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€170,000 Bus Stop

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  • #32
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    If there used unbreakable glass they would have saved millions over the years.

    Everywhere you go in Dublin, there seems to a few bus stops smashed up.


  • #33
    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,329 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    Jakkass wrote: »
    The buses don't even have the electronic time updaters to tell you when the next bus is coming like they have in a lot of UK cities, no doubt for a lot less than €170,000 each! :)

    That bus stop has the screen for the RTPI when it is finally implemented.


  • #34
    msg11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    Personally I can't belive they bought a bus shelter for €30,000 in the first place let alone they paid €170,000 to get the thing fitted up.

    Sure, €170,000 ..

    A large garden shed fully fitted 12′ X 8′ €1070

    So thats, a stagerring 158 large garden sheds fully fitted or

    BREVILLE KETTLE €64.99 , you could have 2,615 of them if you wanted.

    Bag of tesco pink lady apples €3.99 , you could have 4,260 of them.

    Feel free to add your own..


  • #35
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    Jakkass wrote: »
    You personally pay €170,000 in tax? How much do you earn? :pac:

    More than you. ;)


  • #36
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,675 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    msg11 wrote: »
    Personally I can't belive they bought a bus shelter for €30,000 in the first place let alone they paid €170,000 to get the thing fitted up.

    Sure, €170,000 ..

    A large garden shed fully fitted 12′ X 8′ €1070

    So thats, a stagerring 158 large garden sheds fully fitted or

    BREVILLE KETTLE €64.99 , you could have 2,615 of them if you wanted.

    Bag of tesco pink lady apples €3.99 , you could have 4,260 of them.

    Feel free to add your own..

    85,000 double cheese burgers. Mmm. *runs off to get some*


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  • #37
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    The contractor who charged this price must've built himself a friggin' house behind the bus stop, for that price!


  • #38
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    The contractor who charged this price must've built himself a friggin' house behind the bus stop, for that price!

    I started a similar thread about contractors being paid too much at the hands of the Government here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055846253


  • #39
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    I started a similar thread about contractors being paid too much at the hands of the Government here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055846253

    Oh yeah.. the one million euro shop, made mostly of glass walls, that basically turns into a greenhouse on sunny days & melts all the chocolate.

    Worth every penny, that was.


  • #40
    artanevilla
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    artanevilla wrote: »
    85,000 double cheese burgers. Mmm. *runs off to get some*

    They were closed in case you were wondering.


  • #41
    hitbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭hitbit


    A Fianna Fiddler's brother must have gotten the job. Next we'll hear he owes €170,000 to Anglo, NAMA have bailed him out and, good news, wer'e all shareholders in a f****** bus stop on Collins Ave. The bad news, none of us have the money to go to DCU and Dublin Bus have cancelled the route.
    Someone needs to be beaten with a big stick.

    hitbit RSAIB. FFV.

    Reluctant Shareholder Anglo Irish Bank.
    Fianna Fiddle Victim


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  • #42
    maninasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,637 ✭✭✭maninasia


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    If there used unbreakable glass they would have saved millions over the years.

    Everywhere you go in Dublin, there seems to a few bus stops smashed up.

    When the US army needs armoured glass for its vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan what do they use? Proven 2 year old Dublin bus stop glass...the toughest of 'em all!


  • #43
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    They can't just put up a bus stop anywhere... they are possibly including admin costs also in that...

    why it'd cost a total of 170k I havent the slightest idea... but that's what would of taken up alot of the money.


  • #44
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    pablo_escobar wrote: »
    That's not really the point.

    Why does a bus shelter cost €170,000?

    Because it involved major structural and electrical work to the surrounding area, not just stiucking down a new bus stop.


  • #45
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    msg11 wrote: »
    Personally I can't belive they bought a bus shelter for €30,000 in the first place let alone they paid €170,000 to get the thing fitted up.

    They didn't. Dublin Bus supplied the bus shelter which had been paid for through advertising revenue.

    Does noone read the article?


  • #46
    Motley Crue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,382 ✭✭✭Motley Crue


    caseyann wrote: »
    Was it the paint or the labour that cost that much :confused:

    No matter what it was, I'm in the wrong profession! 70K for "Co-Incidental costs"


  • #47
    General Zod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭General Zod


    Which are explained in the article.


