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Dun Laoghaire main street being pulled up

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    #32
    Cookie_Monster
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    astrofool wrote: »
    The Park carrickmines also has cobblestone on the way in/out. What better way to get an expensive appliance home, then by shaking it rapidly :)

    they're great fun, very easy to slide the car around on :D


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    #33
    Tabnabs
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    HGV's and busses do when cutting corners. :o

    If they did cut the corner they'd know all about it as there are large stone bollards centimetres from the drain slabs.

    Maybe these same HGV's and buses cut the curb that caused the paving slabs to rise and break just across the road outside the Ulster Bank? ;)


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    #34
    crushproof
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    I got a reply from the council today.
    The letter totally ignored my objection to the plan and the points I raised - such as the costs involved (and how the money could be spent on repairing more worthy roads), the lack of evidence of signifcant wear and tear from cars and the general sense of character the cobbles bring to the town centre.

    All the letter mentioned was
    • The council intends to close the road from 8th June to 25 June
    • Pedestrian access wil be maintained
    • And questions related to the traffic management plan will be provided to business reps on May 28th (today)

    So basically, f**k all acknowledgement of the points I raised. :mad:


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    #35
    Cookie_Monster
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    Dear Sir,

    PFO

    Yours
    The Council


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    #36
    reprazant
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    Clementine wrote: »
    DLRCoCo really don't get it. When they put the cobbles down a few years ago it destroyed the custom of the shops of DL. And now with the half the shop units in DL empty they decide to go back on their decision. Ugh.

    They should just knock the Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre while they're at it. Get all the building works done at the same time and have a new Dun Laoghaire to launch all at the same time.

    Balls did the pedestrianisation do that. DL had been dying before that due to a combination of high rents and rubbish shops. It is no surprise that the only shops that seem to survive are the ones that had been there for years and would have had long leases.

    DLRCoCo also made it nearly impossible to park anywhere without paying an absolute fortune so people stopped bothering to drive there.

    Add to that Dundrum SC, which is killing pretty much every town close to it, people just stopped shopping there when there were better alternatives elsewhere.

    DLCoCo could have helped the town but instead they decided to try and chase every small bit of change people may have had to fill their coffers and have killed the town in doing so.


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