Limerick improvement projects

The_Dave · 24-11-2020 1:16pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

Is Sarsfield house definitely getting knocked at some stage?

I've kinda grown to like it

I believe so, an awful building inside, not much better to look at

source · 24-11-2020 1:16pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

Is Sarsfield house definitely getting knocked at some stage?

I've kinda grown to like it

That's the plan once the opera centre is built, Revenue are expected to move in there and then Sarsfield house is slated to be knocked.

bb1234567 · 24-11-2020 1:46pm

Will it be replaced by a new building or made a park?

source · 24-11-2020 1:50pm

bb1234567 wrote: »

Will it be replaced by a new building or made a park?

source wrote: »

There was talk a few years ago of the site of Arthur's Quay park and Sarsfield house becoming linear open parkland leading to the Sylvester O'Halloran bridge, and opening up the Potato market into a park area also. With the exception of Merchant's Quay it would lead to park from Sarsfield Bridge to Thomond Bridge. But I don't know if that is being progressed or if it's just pie in the sky.

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CosmicFool · 24-11-2020 4:00pm

bb1234567 wrote: »

Will it be replaced by a new building or made a park?

Hopefully it will be made into a park

breezy1985 · 24-11-2020 4:15pm

CosmicFool wrote: »

Hopefully it will be made into a park

Probably a bit of both. Would definitely be nice to open up the riverside walk properly rather than that ugly gated area

Louche Lad · 24-11-2020 5:02pm

source wrote: »

There was talk a few years ago of the site of Arthur's Quay park and Sarsfield house becoming linear open parkland leading to the Sylvester O'Halloran bridge, and opening up the Potato market into a park area also. With the exception of Merchant's Quay it would lead to park from Sarsfield Bridge to Thomond Bridge. But I don't know if that is being progressed or if it's just pie in the sky.

Would be great if that happened.

thesimpsons · 24-11-2020 8:12pm

walked over Thomond Bridge and around to St Mary's Cathedral at the weekend with intention of walking through Potato market and behind Hunt Museum to Arthurs Quay park. very disappointed to see the gates were closed off. The 3 bridges walk is a great amenity, hundreds out on all the riverside areas. best part of limerick imo

Mc Love · 24-11-2020 8:36pm

Its the Civic Trust that lock it apparently

Insect Overlord · 24-11-2020 8:39pm

Was that Sunday morning? I ran through that way around 9:00 am on Saturday and everything was open.

breezy1985 · 24-11-2020 8:51pm

Don't know why it gets closed at all

adaminho · 24-11-2020 9:10pm

Mc Love wrote: »

Its the Civic Trust that lock it apparently

It's the council from what I heard. I spoke to a councillor about it earlier in the summer. As an aside I only found out a few weeks ago that there used to be apartments in Sarsfield house!

johnnyryan89 · 24-11-2020 9:16pm

adaminho wrote: »

It's the council from what I heard. I spoke to a councillor about it earlier in the summer. As an aside I only found out a few weeks ago that there used to be apartments in Sarsfield house!

I saw some video about those apartments recently too, and it mentioned four apartments that were for sale years ago. Used to always think it would be great to have a penthouse apartment in Sarsfield House.

eljono · 24-11-2020 11:24pm

My wife and I got locked in to the park behind the Hunt Museum one evening. We walked in the Potato Market side, sat on a bench for a while and went to exit via the Sarsfield House side, but it was locked. Walked back to the Potato Market entrance and that had been locked too! We ended up having to climb over the fence at the front onto Bridge Street &#55357;&#56833;

phog · 25-11-2020 2:39pm

eljono wrote: »

My wife and I got locked in to the park behind the Hunt Museum one evening. We walked in the Potato Market side, sat on a bench for a while and went to exit via the Sarsfield House side, but it was locked. Walked back to the Potato Market entrance and that had been locked too! We ended up having to climb over the fence at the front onto Bridge Street ��

I thought the gate a Sarsfield House could be opened from the inside using magnetic catch release rather than a lock.

breezy1985 · 25-11-2020 2:56pm

phog wrote: »

I thought the gate a Sarsfield House could be opened from the inside using magnetic catch release rather than a lock.

