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CORK COUNTY COUNCIL has launched a new parking initiative designed to help older people get around the county more easily.
The new plan will see many parking bays designated as ‘age friendly’ spots – similar to mother and child parking bays seen in many supermarkets around the country.
The council has said that the spots are subject to normal parking fees but it hopes that motorists will leave them free as a courtesy to older people in the community.
The spots have been located in areas close to supermarkets, credit unions, banks and other areas regularly used by older people.
Cork council, along with the towns of Bandon, Cobh, Mitchelstown and Kinsale, has started to implement the parking spaces in town centres in consultation with the local communities.
In Cobh, there are two new spaces on West Beach, identified by a sign post (pictured above).
A statement from the council read: “Cork County Council, through the Age Friendly Alliance and the Great Island Community Forum in Cobh, is committed to improving the lives of older people in the county.
“Age friendly parking spaces are courtesy spaces (similar to parent and baby spaces) and are subject to the normal parking fees in Cobh. The public is being asked to respect these spaces and leave them free for older people to use.
“The Great Island Community Forum hope that all drivers in Cobh will get on board with this new initiative to make Cobh a more age friendly and supportive place to live and visit.”
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Underground is the way to go in the cities, should have started it years ago instead of the luas, not to late, start it next
@Mick Hannigan: it is but it does take decades to build
Meanwhile irelands four other cities of waterford cork limerick galway are connected by boreen roads from over hundred years ago.dublin gets everything as usual
@speedy: Yet Dublin is still larger than those 4 combined. What’s your problem? Dublin needs the investment more.
@Sean Walsh: stop talking bull.waterford city and south east region alone is 600k.
@speedy: but they’ve spent 20c putting down stone chip dressing on those boreens. When you take into account dublins far greater population that the equivalent of €2b. Obviously yet more money needs to spent within The Pale. Next they’ll be taking water from the west. Oh they are
@speedy: simple move to Dublin They even play GAA
@speedy: so has Tallagh
@Anthony Doyle: Gaelic football haha is for wussies,come down here and we teach yeah a bit of hurling
Freedom of movement will be the undoing of the EU. Massive population shifts from poor countries to richer ones is a recipe for disaster.
@edward: Seems to me that rich countries have been benefiting from such movement for decades if not centuries. Ultimately people go where the work is and is far as I’m concerned anyone who wants to contribute to society to the benefit of themselves and others should be welcomed
@edward: We’re arguably the country that’s benefited most from freedom of movement and immigration over the years. It wasn’t so long ago that we were the ‘poor’ country that people were trying to get away from. But I’m guessing it just people from other countries doing it that upsets you… you’ve just got that vibe about you. .
@Brendan Heery: How have we benefitted? All this mass immigration has done, is lower wages and increased house prices.
@edward: Economy movement is inevitable and unstoppable. The only way to make it net zero is to equalise economies.
The Shinkansen are Japan’s gleaming symbol of technological development.
The Shinkansen are bullet trains that connect cities throughout Japan with top speeds in excess of 320kph.
It is also one of the safest means of transportation, one of the few transit systems in the world that can boast of having no fatal accidents.
Planning for the bullet train system began in late 1930s, Inauguration in 1964.
Ireland is still in the dark ages with our old rail transport system or lack of any throughout a much smaller Island in 2021.
We can do so much better if we just plan ahead & think a little bigger
(but still implement all necessary bid contract precautions/protections to ensure the tax payer public isn’t ripped off by private companies after making low bids to secure projects) .
@Mentis Green: bullet train’s you’re on about
Half the people in Ireland wouldn’t train for a game of 25’s
@Mentis Green: our population is small and our rural housing model is scattered, so empty trains costing 40 or 50 euro per passenger journey in subsidy aren’t the answer in many cases. Rail has a key role in moving people in large urban areas, and between the capital and a few larger cities, but buses are generally more efficient and greener.
@John Mulligan: Crap way to travel tho, if your going to be on the same road you would be in except surrounded by people I don’t see how anyone wants that downgrade? don’t try to lower the bar, raise it. Bullet train 100%
BUSEIEANN HAS JUST STOPPED THE GALWAY DUBLIN 20 AND 20X SERVICE AND HANDED IT OVER TO A PRIVATE OPERATOR WHAT A JOKE WHERE IS RYAN NOW HIDING UNERD LEO COAT I GUESS
So in other words, no EU money for the Cork to Limerick motorway in this decade?
Let’s hope they will get funding for the navan rail line even if this generation does not fully use it the following generations will I hope and appreciate it
A little island off the coast of Europe, and considering Europe’s relentlessness
in pursuing and trying to obstruct out sovereign tax affairs I can’t see them investing to much in our infrastructure
@kevin mc cormack: Raise coorpo tax to 13% problem solved.
Dublin to Derry via Letterkenny , starabane , Omaha,clones , Virginia, kells , Navan , Ashbourne, Dublin airport, Dublin Connolly.
Northwest high speed with cross border funding.
@Hubert Morris MIPAV: that’s some route, how does the bus get to Omaha?
Stop putting everything in to Dublin. Its allready dysfunctional due to over crowding. Develop other cities around the country.
Bus connects is a start for Dublin, however fares should be half of what they are.
@DJ François: Bus Connects is all smoke and mirrors
We can do better than Dart! http://www.thedublinloop.ie
Dublin to Derry via Letterkenny , starabane , Omaha,clones , Virginia, kells , Mavan , Ashbourne, Dublin airport, Dublin Connolly.
Northwest high speed with cross border funding.
Maglev network:
North/south line from magherafelt to cork via Cavan, tullamore cashel
East/west lines: Belfast to derry via Magherafelt
Dundalk to sligo via Cavan
Dublin to Galway via Tullamore
Waterford to limerick via Cashel
Maglev network:
North/south line from magherafelt to cork via Cavan, tullamore cashel
East/west lines: Belfast to derry via magherafelt
Dundalk to sligo via Cavan
Dublin to Galway via tullamore
Waterford to limerick via cashel
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