“Siamo sempre più vicini alla realizzazione”: i piani ambiziosi per il lido di Dublino prendono slancio
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/17/it-will-rejuvenate-our-great-city-ambitious-plans-for-dublin-lido-move-a-step-closer/
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Should have built the white water centre.
This would be amazing and I am extremely for it.
I love that concept graphic version too, a lot of the time I just find those concept images either depressingly unrealistic or grimly unambitious.
oh MY GOD BUILD SOME FUCKING APARTMENTS FOR LOVE OF CHRIST.
Vote FF FG out people!
Apartments, metro, incentives to get derelict properties back into the market.
A fucking lido is not the priority.
Look at the location of it ffs. Maybe get law and order prioritised before building something that no one wants to go to because of scrotes hassling everyone.
I’m not for it. The conditions are not right for it not to be anything but a white elephant.
We’re allowed have good things. Don’t hate on every sort of improvement even if there should be other things sorted
Very same people will complain that there is nothing to do in Ireland but go to the pub. Let people swim and then go to the pub
This always seemed like a better idea than the whitewater rafting facility. Not just because swimming is obviously a more accessible activity than whitewater rafting, but also because of the nature of the site.
The idea of it being used for whitewater rafting just made no sense to me given the actual space available. It would have been way smaller than what is on offer elsewhere and the kinds of places it was being compared to. It also just made no sense to have a facility that is extraordinarily well connected by public transport be one that at its core requires you to bring (or presumably rent) the kind of gear that you’re not going to bring with you on the feckin Luas. The solution to the lack of parking was to have that placed further down the Liffey so that you would paddle up to the dock.
The size of the site seems fairly perfect for a swimming pool and all of the associated extras that you’d want for that. You also don’t really need to bring anything with you, could just decide to go for a casual swim after work or on a Sunday or whatever. Makes way more sense for it being an amenity for people who actually live and work in the city rather than a further tourist attraction and corporate event space.
A health care worker was literally stabbed here on her way home from work this is something a modern city could have not us
I’m all for diversifying public amenities, but anyone who has lived or worked around that spot knows well that it’s gonna be fuckin wrecked inside the first few months
Edit: diversifying apart from the white water rafting thing cos that prick Keegan only wanted it for himself and his buddies
Listen, would it be nice, yes. But realistically it’ll be destroyed in a few months. There will be used needles and cigarette butts and god knows what else in it within a few weeks.
Its a nice idea and that area needs something
But I’d be worried the local scum would ruin it
Bam: “One trillion euro please”.
Goverment:
Am I right in thinking that under current zoning whatever is built there _has_ to be a water-based development?
I’d like to be constructive. They reopened a similar outdoor pool in Clontarf a couple of years ago. Has that been successful? I think the cafe there has closed down but the pool could be going well.
Lunacy in my opinion to build over one of the only open water areas in the city. Fill it up and put a big water display in there that everyone can enjoy, and a fraction of the price.
Colour me cynical but given that the last update on this campaign was in July of this year and the article mentions it has raised 11k of the 20k needed for the first stage of gathering resources for a planning application, this reads to me as a covert ad. I especially think this because its got a link to the GoFundMe page, which is now at 12.7k, and had no new donations in two MONTHS (edit: I admittedly missed three donations last month, apologies) before picking up… yesterday.
It feels like another round of advertising for donations, which is absolutely fine and go for it, best of luck, I just don’t appreciate it when it feels like I’m being asked for donations under the guise of an article as opposed to just being asked outright.
[Furthermore, DCC has already said they wouldn’t be backing this plan. ](https://dublininquirer.com/2024/09/25/with-whitewater-rafting-out-groups-push-for-lido-or-soccer-pitch-at-georges-dock/)
*”“Due to significant costing, the committee did not wish to progress with the proposal at the time,” the spokesperson said.”*
I can see it now “WORLDs MOST EXPENSIVE POOL “
How the actual f. do you keep an outdoor 50m pool heated in winter?It would be tens(hundreds?) of thousands a month.
How come we don’t have one already?
It’s great someone has some get up and go but it always seems you need people who are extricated from Dublin to come in and make things happen.
“Having returned from London, he says he wished to see Dublin enhanced by a citizen-friendly option.”
Classic person coming from London with a bit of energy for shaking up Dublin
There’s no real explanation for why we don’t already have one in 2024 which is what I’d find interesting.
Why would a smaller city have 7 already at this point vs 0 for Dublin.
“Cities such as Helsinki and Copenhagen operate a minimum of three lidos. “Dublin is falling behind even smaller cities, from Bristol to Amsterdam, which have one and seven lidos respectively, despite lower population density,” Earls says.”
Do we need to run some comparisons across a range of infrastructure to start getting things done? Do we need more money from the govt? Better people in charge of the city?
What else are we lagging behind on massively
Why do I feel like this will be ruined within 3 months.
Trust me I’m not one of the ignorant guys who think Ireland is a shithole or we have everything awful compared to the rest of europe or anything like that, we are lucky to live here, compared to like 90% of the rest of the world, but I know that area and i just see it being inevitably fucked.
People love to blame migrants and all the usual scapegoats, but theres a serious issue with parts or Dublin and ruining their own amenities, and ofc always locals. Goes back to the 70s and 80s.
Yes!
Is anybody going to travel into Dublin, cutting a swathe through the junkie horde, only to freeze their tits off in an outdoor pool when they have an indoor pool closer to home?