Chief Executive’s Report on Draft Plan Consultation
Volume 2 – Summary of Submissions Received
Cork City Submission No.:
Person:
Organisation:
358
Andrew Smith
Summary of Submission and Observation:
• A place should be found for therapeutic gardens, in the Development Plan and in the city. The council's support should include the provision of land and ongoing financial support for the scheme. • Removing private cars from it should be a core objective of the development plan, and should be implemented before the end of the plan's lifetime. • Seeks: • Secure cycle parking. • High enforcement against cycle theft. • Good provision for cyclists on main roads. • The city council should convene an expert panel of urbanists to help develop its strategy and its schemes.
Response and Recommendation to issues located in:
Volume 1 part 3 under Chapter 4, 6
Cork City Submission No.:
Person:
Organisation:
359
Tim O’Connor
Summary of Submission and Observation:
• There is a chronic need for more ambition for the reallocation of road space from private cars to cycling and other active transport. The Northern Distributor plans are car-centric, and destructive of the environment of the Lee Valley. • The fundsshould instead be put into public transport infrastructure. Under absolutely no circumstances should the active transport corridor of the Passage Greenway be shared with light rail. Not only would this destroy this resource, the experience of the Luas in Dublin shows how it is dangerous to cyclists. Light rail should be run at street level, where the density to support it exists, and it is private cars that should cede place on road space, not active travel on a Greenway. • The Lower Lee Flood Relief Scheme is entirely outdated, and incompatible with the updated climate collapse projections. It is destructive of the City, and destructive of vast chunks of the Development Plan. It should be abandoned as no longer fit for purpose (if it ever was), and a new plan designed from scratch.
Response and Recommendation to issues located in:
Volume 1 part 3 under Chapter 4 & 9
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