Clongriffin - Parkedge

Passengers threatened during graffiti attack by gang of youths with knives and clubs

I see the tracksuit wearing delinquents are upping their vandalism game. I reckon these are the same cockroaches that leave the station littered with tickets every weekend.

Two words that sum up Clongriffin:
1. Kip.
2. Underclass.

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

In fairness to you - you live there, didn't spot that initially; but you might put some meat on the bones of why you don't like it.

Has been said before in another post but I'm unable to find it.

Moved into the area 3 years ago and since then I've noticed a steady increase in the vandalism of the area.

The train station for example. When I first moved to the area there was not a single broken glass wall. Then a few months later one got broken, months later another got broken etc.. etc.. till the vast majority of glass walls were broken and eventually covered by wood.

Next up were the sliding doors. While these are not often vandalized it has happened more than 5 times. The doors would be pulled down and kicked out of their railings. My theory is that the doors were closed to prevent the underclass cockroaches from entering the station after hours but being the delinquents they are; forced their way in.

Same with the teller machines. There are 4 of them but they were broken and only two are now operational.

As previous said, every weekend the cockroaches f about in the train station and litter it with tickets from the teller machines, crips (say it as the Dubs do) packets and cans.

Moving outside of the train station the shops along Main Street. These have been vandalized before although I'll concede that it's happening a lot less now. Same with the bus stop windows. It'll be broken, replaced a some months later, broken again some months later. A never ending cycle.

The cockroaches outside of the Centra :mad:. Buying their food and just dumping the litter where they have eaten. There is a bin 3 meters from where they are but no, being mindful of others is too much to ask for. That's underclass right there.

It's no surprise the Centra has a guard in the store.

The area has a lot of potential. It's 20~ish quid for a Taxi ride from the city centre. 20 minutes to the airport, sufficient bus routes and the dart.

What it needs is more gentrification. A lot more gentrification.

Unfortunately I don't see this ever happening as the new builds besides Centra are
1. Badly built and stupidly positioned.
I feel for anyone trying to get any sleep when cars and buses are roaring down the road.

2. No matter how politically correct I try to be this will seen as dole bashing.
Concentrated social housing. Pepper the social housing don't concentrate it.

https://twitter.com/campaignforleo/status/932647641850183680/video/1

There are only two roads leading in and out of the area. Main street and another north of Main street. Can you imagine the traffic disaster when all the housing comes online?

Planning? What planning?

There is a lot more to bitch about

As for those who link to other articles showing the same thing. Yeah so what?

Why are we comparing downwards? "Yeah well it happens there as well so stop complaining." This is defeatist mentality.

Google Luxembourg train vandalism; There is one result from 2012. 6 years ago. This is what we should be aiming towards.

We should be comparing upwards! To cities & countries where it happens less frequently to learn from them and implement the steps they have taken to curb anti-social behaviour.

/rant