I’m in Dublin every Monday with work. Booked my train tickets for the next 2 months. Same seat up and back each time. This makes me immeasurably happy.
https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2024/0524/1450928-rail-stations-cork/ some progress at last on commuter stations in Cork.
Here we go folks, open the popcorn as Volunteer Sound_y was complaining only on Monday last that Cork gets "Nada,Nilch" until it was pointed out to him yet again that hundreds of millions of €€€ was already on site in Cork as phase 01 was under construction (Sound_y wanted phase 02 constructed first even though phase 01 has to facilitate phase 02) and the funding locked-in from State and E.U.Delighted that there has been "some progress" but on reading the article it isn't quite as rosy as Statty will want to spin it
"Iarnród Éireann is to announce the appointment of consultants to oversee the construction of eight new commuter rail stations to the northwest and east of Cork city.
Contracts have also been awarded by the rail company for the appointment of consultants for the electrification of the Cork commuter network and for the provision of a new maintenance depot for an electrified fleet of up to 150 carriages.
The work will involve the construction of six new commuter rail stations at Monard, Blackpool, Tivoli, Carrigtwohill West, Waterrock and Ballynoe, and the construction of two park-and-ride commuter rail stations at Blarney and Dunkettle.
Iarnród Éireann said it anticipates the work will be completed by 2030, subject to the granting of planning permission and the allocation of funding."
This is yet another pre-election announcement of what may happen in the future. Alas we've seen before that while much is promised what actually materialises can be anything, even just a photograph of a sod-turning with some candidates front and centre. Hopefully this will all come to fruition, but I must say I'm surprised that while there is to be a station in Monard - which despite ambitious plans for a new village/town centre around the country cross-roads currently has a large railway siding but about a twenty houses in total, yet there's going to be nothing in Grenagh which already has hundreds of houses in new estates nestled around a pre-existing village with pub, church, supermarket, petrol station, pitch etc
We've been getting glossy brochures and announcements from on high for over two decades and more on the development of a commuter rail between Mallow and Cork and to date not a single station has been re-opened along that line. Now we are told that it'll all be completed in 6 years. Let's just say I'll believe it when I see it.
Funding won’t be an issue. With climate change targets you’re going to see big investment in public transport in Cork and Dublin and Limerick also. It’s not the scale of Dublin metro so I’d be optimistic this will be done in the next decade.Delighted that there has been "some progress" but on reading the article it isn't quite as rosy as Statty will want to spin it
"Iarnród Éireann is to announce the appointment of consultants to oversee the construction of eight new commuter rail stations to the northwest and east of Cork city.
Contracts have also been awarded by the rail company for the appointment of consultants for the electrification of the Cork commuter network and for the provision of a new maintenance depot for an electrified fleet of up to 150 carriages.
The work will involve the construction of six new commuter rail stations at Monard, Blackpool, Tivoli, Carrigtwohill West, Waterrock and Ballynoe, and the construction of two park-and-ride commuter rail stations at Blarney and Dunkettle.
Iarnród Éireann said it anticipates the work will be completed by 2030, subject to the granting of planning permission and the allocation of funding."
This is yet another pre-election announcement of what may happen in the future. Alas we've seen before that while much is promised what actually materialises can be anything, even just a photograph of a sod-turning with some candidates front and centre. Hopefully this will all come to fruition, but I must say I'm surprised that while there is to be a station in Monard - which despite ambitious plans for a new village/town centre around the country cross-roads currently has a large railway siding but about a twenty houses in total, yet there's going to be nothing in Grenagh which already has hundreds of houses in new estates nestled around a pre-existing village with pub, church, supermarket, petrol station, pitch etc
We've been getting glossy brochures and announcements from on high for over two decades and more on the development of a commuter rail between Mallow and Cork and to date not a single station has been re-opened along that line. Now we are told that it'll all be completed in 6 years. Let's just say I'll believe it when I see it.
Dublin Metro will be mired in all sorts of issues for years if it ever even happens at all.Funding won’t be an issue. With climate change targets you’re going to see big investment in public transport in Cork and Dublin and Limerick also. It’s not the scale of Dublin metro so I’d be optimistic this will be done in the next decade.
My understanding of that is it’s the capacity of the line. With two park and rides on the line it’s feasible for a very regular service. Little Island and Glounthaune currently have trains in both directions every 15 minutes.is this a joke.?
Trains running every 6 minutes as fas as Glaunthaune. More frequent that the bus to Bishopstown which has 2 universities and a major hospital on its line.
Funding won’t be an issue. With climate change targets you’re going to see big investment in public transport in Cork and Dublin and Limerick also. It’s not the scale of Dublin metro so I’d be optimistic this will be done in the next decade.
Exactly. As the main infrastructure is there this is an easy win for the government parties especially the Greens. They’ll drive on now I think. I would expect once this is done that driving into the city centre will be discouraged if not made prohibitive.I hope you're right CC - but there have been so many false dawns on this before it's hard not to be cynical that it's just another pre-election promise.
I see you're optimistic it'll be done in the next decade - so you're not taken in by the "the work will be completed by 2030" either.
Fingers crossed this gets done properly and promptly. Cork has been kept waiting for far too long for something that should be a no-brainer. The main infrastructure is there already and had been for decades. Reopening stations shouldn't have taken decades to complete, especially given that DART has been on the go for over 40 years, and LUAS for 20.
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