Re: Re: developments in cork

I don’t think Trolley Buses offer any great capacity increase compared to a normal bus, so presumably their advantage is that they are electrically powered and cut down on pollution. Even so, I’d like the first priority to be having enough buses to operate every 10 minutes on the main routes.

As for rail expansion. possibly the most practical expansion would be to construct a spur off the Cobh line into Glanmire, Riverstown, Sallybrook etc. Of course, if land had been set aside when all the new estates were being built, it would have helped. Instead, it would now have to find a way through all the houses and the pretty hilly geography around there.

If they’d thought about it before building them, some kind of cut and cover tram lines could have been provided on the Blackpool bypass and the South Link Road. Now, it would probably cause too many headaches during construction.