A €335,000 bike shelter

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40 Comments

  1. Bosco_is_a_prick on

    That’s amazing. What a colossal waste of money for that. Whoever was responsible in the OPW for this needs to be punished.

  2. Significant-Roll-138 on

    Do bikes even need shelter?

    An auld bus shelter for actual humans in some of our provincial towns and villages would have been much more appreciated.

  3. Christ on a….

    The funny thing is it’s not going to work! Due to a thing called wind, water does not fall directly downwards.

  4. As a steel fabricator who’s company has made and installed similar before ……..What the fuck?….

  5. “The stand was built with a special cantilevered canopy that is designed to protect from the prevailing northerly winds”

    From RTE article. Except we don’t have prevailing northerly winds in Ireland.

  6. Could they fit the photocopier into it?

    Shite like this should be enough to bring a government down.

  7. When the story first came out, and the explanations started coming through with “we needed to do this consultation, x surveying needed done, we needed to consider the historic nature of the area, the security requirements etc. etc.” I thought it sounded excessive but wasn’t going to go full Joe Duffy on it.

    But lads, it is a fancier version of the racks at my children’s school, in fact they would fit more bikes in that space.

  8. That can’t be the one that’s being talked about. Surely for 335k it’s like an armoured bunker with fingerprint or face recognition.

  9. Prestigious_Talk6652 on

    Just heard on Newstalk that some people won’t use it because of the poor shelter it gives.

  10. Needs to be more uproar and public backlash for this kind of sh*te we can’t have the racist blank says no groups being the only ones who go out and protest

  11. I’d rather 100 shitty bike shelters than more money being spent to cater to cars. Bring it on.

  12. Did BAM build it..?

    I know you can play this game with any amount of government or local council spending but that is about the same cost of an affordable family home.

    €18mn spent on Dun Laoghaire baths, great amenity but the Spanish, French etc would knock that out for a fraction.

  13. RemnantOfSpotOn on

    For 335k you would expect to find it dry at least….

    Per bike
    18611,11 EUR for a year
    1550,02 monthly

    Could have bought them all 2 bikes worth 775 eur each, every month….

  14. Delicious_Monitor820 on

    Meanwhile we’ve a chronic shortage of nurses, gardai, teachers, carers etc due to bad pay.