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Cork - Light Rail [route options idenfication and initial design underway]

marno21 · 2017-01-08 00:48:54

This was raised recently by Simon Coveney and also by Cork Chamber CEO Conor Healy: http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/dublin-and-cork-could-grind-to-halt-unless-spending-for-public-transport-is-increased-438145.html Going forward, Cork has to have some sort of light rail solution if is to continue growing. The main…

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#722 18-07-2025 11:50PM

spacetweek

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There’s not going to be a tunnel because it just isn’t needed and basically also because this is Ireland not Norway. There isn’t enough room in the constrained space for the portals and gradients and we don’t have a trillion dollars in a sovereign wealth fund. Our tunnel projects need to pass a more stringent CBA than Norway’s probably do.

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