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Ugly infrastructure: Why can't we have nice things?
Pay the artists!
With construction starting in 2000, the bridge marked the peak of the Celtic Tiger boom economy in Ireland, the boundary between two counties and the Northern edge of Dublin's formidable commuter belt. Look at these two images below, one from Mumbai and another from Tipperary Town, Ireland: Neither are the richest places in the world and neither have ‘made it’, but in both you find a little spark of something divine amidst the grime, where some paint and imagination created something wonderful on a canvas that we'd otherwise ignore. Alas, so many fragile egos and NIMBYs in the crucial rural South were offended by the possibility of an ugly rail line staining their views of nature that almost half of that London-Birmingham route was built below ground level, at humongous expense.
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