Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien has said he hopes to sign off on an initial planning project for a Cork Luas later this year.
Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien has said he hopes to sign off on an initial planning project for a Cork Luas later this year.The Government needs to build more roads in Cork before they approve plans for a Luas in the city, Independent Ireland has said.
, Independent Ireland TD for Cork North Central Ken O’Flynn said the Government should prioritise road transport infrastructure in the county“It needs its North Link Road, it needs its Northern Ring Road, it needs its Mallow distributor road to be built. “It needs the Limerick to Cork motorway to be built - those projects haven’t been delivered by Government.”Depuyt Flynn added that the county’s poor transport infrastructure makes life incredibly difficult for many of his constituents. “If we’re to be serious about Cork being a counterbalance to Dublin - which is their plan in the 2040 Plan, that you can relieve Dublin of all the stresses of the overpopulation and overconcentration,” he said. “If they’re really going to talk about Cork and Limerick being counterbalanced cities, you have to develop the North Ring Road. “You’ve only a South Ring Road in Cork; you can’t distribute to businesses, you’ve your city centre clogged up. “Equally in Mallow, you see the Mallow distributor road hasn’t been built, which is killing off the town - I know that because I live there myself.”“I just don’t believe that an announcement of a project in a glossy brochure and a couple of photographs here and there ,” he said. “We’ve seen it in Dublin; we’re 25-years in Dublin waiting for light rail on the northside of the city. “The reality is the Government is very good at releasing all this propaganda… and then it never sees the light of day.”Man arrested following theft of JCB digger in Carlow
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