No she mostly does the weekend shopping which is over the 50 quid limit thready.She can take cash out of an atm and can't tap a card at a terminal? Ah okay
No she mostly does the weekend shopping which is over the 50 quid limit thready.She can take cash out of an atm and can't tap a card at a terminal? Ah okay
You should tell her so that she can put her card in to the terminal and enter her pin, same as an atm.No she mostly does the weekend shopping which is over the 50 quid limit thready.
All this talk about the city dying due to lack of parking etc dont get it. Go to any European city and who goes to the city center to do their weekly shop not a lot...Most European cities have just as much out of town mega shopping centers if not more than us where families go to stock up just like every society nowadays.Most of the streets pedestrianised since Princes St North was made traffic free in the early 1970's had traffic and parking.
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Apart from the local area development plans, planning applications, public consultations with the public, stakeholders, businesses, Gardai, Fire Department, Councilors, politicians at local and national level you are right of course.
The fossil fuel age is ending and we are not in Kansas anymore and we have public transport options, active travel, on street car parking, surface level car parks, train, park & ride, taxis as well as park and ride all day for €5.
Cork """city""" centre right now is at about 1/4 full with vape stores as a second city in Ireland. That tells you about as much as you need to know. Not hating I used to like the city during my time in college about 16 years ago.All this talk about the city dying due to lack of parking etc dont get it. Go to any European city and who goes to the city center to do their weekly shop not a lot...Most European cities have just as much out of town mega shopping centers if not more than us where families go to stock up just like every society nowadays.
Difference is we followed the UK model and gutted the cities of old inner city communities but in Europe many cities still have a decent population mostly singletons, small families that necessitate a certain amount of city center shopping if not a lot.
With a lack of scumbags in tracksuits and good transport system its the eating and entertainment that is the big European City Center draw these days not the family shop. Until we sort of the scum and the transport who in the hell would go into town on a Saturday night unless your a teeny bopper.
Most cities were built in river plains and marshes etc. and prone to flooding (Paris,Prague,London,Dublin etc) and flood mitigation measures with quay walls etc built over the centuries.Most of the European Cities I have seen are flat with much drier weather than Cork. Corcach does mean BOG! They have people living on all stories of the buildings, unlike Cork CC which has nada above the ground floor. They have local Butchers, Bakers, Fishmongers, Vegetable and Fruit shops, on every block. They shop daily, socially.
The doughnut effect is often used in the context of cities, especially in developed nations such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. But just like the actual doughnut is different depending whether you are eating it in Britain or the US, the doughnut effect has grown to have a slightly different meaning, depending on the city.
The definition of the doughnut effect
The doughnut effect refers to a development where the city centre becomes more hollow or empty, as businesses and people move into the outskirt of the city. This is the most commonly used definition of the doughnut effect, with cities like Houston in the US being a prime example of a doughnut effect.
The effect was first discussed in the 1960s, as the changing society meant changes in city structure. As cities develop and grow, the inner parts of the city become extremely crowded. Finding affordable and larger housing becomes a challenge and the population often starts to move towards the outer skirts of the city. As the population becomes more concentrated to the outskirts of the city, businesses often tend to follow. This creates the doughnut effect: concentrating the population and the businesses as a ring around the big city while leaving the centre of the city empty.
Dan as per usual rattled out of his thin skin by real world data and facts.Lol, Stacky repeating the same old shite.
Offering comparison with cities that have light rail networks and/or tram systems.
Through placing significant cycle infrastructure throughout the city and removing hundreds of parking spaces and dozens of loading bays they've made town an increasingly inconvenient place to visit and do business in.
The proof is in the steady stream of businesses shutting every single month. Keep howling at the moon, 'Im right, right' with accompanying Echo articles and glossy brochure pullouts. It doesn't make you any less wrong.
'Oh you want to park outside Keanes like its 1970', 'the truth is a bitter pill to swallow', you're repeating this tripe with years.
Cork is wrecked. It is only going to get worse as they create even more choke points throughout the city. Summerhil North, The Northgate Bridge, Leitrim Street, South Main Street, all fucked for traffic. The list continues to grow.
Keep tilting at windmills saying otherwise. Pure nonsense.
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