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So Patrick street is bus only from Thursday 9th August

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    #302
    timmyjimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭timmyjimmy


    munstermagic11 wrote: »
    You certainly are whining.
    In case you can’t keep up, I said on here that it’s worth a trial to see if it works out. So if I’m Mr Mildred, it must make you Mr Magoo.

    Don't spend all day on the internet like yourself to read all the posts, all I saw was your whinging ones.


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    #303
    j8wk2feszrnpao
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,438 ✭✭✭j8wk2feszrnpao


    timmyjimmy wrote: »
    Don't spend all day on the internet .......
    You certainly appear to.
    And you continue whining.


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    #304
    FrStone
    Registered Users Posts: 720 ✭✭✭FrStone


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    The idea is that they'd sell their valuable plot of land and purchase a new premises elsewhere on the outskirts of the city for less.

    More urban sprawl then...


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    #305
    grogi
    Registered Users Posts: 8,615 ✭✭✭grogi


    FrStone wrote: »
    More urban sprawl then...

    No. Build higher.


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    #306
    FrStone
    Registered Users Posts: 720 ✭✭✭FrStone


    Namloc specifically said that she wanted these businesses to  "purchase a new premises elsewhere on the outskirts of the city for less" .
    That's urban sprawl in my book...


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    #307
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    What's your point? Let's not develop anything because "they" might beg.

    Ya they ruined popes quay and took away so many car parking spaces with a huge footpath.


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    #308
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Repating this over and over doesn't change the fact that you're wrong. A quick search on Google reveals numerous campaigns for playground facilities in and around the city - take a look.

    Nobody could possibly say Cork has a reasonable amount of open space for public use unless you're car obsessed and view the city only as a shopping/work destination where you can park your car up.

    Fitzgerald park has a playground.


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    #309
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    fin12 wrote: »
    Ya they ruined popes quay and took away so many car parking spaces with a huge footpath.

    The beggars? Fair play to them.


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    #310
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    FrStone wrote: »
    More urban sprawl then...

    Better than vast areas of the city being a semi derelict industrial wasteland. Or perhaps you think that's good.


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    #311
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    fin12 wrote: »
    Fitzgerald park has a playground.

    2km from Patrick Street, might as well say there's a playground in Blackpool.


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    j8wk2feszrnpao
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,438 ✭✭✭j8wk2feszrnpao


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    2km from Patrick Street, might as well say there's a playground in Blackpool.
    Can’t people cycle, walk....?


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    #313
    grogi
    Registered Users Posts: 8,615 ✭✭✭grogi


    munstermagic11 wrote: »
    Can’t people cycle, walk....?

    By the time you get there with a buggy, it is already raining...


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    #314
    grogi
    Registered Users Posts: 8,615 ✭✭✭grogi


    fin12 wrote: »
    Ya they ruined popes quay and took away so many car parking spaces with a huge footpath.

    If anything the city needs more, not less, footpaths...


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    #315
    j8wk2feszrnpao
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,438 ✭✭✭j8wk2feszrnpao


    grogi wrote: »
    By the time you get there with a buggy, it is already raining...
    But we're being told it doesn't rain that much, the rain isn't that bad, that kids are being pampered......


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    #316
    Frostybrew
    Registered Users Posts: 357 ✭✭Frostybrew


    fin12 wrote: »
    Ya they ruined popes quay and took away so many car parking spaces with a huge footpath.


    What huge footpath? Popes Quay was a dump before the cycle lane. It's thriving now. Exactly how many car parking spaces were removed?


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    #317
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Frostybrew wrote: »
    What huge footpath? Popes Quay was a dump before the cycle lane. It's thriving now. Exactly how many car parking spaces were removed?

    Where the Mass card shop is, they put a huge footpath there, before they did that you could park the car along there while collecting someone from town or be collected and then you could drive straight up the hill out to Blackpool but you can’t do that anymore you have to go down into the road and can only get out now by the end of Shannon street, before putting the huge footpath you could avoid all that traffic and that route.


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    #318
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    2km from Patrick Street, might as well say there's a playground in Blackpool.

    Are they too precious to walk there? Also could get the 205 and 208 buses, get off at UCC.


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    #319
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    fin12 wrote: »
    Are they too precious to walk there? Also could get the 205 and 208 buses, get off at UCC.

    I think the issue may be lack of parking in the Mardyke.


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    #320
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    fin12 wrote: »
    Are they too precious to walk there? Also could get the 205 and 208 buses, get off at UCC.

