New Bridge Proposal Meetings

I went to two of them. The Pecha Kucha event was very good. Various speakers talked about the river and their experience of it. The discussion afterwards was lively and fun and there was fairly unanimous agreement that the bridge in that location was a ridiculous idea.

Then on Thursday a woman from Failte Ireland gave a presentation where she outlined where the idea came from. It really showed how shallow their reasoning was. Basically, Limerick has a lovely river, and we want people to engage with it, so let's build a nice shiny bridge so as to provide a 'wow factor'. Needless to say, the audience groaned repeatedly throughout the presentation and she was eaten alive during the Q&A.