Waterford North Quays

Ah, the comment seemed like a bit of a jab. Sorry but we always on edge here 🙂.

A modern example would be the bridge of peace on the mtkvari in Georgia, or the peace bridge in Calgary. Our river is a bit more of a bridge to cross due to the length though! Maybe we get a free roof if we add "peace to the name".

As for the submissions. Isn't it approved by ABP? I.e. no more submissions?

Feeling warm and protected just looking at that!

If there's one thing Irish people love to complain about its the weather. Statistically Ireland gets less rain than the Netherlands, Denmark, and other Baltic countries yet somehow they seem to manage. And the East & South East coasts gets less rain than the west so we are even lower than the Irish average.

Roof would be pretty cool and welcome on the days that we do have rain but you would probably have to make it big enough for buses as its a sustainable transport bridge and not just walking.

What argument? The sheltering on the bridge?

Hardly a ludicrous suggestion.....

Yes upkeep on these things is usually terrible, but we shouldn't decide to not do something based on the assumption thay we can't look after it. We need to strive to do better!

It needs to have significant wind shielding across the entire length of the bridge as a minimum. This is probably as much as we can expect.

And all the money will end up in the coffers of KK CC!

If this does open up and take footfall out of the city centre, then WD City Council will have well and truly failed the city. But sure what do they care, half of em don't even live in town!

Mary Butler will have to take some serious responsibility if this has a negative impact on the City Centre.

MB is party first she showed us that when she went against the city boundary extension. Personally I believe this place will never open as it was planned on the retail scale of things. The place is huge and will not be able to get the stores and footfall to make it successful. Dunnes knows its a loss maker and has fought for year's to avoid going in there, can't see anyone else taking the risk. Ideal outcome would be some sort of FDI investment or use as a TUSE campus.

Pity there isn't a few more like you, your spot on with your synopsis, SE is being left so far behind.

As I said earlier my little trip to Cork the weekend was an eye opener as to where we are in the scheme of things, begging for crumbs

I have always been very positive about Waterford and its prospects. But the simple fact of the matter is national politics is actively working to hold Waterford back, simple as that. Don’t know how anybody can look at what happens and not come to that conclusion. How can Waterford progress when it just keeps running into this barrier. The question is then what can be done about it? I personally don’t know at this stage.

The only thing that can be done is a change in political representation across the board, and I don't mean vote in SF and everything will be ok, it definitely won't!

We need people in the corridors of power with Waterford 1st on their agenda.

Not the current mix of hicks and boot-lickers.

I got johnos pothole fixed in strabally, nothing wrong that but I was against the boundary extension cos mick said no.

JD in dungarvan seemingly did great work for irish immigrants in USA, fab maybe do something here and we wouldn't have so many !

Now how we get 3 or 4 decent representatives is a mystery ?

Plus all the in fighting between KK, WX & WD.

Like it or not WD is the capital city of the SE.

It's not treated as such by local or national politicians until that mindset changes we are goosed, which we are by the way !

Yep, along with the rest of the South East.

So I see the North Quays is now a shoddy looking used car lot that looks like something out of a 1970s American cop show.

What's the latest plan?

she is a very nice lady she has called to my door a few times and is lovely to talk to