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Lucan Skate park Update

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  • 21-09-2005 9:04pm
    #1
    asto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭


    I have been informed by Cllr. Derek Keating that there will be a big meeting about the skate park next Friday at 7.15 in the Lucan sports and leisure centre, we need all the support we can get so please if possible be there.


    Asto


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    smois
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭smois


    is that tonight


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    #3
    asto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭asto


    no next week! the 30th of September


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    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,691 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    How did this meeting go? Wasn't able to go, even though I was in Lucan that afternoon.


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    smois
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭smois


    i was there...plans looked alright....work should commence within a month and will take 6 weeks to complete...so they say anyway...so goin by that id say it will be ready by the start of december...but maybe not...alri session afterwards


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    da7a
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭da7a


    hopefully it wont look anything like the drawing the council have up on thier website.

    http://www.sdublincoco.ie/images/parks/Skatepark%201.jpg

    pretty lame.

    was this the plan they presented at the meeting or was it different?


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    da7a
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭da7a


    the pic is attached in this post. i think the link is broken in the last one...


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    asto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭asto


    Nope there not the plans, they were the original plans for the park, But the new plans have been drawn up by a skatepark company in the UK, From what i have heard they are really good at what they do, the people in this company are skaters themselves so they will have an idea what we want, the plans are really nice, they were presented at the meeting last Friday, In the next two weeks building will begin on the grounds of Lucan sports and Leisure centre, it is estimated that this project will be completed six weeks from the start date, Now they are looking at more issues regarding safety and security, They are hoping to have CCTV installed on the site, so the park will be well kept for our benefit, we dont want a park that will be destroyed by vandils, we want this park kept well and maintained so it will last longer and we will get more enjoyment out of it!

    Asto


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    shagman
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    Nope there not the plans, they were the original plans for the park
    Yeah thankfully the park will look a little bit more like this......


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    L1011
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    shagman wrote:
    Yeah thankfully the park will look a little bit more like this......

    Thats concerete as opposed to wood/metal/polycarb, right?


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    da7a
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭da7a


    cool, thats reassuring.

    the six foot quarter seems a bit lost though, could do with a spine or a fun box or something.

    looks like it'll be a cool park!


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    goo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭goo


    The quarter pipe is real isolated but that's a huge improvement on the original.


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    Sanitarium
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Sanitarium


    Sweet!!!!
    Plans look awesom :D
    When This is finished,(hopefully before 2012), we can get all the skaters (or most) to go and have a nice little skate session!
    That Would OWN!
    -San


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    glamourfish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭glamourfish


    what's with the tranny obsession?


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    iceworm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭iceworm


    looks pretty cool.cant wait 10 mins away. the rail into/out of the quarter bowl looks a bit crazy though


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    Mr Wilson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Mr Wilson


    glamourfish wrote:
    what's with the tranny obsession?

    Dude, it's a skatepark, not a carpark.


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    glamourfish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭glamourfish


    Mr Wilson wrote:
    Dude, it's a skatepark, not a carpark.

    true...but trannies are gay ;-)


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    Mr Wilson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭Mr Wilson


    glamourfish wrote:
    true...but trannies are gay ;-)

    Ah - I think I understand your fear. You must have heard one of our American friends talk of 'slamming hard and being bummed about it'. You should not take such statements so literally.


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    iceworm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭iceworm


    i heard rumours that the plans might be changed again. Maby better


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    asto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭asto


    Yes i have heard those rumours too, Shaggy, Derek has asked for the plans not to be posted on any sites for the time being, if you can could you take them down for a while please? Looks like yet another Delay on Building sorry folks!
    Asto


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    L1011
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    asto wrote:
    Yes i have heard those rumours too, Shaggy, Derek has asked for the plans not to be posted on any sites for the time being, if you can could you take them down for a while please? Looks like yet another Delay on Building sorry folks!
    Asto

    Believe me, you get used to it.

    Maynooth Newsletter, 1988, "Maynooth to get Skatepark". :rolleyes:


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    #22
    glamourfish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭glamourfish


    delays delays delays....always the same old story...what they waiting for? Better weather? :D


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    #23
    iceworm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭iceworm


    so is it true . have you seen theese new plans . are they better?worse . wats wrong with the ones now???:confused:


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    smois
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    shut up iceworm i already told u theyre gonna be changed for the better.i was talkijn to shaggy the othere day at that big air yoke and he was sayin it will be finished by the end of the year and the plans will be changed a bit to make it a bit better


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    shagman
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    Yeah not so sure about it being finished by the end of the year now, there was another meeting during the week but I missed it. I don't seem to be able to edit my post to remove the plans as Derek requested, anyone else (moderator?) able to do it or tell me what to do?


