{"id":1330,"date":"2024-05-23T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T07:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2024-05-26T08:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T07:46:22","slug":"calls-to-clean-up-dublins-pedestrian-tunnels-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/calls-to-clean-up-dublins-pedestrian-tunnels-of-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls to clean up Dublin\u2019s pedestrian \u2018tunnels of terror\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/regionals\/dublin\/dublin-news\/calls-to-clean-up-dublins-pedestrian-tunnels-of-terror\/a742850250.html\">The headline had me excited<\/a> &#8211; I thought there was a hitherto hidden version of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel in Dublin that had escaped my attention. Sadly, no. Just a clickbait headline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;tunnels&#8221; referred to are the pedestrian underpasses that grace Sandwith Street, Upper Erne Street and Macken Street in Dublin, design features of the Dublin &amp; Kingstown Railway that were insisted on by the Wide Streets Commissioners. The article references 3 other &#8220;tunnels&#8221;, however, these are standard road underbridges with no side arches for pedestrians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article calls for Irish Rail to engage in a regular cleanup of the underpasses. I would have thought that this was a Dublin City Council responsibility?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline had me excited &#8211; I thought there was a hitherto hidden version of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel in Dublin that had escaped my attention. Sadly, no. Just a clickbait headline. The &#8220;tunnels&#8221; referred to are the pedestrian underpasses that grace Sandwith Street, Upper Erne Street and Macken Street in Dublin, design features of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}