Cork Commuter Stations

Blackpool makes sense as a transport hub with BusConnects. There'll be buses to Apple, CUH, UCC and city centre from there. So makes sense to have a transport hub with the rail line.

Blarney possibly but Station Road would need some serious upgrades to make it pedestrian/cycle friendly.

Buttevant and Charleville suffer from that most Irish of rail problems. The train stations are located well outside the towns on narrow country roads with no developments at all around them in both instances. It's a shame. It severely limits their potential as commuter stations.

Also, more and more workplaces will be in the docks. This could really work.

It's a shame, I know of a company in the IDA where applicants turn down jobs due to poor public transport.

Generally people will be happy to walk up to 400m or so to a transit stop. After that the willingness of people to walk drops off significantly and it becomes a barrier. A lot of the houses in Buttevant are c.1.5km from the station. Also the walk itself is down a narrow country road with a very narrow footpath, not very attractive for people. All this adds up to serious barriers for commuters to make the choice.

I think the Blackpool is a no brainer as they already have the site and would safe people having to go to Kent station if they didn’t have to. I’m thinking of areas on the northside of the city.

Could there be a through commuter line either cobh to mallow or midleton to mallow ,? Combine that with a decent stop at dunkettle ( ain't gonna happen ) and a distributor bus at little island,at least 2 stops in the new north docks development the station at carrigtohil , a transport hub at blackpool ,

And see whats actually needed for new commuter development on the midleton and mallow lines ,( if the plan is to have high density development north of blackpool along the line then great - but not so much If it's a few small estates in the middle of no where .

The same with the "new " waterrock village plan , it'll be a rail oriented village so no major changes to the road network but the plan is to build the houses long before the railway station - so at least 2 cars required per house..

A through service is the plan once an additional platform at Kent is built. This is part of a more medium- to long-term part of CMATS and should see trains go from both Cobh and Midleton to Mallow.

Public consultation for major upgrade to Cork rail line between Glounthaune and Midleton launched (irishrail.ie)

What I don't understand about this is why Cobh which is already double tracked had to wait until 2022 to get a 30 minute frequency? What's stopping the Cobh line become a 10 minute frequency as well or at least 15-20 mins?

Lack of staff and lack of funding from the NTA for the first question.

The Cobh line frequency may well increase too when the service is recast following these works.