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    #26
    asto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭asto


    shagman wrote:
    Yeah not so sure about it being finished by the end of the year now, there was another meeting during the week but I missed it. I don't seem to be able to edit my post to remove the plans as Derek requested, anyone else (moderator?) able to do it or tell me what to do?



    Can you not just edit the post and delete the link?


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    #27
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,691 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    asto wrote:
    Can you not just edit the post and delete the link?

    You can only edit your own post for around 1 hour after posting it on VB3.


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    #28
    Cork Skate
    Registered Users Posts: 884 ✭✭✭Cork Skate


    MYOB wrote:
    You can only edit your own post for around 1 hour after posting it on VB3.

    Yeah ... has to be a MOD now !!

    Just a few things ....

    Who is actually building it ? What company ... do they have a website ... can you see any previous parks on that site ??

    I take it that this is totally outdoor .... would it be pushing it to have a little mini covered over so Irish weather doesn't put a damper on things ??

    The drainage in the park (i take it that its concrete) will be OK yeah ... and the surface will be the quick dry one (think its call smooth agregate or something like that) ... anyway ... just as long as that is being considered !!

    The heights of the quarters on the sides etc. ... will they be higher that the funbox in the middle, just so you dont end up pushing all day.

    Shame that a park this size doesn't have a bowl (instead of the mini i mentioned) ... great fun and could be a missed opportunity.

    You are saying that the plans aare being redesigned ... just a suggestion ... that original plan B doesn't seem to cater for varying ages, skills, and obstacles etc. ..... just considering as skaters get older and better they will be using different stuff.

    With the new company onboard (if they have experience) all my concerns will be sorted i'd imagine so probably no worries. Just wondering, seeing as they came in afterwards, what level of contribution did they have .... just hope they were given enough scope and allowed add considerations. Sometimes when a project is so far down the planning path, if someone doesn't speak up then an issue/problem could be set in stone as it were !!

    Anyway ... it all sounds good ... it aint a minute before time ... but better late than never !!


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    #29
    GoofySkater
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    The park looks amazing. I cant wait to skate all the banks. And the 5 ft to 6 ft coping. i wanna learn tailslides and bust them up/down it. But I cant wait to skate the banks, there's no good banks in Dublin. Except for tallaght but the ground at the bottom is like sandpaper.


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    fisheye
    Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭fisheye


    Cork Skate wrote:
    Who is actually building it ? What company ... do they have a website ... can you see any previous parks on that site ??

    I take it that this is totally outdoor .... would it be pushing it to have a little mini covered over so Irish weather doesn't put a damper on things ??

    The drainage in the park (i take it that its concrete) will be OK yeah ... and the surface will be the quick dry one (think its call smooth agregate or something like that) ... anyway ... just as long as that is being considered !!

    The heights of the quarters on the sides etc. ... will they be higher that the funbox in the middle, just so you dont end up pushing all day.

    Shame that a park this size doesn't have a bowl (instead of the mini i mentioned) ... great fun and could be a missed opportunity.

    You are saying that the plans aare being redesigned ... just a suggestion ... that original plan B doesn't seem to cater for varying ages, skills, and obstacles etc. ..... just considering as skaters get older and better they will be using different stuff.

    With the new company onboard (if they have experience) all my concerns will be sorted i'd imagine so probably no worries. Just wondering, seeing as they came in afterwards, what level of contribution did they have .... just hope they were given enough scope and allowed add considerations. Sometimes when a project is so far down the planning path, if someone doesn't speak up then an issue/problem could be set in stone as it were !!

    Anyway ... it all sounds good ... it aint a minute before time ... but better late than never !!

    Designed by http://freestyleramps.com/ and I think they'll be supervising the local labour, but I'm not sure about that. One of my friends from Belfast works for them and is the main man involved with the user groups and has been skating for years and definitely knows his ****. Although I've got nothing to do with the park myself, he's told me that the current design is to a budget of around E90-100,000 - I could be mistaken on the exact figures - but that also has to take in insurance costs. Apparently there is some cash set aside for further development should the park prove successful - the original plans with a larger budget did have a bowl alright.

    Although we'd all like a larger, faster park, given the chronic insurance/litagation situation in Ireland, this is probably the best possible trade-off at the moment. It's just pretty lame that councillors and other uneducated muppets think insurance, injuries and death as soon as they see a 1/4 pipe of any size - that shouldn't happen with plazas though - steps, banks and ledges and the like which are all naturally occurring in the urban environment.


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