Cork is going ghetto, bai.
As part of a raft of new proposals to revitalise the city centre over the next two years, Cork City Council have launched an initiative known as ‘Pimp my Street’, a competition that will offer communities funding to improve their local area.
According to the Evening Echo, €25,000 will be set aside each year for an ‘improve my street’ competition, whereby communities pitch proposals to the Council to improve their street with five prizes to be awarded each year.
It sounds like a novel and commendable idea to us, but not surprisingly, there were a few eyebrows raised at the title of the competition, which, of course, is a reference to the once popular MTV Show ‘Pimp my Ride’.
Pimp my street! Cork City council… are they gone mad altogether?! http://t.co/0xSiWQ4rq2
— 96fm Opinion Line (@OpinionLine96) July 22, 2015
'Pimp my Street' – in all fecking fairness; what a title? I do like the Butter Wrappers initiative though http://t.co/H2HreWIhod
— Martin McCarthy (@teaassasin) July 21, 2015
The "Pimp My Street" terminology aside, it's great to see this plan to revive Cork city centre announced: http://t.co/0siZlUGqJO
— Val Nolan: *SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES is out now!* (@VallescuraRule) July 21, 2015
Cork Council produces two-year plan to improve state of city centre: http://t.co/253aKobdiR
'Pimp My Street'? We shall see…— TheIrishAesthete (@IrishAesthete) July 21, 2015
Amongst the other recommendations, one which proposes artwork to be made out of butter wrappers at the city’s North Gate Bridge to reflect the significance of butter to Shandon sounds very interesting.
You can read about the proposals in more detail in the Evening Echo here, but from the looks of things, Ireland’s second city is going to be pimped out to a pretty significant degree over the next two years.
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