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DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL is injecting €2.5 million into rejuvenating the Talbot Street area through maintenance works.
Works will take place on the street from 10 June, and should go on for 20 weeks.
A spokesperson for the council said that despite Talbot Street being home to many historic businesses and transport hubs including Connolly Station and Busáras, the area has faced “many challenges in recent years”.
The makeover is part of a 5 year council plan to carry out enhanced maintenance works on a number of streets in the city-centre including Cathal Brugha Street, North Earl Street and Parnell Square.
There are also plans to invest in increasing green space and planting trees around the Markets area, and for the Halston Street Park to be redeveloped.
Improvements are also to be made to Ormond Square and Parnell Street.
The improvements being made to Talbot Street will see footpaths and a section of the carriageway “renewed”, the public lighting on the street upgraded, and investment in street planting and landscaping.
The council said that there will be a shopfront improvement scheme, an events programme, and the provision of street art and feature lighting.
“There will be traffic management in place whilst the works are being carried out. Pedestrian access to residential houses/businesses will be maintained at all times but please note there will be some disruption to traffic flow during this period.
“Local vehicular access will be maintained during the works but may require a brief delay to cover works area while allowing access,” a Dublin City Council spokesperson said.
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Are they putting in more cycling lanes just asking for a friend
80% of that shall disappear to administration purposes before work starts.
For 2.5 million, they could probably make an actual portal to escape from the zombies… A thing ya jump into and land in New York in the 80s… Or some other safer time and place….
@Colin Doonan: portal on the moon and keep throwing them in here…
@Colin Doonan: New York…during the 80′s…Safe?!
@damien leen: Exaaaaaaactly…That’s the point sir!
Sounds like a good idea, couple more Gardai, and it would be a great street
Face-lift / makeover, call it what you want , but to start it on the 10th June is madness. As the article mentions , it has 2 major transport hubs attached to it , intercounty rail and bus, and they want to start it at the beginning of the holiday/tourist season. Great planning , bravo DCC
That’s akin to putting Make Up on a pig.
@Bryan Mc Mahon: what’s me ex wife got to do with this article Bryan?
@Bryan Mc Mahon:
Better weld/bolt all materials down. Signs up, no spitting, fighting, shouting, using machetes, urinating, shoplifting, drug use,…. To make it a truly multi-cultural experience. None of the do-gooders here would actually visit this street after 6 pm, never mind during the day!!!
@peter willekens: ógh, I forgot, begging, boozing, intimidating, scrotes,….. With a big Garda station around the corner it’s actually incomprehensible any of that is possible….
Marlborough St. ……
Good news. Whinge. Moan. Whinge. Anti-foreign national nonsense. Whinge. Moan.
These comment sections are so predictable.
@Sun Rise: says the biggest whinger, moaner on the journal comments.
@Sun Rise: Moaning about moaning!!
@Sun Rise: the fact still remains a lot of these city streets have been taken over by different groups of foreign nationals – they.broyght in loitering laws some years ago in this country – so why are they not using them !!
@Margret Walsh: That statement is plainly and demonstratably untrue, saying something is a fact doesn’t make it so. Keep your crazy imaginings to yourself, there are plenty of not too smart people on here who’ll believe your xenophobic lies
Kip
About time badly needed!!!
As soon as new paving goes down, it will be ripped up for underground pipe works and tarmac thrown down as replacement. Within months, it’ll be back looking like a cess pit.
It has its good points. It’s a nice width, just 1 lane of traffic for most of it, and a lot of small independent shops.
@Shane O Neill: … whose rates may go up after the gentrification no doubt.
No amount of money, giving talbot street a face lift will do any good, its the sewer rats that dwell there thats the problem.
I know the makeover it needs..
Get Bus Eireann to clean up Busarus and keep it clean.
There is nothing like a 5 year plan to get things moving along.
Great news. It is a nice part of the city just been neglected for a long time.
You will get nothing for that
Waste of money
Tablet street.
20 weeks is actually 52 weeks in council time
You can’t polish a turd.
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