Why is rooral Oireland so determined to hold the country back?

[Mac]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

@Tim_Riggins

Working remotely is no sure thing, not for everyone.

Population will continue to grow regardless.

The reason why office blocks and hotels are being build to beat the band as they are the only way to make serious money.

There is zoning for 10s of thousands of residential units in Dublin but costs are prohibitive.

Why every apartment block requires a parking space for example, when ones in the city centre are often lived in by people with no cars.

in Brisbane, when new apartment blocks are built, we put in spaces for Go Cars or whatever the equivalent is in Oz

Its the way forward

That’s a great idea

[anon61956325]

processed meat???

[Mac]

@Tim_Riggins

While we’re on the environment, rooral Ireland should take the hit for the bulk of any fines Ireland gets in the coming years. Between the livestock and their one off housing that requires them to drive further, they are destroying the world

If the career as an amateur know it all doesn’t work out Tim, you’ve definitely got a role as a comedian

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

No, environmentally friendly and clean meat

grown

*edited my original post

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

thanks

[anon61956325]

ok, bro … have we the capacity to provide this now? And safely?

[caoimhaoin]

Yes. A park. An amenity.

Are you fucking retarded as well?

[Tim_Riggins]

This is a discussion Mac.

I was very happy to hear your views on the topic.

I simply believe you are wrong in thinking that we can solve all our problems with more satellite towns.

You have an issue with high rise because of services. This doesn’t even make sense. Google now own a large chunk of Barrow Street, the Treasury Building and the Irish Life Building (amongst other locations). These are all close by to one another and put the exact same strain on services like public transport due to this. If a developer completes a proper google tower, you open up more space in the Docklands and its environs. You can build more apartments and public spaces.

There is no logic for Google to be in several hundred thousand square feet of office space within less than a kilometer of one another and not building up. None.

[Ashman]

dublin is the capital because it is near to holyhead .

[gilgamboa]

@caoimhaoin

This is happening

Ssssh tell them nathin

[Ashman]

There was an interesting article last Saturday on the Irish times regarding the proposed pipe bringing water from the Shannon to Dublin region . Well worth reading .

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/shannon-pipeline-is-it-the-best-way-to-spend-1-2bn-1.3385235%3Fmode=amp

[gilgamboa]

@tallback

@gilgamboa I’m not sure what you’re arguing against here but the point of this plan is to create critical mass in a number of select cities to enable exactly this. Critical mass (like pharma cluster in Cork or Medtech in Galway) requires focus and significant infrastructure spending though. Hence, every town can’t get a little bit of something.

Where did you get I was arguing against any of that. Tim was looking for resources to be focused on Dublin for huge gamechanging infrastructural development. He then listed off loads of them that were a shambles. My (only) point in relation to Dublin is in response to Tim. And that is before you can run (build an electric monorail to travel above the city powered by wind energy from Uranus) try walking (building accomodation for everyone already in Dublin)

[gilgamboa]

@johnnysachs

Kev the traffic situation in Cork is shockingly bad at the moment. It can take a half an hour just to leave little island some days

Build a luas in Cork as well so

[Mac]

@Tim_Riggins

This is a discussion Mac.

I was very happy to hear your views on the topic.

I simply believe you are wrong in thinking that we can solve all our problems with more satellite towns.

You have an issue with high rise because of services. This doesn’t even make sense. Google now own a large chunk of Barrow Street, the Treasury Building and the Irish Life Building (amongst other locations). These are all close by to one another and put the exact same strain on services like public transport due to this. If a developer completes a proper google tower, you open up more space in the Docklands and its environs. You can build more apartments and public spaces.

There is no logic for Google to be in several hundred thousand square feet of office space within less than a kilometer of one another and not building up. None.

So you suggest one massive tower to house all of Google? Sure all that would mean is multiple tall towers in the area as you can’t just have one, which puts an already strained area under more strain.

[gilgamboa]

@caoimhaoin

Ya little island is bad. They are building a flyover apparently. You are right. But the word is the politicians have promised the yanks infrastructure changes.

There is a rail option here already its just underutilised

[gilgamboa]

@Tim_Riggins

Working remotely is no sure thing, not for everyone.

Not when you want to snaffle budget that might deliver broadband to the entire country to build monorail

[gilgamboa]

@Ashman

There was an interesting article last Saturday on the Irish times regarding the proposed pipe bringing water from the Shannon to Dublin region . Well worth reading .

Let them deal with their own water problems. Or else charge them 2 euro a litre for it. Tims solution. Tax whats yours and spend your own tax

[Tim_Riggins]

I’m not looking for that focus.

I think it should be on cities generally.

I think things like the DART Underground will be as great a help to outside of Dublin as those in it and is a no brainer.

I think it’s ridiculous that we have to throw a sop to rural Ireland, just because.

[Mac]

@Tim_Riggins

I think it’s ridiculous that we have to throw a sop to rural Ireland, just because.

What’s the population breakdown of Dublin vs rest of Ireland?

[Tim_Riggins]

No it doesn’t.

Capitol Dock is more than sufficient in height.

Capitol Dock has not resulted in a flurry of higher buildings sadly.