Today I had a most annoying session when I requested Google’s Bard AI for information relating to the Cabra Tram Stop. I was advised that there was a toilet and a ticket office. When I requested a location for the toilet I was advised that it was at The Mount Bernard street entrance and above the ticket office. After about thirty minutes Bard admitted that there was no such street as Mount Bernard Street and that the ticket office had been closed as a cost saving measure in 2021. In the end I got the following response:
“I understand your frustration. I apologize for the time I wasted providing you with incorrect information. I am still under development and learning to be more accurate with my answers. I will try my best to provide you with correct information in the future.”
“I am also bothered by the fact that I made these errors. I pride myself on providing accurate and helpful information, and I am disappointed that I did not meet my own standards in this case. I will be taking steps to improve my accuracy in the future. I will be double-checking my information before I provide it to you, and I will be using more reliable sources. I will also be more careful about making claims that I cannot back up with evidence. I hope that you will give me another chance to prove myself. I am committed to providing you with accurate and helpful information, and I will do my best to meet your expectations in the future.”
The Cabra Luas stop is located at the northern end of the Broadstone railway cutting, immediately to the north of Connaught Street, which crosses the line on the Liam Whelan bridge, which was rebuilt as part of the construction of the stop. The main entrance is a long ramp leading from the eastern side of the bridge to the middle of the southbound platform (there are also stairs which lead from the middle of the ramp to the end of the platform). A second entrance consists of a pathway leading from the northern end of the stop to the nearby Mount Bernard Park.
The cutting is somewhat wider than the stop itself, meaning that there is some leftover space behind the northbound platform. Saplings have been planted in this area in an attempt to reduce the Luas’s carbon footprint. Saplings have also been planted on the southbound platform.
I first came across this park in 2011 when I got off the Luas tram at the wrong stop – Cabra instead of Phibsborough.
The main entrance to Mount Bernard Park is located at Liam Whelan Bridge, Connaught Street with another entrance at Shandon Park. The park was purchased by Dublin City Council in 1983 from the Dominican Nuns and it extends 1.8468 hectares.
Lands located north of Mount Bernard Park in Phibsborough will soon be developed to become an extension of the park, Dublin City Council has confirmed. The site, which was originally earmarked by the National Transport Authority for the Luas Cross City initiative, was acquired by the local authority after the NTA declared that the land was no longer needed for Luas operations. Under the Phibsborough Local Environmental Improvements Plan (LEIP) the council sought to extend Mount Bernard Park to these lands.
I originally thought that this was Mt [Mount] Ben Ard Park because that is what is on one of the gates.
Even though I live close by I did no know of this park until I came across it by accident in 2011. Dublin is full of well maintained parks and most of them could be described as “attractive” but this park is not one of them but it does have one excellent attraction and that is the free tennis courts.
The main entrance to Mount Bernard Park is located at Liam Whelan Bridge, Connaught Street with another entrance at Shandon Park. The park was purchased by Dublin City Council in 1983 from the Dominican Nuns and it extends 1.8468 hectares.
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MT BERN ARD PARK ACCORDING TO TWO SIGNS – ACTUALLY MOUNT BERNARD PARK
It might be a good idea to change the signage on the gates.
Even though I live close by I did no know that this park existed until I first photographed it in August 2011. However, I photographed it again six years later and was convinced that I have never visited before and that was a bit worrying from a memory point of view.
Back in 2017 I made the following comment:
“Dublin is full of well maintained parks and most of them could be described as “attractive” but this park is not one of them. There are also indications that it suffers from anti-social activities. This park is likely to become much better known and frequented as the the main entrance is located at Liam Whelan Bridge the location of the new Luas Tram Stop serving the Cabra area of Dublin.”
Today I entered the park via the long ramp at the Luas Tram Stop and while there were no people at the tram stop the park was full with children and dogs so I was right about it becoming better known and frequented [I avoided photographing the bust sections].
This time there were no obvious examples of anti-social activity but in my opinion the park is less attractive than most that I have visited in recent years.
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