Cork Transport
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I think Black Ash has been a total success story…. you’d just wonder what the hold up is in building new Park and Rides around the city. Love the double deckers too, it’s a shame Bus Eireann got rid of them a few years back.
Yeah the Park and Ride is brilliant. Much better than fighting to get a park in the city.
Though they’ve just added a Bus Lane to the South Link inbound that the P&R bus takes. Of course they didnt think to cut the trees! Im surprised the front window of the bus didnt shatter. People started screaming.
But yeah… theres one planned for Midleton when the railway line reopens, and one at Glanmire somewhere. They need to get their fingers out and build them though.
The Fermoy Motorway is only one piece of Ireland’s largest jigsaw….. when will the rest of the stretch to Portlaoise be done, or is it even on the books yet? Also, I have been hearing rumours that CSA Czech Airlines are to undergo a major re-structuring, which will result in job losses in Prague and the closure of several routes, one of them most likely being Cork. It’s not certain that the route will close but no doubt Aer Lingus starting up on the Cork-Prague route isn’t helping the situation for CSA either.
Cork – Dublin will be fully Dual Carriageway in 2010. I think this is real too and not election spin. Whether the whole lot will be motorway or classified as Dual I dont know.
http://www.nra.ie/RoadSchemeActivity/SchemeActivity-2006/#d.en.1230
and further down. Im not sure if they’re all listed there (theres 3 or 4), but they’re all about to start or will start in a years time.
Does anyone have any pictures of what the new train station will look like in Midleton? Also, has Irish Rail approved the councils plans to open a new station at Kilnap (near Farranree)?
@Micko wrote:
Could someone settle this arguement.
I make off that years ago, maybe 40 years ago, to travel from Cork to Midleton you would first have to go into Glanmire, over the hump back bridge beside the AIB and up the back of the Water Resevoir and end up at thee back of the present IBIS hotel.
It was only years later that a bridge was built at the glanmire roundabout which allowed you to get to where the IBIS hotel is today.
and you’d have to flog the mare every inch of the way, begorrah.
i’ve been on that road for about 20 years, and even the difference in that time is incredible. i cycled the new sections of the n25 just before they opened with the old man back in the day. the whole notion was completely alien, actually bypassing somewhere. shortly after we were reading proposals about not bridging but TUNNELING under the lee. sure that’ll never happen
Aha – No pictures or drawings of the Midleton train station, but I do know Irish Rail will be refurbishing the existing station. Carrigtowhill will however get a new station at a different site. As an aside, the engineers have done most of the groundwork and the actual track laying will take no more than 4-6 months apparently. Glounthaune station will see a pretty advanced track layout with local loops in both Carrigtwohill and Midleton thereby allowing greater frequency. Park and ride to be given priority. Already Glounthaune station’s car park is full every morning, with many commuters coming from Midleton and beyond and taking the train from Glounthaune into Cork.
It’ll still take a fair while to do, especially because of the dirty great road bridge (over the railway) being built soon on the Lower Glanmire Road to replace the level crossing 🙁
What type of car park will be built in Midleton? Don’t know what size the land around the station is exactly but I wouldn’t think it’s very large. A multi storey would be needed if Irish Rail want to make Midleton a success. Commuters to Cork from Midleton, Killeagh, Youghal, Dungarvan and more will be using the station (hopefully)…… but where will they all park? On the N25 Road, they seem to be widening bits and pieces as you approach Midleton from Cork, needs to be re-surfaced though.
@THE_Chris wrote:
It’ll still take a fair while to do, especially because of the dirty great road bridge (over the railway) being built soon on the Lower Glanmire Road to replace the level crossing 🙁
Presumably though, they’ll be able to build this without too much disruption to services. Otherwise, the Cobh line will be out of action too.
That said, even if they had Midleton built by the end of next year, there would still be a significantly long testing programme required.
The layout for Midleton station can be viewed here;
The CPOs for the Midleton North Ring Road (1st phase) were published recently, they’ll bring traffic in from the N25 directly to the new station access road to the north of the station. That road will also extend (as per the SLAP) to the N25 at the East of the town eventually.
