They're Digging Up Grafton Street

starviewadams · 04-05-2013 03:09AM

Can't have Dublin spending money they generated on improving the city and increasing tourism,that's for bogger TD's to decide.

Athlone could use an international airport!

marwelie · 04-05-2013 03:11AM

Badly needed, tiles broken, loose stones, half of the street subsided, and it stinks in places where people have thrown up. As a wheelchair user, the smoother the ride the better. Now if they would only consider removing the cobbles from outside Trinity College my lifes work would be done

LaVail · 04-05-2013 03:16AM

theres a few potholes down this way....can ye fix em like?

IM0 · 04-05-2013 04:09AM

bodies is it?

MadsL · 04-05-2013 07:21AM

starviewadams wrote: »

Can't have Dublin spending money they generated on improving the city and increasing tourism,that's for bogger TD's to decide.

Athlone could use an international airport!

For the Chinese Trade Centre?

AnarchistKen · 04-05-2013 07:59AM

Doesn't matter what kind of paving they put down the paviours when put down will be covered in scummers chewing gum within a month

smash · 04-05-2013 08:03AM

bnt wrote: »

I just read the article - should have done so earlier. The works are expected to take 18 months, including two summers and the whole Christmas season this year.

O RLY?

Eh... This summer, then Christmas, then next summer. That's all within 18 months!

Ruudi_Mentari · 04-05-2013 08:27AM

AnarchistKen wrote: »

Doesn't matter what kind of paving they put down the paviours when put down will be covered in scummers chewing gum within a month

Wouldn't surprise me if this campaign didn't just fail,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKmUFYQIG2I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eajf1xBPIEc

but have the reverse effect.

Chuck Stone · 04-05-2013 08:29AM

Any man who fixes the road gets my vote.

Bogota · 04-05-2013 08:56AM

Sorry but I've walked down Grafton on a rainy day and its a ****in death trap.

Secondly, did someone just say this would take 18 months? Throw out whatever Irish cowboys got that contract and employ some Eastern European and Russian workers. They'll do it for half the price in a quarter of the time.

Chinasea · 04-05-2013 09:01AM

Many of the pavements around the city centre, board walk are absolutely manky. They should be routinely power hosed.

Wibbs · 04-05-2013 10:07AM

Bogota wrote: »

Secondly, did someone just say this would take 18 months? Throw out whatever Irish cowboys got that contract and employ some Eastern European and Russian workers. They'll do it for half the price in a quarter of the time.

+1. Eighteen months?? W.T.F. Bear in mind this is a public works so you can be sure to add to that and whatever budget they're suggesting. And don't be too shocked when it's all finished that another agency will need to dig a section of it up. We've got serious previous regarding all of the above. Shít look at farce that was the Luas. The Aussies built a three thousand kilometer railway with scores of bridges and millions of sleepers through one of the harshest environments on the planet for the same price and did so ahead of schedule. Enough said. We're a country run and organised by utter gobshítes and we all suffer for it.

Eighteen months is a ridiculously long timeframe to repave a street FFS. Eighteen months to watch workers breastfeeding shovels while gazing blankly into a hole no doubt. How can the Japanese rebuild whole motorways and infrastructure within months after a bloody tsunami and we take daft amounts of time to finish far less daunting tasks(and overspend while we're at it)?

StupidLikeAFox · 04-05-2013 10:24AM

Pavements are a lot like life partners - lay them right the first time and you can walk all over them for years

slavetothegrind · 04-05-2013 10:33AM

18 months my hole, why not work round the clock in shifts?

dont think anyone lives on grafton street?

Oh and FFS ban chewing gum altogether or only allow rapidly disintegrating constituents.

And we need cigarette police, 100 euro onthe spot for dirty filthy cigarette dropping morons, that must be 60% of smokers.

Amalgam · 04-05-2013 10:33AM

I can't remember where I read it, but I think there were concerns about the new stone choice. The surface might be a liability to the Council when it is raining. Slipping etc.

Unless the new surface is maintained, it'll look like ****, soon enough. Pink.. on that street, yeah..

