Riverfest 2017

The Specialist

zulutango wrote: »

Yes, I think for public safety alone it would be a good idea. It was quite chaotic with all the pedestrians and cars competing with each other. And the other advantage of closing the city streets would be that it would open then up to more people and more events could be held. As a matter of interest, where were you travelling to and from?

I was down in the area of St Marys Cathedral travelling to Dooradoyle. Any other day of the year you might get one dullard walking across moving traffic at that spot, but on Riverfest weekend, it turns in to crowds of morons ignoring their own safety and the right of way for traffic as they head for AQ park.

zulutango

The Specialist wrote: »

I was down in the area of St Marys Cathedral travelling to Dooradoyle. Any other day of the year you might get one dullard walking across moving traffic at that spot, but on Riverfest weekend, it turns in to crowds of morons ignoring their own safety and the right of way for traffic as they head for AQ park.

The interaction of pedestrians and motorists in Limerick City generally is fairly disastrous. It's a constant conflict. We're in the hapenny place when it comes to good street design which would eliminate these problems.

FutureGuy

When you think about it, you'd swear we were the only city in the country with a river

The Specialist

zulutango wrote: »

The interaction of pedestrians and motorists in Limerick City generally is fairly disastrous. It's a constant conflict. We're in the hapenny place when it comes to good street design which would eliminate these problems.

The street design isn't the problem - there is clearly no crossing at that point for the fact it is further up at the lights. Secondly, even the thickest of ***** should realise that if the traffic lights are green and traffic is moving, you don't walk out on to the road in front of it.

zulutango

The Specialist wrote: »

The street design isn't the problem - there is clearly no crossing at that point for the fact it is further up at the lights. Secondly, even the thickest of ***** should realise that if the traffic lights are green and traffic is moving, you don't walk out on to the road in front of it.

Street design is a huge problem in Limerick! Pretty much every street is designed at odds with best practice. That's not to say we don't have our fair share of thick ****ers.

Berty

It's not thick people. It's bad standards of practice by parents and the councils. A man on Union cross on Tuesday rang across a red pedestrian light with his 3 year old son, late for school. That's where the bad habits come from. There were cars everywhere and he nearly yanking the childs arm from its socket.

Jaywalking is all good and well because most Jaywalkers would speed up if they say you coming unless they're the tracksuits tucked into socks crowd who will SLOW down and throw you a dirty look for having the audacity to be driving on a road and probably a worse look for using the word audacity.

I can't believe the council put an illegal jaywalking crossing at McDonalds on the Penneys side(small painted area with bollards). Seriously, council, paint a zebra crossing and make it at least legal if you're going to encourage jaywalking.

John_Mc

Yeah I've just moved back to Limerick after 10 years in Dublin and it's absolutely crazy the amount of people walking out in front of you when driving through town. A serious amount of people double parking and sticking the hazards on too, as if that makes it ok to park there blocking a road.

Another thing too is the lack of courtesy shown by people when driving. They just don't let you out when you're trying to merge into traffic - they'll actually speed up and swerve to get around you rather than let you out!

pigtown

https://www.limerick.ie/council/newsroom/news/councils-development-strategy-limerick-festivals-beginning-pay

Link to information on what the council are doing to increase Limerick's festival offering. Interesting to note that this years Festival Village had a 20% increase in punters over last year.

Strettie11

Considering they claimed over 80000 attended the 2014 Riverfest there has not been much of an increase in 3 years

bigpink

The park didnt have much room any way.Wonder what the event capacity for it is?

zulutango

Do we measure the success of Riverfest simply by the numbers who attend? I don't think it's a great measure.

Why do we have this festival at all? Is it to bring business to the city? Or is it to provide something fun and entertaining for people who live here and which will put Limerick on the map as an attractive and interesting destination? I'd like to think it can be both, but on the second front it's certainly a dismal failure. I get the impression that the Council don't really know what they want from it, or they don't quite see what the potential is for a major festival in Limerick.

Silentcorner

zulutango wrote: »

Do we measure the success of Riverfest simply by the numbers who attend? I don't think it's a great measure.

Why do we have this festival at all? Is it to bring business to the city? Or is it to provide something fun and entertaining for people who live here and which will put Limerick on the map as an attractive and interesting destination? I'd like to think it can be both, but on the second front it's certainly a dismal failure. I get the impression that the Council don't really know what they want from it, or they don't quite see what the potential is for a major festival in Limerick.

We should just call it the GLR weekend, don't change a thing, it would be make more sense.

The Council have repeatedly disappointed when it comes to festivals, arts etc. They are a Council, how could they be any different...anyone read/remember the bid book for ECOC 2020?

I think we as a city (of people) are emerging from a pretty long and serious image problem, a city which was shunned by tourists for decades so no real effort was ever invested in large scale festivals, so we do not have the know how or belief that it can be done, and we don't really know what to do...I couldn't blame the Council for that, an image problem as severe as ours is actually unprecedented....so they (the Council) have grasped onto the GLR (which in my opinion is an excellent but separate initiative) and hence we get Riverfest....if it rains it is a complete washout!

We live in a city, which to counteract that image problem focused on Sport and in particular Rugby, which is all well and good, but don't do the rest of the city justice in my opinion!

We also live in a country which has no regard for investing in the Arts/Culture...we fund piss ups...and wrap it in "arts/culture"..