Cork Transport

Both options for the Cork Northern Ring Road had a tunnel on the Glanmire end to preserve the “natural look of the area”.

Anyways, I’m fairly interested as to what sort of a junction will be used where the North Ring Road meets the N8 north of Glanmire. To my mind, it has to be a similar slip road system as being used where the Ringaskiddy road meets the South Ring Road in Rochestown.

Sadly such foresight doesn’t form part of the NRA mindset and I wouldn’t be suprised if they went for some ludicrous roundabout laden mash of a thing being integrated with the Glanmire flyover junction.

Hi,

I was home in Cork last weekend. I drove back up to Dublin Sunday afternoon and I used the Mitchelstown by-pass for the 1st time. To be honest I didn’t time it or anything but it didn’t seem like I was saving time. Way too many roundabouts! The next time I go down to Cork I’ll time it using the old way and then the new way. Traffic wasn’t bad when I left Cork so it was hard to judge but I presume it has made a great difference to the town itself. I heard the Fermoy bypass will be a motorway! Excellent if it is! Does anyone know how long the journey from Crok – Dublin should take when the by-pass is completed?

As regards the airport, I rang Aer Rianta last week and was told the arrivals are opening tomorrow, then the charter flight arrivals/depts and all depts will be up and running around Aug.15th! I can’t wait – I’m going to fly down when it’s open!

Is there a new control tower being built??

A friend landed in Cork while ago from Dublin and texted me and said there are 4 airbridges in the new terminal!!

Yeah the relief road seems excessively ’roundabout’, literally and figuratively. Should be renamed “Mitchelstown Scenic Route”. Still, it’s better to have it there of course.

I think the toll booths you are talking about are the one’s which you see at the 2 small roundabouts before Fermoy – on the city side. I noted this too. If you’re driving up from the Dunkellte roundabout after the “pink bridge” you can get a glimpse of the bigger toll booth. i think the small one is for those cars coming onto the new bypass from fermoy and the bigger booth is for those coming from the city. That’s what I think – may be wrong. There’s definately a bigger toll booth in place – multiple lanes I reckon. The motorway on the N4 I think from Dublin the “the west” has multiple lanes at the toll booth area.

@rebel_city wrote:

I heard the Fermoy bypass will be a motorway! Excellent if it is! Does anyone know how long the journey from Crok – Dublin should take when the by-pass is completed?

A friend landed in Cork while ago from Dublin and texted me and said there are 4 airbridges in the new terminal!!

The NRA says that the new M8 Fermoy Motorway should cut up to 45 minutes off the Cork-Dublin journey during peak times….. which is probably likely seen as traffic in Fermoy seems to go on for ages at rush hour. It’s really good to see that Cork will be the first county down south to get a motorway…. even if it will be tolled. I think it’s supposed to be completed early 2007.
As for the airbridges….. only 1 has been fully installed, but the remaining 3 are “half installed” and therefore not useable for the time being.

http://www.corkairport.com/index.asp

New website with photos of the new terminal.

Check out the pics oof the new airport on this link:

http://cork-spotters.com/photo/displ…e.php?pos=-289

I was out at the airport over lunch. Seems very good though not everything was open. Obviously I couldn’t see the “behind security” stuff in duty free areas either. In general the Terminal seemed a little smaller than I imagined but nonetheless a huge step up from the present Irish airport terminals.

I also just looked at the airport website. Again it is a huge improvement but it could be padded out. For instance, the link to info about short breaks gives a 3 line summary of the city and then links to about 5 attractions, including Mahon Point! (no offence but Mahon Point is like EVERY shopping centre everywhere in the world. Your average international traveller would hardly travel to see that). Worse still the link to the English Market is to a one page “directory listing” giving things like phone numbers, opening hours but no idea what the market actually is, no details of its history and no pictures. Hopefully this will be sorted out in time.

Finally, and on a slightly diff note, I see on the web site that there is no longer a Cork – Munich Aer Lingus route. Anyone any idea when this stopped and if there are other Aer Lingus destinations that have been ditched in recent times. You always hear of new routes opening but not about closures….

Anyone know if the Motorway designation will be extended from Watergrasshill to the top of Glanmire.

The road is of equal quality as the stretch of Motorway presently being built, a centre divider has recently been put up and there is an optional route for L drivers and tractors to take.