"Tribeca is more than a single stalled project. It’s a warning about what happens when cities are redesigned to serve global capital before local life."
Save CQ vice-chair Dr. Agustina Martire writes in today's Irish News.
@News_Letter “It’s what I do” he says. 50,000 folk will go up Kilimanjaro this year too apparently.
And another point, given he has received sponsorship, does it not need to be registered as an interest in House of Commons (which it currently has not)?
@JP_Biz You say ‘It is estimated that the championship will boost economy by more than £200m” But Hallam actually say:
Real economic activity: £63m in direct revenue, the rest is AEV ie not an actual financial impact. It’s a marketing metric, not an economic one.
Over 4,000 PSNI officers and staff will be deployed over the Twelfth to deal with parades and associated disruption at a cost of more than £6m
https://t.co/hPBl1TCZIz
@Briansmyth99@adampollock@SaveCQBelfast@AineGroogan But is the trade off now not the acquiescence to the full architectural horror of Tribeca and all that delivers it - like the loss of Writers Square for instance?
@Saraita101 Constantly? British Opens: 1951, 2019 and this year… apparently that’s constant. The cultural event from which you are at pains to distance yourself, is however an annual event. Perhaps there is a connection?
@JonBurrowsNI The “One Bad Apple” argument eh - even though another bonfire threatens electricity supply to the capital’s two main hospitals & hundreds of others belch toxins, place undue stress on fire services, cost public purse directly and indirectly and somehow this all must be tolerated.
@MatthewOToole2 Presumably any local rate payer could sue the council in question for being placed at increased risk when council knew the potential extent of that risk.
@20th_Centurygal Lowell George. Such an articulate songwriter, and consummate performer, the conversation would not disappoint. And he knew what he liked as well.