Cork City Council should consider asking Bus Éireann to abandon cross-city services that use the city’s main thoroughfare, Patrick St, and instead open it up to private cars, a city trader has suggested. The decision to ban private cars is part of the Cork City Centre Movement Strategy and is based on studies which found that 66 per cent of all traffic entering Cork city centre is doing so to go elsewhere. “Two thirds of the traffic entering Cork city centre has a destination outside the city centre. “This is the greatest single change to traffic in the city centre for a generation. Cork city centre desperately needs a vision that will attract new residents, businesses and visitors.

Source: The Irish Times April 18, 2018 06:56 UTC