Dublin 15 Pet Peeves

BlanchLibrary

daymobrew wrote: »

And (like any library in the country), if you find a book in another Irish library (by searching BorrowBooks.ie) you can order it so that you can borrow it from your local library.

Hi Daymobrew,

For information please note that there is now a charge of €5 (since Jan 28th) for any items that are reserved on Borrowbooks that come to Fingal Libraries from outside of Dublin.

Regards,
Blanchardstown Library

BlanchLibrary

miamee wrote: »

Thanks for reminding me. I really should get back to the library, used to be a very active member. Saves me money too

Thanks for the mention Miamee.

As well as all of the services we offer in Blanchardstown Library, Fingal Libraries have a range of new online services -

Free eBooks
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Free Online Language Learning
Free Educational Classes

Here is the link for further info: http://www.fingalcoco.ie/CommunityRecreationandAmenitiesDepartment/Library/

Borrowers can also browse the catalogue from home and reserve items online.

You can also check your account and renew your books online.

Please ask staff in the Library for more information on all of the above services.

ongarboy

robertxxx wrote: »

People who use their front garden and footpath and roadside and grass verge as a car repair shop for multiple piles of crap they have.

Cars mainly left hand drive and groups of bald men in track suit bottoms, leather jackets and shoes standing by looking into the engine bay. Fcuk off.

LOL, didn't really pay attention to this until you described it so accurately but I do see loads of this in Ongar too (and yes they all look and dress as you describe it too!). It doesn't actually peeve me but is a common sight in my area.

My pet peeve I guess is not having one large historic town centre or bustling main street in the postcode that would have the look of a main street like Swords or Dun Laoghaoire's main streets (even something like Manor Street in Stoneybatter) that would have loads of specialist or individual shops, a bunch of established pubs with character and some interesting non-chain type cafes and restaurants. Blanchardstown village Main Street which isn't that bad is probably as close as we get.

Knine

Blanchardstown Library really are brillant. I remember taking my daughter who has special needs in there and thinking this is going to be a disaster as normally going anywhere is a struggle.

Well the staff in the library could not have been more helpful no dirty looks at my child not behaving and nobody staring at her either. One nice man came over and gave me a bag to put my books in. 10/10 for customer service.

People choosing their books did not bat an eyelid either. I just could not believe it.

I think some of the shops in the centre could learn a thing or two about customer service from the library.

eviltwin

I love Blanch Library...its fantastic, some of the books are brand new releases and they will order in anything pretty much. They also have ebooks, audio books, free magazines online, free courses...they are brilliant.

December2012

The Carpark at blanchardstown church is in a hape! Huge big potholes that just seem to appear.

dickwod1

The traffic lights at LIDL/Whitestown/Sheepmoor that go red as you approach them to/from the centre
Then a green arrow comes on for turning right(with no cars in either direction turning right) and then go green again

Thanks for making me stop and wait for nothing.

miamee

dickwod1 wrote: »

The traffic lights at LIDL/Whitestown/Sheepmoor that go red as you approach them to/from the centre
Then a green arrow comes on for turning right(with no cars in either direction turning right) and then go green again

Thanks for making me stop and wait for nothing.

Yep, I actually do turn right there but unless you are the first or maybe the second car approaching the lights, there is no way you are likely to drive on the wrong side of the road onto a junction to take the right. Well I don't anyway!
The junction is too narrow for a filter light.

ozmo

December2012 wrote: »

big potholes

There is a site http://fixmystreet.ie/ that
logs all potholes, grafitti etc.
Some may have heard of it before - It used to be run to cover South Dublin only I think- but after only a few months they let the domain expire :rolleyes: and some helpful folk have taken up the mantle and it seems to cover all ROI now.

daymobrew

ozmo wrote: »

There is a site http://fixmystreet.ie/ that
logs all potholes, grafitti etc.

http://fixyourstreet.ie/ is the official one - fixmystreet.ie simply pushes its reports into it.

I've logged 20+ reports. Many have been fixed.
The notifications part is brutal - you don't get notified when someone (from FCC or a member of the public) replies to the report. And the search feature is pathetic.
I've offered to help but the web developer never gets back to me.

The FixYourStreet site is based on an open source platform so the notifications and search feature could be improved by someone with the skill and time, though I bet that those features are already in the code and simply not set up properly.

murphaph

My pet peeve is the number of walls in D15 and how they form needless boundaries between communities, making walking and cycling less attractive in D15 than driving much of the time.