    This is hilarious. Many people on this thread have been moaning that you have to drive right to your work place in the city centre because of the torrential continuous rain in Cork and that walking/bus simply isn't an option but it's grand for kids who live in the city to get some open space. :pac:


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    #321
    Frostybrew
    Registered Users Posts: 357 ✭✭Frostybrew


    fin12 wrote: »
    Where the Mass card shop is, they put a huge footpath there, before they did that you could park the car along there while collecting someone from town or be collected and then you could drive straight up the hill out to Blackpool but you can’t do that anymore you have to go down into the road and can only get out now by the end of Shannon street, before putting the huge footpath you could avoid all that traffic and that route.

    So how many parking spaces were removed?


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    #322
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Frostybrew wrote: »
    So how many parking spaces were removed?

    I don’t know but you obviously don’t understand what I said in my earlier post, it’s not about the parking spaces it’s about the inability now to just stop outside the Mass card shop for a couple of minutes to collect or drop someone off and then go up the hill out to Blackpool instead now you have to go all down the road and that cross by shandon street.


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    #323
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    This is hilarious. Many people on this thread have been moaning that you have to drive right to your work place in the city centre because of the torrential continuous rain in Cork and that walking/bus simply isn't an option but it's grand for kids who live in the city to get some open space. :pac:

    Well I wasn’t one of those people, seeing as I park 30 mins from city center and walk to work from there and last time I checked exercise was good for kids and younger kids would obviously be in buggies.


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    #324
    Frostybrew
    Registered Users Posts: 357 ✭✭Frostybrew


    fin12 wrote: »
    Ya they ruined popes quay and took away so many car parking spaces with a huge footpath.
    fin12 wrote: »
    I don’t know but you obviously don’t understand what I said in my earlier post, it’s not about the parking spaces it’s about the inability now to just stop outside the Mass card shop for a couple of minutes to collect or drop someone off and then go up the hill out to Blackpool instead now you have to go all down the road and that cross by shandon street.

    Just to be clear so, Popes Quay is now ruined because it's not possible for you to drop off or collect someone anymore?


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    #325
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Frostybrew wrote: »
    Just to be clear so, Popes Quay is now ruined because it's not possible for you to drop off or collect someone anymore?

    Yes and go out a route that is a lot less prone to traffic in the evenings. That was a spot that plenty people used for collecting and dropping people. You would always see several people waiting there in the evening to be collected.


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    #326
    grogi
    Registered Users Posts: 8,615 ✭✭✭grogi


    fin12 wrote: »
    Yes and go out a route that is a lot less prone to traffic in the evenings. That was a spot that plenty people used for collecting and dropping people. You would always see several people waiting there in the evening to be collected.

    If people ARE waiting to be collected, it literally takes 10 seconds: driver stops the car, person jumps in, driver departs. An in-lane set-down... Might be an issue during rush hours, not so much in the evenings...

    Nice footpath is much nicer for the waiting people too.


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    #327
    fin12
    Registered Users Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    grogi wrote: »
    If people ARE waiting to be collected, it literally takes 10 seconds: driver stops the car, person jumps in, driver departs. An in-lane set-down... Might be an issue during rush hours, not so much in the evenings...

    Nice footpath is much nicer for the waiting people too.

    You can not even stop there for one minute now because you are down into the one way road there, you cannot pull in anywhere at the top of that road, you have to drive down into the road.


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    #328
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,295 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    fin12 wrote: »
    You can not even stop there for one minute now because you are down into the one way road there, you cannot pull in anywhere at the top of that road, you have to drive down into the road.

    Are they too precious to walk or get the bus?


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    #329
    Frostybrew
    Registered Users Posts: 357 ✭✭Frostybrew


    fin12 wrote: »
    You can not even stop there for one minute now because you are down into the one way road there, you cannot pull in anywhere at the top of that road, you have to drive down into the road.

    We don't know you or your exact circumstances, but I'm betting there's a very very simple obvious solution to your predicament, if you really put your mind to it.


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    #330
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,038 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    fin12 wrote: »
    You can not even stop there for one minute now because you are down into the one way road there, you cannot pull in anywhere at the top of that road, you have to drive down into the road.

    And rightly so. Cars stopping to pick up people and cars waiting for people at that junction were a constant cause of obstruction.

    Pope's Quay is a much nicer stretch of street since the changes.


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    #331
    Zico !
    Registered Users Posts: 959 ✭✭✭Zico !


    This decision is a poor one my business on patrick street is way down over it -these gombeens in city hall havent a clue.Every customer coming in is moaning about it.


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