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Upgrades to Bray Dart station and Seafront

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  • 28-05-2019 5:31pm
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    fjon
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    I think this was mentioned somewhere on here before, but I just saw the attached and it had some more information. Wonder if it will go ahead?

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    Annasopra
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    Why wouldnt it go ahead?

    It has been approved

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    murpho999
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    The sooner it happens the better. Hate the way cars keep pulling up at station despite it being clearly marked buses only.

    Also, when this is doen and cash and carry replaced with apartment scheme it means visitors will get a much better first impression of the place rather than what they see now. Closed ugly Cash & Carry building, ugly wall and ugly closed Bray Cabs office.


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    fjon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭fjon


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Why wouldnt it go ahead?

    It has been approved

    Sorry, I missed that, I thought it was just being proposed for now. Still not fully convinced it will end up looking like the pictures, but who knows.


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    Alun
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    I don't recall seeing anything in the plans for the station project that addressed the cash and carry site or the other eyesores though.

    Also with regard to the other scheme, Wicklow CC appears to have given planning permission for the owners of the amusement arcade / casino opposite the aquarium to extend their operations into the old restaurant and wine bar building. The plans talked about outside seating for café's and restaurants.


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    murpho999
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    Alun wrote: »
    I don't recall seeing anything in the plans for the station project that addressed the cash and carry site or the other eyesores though.

    The cash and carry is another commercial project that involves being replaced by apartments and retail. It's going through planning application now.


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    browne_rob5
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    The cash and carry is another commercial project that involves being replaced by apartments and retail. It's going through planning application now.

    https://www.independent.ie/regionals/braypeople/news/apartments-to-be-built-opposite-dart-station-37762438.html

    Planning has been granted for an apartment block. I think Glenveagh tried to flip it as the number of units were too low for their model but they didn't get much interest.


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    loyatemu
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    72 apartments with 500 parking spaces!?

    EDIT: that's a typo in the Bray People report, it's 50 spaces.


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    Thargor
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    The bottom picture looks okay because theres no cars in it, the reality will be complete gridlock like always. They should have some balls and pedestrianize the whole place, make it into an actual amenity instead of a giant carpark.


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    fjon
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    Don't think that's feasible with the amount of people living on strand road. Also, there's quite a lot of parking on there, where would those people park?


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    Calibos
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    Thargor wrote: »
    The bottom picture looks okay because theres no cars in it, the reality will be complete gridlock like always. They should have some balls and pedestrianize the whole place, make it into an actual amenity instead of a giant carpark.

    The Gridlock will resolve itself in about 10 years.............when Electric Self Driving or at least self parking vehicles have taken over. :D The Gridlock is caused because the vast majority of people cant parallel park to save their lives and take an eternity causing gridlock behind them. :rolleyes:

    Soon as I read about the new Cycle lane a few years ago I knew it was a recipe for total gridlock during the Summer for this very reason. When the Strand Road was wider, cars behind could drive around anyone taking an age to parallel park.

    My Solution in the interim until technology solves this for us would be to remove all parking on the residential side of the Strand Road from the Aquarium building southwards. If you look at Google Maps, great swathes of it has no parking boxes because of driveways/access to the houses/premises anyway. Then on the Cycle lane side of the strand road redraw all the parking spaces as 45º angled front wheels to kerb parking spaces. In one fell swoop you increase the number of spaces on that side which should balance out most of those lost on the residential side of the strand road and you make these spaces 'drive in/out' spaces removing the interminable delay of parallel parking and thus a lot of the gridlock caused by same.

    https://www.geek.com/tech/mathematician-believes-45-degree-angles-will-revolutionize-car-parks-1668397/


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