I don't live there any more but used to live in Cherryfield Lawns. They finally opened the Ongar Distributor Road and we expected that we would be able to walk directly to Clonsilla Station via Symonscourt (sp?) but they locked the gate into Symonscourt and it has never opened since, forcing Cherryfield etc. residents to walk a detour down the link road (which veers away from the station in fact).

Too many of these walls between estates.

Also dislike the unfair reputation D15 has. If we had proper postcodes then the nicer parts of D15 might not be tarred with the same brush as the less salubrious parts.

Also wish the train was in fact a DART with better/fairer access to Connolly.

dickwod1

murphaph wrote: »

My pet peeve is the number of walls in D15

They finally opened the Ongar Distributor Road and we expected that we would be able to walk directly to Clonsilla Station but they locked the gate into Symonscourt and it has never opened since, forcing Cherryfield etc. residents to walk a detour down the link road (which veers away from the station in fact).

+1 on that I bring my dog on walks from Huntstown to the canal at Clonsilla and this gate is locked and I either have to walk around the long way or climb through the gap between the fence and the wall

Lucy and Harry

Is that you Jimmy ?

Zaph

murphaph wrote: »

My pet peeve is the number of walls in D15 and how they form needless boundaries between communities, making walking and cycling less attractive in D15 than driving much of the time.

I don't live there any more but used to live in Cherryfield Lawns. They finally opened the Ongar Distributor Road and we expected that we would be able to walk directly to Clonsilla Station via Symonscourt (sp?) but they locked the gate into Symonscourt and it has never opened since, forcing Cherryfield etc. residents to walk a detour down the link road (which veers away from the station in fact).

Agreed. I bought my house just as they were about to start building the Ongar Distributor Road, and one of the main selling points was that it would be a short walk to Clonsilla station once the road was complete. I even went as far as getting the plans for the road from Fingal CC to ensure that there would be access to the station after the road was complete. So I was rightly p*ssed off when it was completed and there was no pedestrian access. When I enquired I was told that during the construction the residents of Mount Symon had objected to the possibility of "undesirables" from over the other side of the road being able to wander through their estate and so a wall was built without any openings in it.

murphaph

Zaph wrote: »

Agreed. I bought my house just as they were about to start building the Ongar Distributor Road, and one of the main selling points was that it would be a short walk to Clonsilla station once the road was complete. I even went as far as getting the plans for the road from Fingal CC to ensure that there would be access to the station after the road was complete. So I was rightly p*ssed off when it was completed and there was no pedestrian access. When I enquired I was told that during the construction the residents of Mount Symon had objected to the possibility of "undesirables" from over the other side of the road being able to wander through their estate and so a wall was built without any openings in it.

I suppose if enough pressure was brought to bear on the council they would have to vote to open that gate. Worth a campaign?

Godge

murphaph wrote: »

I suppose if enough pressure was brought to bear on the council they would have to vote to open that gate. Worth a campaign?

I would support a campaign but I wish you luck.

Several of the residents associations have been taken over by groups completely opposed to opening access.

There was a thread some time ago about the Summerfield access and you wouldn't believe the things people thought would happen if a gate was opened.

I would agree with you that it is my top D15 peeve. The community is disjointed because of it.

murphaph

Yeah I have seen some of the hysterics from some of these people.

I wonder how many of the folks in Mount Simon have no problem sending their kids through the gate into Cherryfield etc. to walk to school in the morning....

The councillors pander to these niche groups though, rather than doing what's for the greater good of the entire community.

kranbo

murphaph wrote: »

Yeah I have seen some of the hysterics from some of these people.

I wonder how many of the folks in Mount Simon have no problem sending their kids through the gate into Cherryfield etc. to walk to school in the morning....

The councillors pander to these niche groups though, rather than doing what's for the greater good of the entire community.

I agree, actually the council had a planning application sign up a couple of years ago proposing to permanently close the "closed" gateway from the Ongar Rd. Thankfully someone removed a couple of blocks from under the fence making access easier to the exclusive Mt Symon

Omackeral

kranbo wrote: »

I agree, actually the council had a planning application sign up a couple of years ago proposing to permanently close the "closed" gateway from the Ongar Rd. Thankfully someone removed a couple of blocks from under the fence making access easier to the exclusive Mt Symon

This I've seen. It's less than suitable. Only flexible people or small kids can really do it and I wouldn't be sure it's all that safe. Sad.

