I was looking at it there on Google Maps this morning.
A few farmers might have to shift a few silage bales round Croom, and they might need to knock Bruree, but sure most of the line is there already. A no brainer.
However, the €185m Cork Commuter Rail service running from Mallow to Midleton via Cork City, with a ten-minute frequency, could be in place within five years.
It would be easy enough link into that.
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We’ve turned all our train lines into Greenways
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Turn roads into trainlines
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In parts of California, they’ve built trainlines up the centre of motorways. Everyone wins. We should do the same here
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Like on the Naas Road ?
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Not a motorway but yeah
This is what’s needed.
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We really just be going all in on Hyperloop. Trains are so 19th century.
Very low sun in the east there earlier. Made driving very hazardous
Monorail!
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Its quite light and ‘balanced’. As someone who travels it multiple times a week its an awful road. Particularly this time of of year with weather conditions. You see some scary stuff on it.
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Its only bad between buttevant and mallow for a small stretch.
It’s very dangerous between rathduff and the Blarney exit as well. A fast stretch of road with one lane either direction for most part with no barrier. Exits at either side which allow cars to cross the road in 100 zones… A mental stretch of road so poorly designed
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Youre right actually, the split cross on that stretch is fairly poorly designed and can be dangerous.
A lot of the problems are down to bad driving though with lads taking huge risks on the 2+1 sections
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Definitely the worst part. I also dread the mallow road where its 2 & 1 lanes with the wire splitting the sides of the road. Basically the while way from to croom there is limited places to safely overtake a slow moving vehicle. Put that woth the volume of traffic, people get very frustrated and take unnecessary chances. To put into context with no traffic in march/April 20 I was getting between Patrickswell and Blackpool just under and hour (within the limits) whereas it would take 90 mins on a normal day
Bad drivers in poorly maintained cars cause accidents, not the road.
You could hardly justify the billions this road will cost to shave 25 minutes off of a 1 hr 45m journey. Seems like madness and a vanity project all rolled into one.
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