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Change just one thing about Waterford, what would it be?

  • 17-08-2015 8:19am
    #1
    The Bowling Alley
    Registered Users Posts: 370 ✭✭


    I'd bring Ferrybank closer to us with a pedestrian bridge at the tower


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  • #2
    obezyana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭obezyana


    Id change the natives negative attitude and their sense of entitlement....:p

    Na only joking. I would change all the quay area into a boardwalk with cafes quirky shops small green areas etc, plus build something tourist related over at the silo side of the river.


  • #3
    deadybai
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭deadybai


    A decent mens clothes shop. Sick of everyone wearing identical clothes out of pennys


  • #4
    obezyana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭obezyana


    deadybai wrote: »
    A decent mens clothes shop. Sick of everyone wearing identical clothes out of pennys

    And how would that improve Waterford? Not everyone can afford to shop in high end stores.


  • #5
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    A big nasty 'fvck you' multi-national company coming in with 3000 jobs!


  • #6
    Chip Whitley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭Chip Whitley


    obezyana wrote: »
    And how would that improve Waterford? Not everyone can afford to shop in high end stores.

    The OP said 'one thing you would change about Waterford', nothing about improving it. deadybai said he'd add a decent clothes shop. Where did you get 'high-end' from? :confused:

    What was that you said about a negative attitude?


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  • #7
    deadybai
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭deadybai


    obezyana wrote: »
    And how would that improve Waterford? Not everyone can afford to shop in high end stores.

    I cant afford the mens shops we currently have such as Fitzgearlds and Tommy Hillfiger. Theres either those type of shops or cheap sh!te. Theres no in between.


  • #8
    obezyana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭obezyana


    deadybai wrote: »
    I cant afford the mens shops we currently have such as Fitzgearlds and Tommy Hillfiger. Theres either those type of shops or cheap sh!te. Theres no in between.

    TK Maxx might suit you so.


  • #9
    obezyana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭obezyana


    Chip Whitley wrote: »
    The OP said 'one thing you would change about Waterford', nothing about improving it. deadybai said he'd add a decent clothes shop. Where did you get 'high-end' from? :confused:

    What was that you said about a negative attitude?


    Should change not be an improvement for the better if its not in your mind then you are the one with a negative attitude.


  • #10
    Hijpo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    Blow up the bridge so Waterford people have more jobs in Waterford :-P


  • #11
    obezyana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭obezyana


    Hijpo wrote: »
    Blow up the bridge so Waterford people have more jobs in Waterford :-P

    We would have to round up the kilkenny people first and make sure they are on the other side :D


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  • #12
    deadybai
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭deadybai


    obezyana wrote: »
    TK Maxx might suit you so.

    Nah I dont wear XXXL ;)


  • #13
    obezyana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭obezyana


    deadybai wrote: »
    Nah I dont wear XXXL ;)

    Haha a yeah thats TK Maxx alright. :D


  • #14
    BBM77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭BBM77


    I’d get rid of this ridiculous we suck everywhere else is better ****e you get in Waterford.


  • #15
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,754 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    I wish there would be a late pub open in the city on weeknights. I know shortts and revs stay open late but somewhere where you can sit down and enjoy a pint after 12. The Woodman used to be a late bar but it's only Fri and sat. Some of us hate crowds so local pubs are my thing mind you I'll find no future wife in these places lol


  • #16
    Chip Whitley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭Chip Whitley


    obezyana wrote: »
    Should change not be an improvement for the better if its not in your mind then you are the one with a negative attitude.

    Of course it should. But you were a bit quick with a negative response to deadybai's post, that was my point. Of course new clothes shops would improve Waterford. Better choices, better value, more shoppers = more money spent.


  • #17
    barneystinson
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭barneystinson


    The people


  • #18
    Taxburden carrier
    Registered Users Posts: 551 ✭✭✭Taxburden carrier


    The mindset.


  • #19
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    Put a boardwalk along the Suir from the bridge to the Tower Hotel.


  • #20
    callaway92
    Registered Users Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    The smell of piss around the town.


  • #21
    invara
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭invara


    Turn WIT into a university... with university funding.

    6,000 more young people in the city studying, partying, working and adding to the vibrancy of life. The IDA would lure in some huge MNCs to Waterford, with top quality,high paying jobs. The additional population would push on the development of the city centre- improved retail and civic spaces, stabilise the hospital as a university hospital.

    More of our young people would stay in the region (Waterford, Dungarvan, Tramore, Kilknenny, Carrick, New Ross, Wexford....) , stay to study (we lose about 25% of leaving cert people to Dublin/Cork/Limerick), they would meet their life-partners here, settle down and be close to their family (rather than using skype).... then one of them would spawn a hurling genius and we would win a flippen All-Ireland.

    If only FG kept their 2011 manifesto problem to turn WIT into a proper university, that child might already be on his way!


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  • #22
    danjo-xx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,393 ✭✭✭danjo-xx


    I would get a JCB and level the North Quay, What an ugly welcome into any city.


  • #23
    Finnbar01
    Registered Users Posts: 2,064 ✭✭✭Finnbar01


    I would like to see a university in Waterford with the same caliber as MIT in America.


  • #24
    Tragamin2k2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Tragamin2k2


    danjo-xx wrote: »
    I would get a JCB and level the North Quay, What an ugly welcome into any city.

    but then the council would have nothin to get everyones hopes up with every few years.

    srsly though flatten the north quay + jurys and watch the price of property in town. would make the place a lot more desirable and remove that enniscorthy vibe goin around. can not believe theyre still there after all these years


  • #25
    Tallcarrie
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭Tallcarrie


    Use the blank face of the Ard Ri - project movies, have moving pictures, let everyone know what's coming up - a completely wasted opportunity to promote the city


  • #26
    fiachr_a
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    Give out free blaa vouchers in the local dole office.


  • #27
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,797 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Tallcarrie wrote: »
    Use the blank face of the Ard Ri - project movies, have moving pictures, let everyone know what's coming up - a completely wasted opportunity to promote the city

    drive in cinema!


  • #28
    The Adversary
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭The Adversary


    Jobs for young people. Let me tell you I love Waterford but trying to find work here is impossible.


  • #29
    Hijpo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭Hijpo


    More ring forts :D


  • #30
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    Change some things with rough council estates.


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  • #31
    Bowlardo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    Where to start...
    Knock down jurys the other side of the river. Knock down that eye sore on the very same side
    Level the quay and all the ****ty car parks and make a board walk the full length from the bridge to the tower.
    Fine people on the street for spitting and dressing like absolute scobes

    There is so much wrong with the place because of bad planning I think it will is nearly irreversible.
    It would be great if there wad massive investment in the port as an alternative to Dublin port.

    Some beautiful spots in Waterford county but the city really I a kip. Waterford people are provided probably the Best craic in the country but there is a woeful undercurrent of ****ebags.

    Really is crying out for big investment .questions would have to be asked why this isn't happening airport,port,college...no excuses why a multinational couldn't move in there


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