The Pedestrian Bridges of Cork
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Politicans in Cork are ‘serial announcers’….with the bridge here a case in point. Other notable examples of this condition are the redevelopment of Kent station (in the news again this week!), the reopening of the Midelton railway line, and almost every other infrastructure project in town. 😡
@PTB wrote:
What exactly was the logic behind giving the first official opening months before the bridge was open? It wasn’t coming up to elections was it?
:rolleyes: The answer is on the plaque in the photo, as Lord Mayor you get your name in stone, vanity is a serious disease in Cork.
I went along the new walk this morning and I must say the views were great. I had never seen the Maltings or St. Vincent’s Church from these angles.
It is quite silly to have plaques from two Lords Mayor. One opening the bridge and months later, another opening the walk.Do the airbridges at Cork Airport count as a pedestrian bridge?
@Thomond Park wrote:
Do the airbridges at Cork Airport count as a pedestrian bridge?
What’s with the plural in that sentence? 😀
Nano Nagle Bridge is defo the bridge linking Sullivans Quay to the Grand Parade. Alot of tourists use that bridge to get good shots of St.Finbarrs Cathedral. Parliament Bridge is a fine brodge too – nice views of the Holy Trinity and St.Finbarrs. Let’s hope the Jacobs Mall building will compliment the view also!
I live in Dublin and the other day as I was walking to the bus stop from the IFSC to D’Olier St for the bus I was thinking of the boardwalk which is installed there – having a similar one in Cork. Along the quay from Patricks Bridge to the Coal Quay – lots of new buildings there / people traffic – Opera House and the new Cornmarket St. development. Who know’s. They seem quite popular in Dublin – with a few kiosks along one of them.
The Shakey Bridge, as far as I know, is not so Shakey anymore! But it’ll always be the Shakey Bridge! Great bridge!
If you make an effort, you can still get the Shakey Bridge going…
It’s funny, you should say about a boardwalk down by the Opera House. I was walking along there the other day and thinking about how unpleasant the general environment is down that way. With the four lanes of traffic and the narrow footpaths and the difficulty crossing the road, I wondered if it might impact on the ability of new businesses in the area to trade properly. Perhaps a boardwalk could be incorporated into a new plan for the area.
@jungle wrote:
If you make an effort, you can still get the Shakey Bridge going…
It’s funny, you should say about a boardwalk down by the Opera House. I was walking along there the other day and thinking about how unpleasant the general environment is down that way. With the four lanes of traffic and the narrow footpaths and the difficulty crossing the road, I wondered if it might impact on the ability of new businesses in the area to trade properly. Perhaps a boardwalk could be incorporated into a new plan for the area.
I saw it mentioned by someone else, and so had a look myself, but the new paving and railings being installed on Penrose Quay are fantastic, really look well, and would be great if expanded to other areas. Check it out, just down from Michael Collins Bridge.
@phatman wrote:
I saw it mentioned by someone else, and so had a look myself, but the new paving and railings being installed on Penrose Quay are fantastic, really look well, and would be great if expanded to other areas. Check it out, just down from Michael Collins Bridge.
Yes they are great and really show up how bad the quays are treated in general with no pavements,car parked or very close to awful balustrading.A minimum of a 2 metre pavement with trees and seating should be provided on all our quays. Merchants Quay and Georges Quay are some of the worst and the quays around the School of Commerce full of cars parked head on into the Quays.
We can only dream.I think there is a pedestrian bridge being constructed as part of the new Jurys Hotel development on the Western Road. There is some formwork spanning that channel of the river so hopefully a walkway is being constructed, it will probably be similar to the existing bridge a few metres away.
Either that or the site engineer needs to get the dumpy level checked!
University Cllege Cork have applied to CCC for permission to construct a new pedestrain bridge across the south channel of the river Lee, linking the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex on the south side of the river to the former Greyhound Race Track on the northern side.
UCC have permission to develop an Information Technology building at the Greyhound Track site. Issues of funding for this (IT building) project are still being sorted out.@Radioactiveman wrote:
University Cllege Cork have applied to CCC for permission to construct a new pedestrain bridge across the south channel of the river Lee, linking the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex on the south side of the river to the former Greyhound Race Track on the northern side.
UCC have permission to develop an Information Technology building at the Greyhound Track site. Issues of funding for this (IT building) project are still being sorted out.Does anyone know if this bridge was built as part of the IT building? And does anyone have any pictures?
@davea wrote:
Does anyone know if this bridge was built as part of the IT building? And does anyone have any pictures?
Indeed it was, not open yet but guess will be before UCC reopens in Sept.
@jungle wrote:
When is the new bridge down by the Lee Fields opening? It appears to be complete.
It’s open but not sure when it happened.
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