Railway station/shopping centre

madmaggie

Could anyone please explain why there is no pedestrian walkway from the station to McDonagh Junction Shopping Centre? Surely it would make sense to link them up.

Captain Havoc

madmaggie wrote: »

Surely it would make sense to link them up.

I think you've answered your own question.

road_high

madmaggie wrote: »

Could anyone please explain why there is no pedestrian walkway from the station to McDonagh Junction Shopping Centre? Surely it would make sense to link them up.

CIE don't exist to serve the best interests of their customers. It would make complete and utter sense and be great for the Shopping centre as well as boosting train services and serving travellers. But that would be joined up thinking...it should have been incorporated into the planning/design as it would have possibly reduced car travel to the Centre

kikel

Great idea. Instead the planners are allowing that old station fall to pieces.

madmaggie

Thanks for the replies, I was wondering if anyone knew if it was meant to happen and then was dropped due to the recession. My elderly uncle wanted to go by train to Kilkenny a while back, and it only became obvious to me then. Usually I drive to McDonagh Junction.

Another thing I thought was obvious, but not in existence, a shuttle bus from the station to The Parade, maybe out to the hospitals. Handy for tourists, and hospital users and visitors. Jaysus, if an eejit like me can think of this stuff, what are all the well paid, educated officials doing?

kikel

more info on the station here.

http://www.macdonaghjunction.com/The_Railway/The_Railway.669.html

Captain Havoc

To be fair the bus thing has been tried in the past.

Sky King

Great idea. Instead the planners are allowing that old station fall to
pieces.

I wonder who owns it. I am guessing it's CIE. I took a pic of it the other day. It really does have the potential to make a lovely little open air market area / small concert venue / beer garden / etc. if sympathetically restored.

Unfortunately though we don't have a particularly good record of being architecturally sympathetic in this city.:(

Sky King

Sky King wrote: »

I wonder who owns it. I am guessing it's CIE. I took a pic of it the other day. It really does have the potential to make a lovely little open air market area / small concert venue / beer garden / etc. if sympathetically restored.

Unfortunately though we don't have a particularly good record of being architecturally sympathetic in this city.:(

I hadn't realised it was gone so bad. Such a shame. I still remember waiting there for the train that brought me to Dublin to start in college in Sept 1969 - all excited -in the tiniest miniskirt .

Lump

Yea, I'm surprised it's fallen into such disrepair too. Madness!

John

pueblo

inthehat wrote: »

I hadn't realised it was gone so bad. Such a shame. I still remember waiting there for the train that brought me to Dublin to start in college in Sept 1969 - all excited -in the tiniest miniskirt .

Pic?

madmaggie

I see the tone of this thread has gone down in my absence.:D If the economy is picking up, perhaps something will be done with the older part of the station. I remember being freezing cold there back in the '80's while waiting for the train home from work.

I kinda remember a city bus in Kilkenny, but like the one in Carlow, it didn't survive. Given the number of tourists in the city, and two hospitals, I thought it might have a good chance.

road_high

madmaggie wrote: »

I see the tone of this thread has gone down in my absence.:D If the economy is picking up, perhaps something will be done with the older part of the station. I remember being freezing cold there back in the '80's while waiting for the train home from work.

I kinda remember a city bus in Kilkenny, but like the one in Carlow, it didn't survive. Given the number of tourists in the city, and two hospitals, I thought it might have a good chance.

Kilkenny is very car dependent and public transport is just not part of the cities culture. There isn't a large working class or student population that would traditionally use buses more. It could exist, but I doubt profitably.

pueblo

pueblo wrote: »

Pic?

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/F5Og5GAyFSYGGRn05jAgbOUOWSBsAplFtfVLC0OVtw=w720-h480

pueblo

inthehat wrote: »

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/F5Og5GAyFSYGGRn05jAgbOUOWSBsAplFtfVLC0OVtw=w720-h480

Cheeky!