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“We’d be shortly arriving in Dublin, earlier than expected.“
The train driver was probobly so SHOCKED at this that he just had to tell people. I dont blame him. Its a rare thing on Cork – Dublin….
Bloody idiots. Stupid, useless idiots.
First thing they need to do is say to hell with the carpark and rebuild the station, before the whole thing falls down.
Look at the ceiling next time you’re waiting for a train and you’ll see what I mean.
No, the lowering of the speed limit is because since the Primary Route, the N8, is now not passing through the town, that road has now been reclassed as an R road. So a lower speed limit. Simple as that.
Far as I know (think I mentioned it a page back), Fermoy and the M7/M8 interchange (when its built) are the two tolls going to be on the road. Two too many, of course.
@Pug wrote:
He said it would be of great benefit to workers from Glanmire, one of Cork’s biggest suburbs. “There will be a half-hourly peak-time service from the Dunkettle station which will mean that people from Glanmire will be able to use the park-and-ride and take the train to either Cork City, Carrigtwohill, Cobh or Midleton, where a lot of them work already. It will take a lot of people off the roads,†Cllr Gilroy said.
No it wont, those people will clog up the roads DRIVING TO THE PARK AND RIDE.
Any other country would have, say a free bus going from Glanmire to the P&R. Not here, you’ll have to drive to the bloody thing.
The other two options were SO MUCH BETTER. What the hell were they thinking.
Money MUST have changed hands here, what a dumb decision.
Idiots. Absolute, complete, idiots.
1) Putting a P&R facility at the main intersection between the N8 and N25. The traffic is bad there already. With this, the P&R, the 700 houses to be built on the green space in the left of the picture, the NORTH RING ROAD and we have a disaster waiting to happen.
2) Long term plans to freeflow that roundabout. How the hell are they going to put slips in with a dirty great facility there?
I really wonder sometimes what these people are smoking.
A far better thing would be to buy part of the car storage plant near the Glanmire roundabout. Traffic not so bad, its not built at a bloody BOTTLENECK and the carpark facility is almost there already. Solving the railway line crossing wouldnt be too bad either.
Some idiots in the planning office though, jeez.
Ballincollig bypass yes, definatly. Cork – Carrigtwohill proboboly. Carrigtwohill – Midleton no chance.
Watergrasshill possibly.
Basicially if its HQDC (High quality Dual) then probobly yes. If its SDC (Standard Dual), no.
90% of new DC is HQDC tho.
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.
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 🙁
@wearnicehats wrote:
I don’t really have any strong opinion on the Jurys development but I have been doing a lot of trawling of Archiseek since joining up. I’ve decided now that, when anyone – on any thread – posts a subjective response, I’m going to ask why, if only to see if they actually have any design nouse or are just a big gob.
So……why?
It looks to me like a tower block on its side. Jurys has to the the most boring, unoriginal design that I have seen in Cork so far. Aside from that, it just plain looks bad.
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.
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.
@A-ha wrote:
I was thinking the other day about the sale of Roches to Debenhams. I was wondering does anybody know will the supermarkets in Roches that are currently run by SuperValu be affected? Will they carry on as usual or are we to expect them to be taken over by another supermarket. I remember alot of talk a few years ago when Roches wanted to leave the food retailing sector. M&S took over some, SuperValu took over others, but word was that both Sainsburys and Superquinn were in the bid for them. What will happen to the existing stores and when can we expect Roches to close down in Cork?
A lot of people are worried about the Toilet scenario now. Face it, everyone that is in Cork goes for a piss in Roches. Noone uses the Tesco ones on Paul Street cos you have to pay. The public ones next to the Lee are too scary to go in.
So whats going to happen when the Roches ones get closed? Theres gonna be a lot of people wetting themselves.
Its a pity they’re taking down those old buildings. Sure, they are ugly as they are, but the designs on them would have been quite nice if restored.
Any pics of the new place, or are we just gonna get another generic mostly-glass-front-Clarion-style hotel?