  • #48
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    hitbit wrote: »
    A Fianna Fiddler's brother must have gotten the job. Next we'll hear he owes €170,000 to Anglo, NAMA have bailed him out and, good news, wer'e all shareholders in a f****** bus stop on Collins Ave. The bad news, none of us have the money to go to DCU and Dublin Bus have cancelled the route.
    Someone needs to be beaten with a big stick.

    hitbit RSAIB. FFV.

    Reluctant Shareholder Anglo Irish Bank.
    Fianna Fiddle Victim

    It's like mikom and Biggles had a baby. This makes me a little uncomfortable.


  • #49
    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    FYP!

    You were a few apples short :P
    msg11 wrote: »
    Personally I can't belive they bought a bus shelter for €30,000 in the first place let alone they paid €170,000 to get the thing fitted up.

    Sure, €170,000 ..

    A large garden shed fully fitted 12′ X 8′ €1070

    So thats, a stagerring 158 large garden sheds fully fitted or

    BREVILLE KETTLE €64.99 , you could have 2,615 of them if you wanted.

    Bag of tesco pink lady apples €3.99 , you could have 42,600 of them.

    Feel free to add your own..


  • #50
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,370 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    €170K for a bus stop isn't a fare price.


  • #51
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    General Zod wrote: »
    Because it involved major structural and electrical work to the surrounding area, not just stiucking down a new bus stop.
    General Zod wrote: »
    They didn't. Dublin Bus supplied the bus shelter which had been paid for through advertising revenue.

    Does noone read the article?
    General Zod wrote: »
    Which are explained in the article.

    Are you honestly defending the fact that 170k was spent on a poxy bus stop?:confused:


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  • #52
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Are you honestly defending the fact that 170k was spent on a poxy bus stop?:confused:

    He's saying it wasn't just the bus stop that cost 170K. Which is all explained in the article.


  • #53
    banquo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,487 ✭✭✭banquo


    D.R cowboy wrote: »
    where did you go to school Africa, your obviously just looking for attention if you have to tell lies:rolleyes:

    1. ''You're''

    2. Oh please pay attention to me. I so desperately crave for a fellow internet person to notice me. I nearly started crying when I saw you had quoted my post.

    *bursts into tears*

    3. The school had puddles, and this is a waste of money.


  • #54
    El Guapo!
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    He's saying it wasn't just the bus stop that cost 170K. Which is all explained in the article.
    Yeah but even if it wasnt just for the actual bus stop, its just a tad excessive dont ya think?


  • #55
    Dravokivich
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    Dean09 wrote: »
    Yeah but even if it wasnt just for the actual bus stop, its just a tad excessive dont ya think?

    Bus stop costs €170K - OMG SHOCK PANIC...

    ...wait €170k wasn't just for the bus stop itself... there were other things done as well then that totaled €170k... oh... well...

    No, I don't find it excessive...


  • #56
    fakearms123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭fakearms123


    No one in DCU uses this bus stop on Collins Avenue, everyone uses the one on the ballymun road, what a waste!


  • #57
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    General Zod wrote: »
    .

    Does noone read the article?

    Clearly not.

    It's better to have a good old rabble. This stop is a lot more complex than sticking a shelter on an existing bus stop. But sure that would incvolve a bit of effort beyond readign "€170,000 for a bus stop"


  • #58
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Bus stop costs €170K - OMG SHOCK PANIC...

    ...wait €170k wasn't just for the bus stop itself... there were other things done as well then that totaled €170k... oh... well...

    No, I don't find it excessive...
    I accept that a portion of the cost was spent on the other extras that are highlighted in the article, but the point Im trying to get across is this, at a time when the country is on its arse and looking for money every way it can including the introduction of property taxes and water taxes likely to be implemented, then why in the name of god was that large sum of money not put to better use than upgrading a bus stop?:confused:
    Surely the money would have been more beneficial elsewhere.


  • #59
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    "The country" give the councils a budget. The council spent the money as it saw fit.

    If someone reckons FF used the money to line the pockets of their mates then it had to be doen with the approval of the other parties since they have councillors that would have been part of this decision.

    But sure **** it, instead lets just say Brian Cowan personnally drew up the plans and funded it, with his brother doing the work.


  • #60
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    Stekelly wrote: »
    But sure **** it, instead lets just say Brian Cowan personnally drew up the plans and funded it, with his brother doing the work.
    I didnt say that.
    If you think about it rationally for a second its as simple as this...it doesnt matter whether the extra costs incurred were for building supplies or jelly tots, the council wanted to put a bus stop at the side of the road and the end cost of said bus stop totalled at 170k. Thats excessive in any language.


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  • #61
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,916 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    So Awesome


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