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    #542
    GavRedKing
    Registered Users Posts: 53,262 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    TheChizler wrote: »
    Never had an issue with it. The lanes are clearly marked, people following them is another thing.

    Thats the kicker.

    That roundabout is mad enough at the best of times. :o


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    #543
    the beer revolu
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    Pedestrian access is horrendous there too. If you walk up Glasheen road and want to go to the hospital, there is no safe way to negotiate the roads.


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    #544
    marno21
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Pedestrian access is horrendous there too. If you walk up Glasheen road and want to go to the hospital, there is no safe way to negotiate the roads.

    On the plus side if you do get mowed down the ambulance doesn't have far to take you.


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    #545
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Pedestrian access is horrendous there too. If you walk up Glasheen road and want to go to the hospital, there is no safe way to negotiate the roads.

    There’s pedestrian crossings but it’s about 50m down the Wilton Road. It takes you up the side entrance.


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    #546
    kub
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    the beer revolu wrote:
    Pedestrian access is horrendous there too. If you walk up Glasheen road and want to go to the hospital, there is no safe way to negotiate the roads.


    All you have to do is walk across Roger Casement Park, go up the hill by the Credit Union and as mentioned in the last post there is a pedestrian crossing there.


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    #547
    blindsider
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    TheChizler wrote: »
    Never had an issue with it. The lanes are clearly marked, people following them is another thing.

    If you look at the roundabout in google Maps, sat view, it's clear what the problem is. Lanes stop and start without any thought.

    I have had a senior transport planner in my car whilst negotiating the roundabout. He wondered who let the work experience kids loose with the paint brushes.

    I rest my case.


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    #548
    TheChizler
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    blindsider wrote: »
    If you look at the roundabout in google Maps, sat view, it's clear what the problem is. Lanes stop and start without any thought.
    It's probably not the place for it but I can't agree with that. There's very little, if any, ambiguity in that roundabout. Maybe the lane for going down Glasheen Road from Sarsfield Road is a little short. I'll leave it there as it's probably a distraction in this thread.


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    #549
    AugustusMinimus
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    TheChizler wrote: »
    It's probably not the place for it but I can't agree with that. There's very little, if any, ambiguity in that roundabout. Maybe the lane for going down Glasheen Road from Sarsfield Road is a little short. I'll leave it there as it's probably a distraction in this thread.

    Agreed. I don’t see any issue with lane markings,


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    #550
    opus
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    Was in UCC last week & took a few pics of progress on the new student hub under construction.

    459614.jpg
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    Looks like the opening of the new bridge off Western Road is around a year behind schedule now!


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    #551
    opus
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    The extension to the Bons is starting to look like the pic in the Echo article.

    459875.jpg


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    #552
    who_me
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    Hah, it's funny; if you showed me the photo above without context I'd have sworn blind it's not Cork. Shows how quickly things are changing..


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    #553
    who_me
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    Incidentally, if anyone was looking for info on the proposed large Mahon Point development, you can view the details here. (The height of the main tower - the detail I was looking for - is about 87m. The Elysian is 71m (roof) or 79m (spire), for comparison).

    It doesn't appear on the city/county planning sites, as developments like these now go through the Strategic Housing Development site (view applications here).


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    #554
    Oafley Jones
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    opus wrote: »
    Was in UCC last week & took a few pics of progress on the new student hub under construction.

    Student Hub? Like another Aras na Mac Leinn?


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    #555
    NeitherJohn
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    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    Student Hub? Like another Aras na Mac Leinn?

    Indeed.

    I think the money would have been better off being directed for a complete refurbishment of the old, decrepit Kane Building right behind the Student Hub Building site...


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    #556
    kub
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    who_me wrote: »
    Incidentally, if anyone was looking for info on the proposed large Mahon Point development, you can view the details here. (The height of the main tower - the detail I was looking for - is about 87m. The Elysian is 71m (roof) or 79m (spire), for comparison).

    It doesn't appear on the city/county planning sites, as developments like these now go through the Strategic Housing Development site (view applications here).


    We had the County Hall that was the tallest in Ireland

    Then that was trumped by The Elysian.
    Now we have an issue https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2018/0828/988131-dublin-airport/
    So great that this proposed Main tower is around that and hopefully above it.


