[ Cork City Council - Annual Report 2020 ]
Despite the constraints placed in accordance with public health advice in response to Covid-19, much work continued in the city during 2020. New consultations mechanisms were used to allow the public greater consultation to the Draft City Development Plan. The level of supports to business expanded. The City Council worked with traders to help navigate through the pandemic and the response by the tourism sector were coordinated. Events, training seminars and seminars moved online in a way that maintained the meaningfulness of the engagement.
immediate response to social distancing requirements resulting from Covid-19 but also an acceleration of the City Council’s vision for a city of sustainable urban growth. In addition to significant pedestrianisation in the city centre, the programme included: the ¤1.5 million repair of 6 kilometres of existing cycle lanes, the installation of bollards on 4 kilometres of key cycling routes, 4.1 kilometres of new cycle lanes at Centre Park and Monahan Roads, Terence MacSwiney Quay, Horgan’s Quay and Victoria Road and South Mall and the construction of 43 bike racks which can accommodate approximately 500 bikes. The programme is supported by the National Transport Authority (NTA). Hotels, restaurants, bars, wine bars, cafés and take-away restaurants were also granted free street furniture licences so that businesses, hard pressed for space, could expand out on to the 1.3 kilometres of temporarily pedestrianised streets, creating a more pleasant, safer and greener city.
Reimagine Cork
Reimaging Cork was launched in July 2020. The creation of 14 new ‘people friendly’ streets and an investment of up to ¤2 million in the wider city’s existing cycling infrastructure form part of a series of transformative initiatives unveiled in the
“Re-imagining Cork City” programme. “Re-imagining Cork City” represented an
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