In fairness I wouldn't have known that either if I got locked in there

phog · 25-11-2020 3:16pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

In fairness I wouldn't have known that either if I got locked in there

Well it's a pass code/card that open's the gate from the outside for people that berth their boats behind the Hunt so I just assume it's a release button form the inside.

thesimpsons · 25-11-2020 3:25pm

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Was that Sunday morning? I ran through that way around 9:00 am on Saturday and everything was open.

sunday afternoon - 2 ish

johnnyryan89 · 26-11-2020 1:48pm

See the Council's Twitter page has up about the CPO of the unfinished multi story car park on Ellen St.

https://twitter.com/LimerickCouncil/status/1331941042233487362

Shaneg4 · 26-11-2020 3:15pm

Junction improvement at the courtbrack rd, I wonder where Kellehers are going to move to if this has funding approved as they are supposed to be getting cpo'ed and demolised to make that road wider.
Traffic lights to be synced and timed better, courtbrack to be reduced to 1 turning lane, bike lanes etc.

Can't link as new account but it's on my point

mastershake · 26-11-2020 5:10pm

Outline of the proposed works to take place at the junction. Significant enough changes that I would expect will lead to delays on the Dock road. I assume the main purpose of this is to improve delivery access to the docks? There will be a significant land grab as shown by the blue line outlining Kellehers current premises.

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breezy1985 · 26-11-2020 5:18pm

mastershake wrote: »

Outline of the proposed works to take place at the junction. Significant enough changes that I would expect will lead to delays on the Dock road. I assume the main purpose of this is to improve access to the docks?

Absolutely useless cycling lanes as usual from the council. To get through that junction you would have to dismount 3 times just to get through it and any cycle lane in the city that is at the same level as the path gets ignored by pedestrians making it unusable to cyclists
You can expect me and plenty of other cyclists to not use it and stay on the road

Mc Love · 26-11-2020 5:30pm

Yeah they really know how not to design an intersection even though there is a whole guide on it in the DMURS

un5byh7sqpd2x0 · 27-11-2020 12:04pm

Why would anyone want to cycle down Atlas Avenue?

what_traffic · 27-11-2020 12:11pm

Kyleigh CoolS Synthesizer wrote: »

Why would anyone want to cycle down Atlas Avenue?

Commuters going to and from work?

breezy1985 · 27-11-2020 12:46pm

Kyleigh CoolS Synthesizer wrote: »

Why would anyone want to cycle down Atlas Avenue?

No harm having lanes anywhere there is room but the council need to actually set a standard for them and not just paint colours on a path or that stupid yoke on the bridge that has no entry point from the condell road side

Mc Love · 27-11-2020 1:18pm

exactly - there's no joined up thinking. Can you imagine if they did it with roads? Like the cycle lane in Ballinacurra. It starts and stops just randomly - there's no transition from the road to the cycle path or from the cycle path to the road cycle lane at the other side.

breezy1985 · 27-11-2020 1:43pm

Mc Love wrote: »

exactly - there's no joined up thinking. Can you imagine if they did it with roads? Like the cycle lane in Ballinacurra. It starts and stops just randomly - there's no transition from the road to the cycle path or from the cycle path to the road cycle lane at the other side.

Condell Tesco roundabout one throws you round a blind corner right in to a traffic light pole/pedestrians on the Ennis rd exit and all of the roundabout ones in Limerick launch you back on to the road just as the car is exiting the roundabout.

The on path ones are full of lamp posts and yield signs. Imagine as a car driver if you were driving through an estate and had to yield for every driveway cause that's what some cycle paths do

thesimpsons · 28-11-2020 1:45pm

I see they are laying bollards and armadillos on the bike lane on Clonmacken road the last few days. I rarely cycle in that lane as the surface has started to break up - these improvements aren't going to convince people to cycle in there as there is no room to avoid the surface and once inside the armadillos, you can't get out to easily.

Additionally, if anyone in the council is watching in here - could you please complete the road sweeping of the Condell Road. One side was done early last week and the outbond lane was left untouched. I wonder how they intend to sweep this new sectioned off bike lane ?

breezy1985 · 28-11-2020 2:44pm

thesimpsons wrote: »

I see they are laying bollards and armadillos on the bike lane on Clonmacken road the last few days. I rarely cycle in that lane as the surface has started to break up - these improvements aren't going to convince people to cycle in there as there is no room to avoid the surface and once inside the armadillos, you can't get out to easily.

Additionally, if anyone in the council is watching in here - could you please complete the road sweeping of the Condell Road. One side was done early last week and the outbond lane was left untouched. I wonder how they intend to sweep this new sectioned off bike lane ?

That red paint crap that they put on the cycle lanes ruins them. They are either broken up into shards like Pa Healy road or sloped on making the lane like rumble strips like Dooradoyle

adaminho · 28-11-2020 6:43pm

I see a load of planter/benches were dropped in Parnell Street today. They're still in the wrap and not planted yet.

thesimpsons · 28-11-2020 8:44pm

the council finished sweeping both sides of Condell Rd now but there is a horrible greasy mucky residue still on the cycle lane. It really needs another good sweeping now. The parts by the 2 construction sites is oweful.

manna452121 · 29-11-2020 3:01pm

thesimpsons wrote: »

the council finished sweeping both sides of Condell Rd now but there is a horrible greasy mucky residue still on the cycle lane. It really needs another good sweeping now. The parts by the 2 construction sites is oweful.

