4.64 The LRT route will serve a wide range of existing and future destinations including employment, institutional and retail uses, facilitate modal shift away from the private car for short trips and free up capacity on arterial roads for bus services. The LRT will link with a strategic Park and Ride station near Ballincollig to reduce cross-city trips, it will also facilitate greater levels of walking and cycling as part of linked trips with public transport and reduce transport related noise and emissions.
• The City Centre. • Kent Station / Cork North Docklands. • Cork South Docklands; and • Mahon.
4.66 Determination of the final LRT route alignment and depot location has not yet been identified. A definitive route alignment is needed to maximise the ability to provide appropriate densities for development sites at locations along the route and to avoid conflict with emerging development proposals. 4.67 Application of appropriate safeguards within the study corridors and the application of appropriate development densities to ensure the long-term feasibility of the proposed routed by Cork City Council will be applied in this Development Plan and once the emerging preferred route is identified a variation of this plan will take place to safeguard the route.
Proposed Route
4.65 The topography and distribution of existing trip generators and attractors, combined with the proposed development opportunity areas within Cork City and its suburbs, indicate the desirability for a linear route from Ballincollig in the west to Mahon in the east, via Cork City Centre. The following locations are required to be within the catchment area of the future light-rail system: • Ballincollig. • The proposed Cork Science and Innovation Park (CSIP); • Munster Technological University (MTU)
• Cork University Hospital (CUH). • University College Cork (UCC).
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