beauf wrote: » Hansfield to Docklands is 27-29 on the time table. That's before delays and before getting to and from the station and before giving 10-15 mins extra to get a seat at least at the terminus. So door to door in 30 mins is pretty amazing.
Former Former wrote: » The fundamental problem with the trains is that we only need extra capacity at rush hour but any improvements have to be made on the service as a whole. Upgrading the line, new/additional trains, better signalling, electrification, whatever - these are all huge capital costs that only really benefit the service in a 60 minute window in the morning and another in the evening (and even then, only in one direction). The cost-benefit to the overall service is marginal at best. So you could look at it a different way and say that if more development increases the population along the line, then it improves the business case for the massive investment that is required, so these plans are a good thing. If anything, we need even more rezonings.
sowdublin wrote: » What's the new building activity going on near the bus stop at Allendale Roundabout behind Allendale Apartments? More houses/apartments is it?
fletch wrote: » http://planning.fingalcoco.ie/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayURL?theApnID=FW16A/0084 "Permission for a residential development consisting of the construction of 28 no. 2 bed apartments in 2 no. 3 and 4 storey buildings and including for all associated site development works, open space"
ongarboy wrote: » I've only noticed this morning lots of new residential unit foundations (presumably apartments) being built on the long empty space near the high bridge that brings you to Carpenterstown. As it's only a stone's throw from Coolmine station, it's only right the land should be put use during a housing shortage and it looked ugly and barren for years. Of course the argument remains as to how will already packed commuter trains handle the new residents there that will wish to avail of them.
Phil.x wrote: » Wasted 40mins waiting in blanch cop shop for a passport stamp last year, ended up going to cabra, in and out in two minutes, completely empty.
beauf wrote: » Only adults can renew online. New applications or Kids have to go to the station etc. Cabra is a good tip thanks. Blanch is painful for everything.
Caranica wrote: » You can renew online now without needing a Garda. Nothing to do with congestion though. Blanch Garda Station covers a population of more than the population of Galway City, they're hugely under resourced imo but that's a whole other thread.
ongarboy wrote: » https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/residents-of-dublin-neighbourhood-dismayed-as-trees-felled-for-housing-1.3894424?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fireland%2Firish-news%2Fresidents-of-dublin-neighbourhood-dismayed-as-trees-felled-for-housing-1.3894424 Wow, sad to see one of the last semi rural areas of Clonsilla have all these trees felled near St Joseph's hospital for housing. I welcome more housing in the area to meet the chronic shortage and the fact it's a stones throw from the train station so it makes sense but it just means the area becomes more of a concrete jungle. One of the compromises of urban living I guess....
Nijmegen wrote: » I'd bet my bed there isn't a place in the country where people wouldn't simultaneously complain about the shocking state of the housing crisis whilst having an excuse as to why building shouldn't go on in their area.
Hurrache wrote: » The problem is that any lessons learned from planning mistakes that have been made over the decades have been thrown right out the window, particularly with the bypassing of local CoCos and straight to Bord Pleanna. So we're back to the method of throwing houses up anywhere, without the infrastructure to support them, all in the name of a housing emergency. Remember Adamstown was held up as how new developments should be from then on? Your post is a perfect example then to berate people for valid concerns using the excuse as NIMBYism and the "housing emergency". Dublin 15 in particular has been highlighted by academic studies as a problem area with concerns with the high volume of developments happening in it, which of course will be ignored because of the "housing emergency".
Nijmegen wrote: » Except that infrastructure to support the houses going up is much more advanced now than it was ten years ago. Lots more schools in place, better road connections, better transport links ...
beauf wrote: » The infrastructure was for the previous expansion. Not the current one. Its at capacity as soon as its available. We now can have constant queues all over D15 at any time of the day.
Nijmegen wrote: » Except that infrastructure to support the houses going up is much more advanced now than it was ten years ago. Lots more schools in place, better road connections, better transport links (even if some attempts to expand that are themselves facing a lot of opposition). There is a utopian idea of what ought to be in place before developments go up, and sadly it doesn't exist anywhere. We'd be building even fewer houses today if we were waiting on it all.
Nijmegen wrote: » Ok. Find me an area where the locals believe the infrastructure / greenery / whatever the excuse is ready to take the jump from the current house building rate of 18,000 per year to match the household formation rate of 30-50,000 per year. Traffic or homelessness. We don't live in a perfect world. But as I say, there isn't a parish in the country where it doesn't seem someone doesn't have a reason why building shouldn't happen there.
