Railway lines

whisky_galore

savagethegoat wrote: »

I don't think Kinsale was ever down at heel. It's always been a popular spot for the hoi polloi! The rail line closed in the thirties I believe.

Once it was a rough spot for hard drinking fishermen rather than yachties, swathes of West Cork were neglected and deprived before being made-over and gentrified. The gourmet food marketing thing only kicked off in the 1970s.

dowlingm

In a country with a need to emerge from a housing crisis, a seaside town with some brownfield sites might be kickstarted with suitably dense and walkable development. The key with the buses in my view would be to continue to allow Cork-Waterford express bus service to compete with rail at current levels - none of the games played with Limerick-Galway rail service launched - but to reorient local bus service away from city centre service and instead to act as a transfer to/from express bus and rail and also to operate through the tunnel to Cork Airport/CIT/CUH/Mahon without forcing east Cork people into the city centre and back out again. But that would involve planning and coordination instead of State services under the same corporate umbrella cutting hunks out of each other, and people in Dublin might get very uncomfortable with that.

Pete2k

Noticed today that the original siding in ballyhaunis is being lifted tho a new one has since been laid in the opposite direction.