working at some ungodly early hours; the machinery wakes me up long before my alarm goes off.

    They definitely way underestimated the time it would take to complete, but it looks like the final product is going to be very good.

    do you work for them by any chance? you seem to be defending them to the last.
    and by the way lots of people work out in irish /bad weather. its not as big deal as your making it out to be.


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    #165
    jbkenn
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    Mc Love wrote: »
    This truck was blocking the area earlier

    1174773_10153204560310052_106748938_n.jpg

    Dennigans deliver to Dunnes, just trying to do his job.


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    #166
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    Is the brickwork to the right of the Sam Dennigan truck part of a footpath or road?


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    #167
    source
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    Poxyshamrock wrote: »
    Is the brickwork to the right of the Sam Dennigan truck part of a footpath or road?

    I believe they're to be parking bays with a wide footpath and single lane of traffic.


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    #168
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    Well, hopefully they've taken HGVs using that route into consideration.
    Looks tight at the moment!


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    #169
    sleepyman
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭sleepyman


    Will the businesses be compensated or will the Council make some lame excuses?Absoloutely pathetic how long it's taken.


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    #170
    roast
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    sleepyman wrote: »
    Will the businesses be compensated or will the Council make some lame excuses?Absoloutely pathetic how long it's taken.

    I reckon the higher footfall in the area post-completion would be considered compensation enough. Indeed, crazy that it's still ongoing.


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    #171
    DeWinterZero
    Registered Users Posts: 321 ✭✭DeWinterZero


    When they put down the new pavement in William Street, they did it a few buildings at a time and slowly moved up the street. On the quay they seem to be doing a section and then moving on before their finished. The pavement is now dug up and half finished from Jurys on lower Mallow street down to Sarsfield Bridge.

    The boardwalk is delaying everything somehow. When thats done I expect the rest to done withing 2/3 weeks.


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    #172
    Kess73
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    roast wrote: »
    I reckon the higher footfall in the area post-completion would be considered compensation enough. Indeed, crazy that it's still ongoing.


    A very similar line to that was trotted out by a city official before the completion of the Thomas street and Sarsfield street works. Was talk of how footfall numbers were going to soar and of how various businesses were tripping over themselves to get into units on those streets as a result of the new footpaths. The purpose built unit at the junction of Thomas street and Catherine street had many companies competing for it according to reports, just as there were articles in the local papers saying there were businesses looking to pay more than the asking rental prices so that they could get into Cruises street this year.

    If the works don't get finished this year, and the talk of some of the work rolling into 2014, then I would have concerns for some of the smaller businesses in that side of town. The entire summer has been a write off for them, and it is looking bad for the run up to Xmas now as well. :( Really hope the works gets finished soon and that those businesses get a fighting chance to continue trading.


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    #173
    kilburn
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    To be fair there actually were lots of companies competing for the Thomas Street Centre building but fit out and access issues ruled them out.


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    #174
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    Tesco Express were interested at one stage. There were major obkections though.

    All the units being used by artists are gone now as there was supposed to be a health centre going in there. No sign of it yet!


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    #175
    kilburn
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    Didnt someone buy it a few months back for 6m?

    Thought i saw that on the leader, i did but it was sale agreed

    http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/business/sale-agreed-on-six-storey-thomas-street-centre-in-limerick-city-1-3841298


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    #176
    thesimpsons
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    is there any plans on doing up footpaths on O'Connell Street - couldn't help but notice today its looking the absolute pits with that tarmac type surface. plus, totally littered with cigarette buts and rubbish


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    #177
    Cityslicker1
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    thesimpsons wrote: »
    is there any plans on doing up footpaths on O'Connell Street - couldn't help but notice today its looking the absolute pits with that tarmac type surface. plus, totally littered with cigarette buts and rubbish

    I agree with you here..O'Connell street should be the priority as it's the main thoroughfare in the city. It badly needs a face-lift..even the planting of lots of trees on both sides of the street with new footpaths would really change the streetscape and hardly break the bank. I think they were planning on pedestrianising the section from William street to Roches street which I hope they've scraped.Imagine O'Connell street closed off completely to a constant flow of traffic in the evenings...ghost town.


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    #178
    Cookiemunster
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,938 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cookiemunster


    thesimpsons wrote: »
    is there any plans on doing up footpaths on O'Connell Street - couldn't help but notice today its looking the absolute pits with that tarmac type surface. plus, totally littered with cigarette buts and rubbish

    It's due at some stage to get the same treatment and Thomas St. and William St. It was originally due to start last year. God knows when it'll actually be done.


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    #179
    Mc Love
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    The footpaths on o'connell st are dreadful. Maybe they should change it back to a two way system like when it was georges st.


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    #180
    longfellow deeds
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭longfellow deeds


    Mc Love wrote: »
    The footpaths on o'connell st are dreadful. Maybe they should change it back to a two way system like when it was georges st.

    i think you're right


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    #181
    sleepyman
    Registered Users Posts: 447 ✭✭sleepyman


    How's the work going down there?I know Poor Mans Kilkee won't be finished for months by the looks of things but is the boardwalk beginning to take shape?I was home two weeks ago and it look like the steel structure was in the river.
    Will it be finished before the Heineken Cup starts in October?


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