Scarlet Phibsbernel qrites:
4 Smart Telecom boxes in Phibsborough. Unused (in 9 years). Can double as lavatory. No charge, must be able to collect.
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Scarlet Phibsbernel qrites:
4 Smart Telecom boxes in Phibsborough. Unused (in 9 years). Can double as lavatory. No charge, must be able to collect.
So true.
While payphones are still used by a small few, they are horrid eye sores on the street that smell of piss and vomit.
The only exceptions are the very old ones in the countryside and one in chapelizod (but i think it may be gone now).
Eyesores?
They might smell a bit alright but surely it would be worth keeping the odd few around. Mobiles do run out of batterys.
But none of them actually work. The only thing they’re good for is swallowing €2 coins
How about removing those people from the streets that piss and vomit in these places instead?
Water fountains… take them away because people pee in them, rubbish bins, take them away because people dump their household rubbish in them, public toilets, take them away because junkies use them to shoot up,
I’ve seen a lot of things (including “decent” girls taking shites behind dumpsters) but I have yet to see someone pee in a public water fountain. Seems like more hassle than it’s worth.
I think she means the smart ones. They don’t work anymore and there are a few abandoned boxes around the city. Is Smart still around?
Smart stopped doing payphone services in 2006, according to Wikipedia
I’ve only ever seen these used as ‘amenities’ for those who use needles, and smoke their stuff off tinfoil….
And Smart Telecom are long since defunct as are their public telephones….
Theres a little about this horrible street furniture here.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/dublin-city-council-says-it-has-no-powers-to-remove-old-phone-kiosks-1.1655197
Usual story, there’s nobody responsible for maintaining or removing them and the council are too ahem busy to force matter.. except on the southside which must look lovely. They’ve all been removed in D6 for instance. Phibsborough needs the least assistance to look scruffy.
The idea that the license given by the Council can’t be revoked in certain circumstances is either a lie, or DCC made a balls of the contract.
Agreed.
If you want a license to place furniture on the footpath outside your restaurant, its €125 per table per annum. If you want to leave 100s of foul-smelling, rusting structures around the city forever.. no fee! (so long as it doesn’t expose the relevant bureaucrat to responsibility)
A contract isn’t much use when one party no longer exists.
Still some Smart phone boxes in Rathmines.
Near McDonalds.
The Rathmines ones are gone, so also are the Rathgar ones, foundations visible here and here:
https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.323555,-6.265455,3a,75y,147.76h,67.33t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sFbtByH4tPxbsKX9WPEkdhA!2e0
https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.318423,-6.279259,3a,46.7y,95.84h,82.02t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s55nTD0mWa6a1xycDZDEaUQ!2e0
Pity.
They were iconic.
Collectors items surely !
Surely if someone smashed the glass on them then the council would be obliged to remove them on safety grounds??
Hmmm….I see what you’re suggesting.
Phibsboro, getting all above its station. It’s not the Ranelagh of the north-side as much as might like to think so.
Smart Telecom’s responsibility to remove them if they don’t work.
And if Smart are dissolved, track down the directors. They’ll be in the phone-book!