Keep a lookout for the new poles on the cycle lane heading from the Condell road to Jetland centre

mrsoundie · 29-11-2020 3:19pm

manna452121 wrote: »

Keep a lookout for the new poles on the cycle lane heading from the Condell road to Jetland centre

Will that stop all the parents letting their kids off for school?

breezy1985 · 29-11-2020 3:41pm

mrsoundie wrote: »

Will that stop all the parents letting their kids off for school?

Is there a school round there?

breezy1985 · 29-11-2020 3:42pm

manna452121 wrote: »

Keep a lookout for the new poles on the cycle lane heading from the Condell road to Jetland centre

Didn't think they were needed there I never see cars parked or driving in it. But I could be wrong I wouldn't pass there that often

MarkR · 29-11-2020 6:34pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

Didn't think they were needed there I never see cars parked or driving in it. But I could be wrong I wouldn't pass there that often

When there's a match on the place is like a car park.

breezy1985 · 29-11-2020 7:29pm

MarkR wrote: »

When there's a match on the place is like a car park.

Dooradoyle is the same when Garryowen play.

Those bollards are awful to look at but sadly they are the solution not the problem.

Its the people parking there that's the problem

adaminho · 29-11-2020 7:42pm

breezy1985 wrote: »

Dooradoyle is the same when Garryowen play.

Those bollards are awful to look at but sadly they are the solution not the problem.

Its the people parking there that's the problem

Won't Someone think of the double parkers!

https://twitter.com/EmmettOBrienIND/status/1332329720130711552

Insect Overlord · 29-11-2020 8:42pm

Incredible. A fella representing Kildimo and Pallaskenry complaining about a cycle lane in Limerick City Centre.

Mc Love · 29-11-2020 8:48pm

He's some troll

breezy1985 · 29-11-2020 8:58pm

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Incredible. A fella representing Kildimo and Pallaskenry complaining about a cycle lane in Limerick City Centre.

Plenty of his voters won't care where the lane is as long as he is putting it up to the cyclists. It's one of the weirder things to have gotten so political recently

sioda · 29-11-2020 9:04pm

Love the fact he's tagging Flannerys about not getting deliveries when their kegs get dropped on William Street.

I use that lane a good bit happy to see the bollards tbh

Insect Overlord · 29-11-2020 9:32pm

sioda wrote: »

Love the fact he's tagging Flannerys about not getting deliveries when their kegs get dropped on William Street.

I use that lane a good bit happy to see the bollards tbh

You'd imagine a qualified barrister would have the brains to phrase his Tweets more appropriately. It doesn't exactly strike confidence in the average Joe to see this kind of carry-on.

thesimpsons · 29-11-2020 9:48pm

mrsoundie wrote: »

Will that stop all the parents letting their kids off for school?

You probably thinking of the Condell Road. These new bollards are on the Clonmacken Road - no schools anywhere near there.

Risteard · 29-11-2020 9:57pm

sioda wrote: »

Love the fact he's tagging Flannerys about not getting deliveries when their kegs get dropped on William Street.

I use that lane a good bit happy to see the bollards tbh

Also tagging the wrong Flannerys.

breezy1985 · 29-11-2020 10:00pm

The Dutch and the Belgians seem to cycle and drink more than the rest of the world combined and they manage deliveries some how on them battered old streets so I'm sure Wickham st. Will be fine

OfTheMarsWongs · 29-11-2020 10:19pm

Insect Overlord wrote: »

Incredible. A fella representing Kildimo and Pallaskenry complaining about a cycle lane in Limerick City Centre.

I've seen city councillors post recently about water outages etc outside of the area in the city that they represent. I suspect its partially to do with getting the name out there in prep for a future General Election run.

Cookiemunster · 30-11-2020 2:50pm

Work on the Opera Site officially begins today. https://limerick2030.ie/huge-boost-for-limerick-and-mid-west-as-work-at-opera-site-commences/

breezy1985 · 30-11-2020 2:58pm

Cookiemunster wrote: »

Work on the Opera Site officially begins today. https://limerick2030.ie/huge-boost-for-limerick-and-mid-west-as-work-at-opera-site-commences/

Wey hey we finally get started on Limerick2005 or whatever the 5 year plan was called back then

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