Chief Executive’s Report on Draft Plan Consultation
Volume 2 – Summary of Submissions Received
• On the map there are no indications that there will be a cycleway or walkway along the Model Farm Road or the Carrigrohane Straight Road. Both roads are essential pieces of transport infrastructure that enable many people to walk or cycle to work, education and shopping. • Notes there is currently a cycleway along the Straight Road that should be maintained and will form a critical section of the Lee to Sea Greenway. • On the map it indicates that there is a walking and cycling path connection across Model Farm Road on the Curraheen Greenway. The individual sections of the Curraheen Greenway are fabulous and I much appreciate the recent improvements, especially paving the access route to the IDA, but the lack of a Model Farm Road crossing is a serious short-coming. • Supports Objectives 5.6 Climate Change Projects and 5.8 Decarbonising Zone and urge the City Council to support, resource, and promote climate change projects and decarbonising zones with a real sense of urgency. • Regarding Objective 5.22 Electric Vehicles I would ask the counsel to consider that despite national government support of electric vehicles, electric vehicles are not zero emission and in addition require additional energy for fuel. Therefore, urge the council to add another objective or perhaps modify objective 5.24 Green and Blue Infrastructure so that it expresses strong support for walking and cycling infrastructure, transport according for 40% of Ireland’s carbon emissions. • The Lee to Sea should be included as its own separate objective within the Development Plan. The Lee to Sea has the potential to be the backbone of a strategic and well-designed cycle and walking network that makes Cork a national and international leader in sustainable transport. • Objectives for greenways are broadly used by Local Authorities to support green initiatives and to support economic investment. • Objectives 5.1 and 5.2 in the climate change chapter commit the council to pursueing a low carbon, environmentally sustainable city and a 51% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. However, the budget included indicates that road projects are the priority for Cork City Council. • If the council is serious about pursuing objectives 5.1 and 5.2, the funding for transport needs to be re- examined. • CSO figures from 2016 demonstrate that Cork needs investment in active travel infrastructure that makes active travel the attractive option for short trips. Delivery of suitable infrastructure will help deliver increased cycle mode share in the city. • Please introduce modal share targets that are specific for Cork city, as the CMATS figures deal with the metropolitan area. Please be ambitious in these targets. 30% or even 35% should be achievable over the lifespan of this development plan. • Objective 4.95 describes mobility hubs and the great assistance they could provide for modal shift, a position I wholeheartedly support. The future location of mobility hubs are shown in the plans for Tivoli and the city docks, but it would be useful to know where the council is considering them in other areas of the city. Please add them to the mapped objectives. • Objective 4.123 regarding the Northern Distributor Road explains that a number of route options are emerging and will be discussed in the next stages of preparation of the development plan. Does this mean in the material amendments stage or in the next development plan? Will there be a free-standing public consultation on the Northern Distributor Road?
Response and Recommendation to issues located in (Located under relevant chapter in the CE Report):
Volume 1 part 3 under Chapter 4, 5 & 6
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