Who thinks they have screwed up William St with all the Works going on

Poxyshamrock

Berty wrote: »

Remember the talk about the fact the lines on Sarsfield Street suggest the right lane is for going on as well.

I followed the suggestions here and figured. The left lane basically comes to an end, due to the road works, so if both lanes go straight on then the right lane must be the lane with priority as the right lane is the only one which continues straight.

Twice I have nearly been involved in a crash with people beeping their horns and waving fists.

Yet now that I use the left lane others still use the right lane as well.

You just cannot win.

Also: In the left lane it has a straight and right arrow with BUS in red. Would it be fair to assume that it means ONLY the bus can use this lane for straight and turning right. Probably not but it IS the council who put this down. :rolleyes:

Yeah, the right arrow in the left lane is for bus drivers only...you'd think they'd just put a straight arrow...and assume the bus drivers know they can turn right.

They also have a straight arrow in the right lane, a lane that was traditionally the lane for turning up O'Connell Street.

Don't understand it at all.

Berty

zuroph wrote: »

I just wanted to quote this, the day Berty was finally inexcusably IN THE WRONG on a driving matter! You've made my day Berty, A thank you!! :pac:

Nope, see I tried it your way Mike and It didn't work out. I was obviously(naturally) correct and will continue to take my original course of action.

Moral: Never doubt yourself.

zuroph

Berty wrote: »

Nope, see I tried it your way Mike and It didn't work out. I was obviously(naturally) correct and will continue to take my original course of action.

Moral: Never doubt yourself.

lol. dont give into the incorrect bullies Berty, you keep your head up and be proud in the right lane..

the reason there is two lanes going straight ahead is there will be two lanes up william street, and eventually o connell street will be pedestrianised outside BT.

Berty

What did you say?

Grizzly 45

By the time all these grandiose boulevards are in place in Limerick city centre,The city centre will be a ghost town inhabited by scobes,drunks and druggies,as no one sane will want to come into it,as there will be no busisness in the centre first off.Due to the stupidly high rates to pay for these revamps.Anyone not notice how out of proprotion they are to the buildings??Not to mind nill parking facilities except in the rippoff parking lots.
Well done Limerick city councillors and town planners you are creating a donut conurbation and killing the centre.:(

mastershake

In fairness something has to be done to sort out the city center.Leaving things as they are will only lead to further deterioration.The place is an absolute kip especially William st but these works should see it reach its potential.Bedford row and Thomas st have been a huge success in my opinion and a job similar to Patrick's st in cork for William st would be hugely beneficial for attracting new stores and shoppers/tourists.

People here want something for nothing.Quit whining about short time works and instead focus on the greater long term benefit for the city.

Poxyshamrock

mastershake wrote: »

In fairness something has to be done to sort out the city center.Leaving things as they are will only lead to further deterioration.The place is an absolute kip especially William st but these works should see it reach its potential.Bedford row and Thomas st have been a huge success in my opinion and a job similar to Patrick's st in cork for William st would be hugely beneficial for attracting new stores and shoppers/tourists.

People here want something for nothing.Quit whining about short time works and instead focus on the greater long term benefit for the city.

The only way to make William Street nice is to evict about 60% of the tenants and I can't see that happening.

Grizzly 45

mastershake wrote: »

In fairness something has to be done to sort out the city center.Leaving things as they are will only lead to further deterioration.The place is an absolute kip especially William st but these works should see it reach its potential.Bedford row and Thomas st have been a huge success in my opinion and a job similar to Patrick's st in cork for William st would be hugely beneficial for attracting new stores and shoppers/tourists.

People here want something for nothing.Quit whining about short time works and instead focus on the greater long term benefit for the city.

