'Robot Trees' installed in Cork city streets?
An expensive vanity project no-one asked for.
I'm sure we've seen reports about this proposed redevelopment previously but perhaps not all the specifics
If they actually enforced the Patrick Street bus lane from 3-6.30 each day it would do far more for air quality than these stupid expensive yokes.
This.
The lack of enforcement of this mind boggling!
My god, that looks awful!
A glass box. How unexpected.
Just saw the price tag of 350,000 mentioned on the RTE news for these boxes with trays of moss inside. Would have liked to see them use that to plant hundreds of real trees myself.
They also need to be powered by electricity and must have a water supply to operate as well as periodic maintenance to keep them functioning properly in the future. So they use up valuable resources and cost money to operate. Absolutely mind blowing stuff, but I'm sure there are high fives and self congratulations all around in City Hall this week.
We were laughing at the Dubs with their Chime in the Slime, I'll bet these overcomplicated contraptions won't last 12 months at which they will be removed quietly.
It's actually the stupidest thing I've seen the City Council do and that's saying something. Installing these monstrosities that require valuable financial, electric and water resources to operate in the name of tackling "air quality" while completely ignoring the enforcement of the Patk St bus lane right adjacent to these yokes - enforcement which would do far more for air quality. It's like something you'd see in some comedy sketch.
Barriers on Patrick st would cost significantly less than these monstrosities and would help reduce particulate matter on Patrick st by removing traffic. Also, is Patrick st the best place to install these, would they of better use if they were installed in a more polluted area and used to their full potential?
They are to be officially launched tomorrow, I foresee some heckling about the lack of enforcement of the panna ban.
Article in de paper that Prism will restart later this year and Custom House construction to begin next year.
Interesting considering it was looking dead in the water. I think until we see builders on site I will take this article as wishful for now.
This site is definitely being used as a depot by Farrans Construction who are upgrading water mains out the Lee Fields/Straight Road, they have prefabs etc at the front.
But there is also site clearance and drilling being done behind these on the site itself. Anyone have an idea on what's going on here? Is there another construction company also on site starting on the apartments?
That's actually the Parnell Place hotel across from the Prism, but that would be wonderful if it went ahead too. There must be serious demand for hotels if this one is going ahead as well because it was widely seen as dead in the water. It would greatly liven up a very run down part of the city.
Prism going ahead would be wonderful but it seems bizarre considering CField are clearing Deane Street to reopen it atm.
There was a commencement notice filed for the student apartment development by Farrans Construction recently.
https://www.localgov.ie/node/200063
It's very strange. They keep the road closed for 18 months to facilitate construction and do nothing. Then reopen the road and announce construction will be resuming.
What a waste of money for robot trees
Turn them into Tree houses I say or Public toilets. Tap and pay contactless or cash I'd gladly pay €3 at day and €4 in the wee hours of the night.
I've seen the machinery from the water main work driving up the laneway further out the straight road, think it's the lane to the Lough Rovers pitch.
Yeah, I got mixed up.
Farrans are doing both the water mains upgrade and, as per marno21's post, these student apartments.
Given the accommodation crisis, all accommodation is welcome as it releases otherwise occupied properties - but does anyone know at what point the student accommodation market gets saturated? Rental prices seem high - how much more demand is there especially at a price that the build-to-renters need?
There are incentives in place to build student accommodation and the tenants are short term. They are less likely to do major damage (like DIY plumbing), more likely to pay their rent, and most likely won’t withhold rent for a decade in situ. All in all, lower risk, and incentives makes more sense to a developer. Why would you build anything else in that scenario?
When I saw the rent cap of 4% tightening up to “inflation” I think we all knew that was going have the effect of slowing housing development even further. Anyone with a calculator can work out that the margins are too small and the risks way too high for any sane developer.
Sure enough, the apartments planned at the sextant site were canned for being unviable, and replaced by office space.
We are our own worst enemy in Ireland, zero foresight and letting completely unqualified people make populous decisions.
Those ridiculous robo trees are another example. We have a university right here with experts in atmospheric chemistry at our disposal. Were any of them asked for an opinion? Of course not. Those boxes will no doubt go the same way as the Glasgow ones and the Dutch ones in 2019. Binned after a year for making particulates worse, and using resources to do it.
They may be used as impromptu public toilets anyhow.
"That was our plan all along, and we would've got away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky kids"
Or maybe a designated smoking area would be good just add a few ashtrays.
There is development on a site on the carrigaline road out of douglas beside a nursing home,housing i believe.
It's this one: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30958140.html
Anyone know of the Glenveagh Development in Maryborough Ridge is still under construction?
Are those water mains works on the left hand side as you drive towards the city from Ballincollig on the Straight Road?
I was naively thinking they might be widening the footpath or putting in a cycle lane...
