marno21 wrote: » The gardens along that part of the Wilton Road are enormous. If you CPO'd the whole gardens on both sides you could probably triple the width of the road.
Markcheese wrote: » Yes, it'll be change, and some disruption for those houses.. But doesn't have to be life changing,( and they will be compensated). Corks biggest challenge is going to be public transport.. As the city grows it becomes not just possible to have a better service, but essential. And while I think it should be a bus based system, (we'll be 30 years waiting for a single luas style líne), we can't just rely on the old city bus routes operated by bus Éireann,( i think Apple have had so many issues getting staff up to hollyhill that they've laid on their own bus..)
hans aus dtschl wrote: » Someone in another thread mentioned that more people in Dublin cycle their commute than use Luas, Dart and train combined. Proper cycle infrastructure can be quite cheap in comparison to public transport. It seems to me that it'd be possible to get big wins that way. At the moment though, the councils don't seem to be well equipped to design such infrastructure.
Tomtom364 wrote: » Well this is completely and utterly untrue.https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/report-shows-record-number-of-people-using-public-transport-to-commute-into-dublin-844438.html 12,447 Cycling 107,160 Public Transport
cgcsb wrote: » The City Council/NTA actually counts people entering the City Centre, which is basically an island, via the bridges. The census asks people about their commuting behavior and includes people who don't cross the canals to commute to work.
hans aus dtschl wrote: » I'm not sure if you mean Cork or Dublin but the point stands: different survey methods.
mire wrote: » The figure for public transport includes buses I presume
marno21 wrote: » A fabulous render of the Horgan's Quay development in this article: https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/railway-heritage-helps-put-horgans-quay-on-track-in-160m-city-build-37825248.html
snotboogie wrote: » Jesus really gives you an idea of the scale of the North Docks developments in relation to the rest of the city. If you included the completed Navigation Square and a Carey’s Tool development on the south docks you’d be looking at dramatic alteration to the city scape. While none of these are on a different scale to Dublin developments they have a much bigger impact on Cork due to its relatively small size.
hans aus dtschl wrote: » Looks nice. But it could be a missed opportunity to not have a covered passageway for pedestrians directly from the new Kent entrance to the quay without having to go around the building.
EdgeCase wrote: » Missed opportunity to so something about the curved intercity platforms. They're really bad in terms of the huge gap. I'm sure there must have been some possibility of straightening them out - there's loads of space and most trains actually terminate at Kent Station. It's a throwback to the days when Cobh was still a major transatlantic port and they continued through Kent Station.
leahyl wrote: » Someone said to me at the weekend that this is going to be a hotel??
who_me wrote: » I heard a multi-storey carpark. The rumour mill really has gone into overdrive.
namloc1980 wrote: » Kent is a protected structure and the curved roof in particular is pretty unique in terms of railway architecture. Straightening the platform would fundamentally alter the station.
opus wrote: » 75 extra student apartments sought for the former Coca Cola bottling plant
EdgeCase wrote: » It's pretty unique in the way it's creating huge gaps. I've two older relatives who won't use the train because of it.
no.8 wrote: » That's not what he's saying. It's a lovely building, but it's impractical on the tighter radius
namloc1980 wrote: » Not really. 99.9% of people manage just fine. Pretty sure the staff down there will set up a ramp if you ask them. I've seen that a few times.
