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@ewankennedy wrote:
Thought the one at the top od Shando street was Saint Marys and Annes??
Oh well…either way. 🙂
You’re right. That is its full title.
Just a very minor correction.
The church pictured is St Mary’s Dominican Church on Pope’s Quay. St Mary’s Cathedral is the church at the top of Shandon St.
@Aidan wrote:
Is there intended to be a commuter rail stop in Blackpool? I know it’ll be in the railway order wherever that will be published, but has any locationed been mentioned to date?
A location for the future Kilbarry station is shown in the second map in this document
http://www.corkcorp.ie/ourservices/roads/pdf/urban_renewal_pg3_8.pdf
If the Water St. appeal is successful, is it the original or the revised proposals that would be built? To my mind the original was better.
I agree with some of his points. The Lavitt’s Quay development does over-dominate the quayside. However, that may change as further development goes onto that quay. Also, Merchant’s Quay and Mahon Point are legitimate targets. I don’t agree about Lapp’s Quay, which is a development that I quite like*.
When he refers to a development in Adelaide St, does he mean Academy St? I haven’t heard of any upcoming developments on Adelaide St.
*I am worried about the timber facade. Looking at the apartment block by Bishopstown Shopping Centre (one of the first in the city to have timber on the facade), it’s clear that this finish doesn’t last fantastically well in Cork’s climate.
Is the new kiosk-like structure that appeared next to the busman’s prefab yesterday its permanent replacement or something totally unrelated?
@Radioactiveman wrote:
Finally, it looks as if CCC have finally gotten around to cleaning the quay walls in the city centre- a job which has needed tackling for years. Workers are on site on Pope’s Quay, adjacent to North Gate Bridge. The small piece they’ve already completed looks great- all shiny and new 🙂
And while they’re at it, could they remove the horrible orange paint they’ve put near the ladders. If anyone other than the city council had done it, it would have been criticised as an act of vandalism.
I know it’s supposed to be some kind of safety measure, but there are a few things I have to ask
- How many other cities have felt the need to do this? I’ve never seen it anywhere else
- How many lives have been saved by it?
- Wouldn’t it have been better to paint the ladders rather than the quay walls?
The Cork Airport website states 3 million, so I’ll accept that figure. However, it doesn’t alter the fact that the airport will exceed it’s designed capacity within a couple of year of opening. Indeed, if the rumours of both Ryanair and Aer Lingus increasing their presence at Cork Airport next year are true, 2006 could even be the year that it happens.
As regards the old terminal. I understand that an environmental impact assessment was not required for the new terminal because the old one was closing. If the old one were to be reopened, a full environmental impact assessment would be required.
Incidentally, I can’t imagine that Ryanair will operate the old terminal. They have a simple business plan that they operate effectively. Running a terminal is not part of that plan. I could imagine it being operated by someone other than CAA for Ryanair (or more likely LoCos in general), but just not Ryanair.
One issue I have with the new airport terminal is that it was designed for 2.5 million passengers. The airport is already at that level.
@Leesider wrote:
still a damn sight better than the quay accross the way with the metropole!! how long are we going to have to wait for something to be done there?
And not a patch on the Kyrl’s Quay Car Park/North Main St Shopping Centre river frontage.
@corcaighboy wrote:
:rolleyes: “Commuter rail connections will be reopened between the capital and Meath, between Cork and Midleton, and Galway and Ennis”
The government must have announced the reopening of the Cork-Midleton rail line a dozen times already. They are serial announcers….an election must be on the way!
They’ve announced it on numerous occasions, but they still haven’t provided any funding. Next week’s bill should do that.
Do you have a list of councillors who voted for or against?
I think some emails are in order, but I don’t want to hassle any who voted against.
@A-ha wrote:
When is Harvey Norman due to open? I can’t imagine them taking much longer. I heard Hickeys are closing down six of it’s stores in Cork due to the increased competition from B&Q and Atlantic Homecare. It should free up some city centre retail space, maybe even room for redevelopment, interesting to see how things will turn out, although I am sorry to see the company come to an end.
Where are Hickey’s stores?
Douglas SC, Oliver Plunkett St/Maylor St, Savoy SC, Ballyvolane SC…
Is that the company closing down or are they just shutting unprofitable stores?
@corcaighboy wrote:
Finally, an American friend recently flew into Cork, hired a car, and all was going swimmingly till they hit ‘The Magic Roundabout’. He called it the ‘the gates of hell’ but survived to tell the tale. I pity anyone, local or visitor, who has to navigate that. Surely it is the worst road design in Ireland.
Do you know I find the one at Bishopstown Court worse. If you’re going from Bandon towards Douglas and go in the indicated lane, you end up going back to Bandon…
As regards the aviation issue. Aer Lingus were the first airline on a number of their routes out of Cork – London, Paris, Amsterdam, Faro/Warsaw, Munich and Malaga.
Aside from the business-model problems associated with JetMagic, they were simply woefully undercapitalised. They would have needed twice their capital level to keep their business going until they were hitting sustainability.
@Leesider wrote:
Excuse my ignorance here Lex but why do you think that Aer Arann don’t get it??………..presume you think there is potnetial for both of them to operate on the service??
IMO they don’t get it because they are giving up the one competitive advantage they have over Ryanair – their frequency. Sure, they probably had to scale back, but their flight timings aren’t going to pick up much business traffic now. They’d have been as well off pulling off the route as going back to 3 flights a day.
In an area not too far from Victoria Cross… What is happening at Carmelite Terrace? I noticed all the houses have boarded up windows, so I’m guessing that some developer has got his hands on the lot of them and is planning something for the site.
Carmelite Terrace is the terrace of houses between the Mardyke athletics track and the former greyhound stadium.
I have a feeling that Ryanair’s interest in Cork Airport is to put the wind up the DAA about the new terminal in Dublin.
As mentioned by Angry Rebel they’d need a deal similar to the one at Shannon. Even then it is doubtful. From a business perspective, could Ryanair justify 2 bases in Munster? I doubt it, so the deal would have to be so good that they would close the Shannon base. Remember that Shannon can afford to cross-subsidise because of the fees it gets from the stopover. In those circumstances could Cork even consider offering such a deal.
Any chance they’ll let us buy a newspaper after we’ve gone through security, or is that too much to ask?
Guys->I don’t know what was even said in these posts, but can we stop, it doesn’t benefit the thread at all.
I was just reading lexington’s post there about new offices off the Skehard Rd. in Blackrock. Going down the Skehard Rd. over the weekend I saw another new development describing itself as being in Blackrock.
Is it just me or does anyone else have a problem with the renaming of areas. Skehard Rd is in Mahon. At a push you could describe it as being in Beaumont or Ballinlough, but there is no way it is in Blackrock. Similarly, we have seen areas of Togher drift into being in Wilton or Glasheen and an area called Doughcloyne, which as far as I’m aware only existed as the name of a pub 20 years ago.
In Dublin the same thing has happened with the disappearance of areas like Irishtown.
Does anyone else think that there should be a requirement to use the actual address for developments? Presumably, they have a correct postal address.
@Radioactiveman wrote:
I think you’re confusing the AIB Bank with the Bank of Ireland nearby- this was refurbished about 3 years ago.
My mistake. You are correct.
My excuse is that I bank with Ulster Bank and don’t need to know which is which 😀
