Cork - BusConnects

Unfortunately he is a reflection of a lot of his constituents, especially those in his age bracket. This will play well for him.

Submissions on the latest round of consultation have started showing on the nta site now, https://consult.nationaltransport.ie/en/consultation/busconnects-cork-sustainable-transport-corridors-preferred-route-option-public-consultation-round-2

More of the same to be honest, no one wants anything to change anywhere, especially not anywhere in their own area.

It is depressing reading.

So, so depressing. Trying to get any sort of improvement in Cork is a massive uphill battle. People love to complain about Cork, but when push comes to shove, nobody wants anything that might affect them in the slightest to change.

Lots of the submissions follow a fairly set template:

• I drive everywhere, and I think you'll be making traffic worse.
• Also, you're removing some parking, and I don't want that because I sometimes park my car there.
• People will drive faster and/or use rat runs through estates.
• Antisocial behavior will happen because reasons.
• I can't use public transport because [insert excuse here]

Crikey, just had a read of the Maryborough hill submissions, an absolute NIMBY whingefest.

I read the rest of the south side submissions. The Maryborough ones were by far the worst of the lot, the other areas were somewhat more balanced.

Wierd how this nimby states with 100% confidence what the precise impacts on traffic and travel will be. The most advanced traffic modelling programmes in the world could not offer you this level of certainty.

Did he submit a methodology section? How were these conclusions derived and were the results presented to the NTA? perhaps they could better calibrate their models based on his calcs ?

BC will be watered down to being as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike which sadly is the preferential Irish way. Cork is rotten from traffic and I frankly think it's the peoples fault, as any plans to fix problems are seen as a threat that has to be countered. Backward people. The sooner we have people of migrant background in positions of power the better.

There was a cork beo ( i know not the height of journalistic prowess ) article a few weeks back that reported on an overturned car on summerhill south ,

,most of article was giving out about bus connects , pretty much Blamed bus connects for the crash , didn't mention that this is a proposed traffic change ..

Another round of consultation in the works to further water down the proposals. And this is long before we get to any sort of planning process and the inevitable objections etc.

Totally agree, just pull the plug until they are prepared to make some hard decisions and do it properly. Anything else at this point is throwing good money after bad

Removal of parking for residents in the inner city is going to be a real bone of contention: these are not high-income neighbourhoods, and people living there won’t have bought a car unless they needed one. Those cars won’t just vanish just because the City Council has decided that people can’t park anywhere anymore.

Bus lanes dropped in favour of right turn lanes for private cars.. bus gates removed..

Why even bother. This is depressing stuff.

€200m Bus Connects getting watered down.

€280m bypass for Macroom opened today, will save 17 minutes for those travelling by private car.

It's clear to see where priorities lie - with the NIMBYs and private cars vs public transport and sustainable options.

We have no hope of meeting 2030 climate targets.

Ballincollig Main Street is actually laughable. Street parking retained (despite there being literally thousands of off street car spaces within a few metres of the Main Street) in the latest plans now and the priority bus gates have disappeared.

It's literally the status quo with a couple of narrow bike lanes thrown in. There's a serious NIMBY element out in Ballincollig who seem to get whatever they want - see the recent scrapping of the cycleway out there. Ballincollig is destined to remain a car clogged hole.

I saw online that there's a very vocal anti cycle lane councillor who owns some sort of car or tyre business. Clearly he's using his position in a very unethical manner. But they seem to be very anti cycling there anyway.

These are changes to facilitate the new network which is due to start being implemented next year.

There have been similar changes made in Dublin to facilitate the different phases so far as needed.