New plan for College Green goes even more further
There is speculation that planners and designers at Dublin City Council are about to propose an even more radical vision for College Green than that unveiled late last year.
This new plan for College Green is due to be shown to councillors within the next two weeks and should cause fresh controversy among various stakeholders, most probably private car-park owners, retail interests and public transport bodies.
However, the council is likely to argue that its vision for College Green is about returning a major public space of standout architectural significance back to its rightful, and historic, place as the city’s showpiece. For too long, the council could contend, College Green has been a place to transit through rather than linger in, and this has been to its detriment.
Plans for the redesign of College Green, including a ban on private cars and a new piazza in front of the Bank of Ireland, are being mooted primarily to accommodate the Luas Cross City line, which will run as a double line in front of Trinity College before splitting at Westmoreland Street, and expected to be in service by the end of 2017.
