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AREAS AT THE bottom of Grafton Street where the pavement has been covered in tarmac are set to be repaved by the end of the summer.
The works being carried out in the area are for the LUAS Cross City development and had seen new paving stones laid as part of the €4 million Grafton Street rejuvenation project lifted and replaced with tarmac.
This happened because utility mains are located in this part of the street and the work was required to accommodate this in the building of the new LUAS line.
The works
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, a spokesperson for the LUAS Cross City development explained that the paving stones and street furniture that had been lifted as part of the development would be reinstated once work had been completed.
Paving stones and street furniture are currently being stored in a depot outside of Dublin. It is expected that the footpath on Nassau Street will be repaired by the end of the summer.
Disturbance on the street will continue however as tracks will still have to be laid. This is expected to continue until mid-to-late 2017.
On new paving stones being lifted and repaved, the spokesperson said that work had been done “in a logical way” and that the area concerned was a very small part of the overall rejuvenation.
It was also stated that co-ordination had been ongoing between Dublin City Council, the LUAS Cross City development and the utility companies.
Grafton Street project
A project to overhaul Dublin’s Grafton Street area began in 2013 and is it’s officially being completed this weekend – with the new lighting being switched on green to mark the St Patrick’s Day festivities.
The project cost €4 million and has seen areas of Grafton Street and Wicklow Street have their old red brick surface replaced. Further work is set to take place on Johnson Court.
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It’s not that they’re sitting on their hands… It’s that they haven’t an iota how to solve it.
@Louis Jacob: who does?
@Disco Inferno: SF do, give everyone everything for free, magic money tree will provide
@Disco Inferno: Hard to tell. FF/FG are the only governance we’ve ever known.
@Disco Inferno: Quite simple really, isn’t rocket science, if they (gov) can put in MUP as in a minimum price on a product IE alcohol, then they can easily put in a maximum price on any product. Simple.
@Martin Kenny: you mean the free mismanaged 10 billion this year or the 11 8 billion last year… Go Figure free money!!!
@Dave C: Unfortunately this is all poor Martin has to go on about. FFG have had plenty of magic trees lately
@Dave C: What happens when the producers of all the goods we import, whose profits would be impacted by such a policy, decide it’s just not worth selling into Ireland anymore?
@Martin Kenny: you mean the magic money tree which sprouted an additional €.4 billion to advance FFG’s military build up in their aims to abandon our neutrality???
@Louis Jacob: I don’t think it’s the Government’s job. The market is supposed to adjust itself. When a price is unacceptably high, stop accepting it and stop buying those items. Do without or search around for someone selling what you need for a price you’re OK with. I can’t believe anybody wants the Government micro-managing the economy.
I used to regularly buy Pepsi Max. Then when Coca Cola stated it had to increase its prices to cover rising costs, ALL the soft drinks manufacturers piled on. Now if I want cola I buy Xero Cola @ 75c a bottle, not €2.89 for Pepsi Max.
You really would have to wonder how people keep on voting for the same FFG clowns repeatedly. 100 years of corruption and one scandal after another. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
@Daniel Gilroy: Its Fianna Fáil and Provisional Fianna Fáil, Like Coke or Pepsi.
@Daniel Gilroy: As opposed to the naive and wonderful sf hopefuls?
Spinn Fein moaning again, Paul must have the day off…
the opposition are all mouth so they are.
@John Deane: The opposition are all mouth. Whatever next?
@John Deane: They’re supposed to be.
@John Deane: I’m surprised you can spell opposition.
Well eamon Ryan made it very clear today they won’t be doin anything about energy prices. Except for get renewables on the go. Which he’s hugely failing on so far. Again saying the line that they buy energy 18 months kn advance so prices will still be high for that long. Even tho when Ukraine invasion kicked off they jacked up the prices instantly.
See David the landlord Terry picking up for the government
It’s as simple as this, All the other parties have had a chance and failed. By giving SF a chance to see if they are what they say, and if they fail,we can truly say that they are all the same.
This so called government simply are in free fall…..Housing,Health,Childcare,Household,Rent,Tourism…it goes on. JC
Well, we do pay a high proportion of taxes, it’s about time we ALL see some return on them.
SF populist sh#te give everything for free policy. I’ll vote for them just to prove it if they get in..
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