South William Street, Dublin 2
Cover a street like South William with canvas -its easy to do if you hire event guys -and allow all restaurants to have spaced out seating on the road outside so we can all go into town and relax without being squashed together dangerously. This will last five years so lets go.
— JIM FITZPATRICK (@jimfitzpatrick) August 13, 2020
A canvas-covered South William Street.
Inventive M*A*S*H-style fun?
Or literal hipster bubble?
It could go either way.
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Good plan Jim F.
A lot of people still waiting for their money back from the Dublin Mint.
That doesn’t make this any less of a good idea though
all the bollards look stupid, along with the mess of signs.
a nice, simple, easy to follow design would be nice instead a horrific series of badly-thought out add-ons.
I agree, clean lines, more plants and flowers, clean streets, more bins, help for the homeless
They’ve done a lot of that in the town where I live. Widnes the footpath to allow restaurants etc to have terraces,, trees and planters, one way traffic. it’s so much better
*sorry, widened…
Sack the chief bottle washer of DCC Keegan and his cohort a,s,a,p. His continued inept decisions has made Dublin extremely hostile for the disabled,the elderly and infirm whilst screwing up traffic for all road users. Junk all of the DCC junk street furniture and signage out. A simple but brilliant idea by Jim Fitzpatrick that can be implemented swiftly and then have a contest for a more permanent coverage solution. Perhaps stained glass (I would be happy to see his art over the street rather than gray skies). Finally have the gardai implement existing legislation on street begging, drug dealing and other loutish behaviour.
Once Keegan goes, you might get that kind of thinking. Road signage isn’t a strong point of Owen’s.
Colour-coded, no less.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/owen-keegans-most-controversial-moments-30439289.html
Keegan’s 7 year term, which was due to end in September, has been extended by 3 years.
That’s famed epidemiologist, Jim Fitpatrick. If you’re putting up a structure to cover a street for 5 years canvas is not the way to go.
what stuff is the Millennium Dome in London made out of? use that.
I seem to remember that it was the plastic security threads ripped from fifty pound notes, stitched together by Savile Row’s finest.
What happens when the wind blows on canvas?
In fairness to Jim, his point was probably more ‘ let’s cover some streets and make outdoor places’ rather than ‘this is the best cover to use’ you could swap out the word ‘canvas’ for ‘aluminium framed polyethylene panels’ or something like that
Poly-anything + Fire is not good
Good point Bob. How about an arsenic-coated lead-framed crepe paper roof? Will that do you?
There’s loads of suitable fire proof products out there but using the same one used on Grenfel wouldn’t recommendation
Too many beggars and ne’er-do-well’s.
Maybe he could pay for it with the money he got for touting those “free”coins to old people!
+ 1.
street begging has to be clamped down on….at least in Spain they’re trying to sell you a wooden elephant.
This would be fantastic. Theres absolutely no need to have cars on South William Street. Let the cafes, restaurants etc have the road and parking spaces for tables, its a much better use of the space for the city.
Strong rumour that Limerick & Clare to be in lockdown before Monday
Maybe Tipp as well
Hoax or not
Our crowd are carrying on like an old rusty tanker that’s lost all its power and have fallen out with the local tug crews.
And have no other choice put to promise their cargo to the Russian flagged factory fisher giving them the finger
“Covid rumours”…….You’re alright I’ll pass!
Well
We’ll see