Nice????????????:eek::eek: Sorry.But I hate to say your sense of archetectural proportion leaves alot to be desired!!Whoever did this to Limerick should be simply taken out and thrown into the Shannon wearing concrete wellies!!
EVERY last project of any merit in this town has been a disaster!!Be it town planing or traffic management or "improving " the looks of the city.
The glass box in King Johns castle ..It is SOOO bad that even pictures of Limerick are angled to hide or remove it form destroying the picture,or it is simply airbrushed out.The riverwalk to Plassey,big talk of water taxis etc,millions wasted, looks like a tip again,council and waterways Ireland play pass the blame. Lets not talk about the marina,or the boardwalk,or the oil derrick..err..Xmas tree that collided with the bridge and sunk this year.:rolleyes: The demolition of Cruises hotel years ago for the muggers paradise of cruises street..Any other town would have turned that into a beautiful indoor shopping arcade..But not Limerick..No we demolish it and fling up red brick horrors.:mad:

Those huge boulevards of sidewalks are totally out of proportion to the buildings and the town ,and what was put in Bedford Row was a disgrace!!It is a soulless monstrosity of uninspired glass and fake marble.Clashing with the older buildings on the other side of the Ave of Puke...
They demolished a building of significant historical value, an Art Deco building namley the old Bedford Motor works for this modern POS that graces the street now.
Still I suppose the pavements are easy to clean now of puke and blood after a Saturday night,if the coropration would be botherd.

This wont attract Jack to the city centre..The rates are way too high as is the rent.The whole city centre from William St to Oconnell st and down to Henry St is now a FOR RENT,or FOR SALE sinage forest!!

WHY would I want to as a shopper and buissnesman want to come NEAR the city centre anymore??No parking facilities to do quick dropoffs without being jumped on by the traffic nazis with their 40 euro tickets.
Got to lug everything that I might have bought to a car park,pay over the odds for that or on street parking.

A tourist,will see a derelict city centre with a bunch of overpriced brand name shops,and at night IF they go into the city centre will be hassled by scobes,druggies and alchos who are sitting and abusing the street furniture and passers by.So fancy,pavements that cause car choked lanes by now are going to compensate and enhance the "Limerick Experiance"??:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Face it..This street planning is simply make work,and shifting the deck chairs on the Titanic!!It is a white elephant plan from the good years when we were" awash with money" and crackpot "Green" ideas of car free cities..Yeah..Car free,bus free,or any other form of realistic alternative transport for Irish weather conditions free transport.

Predict within ten years all this will be ripped out again,as people realise that if you want the CC to survive people have to be able to access it by car to have the convience of the shopping centres,and the rents will have to drop by 75to 90% on some of those dives they call shops.

Berty

You're right. I call for a monorail immediately!!

Insect Overlord

It begins! :eek:

On a more serious/on-topic note, did anyone read Bock the Robber's blog about William Street this week?

Mc Love

no didnt see it IO - care to share?

Conor Bourke

Is that the one with the photos of the cellars being filled with cement?

It made me very sad

Berty

Alaskimo-cake wrote: »

Is that the one with the photos of the cellars being filled with cement?

It made me very sad

Only saw that on his blog now. Made me angry.

Too little too late.

phill106

Interesting blog, love to know more about the tunnels under limerick, especially the one mentioned here


aboysham April 26th, 2011 7:38 pm

One of the largest, if not the largest cavern in Ireland runs under William Street, just behind the ones in your photos Bock. It was originally the magazine attached to William Street barracks. I can’t believe that they are just filling them in. The ones in your photos were originally the coal cellars and surely must belong to the proprietors?

Amazotheamazing

phill106 wrote: »

Interesting blog, love to know more about the tunnels under limerick, especially the one mentioned here

I don't know, if they were actually that significant the Civic Trust or the Georgian Society would have objected to the works. I'm loathe to see any of old Limerick destroyed but Bock's not one for giving the full story, I'd like to see an independent person's view of it.

These tunnel's have been filled in at the top of O'Callaghan's strand and outside Tim Martin's pub too. My initial impressions have always been it's a waste but I'd like to hear a qualified person's take on it.

Berty

There was a thread in the Infrastructure forum called "underground Ireland" and the tunnels were mentioned. I think its mad and lazy they just filled in people's property like that.

There are many many others all over the city, some connecting right into the sewers. History, whatever it is, needs to be protected especially from the accountants in Limerick City and County Council.

Amazotheamazing

Berty wrote: »

There was a thread in the Infrastructure forum called "underground Ireland" and the tunnels were mentioned. I think its mad and lazy they just filled in people's property like that.

