Not impressed by Leixlip

L1011

n97 mini wrote: »

Pretty much every town in Ireland has almost no-one living in the town centre. I learned this is Geography class in the 80s. It's not new. You can't build many/any 3-bed semis in town centres. Most live in estates and houses built around towns.


It's a quarter of a mile from Main St., but we won't let truth stand in the way of exaggeration. Besides that it's a divisional HQ, covering a massive area. By definition it can't be near everyone at once.

Very few towns have their town centre shoved off to one side with nobody living in it.

The only people who try and justify Leixlip not being poorly planned are those that have bought property there, it appears.

n97 mini

MYOB wrote: »

Very few towns have their town centre shoved off to one side with nobody living in it.

Please, enough exaggeration already. Leixlip has its fair share of apartments in and around the town centre.

MYOB wrote: »

The only people who try and justify Leixlip not being poorly planned are those that have bought property there, it appears.

It appears the only people who argue it's poorly planned are those didn't!

Personally I wouldn't be telling someone whose house is less than 5 minutes walk from a suburban train station, DB bus stops, a primary school, a secondary school, supermarket, a couple of pubs, a couple of take-aways, church, library, community centre, barbershop, hairdressers, dry cleaner, etc etc etc that their area is badly planned.

No, each to their own I say. There are better and worse places.

Corruptedmorals

MYOB wrote: »

Very few towns have their town centre shoved off to one side with nobody living in it.

The only people who try and justify Leixlip not being poorly planned are those that have bought property there, it appears.

I have to say I've lived here for 23 years and not one been negatively affected by its poor planning except maybe the opening times of the old garda station. I live in one of the older estates, I've had short walks to primary and secondary schools, short walks to shops, very short walk to the good network of bus routes to town. I'm not sure how much you can expect of the a town that was a sleepy village in the 1960's. Maynooth is different, it was always a town but Leixlip is not a prime example of bad planning. The garda station is beside Ryevale, Ryemount, Rockingham and Louisa Valley, opposite Green Lane and a short walk from Cedar Park and Oaklawn. It's located at a major junction. Yes it's not in the village but the village is not a centre of population- maybe it could have been but the rivers and the Guinness lands block it off quite a bit.

aagghh

From spending a lot of thime in these towns but not actually from them i think Leixlip is deffinitely the best as it has real character, Maynooth used to be a good student town but has turned into a rough kip if you ask me, Celbridge isnt bad, some of the pubs are decent

BuffyBot

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