Re: Re: developments in cork

The old mahon line was too narrow anyways – it could just about take a luas style tram setup IIRC.

I know very little about this kind of thing, but it strikes me that there are only two main options – one would be to bring a line south out of Ceantt, and cross the river in the city (probably in the Horgans Quay area itself). That option would be very expensive (would probably need to be elevated anyways) but would allow commuters direct access to the city centre. The other option would be to cross the river further east (at tivoli perhaps).

It would probably make more sense to forgo heavy rail south of the Lee if you had the money to spend post 2020, and build a Luas type system for commuter rail – if nothing else it could cross the lee on existing roadbridges. The containerised rail issue would probably have to be dealt with elsewhere – the NET Nitrate site would have been ideal.