Roadworks

Delta Kilo

Why the fúck are they ripping up perfectly good tarmac in random places along the avenue? Could it not have waited until the january break?

caesar

I don't know why they didnt wait but they cant do everthing to suit us. UL is a business at the end of the day, when are people going to realise this.

Anyway they probably have to get it done before the year end or something like that. As for it being perfectly good tarmac I would have thought so too but then again its probably cheaper to do it now.

ninty9er

The funding was awarded for the work in the last number of weeks and will be taken back by the funding agency if the work is not substantially complete before 31 December. This is also why footpaths are being ripped up all over the city.

cson

ninty9er wrote: »

The funding was awarded for the work in the last number of weeks and will be taken back by the funding agency if the work is not substantially complete before 31 December. This is also why footpaths are being ripped up all over the city.

Christ is it any wonder the country is broke.

Delta Kilo

cson wrote: »

Christ is it any wonder the country is broke.

Exactly what I was thinking myself cson. Rippping up perfectly good tarmac, just because funding became available, just doesn't make sense. The worst section, from the main gate to the roundabout, will probably be left as is knowing Ireland!

sceptre

At least they fixed the section in town as John's Square runs into Gerald Griffin St - hell on both a bike and car and should have been fixed years ago.

In general though, not a fan of flogging the end of a budget merely because it's been allocated.

cson

Wasn't there something like that with the Living Bridge? They had to spend an allocation or it would be lost so they spent the €16million on the Living Bridge? :eek:

ninty9er

Works that are requested during the year tend to be put on the long finger in case of major essential works, meaning that the work was most likely requested way back, but not deemed "essential", but the funding agency didn't want to spend its entire allocation in one shop. This is also why the work on the AIB car park didn't begin until week 0.

The Living Bridge was a budgeted capital expense estimated at approx €10m, but overruns saw an eventual cost closer to €14m IIRC. Sceptre will know. he wrote a lovely article about its wibbly wobly wonderfulness:pac:

whitey21

sceptre wrote: »

At least they fixed the section in town as John's Square runs into Gerald Griffin St - hell on both a bike and car and should have been fixed years ago.

In general though, not a fan of flogging the end of a budget merely because it's been allocated.

Unfortunately, thats the way it is everywhere. If there is a surplus, it generally means that you're over budgeting and will not get your required budget for the next year that you need

....just the way it is...