Nothing new here, remember when the city got brushed metal traffic light poles that highlighted dirt and wear very quickly, or the fact that, in turning O'Connell Street (Dublin) into a brazzer's mantlepiece, no one had bothered to budget for sight impaired accessible pedestrian crossings.

drdeadlift · 04-05-2013 10:39AM

I would have cemented the whole road and imprinted a brick pattern above it,they will make a hames of this project just wait and see.

hfallada · 04-05-2013 10:43AM

It is the main shopping street for Dublin despite what people say. The council collects ridiculous amounts of rates on the street and gives the retailers nothing back. It looks pretty ****ty to tourist particularity when its raining and to have to avoid all the large pools of water on the streets as it doesnt drain.

studiorat · 04-05-2013 10:45AM

They should take up all them horrible cobbles around the Temple Bar while they are at it.

As for Grafton St, they should get Paddy Dotherty in for the weekend and tarmac it from top to bottom. Money saved everyone happy!

markpb · 04-05-2013 10:45AM

I guess the reason for the 18 month schedule is because all the shops must be accessible all the time, emergency service vehicles must always be able to use the street, some space must be left for delivery trucks and a few shoppers must be able to, you know, shop otherwise the street will be pretty but the shops will have gone out of business (Red Luas line construction?). It's not the widest street in the world - anyone who claims it could be done in a few weeks while achieving all that is talking through their ass.

SEPT 23 1989 · 04-05-2013 10:49AM

A rate reduction would be more helpful to the Dublin city economy rather than bullsh1t vanity projects like this

Celly Smunt · 04-05-2013 10:49AM

They should just throw some decking down.

markpb · 04-05-2013 10:55AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

A rate reduction would be more helpful to the Dublin city economy rather than bullsh1t vanity projects like this

Really? The project will cost a lot of money, a big chuck of which will go to people living and spending on Dublin. The project will renew Grafton st and make it less run down, somethign that is important considering the colossal contribution the Gafton st area makes to both the local and national economy.

aaabbbb · 04-05-2013 10:56AM

Bambi wrote: »

Will it be that poxy smooth granite that the corpo seem to think is so suitable for a country where it rains every day?

Think it is , similar to the pavement on O'Connell st. Tis great craic walking down there in a pair of uggs after a good aul afternoon rain shower , I'm surprised how I haven't ended up in James' yet with a broken wrist !

Celly Smunt · 04-05-2013 10:58AM

aaabbbb wrote: »

, I'm surprised how I haven't ended up in James' yet with a broken wrist !

stop walking with your hands ya show off.

Temptamperu · 04-05-2013 10:58AM

img}we did a greatjob kiling the hellbeast

Solair · 04-05-2013 11:03AM

Cork City Council used pink and grey stone in a lot of the repaving work done around Patrick's Street and it looks quite nice. (Shame about the ugly lights they inflicted on it tho)

However, if its a similar standard of paving it will look great on Grafton St. too.

Grafton St is really starting to look worn out and the bricks are starting to become a trip hazard. I don't think it was done to a particularly high standard in the 80s to begin with.

There's a fair bit of bad paving around Dublin though. I think the maintenance regime needs a bit if improvement.

That being said, if you ever want to see really bad paving : visit our illustrious EU capital, Brussels, sometime and wear ankle supports! I've never encountered worse paving anywhere in the developed world!

Mr. CooL ICE · 04-05-2013 11:03AM

Grafton St is a death trap? Jaysus, I've walked down it plenty of times and haven't died yet, let alone fall over

Solair · 04-05-2013 11:05AM

LordChessington wrote: »

Grafton St is a death trap? Jaysus, I've walked down it plenty of times and haven't died yet, let alone fall over

Becoming a trip hazard doesn't equate to "death trap"

T4RGET · 04-05-2013 11:07AM

what i find funnier is that they're starting this during the summer time, continuing it for 3 months, essentially summer months which I'm only logically guessing is the busiest time for the shops with a lot of people being off school, work and college. Good job :rolleyes:

J_E · 04-05-2013 11:20AM

bnt wrote: »

OK, thought about them, after having to walk past them most nights in the last year, and have come to a conclusion: they should all just shut up and go away. I've never heard one that was worth the noise pollution they cause. Silence would be preferable.

Well, aren't you delightful?

They're Digging Up Grafton Street

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