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Construction of new Liffey Street plaza in Dublin city to begin this month

There has been a slight delay due to the building of a hotel nearby.

CONSTRUCTION OF THE new Liffey Street plaza is set to begin in Dublin city centre at the end of this month, the city council has confirmed. 

Works were supposed to start at the very beginning of the year but there have been delays due to the current ongoing building of a hotel on the same street. 

Liffey Street (both Upper and Lower) experiences around 30,000 pedestrians and some 2,500 vehicles per day, according to the council.

The existing pedestrian area on Liffey Street Upper is to be extended to the intersection with Abbey Street. A new pedestrian plaza will also be created on Liffey Street Lower between Strand Street and the Quays.

The new plaza is being built for a number of reasons. A statement from the council reads: “A high quality design is being utilised to improve the ambiance of the street, with increased greening and wider footpaths creating a quality space to be enjoyed by all.

“The proposed works will involve a full upgrade of the footpaths and carriageway at this location. The footpaths will be widened and repaved in granite, and notable new planting will be included to match those already introduced in other recently completed city centre streets.”

The works involve the replacement of an existing gas main, the provision and installation of new watermains, the provision of new surface water sewers, public lighting, street furniture in the form of bollards, benches, bicycle stands, and bins and the replacement of some utility covers and frames within the site.

Liffey Street lower is currently open to one-way southbound traffic along its entire length from Abbey Street to the Quays. There are pedestrian footways on both sides of the road. The council said that it will do its best to ensure that through-traffic will be maintained for the duration of the works between Abbey Street and Strand Street.

“However, it is acknowledged in advance that temporary road closures (affecting vehicular traffic) will have to be an integral part of these public roadworks.

“Temporary traffic management will be a major part of the proposed works, with the safety of pedestrians and other road users remaining paramount throughout the construction period,” the council statement added. 

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    Apr 26th 2012, 12:03 PM

    Quote “Anything other than a thumbs up and a gold star from the EU, ECB and IMF will be a shock.”
    Anything other than thumbs down and negative comments here will also be a shock :)

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    Apr 26th 2012, 12:14 PM

    Pity Vincent Browne isn’t running the country. We wouldn’t be ASKING for a deal on the prommisary notes for a start…..

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    Apr 26th 2012, 2:26 PM

    And Also Enda would stay at home indoors hee hee hee

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    Apr 26th 2012, 12:49 PM

    “In line with each of the previous five quarterly reviewsIreland has continued to achieve all of the targets set under our programme of assistance”….. In line with previous governments the past couple of budgets have been to carry on where our FF/green collegues left off. The target us politicians have set are impacting on every level of society & will soon have achieved our ultimate goal which is to take Ireland back to our glory days of the eighties, a time when we could do what the fcuk we liked & you the electorate believed that we were in it for the good of Ireland & it’s future. As politicians from all sides of the dáil we wish to thank you for our inflated salaries our unvouched expenses & last but not least our pensions that we are entitled to well before we reach 60 ,without these we wouldn’t be near the fukcing place.

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    Apr 26th 2012, 1:27 PM

    All summed up there!

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    Apr 26th 2012, 1:35 PM

    Photo Caption “Howlin to Noonan”, Go-wan, give us a kiss, your only marvelous, do u think Mr Kenny will let me tickle his ear later?. These press conferences, the continuous slap on the backs whilst the country is in shite are becoming surreal. Thank god for Vincent Browne.

    Mr Noonan, just in case you had not noticed, Europe is about to go through its next crisis and as for this fiscal treaty nonsense, I would hold off on printing any literature, the new French president indeeds re jigging it a little, O and let’s not forget that little matter of Spain about to make Greece look like someone lost their piggy bank, the Dutch government resigning and our benefactors across the pond going into recession again. Jesus wept is their anyone in government aware this austerity nonsense is not working and in fact making things worse.

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    Apr 26th 2012, 1:26 PM

    well it’s great to know that we are meeting THEIR targets (i wish they wouldnt use the ‘our targets’ spin).

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    Apr 26th 2012, 12:33 PM

    “In line with each of the previous five quarterly reviewsIreland has continued to achieve all of the targets set under our programme of assistance”….. In line with previous governments the past couple of budgets

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    Apr 26th 2012, 4:33 PM

    6 businesses a day shut down in the first 3 months oh this year this country is like an egg but it is being slowly emptied from the inside we look good to outsiders but inside there’s nothing left

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    Apr 26th 2012, 4:55 PM

    Well put Limerick. And soon the shell will collapse.

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    Apr 26th 2012, 5:28 PM

    If it is good for them it is bad for us.
    Feck it.

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    Apr 26th 2012, 7:21 PM

    who put that headline up, it,s the same news as ever with them we pay they laugh at us go skipping off and what a bunch of lovely fools, nice to buisness in ireland what push overs

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