Any word on the 80 acre site for sale at Knockgriffin?
The existing roadworks on the N25 near Midleton may have something to do with the fact that there will be two new flyovers going up there shortly, one for Amgen and one for a new housing development (Castlerock?)
Far as I know they’re still a fair way off yet. They havent even got plans online yet, but there have been a few meetings about it. Couple of years before they start, anyway.
That said, coming out of Midleton to go to Cork that stupid turning is being replaced by a roundabout. Good idea IMO, loads of crashes happen there because the right of way is well, downright retarded.
S’pose it would have to go, the entrance to the Midleton NRR will be directly across from the end of the flyover as far as I know.
Bet that roundabout will be fun at 8 in the morning!
Seen a few calls in papers etc recently for Cork to get its own transport authority, I think its a brilliant idea once it would consist of people who would know what they are doing i.e. little or no politicians or unions and a few lay people from various areas that would quite quickly let the authority know what needs doing. Brilliant example being the utterly foolish closing of the fast lane of the south link rd in the mornings thereby causing traffic back up to carrs hill – what a joke.
I see Car Free Day advertised somewhere as well and year on year they never learn. Public transport (if you enjoy sitting in traffic if you actually get on to a bus thats not too overcrowded) is free but only between 10am and 4pm i.e.off peak hours. Whats the point in that? SHould be free all day.
I never got that one either
This from today’s Irish Examiner…..with incidents like this, no wonder people resort to cars….public transport is an ordeal too far. And what is it about train services and striking workers at Cork….does not seem to affect other parts of the country as much.
Strike at train station derails 2,000 commuters
By Dan Collins
AN estimated 2,000 train commuters were forced to travel by bus and taxi yesterday when a wildcat strike was staged by maintenance staff at Kent Station in Cork.Behind-the-scenes talks were underway last evening in a bid to avoid further travel disruption today.
The striking workers had no comment to make regarding their lightning action.
At lunchtime yesterday, rail maintenance staff, who had been working at the station, walked off the job.
Their unofficial action was supported by other Irish Rail employees in Cork.
The first trains which were affected by the dispute were the hourly services from Cork to Mallow and Cork to Cobh.
The 1pm train due to arrive in Cork from Heuston Station Dublin was terminated at Mallow.
Later in the afternoon, with pickets in place on the gates of the station, the 3pm from Dublin to Cork ran as far as Mallow only as did the 5pm service.
The 3.30pm train from Cork to Dublin was unable to leave Cork and operated from Mallow. The 5.30pm train from Cork to Dublin was cancelled.
The 7.30pm Cork to Dublin service ran from Mallow.
A spokesman for Irish Rail said the company had organised buses and taxis for many of the Cork to Cobh and Cork to Mallow commuters.
At such short notice it was not possible to arrange alternative transport for all intending rail passengers, the spokesman said.
Neither Mallow nor Kerry rail stations were affected by the dispute.
“Every effort is being made to accommodate disrupted passengers with alternative bus services between Cork and Mallow. We wish to apologise for the disruption and inconvenience caused. IarnrI was reading abit ages ago about how they are to make changes to the Watergrasshill by pass so that people won’t be tempeted to go through the town and into Fermoy in a bid to dodge the toll on the Fermoy Motorway. I’m not all too familiar with the road, but what is one extra roundabout gonna do…. because that’s their solution!
@A-ha wrote:
I was reading abit ages ago about how they are to make changes to the Watergrasshill by pass so that people won’t be tempeted to go through the town and into Fermoy in a bid to dodge the toll on the Fermoy Motorway. I’m not all too familiar with the road, but what is one extra roundabout gonna do…. because that’s their solution!
As I read that report, they wanted a roundabout on the main Cork-Dublin road! Absolute insanity and how many people would end up dying then because of suddenly seeing stationary traffic while travelling at 100km/h?
Going back before it was built, perhaps the junction should have been on the other side of Watergrasshill, but working with what is there, some kind of relief road system in Watergrasshill is probably the practical solution.
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