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Dundalk Town Works
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Mr Magnolia wrote: »I couldn't disagree more over the 'tacky fountain colours', I'm eager to see how it integrates with the finished product. The current road surfacing is very poor, I hope that's not the final finish. I'll reserve judgement on the project until all works are complete.
Drove by it yesterday and didn't think a lot. I'll go for a run that direction during the week and suss it out. Everything sucks on first impressions for me!
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Well there's no kid trying to RAM a traffic cone into the fountain in that one. Just went for a run and the little **** told me to f off when I told him to stop. He stopped straight after that.. Who's taking odds on how long before its destroyed?
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New square is awful. Here's why:
1. Still not finished and it's 3 months over schedule. I hope Dundalk Council are getting some money back from the contractor for this although i have my doubts.
2. They left that ugly useless Arts building or whatever the hell it is there. Should have bulldozed it down. I've never seen anybody going in or out of the place, it is undoubtedly a waste of money, and it is ugly as hell.
3. As mentioned already, the coloured lights in the fountain are tacky as f**k. Tacky. No class, no refinement, cheap looking.
4. The footpath on the side that runs from Vodafone to where Jubago used to be is about 3 times too wide. They should have kept the width the same (or perhaps slightly wider but not much), kept the road where it was and made the actual square (you know, the one where markets and stuff can go?) bigger. It's called Market Square. We should be encouraging it's use for that purpose.
5. Too many tiles. Should have used big tiles like 3 foot square or more instead of the eyesore, headache inducing maze of black and grey tiles they went with. Easier to keep clean, and looks classier. It actually looks dull and dirty at the minute. I can only imagine it in 5 years time.
6. Footpath and road have practically the same tile pattern as each other - accident waiting to happen. Tar the entire road and paint clean white lines and make things clearer. They did the same in O'Connell street. Idiots.
7. The pedestrian crossings are confusing too - more black and grey tiles. Is it a pedestrian crossing? Is it not? Who knows. Black and white zebra lines... done. Everybody knows the score. Simple.
The whole thing is clearly better than the abomination that was there before it but that's not really the point is it? It's about value for money. People don't seem to realise this. When asked about it by a woman today i said i didn't like it. She told me i should be grateful it was done up (she stopped short of calling me a begrudger and a naysayer - people love throwing those words around). Grateful? If it was done for free by some charitable construction firm i wuld be very grateful. But it wasn't. It was paid for by taxpayers. The public. Me. And you. And it's crap. And i'm fully entitled to say so.
An expensive, tacky, overdesigned, eyesore put together by a bunch of civil servants with too much time on their hands and no common sense or taste. I expected nothing less.
End rant. Good to get that off my chest. I feel better now.
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Mirrorb4ll wrote: »New square is awful. Here's why:
1. Still not finished and it's 3 months over schedule. I hope Dundalk Council are getting some money back from the contractor for this although i have my doubts.
2. They left that ugly useless Arts building or whatever the hell it is there. Should have bulldozed it down. I've never seen anybody going in or out of the place, it is undoubtedly a waste of money, and it is ugly as hell.
3. As mentioned already, the coloured lights in the fountain are tacky as f**k. Tacky. No class, no refinement, cheap looking.
4. The footpath on the side that runs from Vodafone to where Jubago used to be is about 3 times too wide. They should have kept the width the same (or perhaps slightly wider but not much), kept the road where it was and made the actual square (you know, the one where markets and stuff can go?) bigger. It's called Market Square. We should be encouraging it's use for that purpose.
5. Too many tiles. Should have used big tiles like 3 foot square or more instead of the eyesore, headache inducing maze of black and grey tiles they went with. Easier to keep clean, and looks classier. It actually looks dull and dirty at the minute. I can only imagine it in 5 years time.
6. Footpath and road have practically the same tile pattern as each other - accident waiting to happen. Tar the entire road and paint clean white lines and make things clearer. They did the same in O'Connell street. Idiots.
7. The pedestrian crossings are confusing too - more black and grey tiles. Is it a pedestrian crossing? Is it not? Who knows. Black and white zebra lines... done. Everybody knows the score. Simple.
The whole thing is clearly better than the abomination that was there before it but that's not really the point is it? It's about value for money. People don't seem to realise this. When asked about it by a woman today i said i didn't like it. She told me i should be grateful it was done up (she stopped short of calling me a begrudger and a naysayer - people love throwing those words around). Grateful? If it was done for free by some charitable construction firm i wuld be very grateful. But it wasn't. It was paid for by taxpayers. The public. Me. And you. And it's crap. And i'm fully entitled to say so.
An expensive, tacky, overdesigned, eyesore put together by a bunch of civil servants with too much time on their hands and no common sense or taste. I expected nothing less.
End rant. Good to get that off my chest. I feel better now.
That was a fair long rant there. Fair and long.0 -
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