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    #557
    who_me
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    kub wrote: »
    We had the County Hall that was the tallest in Ireland

    Then that was trumped by The Elysian.
    Now we have an issue https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2018/0828/988131-dublin-airport/
    So great that this proposed Main tower is around that and hopefully above it.

    The proposed Custom House tower is supposedly 30m+ taller. We can't have Dublin looking down on us! ;)


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    #558
    whisky_galore
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    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    Student Hub? Like another Aras na Mac Leinn?

    Wtf is a 'student hub'?


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    #559
    tototoe
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    who_me wrote: »
    Incidentally, if anyone was looking for info on the proposed large Mahon Point development, you can view the details here. (The height of the main tower - the detail I was looking for - is about 87m. The Elysian is 71m (roof) or 79m (spire), for comparison).

    It doesn't appear on the city/county planning sites, as developments like these now go through the Strategic Housing Development site (view applications here).

    It may be tall but that is one ugly development.


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    #560
    opus
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Wtf is a 'student hub'?

    Haven't a clue & I work there :) Seems it will have a 'safe space' as part of it, make of that what you will.

    If you really want to read some of the spin doctoring this is the website.


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    #561
    AugustusMinimus
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    tototoe wrote: »
    It may be tall but that is one ugly development.

    I like it. Look better than other low rise development out there which are ugly enough.


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    marno21
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    AugustusMinimus wrote: »
    I like it. Look better than other low rise development out there which are ugly enough.

    Indeed. Looks much better than the rest of the car dependent sprawl scattered along the southern edge of the South Ring all the way from Mahon to Bishopstown


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    #563
    snotboogie
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    NeitherJohn wrote: »
    Oafley Jones wrote: »
    Student Hub?  Like another Aras na Mac Leinn?

    Indeed.

    I think the money would have been better off being directed for a complete refurbishment of the old, decrepit Kane Building right behind the Student Hub Building site...
    I heard that is being refurbished too, could be a few years off though


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    #564
    snotboogie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭snotboogie


    kub wrote: »
    who_me wrote: »
    Incidentally, if anyone was looking for info on the proposed large Mahon Point development, you can view the details here. (The height of the main tower - the detail I was looking for - is about 87m. The Elysian is 71m (roof) or 79m (spire), for comparison).

    It doesn't appear on the city/county planning sites, as developments like these now go through the Strategic Housing Development site (view applications here).


    We had the County Hall that was the tallest in Ireland

    Then that was trumped by The Elysian.
    Now we have an issue https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2018/0828/988131-dublin-airport/
    So great that this proposed Main tower is around that and hopefully above it.
    Since it's not storied it won't count as the tallest. Capital Dock will overtake the Elysian by the end of the year though. The Mahon tower would overtake Capital Dock, should it be approved...


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    #565
    Slim Charles
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    Anyone know what the noise levels off the link road are for people living in the apartments already on Jacobs Island such as the two closest the road ?


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    #566
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Slim Charles wrote: »
    Anyone know what the noise levels off the link road are for people living in the apartments already on Jacobs Island such as the two closest the road ?

    The link road is nowhere near Jacobs Island?


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    #567
    D'Agger
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    Slim Charles wrote: »
    Anyone know what the noise levels off the link road are for people living in the apartments already on Jacobs Island such as the two closest the road ?
    Viewed an apartment that was close to the road and it was fairly noisy on the balcony but the noise insulation of the apartments seemed quite good tbh


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    #568
    TheChizler
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    AugustusMinimus wrote: »
    The link road is nowhere near Jacobs Island?
    South Ring :P


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    draiochtanois
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    #570
    MrDerp
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    I've stayed in many a cheap motorway-side tower hotel in Europe without any noise issues. You make a certain level of sound-proofing a condition of planning and (hopefully) inspect.


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    #571
    GavRedKing
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    Slim Charles wrote: »
    Anyone know what the noise levels off the link road are for people living in the apartments already on Jacobs Island such as the two closest the road ?

    About 7 or 8 years ago buddies were renting the penthouse in the Herons on the road side and on the balcony it was loud enough but once you were inside, you couldnt really make it out TBH.


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