Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy

No sign of CMATS yet but a skeleton of it seems to have made it into the Draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the Southern Region:

Here are the main points:

1. Light rail: A strategic east-west public transport corridor from Mahon to Ballincollig via the City Centre, serving CIT, CUH, UCC, Kent Station, Docklands, Mahon Point. The corridor requires development consolidation along it at appropriate nodal points for a high capacity service

2. Heavy rail: Enhanced commuter rail services:
a. P&R and new station at Blarney/Stone View
b. New station for Monard SDZ
c. New station to regenerate/intensify Blackpool/Kilbarry
d. Kent Station interchange between walking/cycling/bus/light rail
e. New station at Tivoli Docks
f. P&R and new station at Dunkettle
g. Improved services to Cobh via better signalling and new bus interchange station at Ballynoe
h. Improved services to Midleton including new station at Carrigtwohill West, dual track and new station Water Rock.
i. Long term aim of services Midleton-Youghal however maintain track by constructing greenway

3. Core Bus Network: A comprehensive network of high frequency bus services providing radial services to other corridors and orbital services
across the network. Delivery of Cork BusConnects network, Core Radial Bus Network, Orbital Bus Network, Cross City Network, Supporting Radial Bus Services, Bus Priority, Regional Bus Networks and Metropolitan Town Bus Services are all key components.

4. Movement Strategy: Delivery of the Cork City Centre Movement Strategy 2018-2024

5. Walking: Make Cork the most walkable city in Ireland, implement and further develop upon the Cork City Walking Strategy 2013-2018 and strengthen the role of walking through improved walking network, district and neighbourhood walking networks, city and town centre accessibility

6. Cycling: Implement and further develop upon the Cork Metropolitan Area Cycle Network Plan 2017, improve and develop primary, secondary, greenway and feeder cycle networks and support cycling through infrastructures including cycle lanes, cycle parking, cycle hire schemes (Cork City Cycle Hire Scheme) and facilities in places of work

7. Public Transport Integration: provision for interchange opportunities together with information provision and revised fare structures;

8. Road Network Improvements: Improvements to the road network to support the sustainable growth of the metropolitan area, while also providing appropriate strategic provision for the movement of goods. Investment in the road network supports sustainable travel modes (walking, cycling, bus networks), supports strategic inter urban and inter regional freight traffic, especially between ports and airports. Improvements discourage secondary local trip and urban expansion based on road corridors. Strategic road corridors identified by separate objective

9. Other Strategic Road Priorities will include implementation of City Centre Movement Strategy, Cork Docklands and Tivoli Docks bridge
(South Docks Eastern Gateway Bridge, Mill Road) and road infrastructure (South Docks and North Docks Roads, Tivoli Access).

10. Management of freight around metropolitan Cork, enabled through Port of Cork relocation to Ringaskiddy, construction, logistics and delivery centre

11. Supporting Measures: Further measures to support the delivery of the Strategy, including parking management, Park and Ride, demand
management, mobility management, behavioural change programmes, etc

Roads: (here for show but best to discuss in Roads forum)

1. Advancing orbital traffic management solutions, through the implementation of appropriate demand management measures,
on the N40 and provision of alternative local roads, as deemed necessary. Specific measures should not be introduced in isolation, but only after due consideration of the impacts on access and movement across the city and suburbs, and progressed in parallel with the introduction of the necessary appropriate alternatives to service affected traffic movements

2. Enhanced regional connectivity through improved average journey times by road to Limerick and Waterford via proposed M20 Limerick to Cork and the targeted enhancement of the N25 between Cork and Waterford

3. Improved connectivity from Cork City to Cork Airport (including dedicated public transport corridor)

4. Dunkettle Interchange

5. Cork Northern Ring Road connecting the N22 to the M8 (identified in the NDP as a complementary scheme to the M20).

6. Cork Northern Distributor Road

7. Access to Monard SDZ

8. Cork City Docks and Tivoli Bridge and Street Infrastructure (including Eastern Gateway Bridge) Cork Docklands infrastructure is a key enabler for Cork under the NPF

9. Improved N22, N25, N27, N71 Inter Regional and Intra Regional corridors.

10. Upgrade of the R624 Regional Road Linking N25 to Marino Point
and Cobh

11. Upgrade of the R630 Regional Road linking Midleton to Whitegate Road (Energy Hub).

12. Cork Science and Innovation Park Access (a key enabler for Cork under the NPF)

13. Transport packages including road upgrades, relief roads, enhanced public realm, walking and cycling infrastructure for metropolitan towns and urban expansion areas.

14. North East Orbital Road (access for residential lands and public transport infrastructure Ballyvolane

15. Advancing transport study measures for Little Island.

https://www.southernassembly.ie/uploads/general-files/Draft_RSES_2018_-_WEB.pdf

namloc1980 wrote: »

This still on the long finger? Another month passes by without any sign of the report being published.

Shane Ross said "shortly" last week.

Best to assume September and take any early release as a bonus.