My pet peeve. The On The Run garage on the Navan Road, opposite St. Brigid's, does not have facilities to pay the M50 toll. I find this ridiculous as it's the very first service station you encounter after passing the toll itself, if exiting Northbound!

daymobrew

Omackeral wrote: »

My pet peeve. The On The Run garage on the Navan Road, opposite St. Brigid's, does not have facilities to pay the M50 toll. I find this ridiculous as it's the very first service station you encounter after passing the toll itself, if exiting Northbound!

It's a private business that is not obliged to offer that service.

You should ask them why they don't. Maybe it is not financially worth it for them.

eFlow: Reps

Omackeral wrote: »

...Garage on the Navan Road, opposite St. Brigid's, does not have facilities to pay the M50 toll.

Hi Guys

Have a look at the Payzone website www.payzone.ie to find the nearest outlet to you or you can pay on our website www.eflow.ie.


Hope this helps

Colm

Gaspode

Thanks Colm, links are fine though, no need for the ad!

Omackeral

daymobrew wrote: »

It's a private business that is not obliged to offer that service.

You should ask them why they don't. Maybe it is not financially worth it for them.

I thought common sense would dictate that the closest garage to the M50 would be the most likely one to have the toll payment facilities in it, given that other ones miles away do. Logical enough assumption, no?

Anyway, it's no biggie... just a pet peeve (if we're gonna go using the bold function! )

cerastes

daymobrew wrote: »

http://fixyourstreet.ie/ is the official one - fixmystreet.ie simply pushes its reports into it.

I've logged 20+ reports. Many have been fixed.
The notifications part is brutal - you don't get notified when someone (from FCC or a member of the public) replies to the report. And the search feature is pathetic.
I've offered to help but the web developer never gets back to me.

The FixYourStreet site is based on an open source platform so the notifications and search feature could be improved by someone with the skill and time, though I bet that those features are already in the code and simply not set up properly.

I dont want to reopen an old thread really but after searching, this is the only one that I can find with the same information I was thinking of posting.
ie why is fixyourstreet.ie so terrible to search for your own report, I cant even do a quick search or look on the map and see if anyone else has reported the same problem near me which would save the council time in dealing with reports.
I have only logged two reports in the past, it looks like one has been dealt with. It would have been useful to get an email acknowledgement that my report was received and maybe a response, I mean an automated one that the report/problem has been responded to so I can go and check it up. Where each report has an individual id number assigned to it, surely the staff engaged to check the reports must have to cross reference them against existing report based on location of the problem, to ensure they are not sending staff out twice to check the same problem.
This would mean they could still allow a second person to make a report, when they check the system, if they find it is the same problem as another existing report by a completely different person, assign the same automatic response and ID to it as any other report of the same issue by others reportees.

It would seem reasonable to be able to search reports by street location or report type/category (road or path damage/sign/drainage) as any heading might be used by someone making the report, and then to be able to limit that further to progress the search.
ie I have searched for reports for a specific road and area, the results shows up many roads in the entire area, but then not every report for the specific road comes up as when I do a slightly different search other reports show up (on the map) which did not previously?

It might be useful for the council to have the system more efficient so someone who wants to report a problem can check by searching to see if it has aready been reported, thereby saving the council time and staff hours responding to the messages and sending people out to check the problem.

dodzy

Aldi mulhuddart car park. Waayyyy to small!

NegativeCreep

The folk around corduff shops. I'd rather walk to the centre for a pint of milk.

jeffk

dodzy wrote: »

Aldi mulhuddart car park. Waayyyy to small!

caused be either staff or it being not an excluse aldi car park

the last time i was in there the cars didnt match the numbers in the shop.

anniehoo

NegativeCreep wrote: »

The folk around corduff shops. I'd rather walk to the centre for a pint of milk.

I have never had so much fun buying anything in a shop as I have in that Centra. I actually purposely go to there over Spar in Waterville now.The staff are so friendly and gas craic.

It was "pop quiz" the other night at 9.40pm in Centra. Whoever could guess the band on the radio got a free bottle of wine.Ragin I couldn't remember Dexys Midnight Runners. :D:D

The Q were in knots and we were all standing there holding teabags and a Batch,laughing our heads off.

dicky82

Sunday cyclists cycling two and thee a breast on back road between Clonsilla and Lucan bridge.

The derelict sites at Clonsilla link road and the proposed Aldi in Clonsilla village and the half finished site at Hansfield.

The old school at porterstown bridge.
Sure I have more but can't recall.

Larbre34

Lucky for you you dont live in a midlands town thats half derelict. Dont worry the housing builds around Clonsilla and Ongar will start up again within the year, the last of the greenery should be gone within 2.