Footpaths in the city!

RonMexico

Could somebody please explain to me what that thing that runs up along O'Connell St outside Bank of Ireland, Supermacs, Wacky Shoes, O' Mahoneys etc is supposed to be? Call it a footpath? It is the ugliest, most uneven waterlogged excuse for a footpath I have ever seen. Was it some kind of lame attempt to highlight how much chewing gum is stuck to the streets or something? (Black was a great colour) The only streets you can actually walk on in this city when it is raining are Cruises St and Thomas St/Bedford Row. The rest are like obstacle courses with all the pools of water because they are built so badly

Mc Love

Its like a cheap form of tarmac, they use it in the states i think! Made with cow manure or so i was told haha!!!

It is very bad! they should have put down tiles like they had before

RonMexico

Cheap tarmac for a city footpath is a joke. They can't even lay it right, they must have hired Mr. Magoo to do it.

The Saint

RonMexico wrote: »

Cheap tarmac for a city footpath is a joke. They can't even lay it right, they must have hired Mr. Magoo to do it.

Leave Mr Magoo out of this. He laid my driveway a did a great job.

Limerick Dude

Well they are going to be doing up that part of O'Connel St anyway, so whats the point in putting down new fancy tiles and wasting money if the whole area is going to be ripped up anyway....

RonMexico

They are?

Ardscoil Ris

RonMexico wrote: »

Could somebody please explain to me what that thing that runs up along O'Connell St outside Bank of Ireland, Supermacs, Wacky Shoes, O' Mahoneys etc is supposed to be? Call it a footpath? It is the ugliest, most uneven waterlogged excuse for a footpath I have ever seen. Was it some kind of lame attempt to highlight how much chewing gum is stuck to the streets or something? (Black was a great colour) The only streets you can actually walk on in this city when it is raining are Cruises St and Thomas St/Bedford Row. The rest are like obstacle courses with all the pools of water because they are built so badly

In Ireland a public footpath is a path on which the public have a legally protected right to travel on foot. Public footpaths often form a dense network of short paths, offering a choice of routes to many different destinations.

Poxyshamrock

The footpath before it was alot better.
It was the one with the big slabs...although they often moved from under you.

Kess73

Limerick Dude wrote: »

Well they are going to be doing up that part of O'Connel St anyway, so whats the point in putting down new fancy tiles and wasting money if the whole area is going to be ripped up anyway....

RonMexico wrote: »

They are?

There has been long term talk of making the street a pedestrian area, which personally is a silly idea as I do not see such an idea as bringing more people into the city. Parking and a range of shops to encourage people is what is needed.

Firefox10

Kess73 wrote: »

There has been long term talk of making the street a pedestrian area, which personally is a silly idea as I do not see such an idea as bringing more people into the city. Parking and a range of shops to encourage people is what is needed.

I dont know...they would need to do something soon. The city centre is starting to look very run down now and is full of scumbags. The "new" bedford row has allready mostly been vandalised.

Berty

I presume this thread refers to the crazy paving from Supermacs up to Leavys. It had sunk in some places allowing water to build up on it.

God only knows what type of sub base is beneath it and how the slabs were originally held down. Mortar possibly?

As this is LCC I doubt much thought was put into it. The idea of having slabs is that the water can go down through the aggregate of likely sand and 804 and dissapear into the ground below. Its not going anywhere here.

Its worst outside Subway and Wacky shoes. Im never in town because there is nothing much to draw me into the city and certainly nothing on that street.

There is no point flogging a dead horse because new retailers will not open and current retailers will likely close.

Aidric

Footpaths in Limerick are generally a joke and completely unsightly.

Berty

Aidric wrote: »

Footpaths in Limerick are generally a joke and completely unsightly.

Except around the chicken hut. That surface is a nice design.

Poxyshamrock

Berty wrote: »

Except around the chicken hut. That surface is a nice design.

Roches Streets footpath is really nice.

RINO87

ah lads, its only a footpath!!!!

krudler

RINO87 wrote: »

ah lads, its only a footpath!!!!

Beat me to it, surely theres better things to worry about how how many puddles you have to lightly step over? do people spend all day on these paths? no just to and from wherever you're going, stop whinging! I garauntee if the council started tearing them up to replace them the exact same people would be on here complaining there was nothing wrong with them and its a waste of money

Well I for one don't generally just whinge about things for the sake of it, but I have felt for quite a while that the footpaths in Limerick are a disgrace. The dips in them collect water and it's just not funny for a pedestrian. If I'm making the 25 minute walk into town and the 25 minute walk home that's nearly an hour walking throuhg puddles!!! (It's not a case of avoiding them if there are people walking towards you) In some cases the puddles stretch right across the footpath so you can either walk out onto the road or walk through the puddle, pleasant....

Mc Love

Not great for tourists image of our city!

krudler

Deleted User wrote: »

Well I for one don't generally just whinge about things for the sake of it, but I have felt for quite a while that the footpaths in Limerick are a disgrace. The dips in them collect water and it's just not funny for a pedestrian. If I'm making the 25 minute walk into town and the 25 minute walk home that's nearly an hour walking throuhg puddles!!! (It's not a case of avoiding them if there are people walking towards you) In some cases the puddles stretch right across the footpath so you can either walk out onto the road or walk through the puddle, pleasant....

Good lord you're right, forget the junkies hanging around o'connell street, the real menace of Limerick these days are puddles, what are the council going to do about this?! wont someone think of the children?!

RonMexico

Typical response from the arsehole mentality that exists in this country. The reason why so many things in this country are ****ed is because nobody ever complains about them. We pay enough tax we have a right to demand better. Everyone just pussyfoots around afraid to say boo about anything which is why service in this country is a joke because people are happy to accept total crap. Footpaths are just one example of a long long list of things that are a joke but as usual people just accept it. Then the same people wonder why the politicians do sweet F.A.

90% of the things that are accepted here as status quo would result in protests in other countries. Here people are just happy to bend over and take one before doing something about it.

RINO87

i'm taking a day off work tomorrow (unpaid) to demonstrate at the introduction of 3rd level fees, i regularly protest at the state of our health service and am a member of socialist youth. I have never passed up the opportunity to vote.


BUT


ITS ONLY A BLOODY FOOTBATH!!


ah ffs, im after typing footbath! it would be very wrong of me to delete that!

krudler

RonMexico wrote: »

Typical response from the arsehole mentality that exists in this country. The reason why so many things in this country are ****ed is because nobody ever complains about them. We pay enough tax we have a right to demand better. Everyone just pussyfoots around afraid to say boo about anything which is why service in this country is a joke because people are happy to accept total crap. Footpaths are just one example of a long long list of things that are a joke but as usual people just accept it. Then the same people wonder why the politicians do sweet F.A.

90% of the things that are accepted here as status quo would result in protests in other countries. Here people are just happy to bend over and take one before doing something about it.

Can you forward me on the complaint you're going to send to the council then?

Amazotheamazing

The reason the cheap tarmac was put down is because the entire footpath is due to be ripped up and the area modernised. It's simply a short term solution. Don't stress it.