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Public Transport Development in Regional Cities

  • 18-11-2017 9:38pm
    #1
    Stephen15
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    I was reading an article about why should develop public in cities. Light rail for Cork and Galway would perhaps be good ideas. Cork is a big enough city and plenty of similar sized across the continent have tram systems, Galway and Limerick to a lesser extent perhaps a BRT suystem would be good for those cities.

    https://fora.ie/national-planning-framework-draft-ireland-3702694-Nov2017/


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  • #2
    Jamie2k9
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    Stephen15 wrote: »
    I was reading an article about why should develop public in cities. Light rail for Cork and Galway would perhaps be good ideas. Cork is a big enough city and plenty of similar sized across the continent have tram systems, Galway and Limerick to a lesser extent perhaps a BRT suystem would be good for those cities.

    https://fora.ie/national-planning-framework-draft-ireland-3702694-Nov2017/

    Not enough volume, BRT best and most cost efficient way to go. Will be interesting to see how it goes in Belfast.


  • #3
    Evil-1
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    If Cork's expansion plan comes to fruition it would justify a light rail system in about 20 years, while that seems far off, given the scale of expansion proposed in Cork it would be a good idea to begin planning for it now, i.e making sure new developments in strategic area's leave space where a system can be built in the future, rather than just throwing stuff up everywhere and then when the time comes having to knock things down again or worse have a compromise design that has to work around obstacles.


  • #4
    Stephen15
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    Evil-1 wrote: »
    If Cork's expansion plan comes to fruition it would justify a light rail system in about 20 years, while that seems far off, given the scale of expansion proposed in Cork it would be a good idea to begin planning for it now, i.e making sure new developments in strategic area's leave space where a system can be built in the future, rather than just throwing stuff up everywhere and then when the time comes having to knock things down again or worse have a compromise design that has to work around obstacles.

    Perhaps a Luas line between Cork CC and Ballincollig always thought Ballincollig was the Swords of Cork.


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