THE_Chris
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Its the manhole covers. They keep breaking and the concrete around them needs replacing every few months.
Believe it or not, Im not joking about this.
kite wrote:🙁 Apologies for going off topic but the loss of Roches Stores started me thinking what was lost to Cork over the years, and what replaced same.
My top five would be]THE LOBBY BAR
@Pug wrote:
Just to deviate the thread slightly
Any thoughts on Kinsale roundabout? certainly struggling at the moment but to be fair lanes are closed and resurfacing is taking place. I havent driven it yet so am only going on hearsay but the freshly re laned roundabout I am told is worse than the last one.But I am willing to wait and see. I still wont take it in the morning to go in to the city until they finish it fully!
Drove it today. They’ve gotten rid of some traffic lights there, but the big problem is theres a lane closed near the linkup that comes from Cork. It’ll get better once they have it all sorted.
But the flyover is a big, big help. Will be interesting though to see how quickly the tunnel snarls up once the schools go back.
@A-ha wrote:
Does anyone know anything about that Water Taxi service that was planned? I haven’t heard anything about it in ages. Maybe they abandoned the plan? :confused:
Abandoned as far as I know, due to exhorbitant insurance prices and a 9kmh speed limit in the river.
@a boyle wrote:
that is exactly why i butted into this thread. you cant have it all . not now anyway. over twenty/thirty years sure.
That is why you need to step back look at what you have built , see what impact it has had , and decide what to do next.
Thats partly what I was saying though. I wouldnt build the north ring, bit of a waste IMO, but I’d invest in light rail.
Those roundabouts have to be sorted though. Sarsfield, Bandon Rd and Dunkettle all have to be fixed, no matter what way you look at it.
Sure, they should have been built right in the first place, but this is Ireland.
Light rail is VERY expensive though. €50 mil to fix Kinsale Rd, about €90mil to fix the other two. Then say €60 mil to fix up Dunkettle. Thats €200mil.
Dublins LUAS cost about €750mil. Even if you only built one line, it would cost Cork say €350mil.
The €200mil to sort the roundabouts is a MUCH better investment right now IMO. Do them, then do light rail, then do the North Ring. But doing Light Rail IN CORK CITY would not be as much benefit as fixing up ACCESS TO Cork city for the huge number of commuters, which is what fixing the roundabouts will do.
I fully agree that light rail is needed pretty urgently, but sorting the 3 remaining roundabouts is even more urgent, I think.
and maybe those dedicated bus lanes wouldnt be full of wankers who park in it a la McCurtain street.
All cars that park in bus lanes should be towed.
We need it all really.
Cork needs those other 2 flyovers done. It also needs the patchwork of Dunkettle sorted out, and possibly the north ring, but not quite yet for that.
The Bus service needs a compete and utter overhaul.
We need a LUAS type system, running from the train station, to the bus station, down Patricks Street, out to UCC, to CIT and other spurs as needed.
By the way, the M7/M8 interchange near Portlaoise will be 120kmh motorway. The N8 dual carriageways being built will not be motorway officially, but will probobly be 120kmh under the new rules. Its just a change of label for the farmers, as they cant drive on motorways.
Yes its totally stupid, but it makes little difference in the end.
You know that would look at lot better if it wasnt for the silly change of angle in the glass 3 floors from the top.
The at-grade junctions are due to be replaced with flyovers within 5 years as far as I know. That said, theres still a lot of local access so I doubt that section will be motorway anytime soon.
It’ll be a moot point if they upgrade to 120kmh, but I cant see them doing that to the Carrigtwohill-Midleton stretch,
Id rather they build a new road somewhere else though than upgrade that. Its passable at the moment, but I’d rather a more needy town is bypassed than a fairly ok DC upgraded.
Its just as crazy in Cobh.
Half of Cobh island is controlled by Cobh Town Council. The other half by GLANMIRE of all places.
Its silly, and of course theres constant fights to get things done. Its an example where common sense needs to be brought in for the greater good.
That would probobly count, but with the roundabouts there isnt much point. Maybe after they’re all done (including freeflow Dunkettle) it might be worth reclassifying it. But I reckon it would make more sense to reclassify N8, N25 etc, where speeds of 120kmh might be sustainable, unlike a potentially Dublin-M50-esque South Ring 🙂
@a boyle wrote:
which ones ?
Cork – Carrigtwohill is built to motorway standard as far as I am aware. I know thats not much, but its something 😀
Thanks. Yeah we looked into flying to Prague or to Linz in Austria. Linz was terribly expensive. Prague was cheap enough but there are issues with hire cars between Germany and Czech.
Connecting flights are probobly the best way to go, yeah. Still quite expensive though 🙁 Munich was a great link, and everytime I used it it was full. Cant imagine why they got rid of it.
By the way, does anyone else want to strangle the idiots closing off one half of the tunnel for 3 weeks?
@jungle wrote:
Milan was ditched a while ago. Faro was off the Winter timetable, but came back for the summer. Nice stops at the end of next October, but again that may be a Winter/Summer thing.
Munich was cancelled awhile back. Bloody madenning, it was so useful. Now it involves doing a trip to DUBLIN, no thanks, or going Kerry – Frankfurt Hahn and driving on the Autobahn for 7 hours.
