Potholes remain but €100k being spent on Roadside Art in Limerick

[Ah Well]

Looks like Councillors in Limerick are getting pretty sour about plans to put up arty farty pieces rather than on the ground pothole filling and works

Potholes remain but ?100k spent on roadside art | Irish Examiner

Some of these sculptures/"works of art" that one sees driving along leave a lot to be desired tbh

But maybe the folk in Limerick here might look on the bright side ... they can gaze happily at these eye catching works in distraction from the bang as their left front wheel enters yet another pothole (which is tough titty as ya can't sue the Council for such damage due to what is known as "non feasance")

[Al.]

Roadside art = a great way to misappropriate tax revenue. That and other "pet projects" can explain potholes, "accident black spots", no mainline railway electrification (e.g. Dublin-Cork), motorways through the Hill of Tara, and so on and so forth...

For those that are proponents of roadside art, get it done through private sponsoring.

[JCSkinner]

Welcome to the decades-old madness that is the per cent for art scheme.
This is basically a 1% additional levy on the cost of any state infrastructure project that must be peed away on alleged art.
A small coterie of BS-merchants have been getting fat on it for many's a year, since 1% of the cost of a motorway is a very tasty paycheque to get in return for sticking some plastic poles at odd angles along the grass verge, or throwing up some abstract monstrosity on a roundabout.

[ang]

This just goes to show the lack of power local representatives have. We elect our representatives to work on our behalf. We do not elect County Managers and their staff. We just get the privilege of paying for these people, who are working to their own agenda. There is nothing democratic in this. Looks like the pigs are running the farm.

[JCSkinner]

Little or nothing to do with either elected reps or council officials.
They are OBLIGED to spend 1% on art by law.

[spidermom]

See this thread....

http://www.politics.ie/current-affai...-park-art.html


As far as the HSE are concerned seems to me we get the art long before we get the services to place them in!!!!

[JCSkinner]

With respect, I think this thread - http://www.politics.ie/health-social...-art-year.html is probably more illuminating on the issue.

[truthisfree]

This is a pet hate of mine, whatever about the money spent on them, the quality of them is truly awful. I have only seen one that I thought worked on the road to Sligo of a mounted horseman. A whole lot of them stick in my mind as rubbish.

[jcdf]

This is a pet hate of mine, whatever about the money spent on them, the quality of them is truly awful. I have only seen one that I thought worked on the road to Sligo of a mounted horseman. A whole lot of them stick in my mind as rubbish.

Yes I agree that the mounted horseman was maybe the only decent piece.
What is the need or desire for roadside art anyway? Art is something to be appreciated over a period of time, not as you fly past in the car turning the piece into a momentary blur. Art should be located either in a museum or a public place where people conglomerate on foot like a park or busy street or shopping mall. Not in the middle of some long road where no one stops.