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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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Don’t like the grey paving, has completely taken away the feel and character. Also it stains and gets dirty too easy. Grafton street could be any street now.
Doesn’t matter what I say now as the red brick is gone but it’s a terrible shame. Awful decision by the council.
Agreed. Glad I’m not the only one. How do these changes get passed and paid for.
They get passed and paid for because Dublin doesn’t have a democratically elected mayor in charge of the city. It’s time to do away with four separate councils for what is actually a small city and bring in a directly elected mayor with executive powers and open up a real dialogue between the administration of Dublin and Dubliners.
A city of 1.3 million should have an elected mayor, someone to be held responsible. Dublin City and County councils is more than enough. My how city of London has 33 councils, to many councils for 8.3 million people.
The work to date on Grafton street is a disgrace. How many million spent and the paving is left filthy dirty and stained. The bollards and lights are the cheapest looking street furniture I have seen anywhere. I ve also noticed some of the paving is loose underfoot already, not a good sign. Dublin City council are not up to the task of looking after Dublin city in my opinion.
They ruined Grafton street with the grey paving. Whatever about the red, at least it was unique. Grafton street now looks like any other street and it looks worse as a result if the staining from all the garbage water from the rubbish bags that are left out in the early morning.
They could have used the new red paving on each junction on the whole street. It looks so dull and boring. Henry street now actually looks like a finer street. What’s with the awful bottle green bollards and lights shaped like a leaf? I don’t get it.
Grafton street traders have suffered for years. Mad rents and rates.
I could never really see the retail attraction on Grafton Street anyway. Over the years its character has been ruined with tourist shops, mobile phone stores etc. it’s more the smaller back streets off Grafton Street which carry the area. As for the grey paving, going to be very hard to maintain. As others have pointed out, it looks filthy already. Particularly when chewing gum gets stuck to it and blackens. However, with retail now creeping around the corner into college green (A&F, H&M etc.) and with the bohemian vide now emerging from Dame Street and George’s Street (new eateries etc) and with the future pedestrianisation of College Green, it will, in about 7 – 10 years be a vibrant destination to go to.
End of the summer? It’d take a few lads a week.
You only read the headline, didn’t you?
It amazes me how with all of the modern equipment available it is taking two years to complete this job, whereas in the 1850′s workmen could lay around fiftty miles of rail track using picks and shovels through mountains and bogs in a similar time period.
This is disgraceful. That tarmac has now become part of our heritage. Won’t someone please setup a Facebook page to help save our tarmac?
Did I miss this week’s news quiz?
Ya.
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