At our Cork City Council meeting earlier this week the Manager was questioned on the City’s preparedness for the cold winter conditions In his report, the City Manager outlined that the Roads Department currently has 130 tonnes of salt in stock and this will be supplemented in the coming weeks. There are also sufficient supplies [...]
Cork City Council recently launched a video service on their website. This service is commencing with ‘live’ video from the Jack Lynch Tunnel traffic cameras. The link streams a live video of the traffic entering and exiting the tunnel at the Dunkettle Road Roundabout side. See it for yourself! http://corkcity.ie/video/jacklynchtunnel/
Over the summer months, it was mentioned to me about the possibility of making the Marina area traffic free at the weekends. I subsequently put down the following motion to council, so that the idea could be explored further: “That Cork City Council would run a
Under an EU funded transportation project, the Traffic Division in City Hall, has recently received support to encourage behavioural change in the way children travel to school, especially in encouraging both parents and children to travel to school in modes other than the private car. Success in such an endeavour would lead to reduced traffic [...]
Over the last number of months, I have received a number of queries and complaints over the condition of St Patrick’s Bridge, following an accident there some time ago. At this weeks Council meeting (13/09/2010) we received an update from the City Manager, Tim Lucey, on the matter. His reply is detailed below:
The GAA wish to redevelop and upgrade Pairc Ui Chaoimh to a 50,000 seater stadium and the development of a Centre of Excellence which would share stadium facilities including gymnasium, medical room, dining facilities and changing rooms. In order for this redevelopment to go
Programme dates for both the design and construction phases of the N25 Bandon/Sarsfield Project have now been established and may be summarised as follows: • The specimen design for the scheme will be completed before the end of this month. • Expressions of interest have already been invited from contractors for the
The Marshalled Taxi Rank, a Cork City Cares initiative, now operates on Friday and Saturday nights between Midnight and 3.00 a.m. on St. Patrick Street (beside Brown Thomas); this new city centre Marshalled Taxi Rank provides a monitored and serviced taxi rank for the security and comfort of Cork city centre night‐time patrons. The Rank is marshalled by security staff and monitored by An Garda Síochána [...]
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