But the place I walk through every day is also full of opportunity and life. It is, in its own way, quite beautiful
But the city I walk through every day is also full of opportunity and life. It is, in its own way, quite beautifulsuburb of Marino to the office on Tara Street, just south of the Liffey. I feel grateful to be able to live so near to the city centre but the route also offers a snapshot of some of the issues explored in the current
Away from the commuter rush of Amiens Street, the place feels underpopulated, ill-cared for and sometimes unsafe after dark Linking the existing off-road Howth to Clontarf cycleway with the city centre, it’s a hefty piece of engineering that took 2½ years to build and cost almost €71m Improvements like these to the urban fabric won’t fix Dublin’s complicated dereliction problems but they form one part of the solution. Creating an attractive and easily navigable urban realm has been a task at which successive generations of Dublin city officials, along with their masters in central Government, have conspicuously failed.
A Dart station without a dedicated street-level entrance forces you to enter circuitously via the main train concourse. Busáras has its back turned to the Luas stop which bears its name. Dublin Bus passengers are crammed dangerously on to too-narrow footpaths. Everything is grimy, shabby and dispiriting. It’s in places like these that Dublin feels like a city designed by people who despise its inhabitants.
It is, in its way, quite beautiful. Its idiosyncratic hotch-potch of architectural eras and styles has a humanity and variety you won’t find in any modern development
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