There are many many others all over the city, some connecting right into the sewers. History, whatever it is, needs to be protected especially from the accountants in Limerick City and County Council.

Afaik, the tunnels are below these again. These are old coal bunkers/storage spaces.

Berty

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Afaik, the tunnels are below these again. These are old coal bunkers/storage spaces.

Love to see them though.............

ninty9er

Insect Overlord wrote: »

On a more serious/on-topic note, did anyone read Bock the Robber's blog about William Street this week?

Yup. I wouldn't be too concerned about it as he's misinformed. What he shows are basement storage areas. My grandad owns a building on William street and the area was unusable due to damp and general unmaintainable atmosphere. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them were concreted even before the council got to them.

Amazotheamazing

ninty9er wrote: »

Yup. I wouldn't be too concerned about it as he's misinformed. What he shows are basement storage areas. My grandad owns a building on William street and the area was unusable due to damp and general unmaintainable atmosphere. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them were concreted even before the council got to them.

Did you see all the rusted bicycles dragged from one of them, not great for storage as is but they could be fixed up and maybe should be fixed up rather than filled in with concrete. It'd be a lot more interesting if Bock had checked the full facts before running off with a story though.

savagecabbages

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

...It'd be a lot more interesting if Bock had checked the full facts...

Well thats bock in a nutshell right there...
He'd out-opinionate Jeremy Clarkson!

In fairness I do like Thomas street and the re-developed part of Catherine street, while Bedford Row is vomit-inducing to walk through.
Hopefully William Street will be an improvement on whats there already, the city really needs something good to happen before it implodes.

roast

Some of those buildings look horrible. Perfect example is the building that Gamestop is on. Horrible gray wall above it. Even the "Cruises Street" sign is in bits. Limerick needs a lot more work than a nice footpath, although it is a great start!

1huge1

roast wrote: »

Some of those buildings look horrible. Perfect example is the building that Gamestop is on. Horrible gray wall above it. Even the "Cruises Street" sign is in bits. Limerick needs a lot more work than a nice footpath, although it is a great start!

Agreed on that big cememt slab that is above Gamestop easily the most disgusting building in Limerick city centre, at a main bus stop too. You'll hear no complaints from me if someone was to tear it down.

Poxyshamrock

roast wrote: »

Some of those buildings look horrible. Perfect example is the building that Gamestop is on. Horrible gray wall above it. Even the "Cruises Street" sign is in bits. Limerick needs a lot more work than a nice footpath, although it is a great start!

They got a new Cruises Street sign about two years ago.

Mc Love

roast wrote: »

Some of those buildings look horrible. Perfect example is the building that Gamestop is on. Horrible gray wall above it. Even the "Cruises Street" sign is in bits. Limerick needs a lot more work than a nice footpath, although it is a great start!

It would be a good place for a big advert.

http://goo.gl/maps/pliY

roast

Mc Love wrote: »

It would be a good place for a big advert.

http://goo.gl/maps/pliY

Yeah I thought the same myself, although I'd prefer to see some kind of painting or mural.... that might be nice - but unlikely.

slinky2000

Mc Love wrote: »

It would be a good place for a big advert.

http://goo.gl/maps/pliY

Always wondered about that place. There's absolutely nothing behind it...

http://goo.gl/ZISXU

Mc Love

slinky2000 wrote: »

Always wondered about that spage. There's absolutely nothing behind it...

http://goo.gl/ZISXU

Oh my god - i am shocked! I thought it was used as storage for the shops below!

Something like the miller ad with the mural created using the power washers would be cool

Berty

Mc Love wrote: »

Something like the miller ad with the mural created using the power washers would be cool

A job for "Occupy Space" I'd say.

CiaranMT

slinky2000 wrote: »

Always wondered about that spage. There's absolutely nothing behind it...

http://goo.gl/ZISXU

WTF is the point of that??

roast

slinky2000 wrote: »

Always wondered about that spage. There's absolutely nothing behind it...

http://goo.gl/ZISXU

Holy crap.... I'm surprised you even spotted that tbh.

