Cork Area Commuter Rail (CACR)

Save Our Neighbourhood — Oppose the Depot Access Road, Ballyrichard

Well well, What do we have here ?

I was going to say it reads as "I don't want people passing my home".

This used to be a through-road until the Midleton Rail project, something like 2007. It's still a public road. I'm all for meeting people half way and making whatever reasonable concessions to improve the outcome but the idea that they can prevent the road from being used is a PFO from me.

With all that said, why not just go North of the houses concerned? Seems like a reasonable outcome for everyone other than the farmer of that sweet sweet farm land but it will all be developed in the long-run anyway (because of the rail line) so why not deal with it now?

In general the Co Co needs to be way more active in this specific location. They'd get a two-for-one if they lay a full new trunk road here, unlocking development land around the Depot. Not IÉ's job, obviously, so Co Co need to progress this working with IÉ. There's also some demand for Castle Rock Avenue residents to access the North of the tracks, does anyone know what's actually planned there? They were asking for an active travel bridge, but I feel a full crossing bridge might be better, unlock that land between dual carriageway and rail line, remove Castle Rock Avenue from the N25. Generally, there's serious potential in this area. Would a station immediately West of the depot be a bad idea in the long-run? It would be mid-way between Carrigtohill and Waterrock, 2km ish from both. Homes and offices are both possible here.

Also a final question, and I think it has its own thread…is the milebush interchange now a dead duck, given the amount of space needed for the depot? I prefer that tbh, I hated the idea of road-oriented development of that land.

I was on the Cork reddit page last night. There was a post about a CARC consultation in Midleton.

Same story, gangs of people from a certain age demographic opposing the upgraded railway line.

Why? It will result in traffic delays at the inter crossing in Midleton. And now I see the above about the proposed depot.

Same short sighted NIMBY people making things complicated and delaying incredible projects, that will only benefit Cork City and County. In one way I can understand people pushing back against a Luas as it will bring new tram lines to a place where none are now. But I can't understand this push back against a railway expansion,

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That's what I was thinking too yep. Seems like a no brainer to go North. Do you have the link to the options map still by any chance? I was struggling to find it

On a complete side tangent, does anyone know if anything is happening at the old chemical plant at Marino Point? It's a roughly 80-acre (30 hectare) site that could be quite a nice riverside development with a station located halfway between Fota and Carrigaloe. Just a thought, because AFAIK the chemical plant is currently derelict…?

Currently, the crossing on Mill Road closes more than three minutes before the train arrives, this is a cause of long queues on the road regularly.

Considering that the train is slowly approaching at a speed of less than 30mph, as it's less than a couple of hundred metres from its terminus, why is such an early closing in place?. Is it some kind of network fixed time period based on faster through trains?

With a ten-minute schedule, the crossing will spend the majority of its time closed to road traffic.

I'm sure the twenty people either side can wait for the 160 - 300 people on the train to go past a few minutes. The train on approach into Cork gets up to a decent speed prior to it slowing down on the final approach. While it may cross the crossing at a slower speed of 30pmh, it is doing much more prior to that point. Therefore the safety has to be allowed for that speed and not just the one at the crossing.

Don't go to Dublin 4. The gates only pop open for 60 - 90 seconds at a time at rush hour!