Tramore Valley Park

-Toppy-

The link opens for me on Willow park just by the gael scoil in douglas? Is that the right spot?

(I pass it alot so I am just trying to picture where the gate is!)

opus

That's the spot, there's a walkway for ~1k that runs by the side of the link road and the gate in the pic I posted is at the far end of it.

opus

https://twitter.com/cllrkmac/status/996104798410821632

ScrubsfanChris

opus wrote: »

https://twitter.com/cllrkmac/status/996104798410821632

"Tramore Valley park en route to be open August 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018" :pac:

Treviso

That letter says Autumn 2018, not August.

snotboogie

Treviso wrote: »

That letter says Autumn 2018, not August.

Early Autumn which should be August but ya that extra bit of ambiguity isn't promising

whisky_galore

opus wrote: »

That's the spot, there's a walkway for ~1k that runs by the side of the link road and the gate in the pic I posted is at the far end of it.

Found it.

Walkway looks unpleasant surrounded by prison grade fencing and appears well dodgy esp. as darkness starts to fall.

Local teens use it for drinking 'al fresco' ...

opus

Opening delayed now 'til next year.

snotboogie

opus wrote: »

Opening delayed now 'til next year.

They’ve spent €40 million on it so far!?! This is a far bigger scandal than the Events Centre

ScrubsfanChris

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

"Tramore Valley park en route to be open August 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019" :pac:

Time to Update......
I've got 2020 standing by

-Toppy-

Got on to Eoin English on Twitter

https://twitter.com/EoinBearla/status/1036970230390640640
"I'll get an update....council ringfenced funding last Nov to get it open by the summer."

Will keep ya posted on anything back

Roger Hassenforder

snotboogie wrote: »

They’ve spent €40 million on it so far!?! This is a far bigger scandal than the Events Centre

Was a lot of that capping the landfill, site civil works etc.?
At least with Tramore park we have something, it's just not open

opus

For sure it's going to open officially eventually, even with the current situation people can head in there anytime the recycling centre is open.

-Toppy-

Some info on todays Echo -
https://www.eveningecho.ie/corknews/Further-delays-to-opening-of-Tramore-Valley-amenity-park-fd967d17-2fdd-4edb-a365-24df6465eb92-ds

who_me

snotboogie wrote: »

They’ve spent €40 million on it so far!?! This is a far bigger scandal than the Events Centre

...in that case, you probably don't want to read up about the Bottlehill landfill...

opus

I'd forgotten about that! But to be fair it was Cork County Council who've blown €48 million there

opus

ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Time to Update......
I've got 2020 standing by

Going by this article in the Examiner today, I fear you could be spot on

The full opening of a massive public park on the site of Cork’s former city dump is at least a year down the line, following confirmation it could cost at least €6m to provide “full and safe access” to the site.

€6m bill to make Tramore Valley Park safe for public

Rhys Essien

This is infuriating.Its going to cost another €6m but they’re unsure what for yet.They have to be the most dopiest incompetent Council in the World.

Cape Clear

Rhys Essien wrote: »

This is infuriating.Its going to cost another €6m but they’re unsure what for yet.They have to be the most dopiest incompetent Council in the World.

The events centre or lack there of is a small issue in relation to this.

Roger Hassenforder

opus wrote: »

I'd forgotten about that! But to be fair it was Cork County Council who've blown €48 million there

Might be a wind farm going in there

opus

https://twitter.com/cllrkmac/status/1044255614321532929

snotboogie

Work underway on new internal roads for the Tramore Valley Park

opus

Latest I've heard on this is an opening date of mid-May. Hopefully it will happen this time.

zilog_jones

There's certainly a lot of activity going on around the entrance of the recycling centre.

DriveSkill

https://twitter.com/corkcityparks/status/1118553401627955200

opus

Going to be managed by the Glen Resource Centre.

flo8s967qjh0nd

Rob Heffernan deserves to have the walk (and much more) named after him. Great athlete. That's not in question.
But, I thought there was a system in place to decide on the naming of publicly-owned pieces of infrastructure? We saw it recently with the naming of the new bridge on Merchants Quay. Names nominated needed to be dead for 10-years, council shortlisted names submitted by the public, etc.
As I said, the man more than deserves the accolade but if there is a system, shouldn't the council stick to it?

opus

Snuck in for a look through the hole in the fence earlier on (not the only one in there either!). Still a lot of work going near the entrance but markers are all down for the 5k loop.

namloc1980

Officially opened today, two days before the local elections. We should have elections every 6 months - everything would get done. Anyone take a look yet?

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bluecherry74

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