Cookiemunster

CiaranMT wrote: »

WTF is the point of that??

I remember reading somewhere that it was put there after the building was built so that all the buildings on William St would be the same height. I don't remember it not being there so it must be there since at least the 70s.

CiaranMT

Cookiemunster wrote: »

I remember reading somewhere that it was put there after the building was built so that all the buildings on William St would be the same height. I don't remember it not being there so it must be there since at least the 70s.

If this was NY that's be a piece of art by now. Something interesting would have been done with it at least.

Insect Overlord

CiaranMT wrote: »

If this was NY that's be a piece of art by now. Something interesting would have been done with it at least.

How about this lovely design from Fight Club?

Berty

How about the landlord rents the space for advertising like:



Or here above Fines Jewellers(Real old sign)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=O%27Connell+St,+Limerick,+Ireland&aq=0&sll=41.890062,12.492549&sspn=0.010287,0.022724&g=O%27Connell+St,+Limerick,+Ireland&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=O%27Connell+St,+Limerick,+County+Limerick,+Ireland&ll=52.661799,-8.628854&spn=0.002095,0.005681&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=52.661806,-8.628856&panoid=BAWTX8h8yc7b4iavgZ2ouw&cbp=12,95.24,,1,-18.57

slinky2000

Spotted it years ago for some reason!

I think I meant "place" not "spage" in my post lol

keane2097

Mc Love wrote: »

Oh my god - i am shocked! I thought it was used as storage for the shops below!

Something like the miller ad with the mural created using the power washers would be cool

The song in that add is fantastic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHJkwuaPms4

zuroph

someone get a cherry picker and we go in and art it up

roast

zuroph wrote: »

someone get a cherry picker and we go in and art it up

I'd love if Limericks graffiti heads saw this thread and decided to do just that. :pac:

phill106

Anyone stuck in traffic this afternoon in limerick? This is why...

MarkR

phill106 wrote: »

Anyone stuck in traffic this afternoon in limerick? This is why...

Was the car there for long?

phill106

MarkR wrote: »

Was the car there for long?

at least 10 minutes that i saw, some sort of brown thomas shopping emergency...

Berty

phill106 wrote: »

at least 10 minutes that i saw, some sort of brown thomas shopping emergency...

Such an asshole, why did you post this here?

phill106

Berty wrote: »

Such an asshole, why did you post this here?

because he came rushing back to the car carrying a brown thomas bag, putting his 2 children into a two seater illegally parked car with no child seats or booster seats.
Obviously if it was not an emergency, he would not do this.

phog

Berty wrote: »

Such an asshole, why did you post this here?

Who's the asshole? Why shouldn't he post it here?

Jofspring

phog wrote: »

Who's the asshole? Why shouldn't he post it here?

Think he is calling the guy in the car an asshole.

Clearly posted here though because its on William Street.


What a twat that guy is. Parks illegally blocking a road that is already totally blocked up then drives off with a child in the front seat of a two seater car with no belt. Its a pity the gardai didn't get there first.

Kess73

Jofspring wrote: »

Think he is calling the guy in the car an asshole.

Clearly posted here though because its on William Street.


What a twat that guy is. Parks illegally blocking a road that is already totally blocked up then drives off with a child in the front seat of a two seater car with no belt. Its a pity the gardai didn't get there first.

One would think that given he was easy to recognize in the video, given the car reg was seen, and given that the placement of the car was clear, along with the unbelted children, that the gardai would have the evidence they need from that video and could supplement it with any video footage from the street cameras.

phill106

Berty wrote: »

Such an asshole, why did you post this here?

Just to clarify, did you mean I am an asshole or the parker?
I posted this here because you asked me to in the obnoxious parking forum!

Berty

phill106 wrote: »

Just to clarify, did you mean I am an asshole or the parker?
I posted this here because you asked me to in the obnoxious parking forum!

Yep. Rather confusing isn't it. Couple my post with some beer and confusion is rife.

The parker is truly the asshole because yes I asked you in another forum to post it here so it would be odd to follow you back here to slag you off.

Conor Bourke

There's an obnoxious parking forum? :eek: cannae wait for a look at that