Things the city has, and does not need any more of:

daedal

• Kebab shops, let’s just rename Cornmarket Row to Kebab Land.
• Bookmakers and casinos, just way too many.
• Bus eireann and their stupid f*cking signs that are meant to predict when the next bus should arrive.
• Parnell street and many of the streets adjoining it, what a kip.

endacl

Limerick doesn’t need any more Parnell St?

Ok.

Weird thread....

daedal

endacl wrote: »

Limerick doesn’t need any more Parnell St?

Ok.

Weird thread....

Parnell street looks terrible, many of the store fronts are embarrassing and trashy. Wickham street is a mess for the most part, in fact a lot of buildings in the area are derelict need to be knocked. For many people visiting limerick and arriving by bus or train it gives a bad first impression of the city. These areas are turning into slums.

bigpink

How are all these kebab shops opening?Is there visas given out for them as a skills shortage?

John_Mc

daedal wrote: »

• Bus eireann and their stupid f*cking signs that are meant to predict when the next bus should arrive.

I agree with all of the others but what is your problem with these?

zulutango

Parnell Street and Wickham Street are currently in a poor state but this could be turned around quite easily. If they were made people friendly rather than car friendly, i.e. much wider footpaths, plenty of trees and other landscaping, benches, etc, this would lead to a revitalisation of these streets. Sadly, the Council sees them more as roads for carrying traffic and parking rather than as streets for people, so its future is likely to be low grade shops, or shops that heavily rely on customers to park or double park outside the front door, and of course a plethora of vacant and derelict premises. The Council even employed a firm of civil engineers rather than street designers to design the planned 'upgrade' works.

jacksie66

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geotrig

zulutango wrote: »

The Council even employed a firm of civil engineers rather than street designers to design the planned 'upgrade' works.

What exactly does a "street designer" study ?I would have thought that "upgrade" works like these would fall to a civil engineer as this is what they do ?, Maybe I'm wrong .Maybe the civil engineers upgrade on the spec they have been given and budgets , street landscaping I would guess needs a budget that the council probably are not willing to spend.

And to keep with the thread dumbass councelors

topper75

Wider paths and trees in and of themselves are nice but they are just window dressing (no pun intended). They will not bring increased footfall.

That street is key in being the first thing you see leaving the station. The nature of the shops are the problem.
The council had money for the Opera centre but private investment would have taken care of that at some point anyway. Better if they had bought out Parnell Street block opposing the station and unified it under a major retailer.

The rot could stop there.
Phase II of the gentrification would spill downtown into Catherine St.. The block by Gleesons Spar in particular is quite depressing these days.

You have a great platform at that stage whereby you have punched out a major hole of dereliction and where the People's Park, Station, Parnell St, and Catherine St. are stoing and vibrant.

zulutango

topper75 wrote: »

Wider paths and trees in and of themselves are nice but they are just window dressing (no pun intended). They will not bring increased footfall.

They would actually. That's the whole point. Good street design, which includes landscaping and wider footpaths, leads to increased footfall. It's proven all over the world.

topper75 wrote: »

That street is key in being the first thing you see leaving the station. The nature of the shops are the problem.

You can't expect the Council to just keep buying up private property and renovating it. What it can do, for a far lower cost, is upgrade the streets (as above) which will then lead to increased footfall, which will then provide the economic conditions for higher quality retailers to go in.

panda100

Shoddy paving.

The pavement on Upper Henry Street has recently been redone. It is much wider which is great but it's this odd white plaster job that looks unfinished. You have this white plaster paving all the way from The Windmill bar to outside MovieDrome where it suddenly turns into this nice grey stone paving. Then across the road it goes back to the white plaster paving again. Whole street looks a bit of a mess and I imagine that the new white paving will not age half as well as the nice paving outside MovieDrome. Also a complete nightmare for anyone with a visual impairment.

daedal

John_Mc wrote: »

I agree with all of the others but what is your problem with these?

They never work, they stay on “due in 1min” for nearly 10mins. Sometimes a due bus just disappears from the list for unknown reasons.

osarusan

Phone/screen repair & e-cig shops.

Relegation playoffs.

diusmr8a504cvk

Donut Shops.

mdmix

daedal wrote: »

They never work, they stay on “due in 1min” for nearly 10mins. Sometimes a due bus just disappears from the list for unknown reasons.

I have been waiting for busses where it says due in 1 min and then just changed to due in 10 mins without any sign of a bus

Mc Love

mdmix wrote: »

I have been waiting for busses where it says due in 1 min and then just changed to due in 10 mins without any sign of a bus

I noticed the same, a bus would pass right when it said it was due but would continue on to another route stop.

osarusan

Yeah those 'live schedules' or whatever they are called are completely unreliable.

In UL, busses will often be 1 minute away, then due, then just drop off the display. If they are not going to be accurate, then what is the point of even having them?

Mc Love

The Raheen outbound route is completely nuts on the 304 - do they just make it up as they go? One day, it passed the turn for church road, and went round the roundabout and picked up the church bus stop people, then went up Church road. The next day, they didnt go over to the church bus stop and went directly up church road, missing those pax, I'd be well pissed if I was waiting there. And the day after that, it turned left at the lights after the Hospital.

Completely random

Niska

The 304 is suppose to turn left after the Hospital, up Avonmore Road, while the 304a does not.

Unless its the 304 from the Bus Eireann ad which just goes random...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoa7vfBmM

Mc Love

Niska wrote: »

The 304 is suppose to turn left after the Hospital, up Avonmore Road, while the 304a does not.

Unless its the 304 from the Bus Eireann ad which just goes random...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaoa7vfBmM

No thats wrong - see what side of the road the bus is on.

davo2001

Beggers