Re: Re: Cork Transport

@jungle wrote:

Where I could see a service working is linking Cobh to Ringaskiddy.

Since, I have some knowledge of Rotterdam, I’ll make one comparison. The fast ferry from Rotterdam to Dordrecht serves a number of towns and villages that don’t have or have a very poor public transport connection to the two towns. You could travel Dordrecht-Rotterdam much faster by train and I wonder if anyone uses the service for the entire trip.

Unfortunately, a route up from the Lower Harbour is essentially duplicating one of the best served public transport routes in Cork. Perhaps if it stuck to stops on the west bank (with a possible exception for Little Island), it might be more viable.

But, I could still see a situation where you could feed passengers from the various Lower Harbour towns onto the train at Cobh for further connections, while providing a previously unavailable connectivity in the Lower Harbour.

To be honest I do not see it as being viable at all. You are right it is competing with the existing train (which has improved greatly since I was a lad). At peak time the train is jammed so additional rolling stock should and hopefully will be the way forward there and perhaps the additiion of Midleton etc. will help investment in rolling stock. It is also a much more efficient fuel wise per bums on seats method.

High speed water craft water jet or are expensive for no. of bums on seats…

One still has to get around the problem of getting punters to use it…. as against their cars and problem with a cobh ringaskiddy is that the numerous personnel heading say to the various plants in Ring each day is that the plants are wll spead, so a regular shuttle bus would have to be there.
Many people now use and car share form Cobh to Ring using the crossrover ferry… which good but does
again emphasise the snag on other end of plants there spread well apart.