Traffic experts to tackle logjams
Traffic experts from four cities, including Cork, who are involved in the Multi Initiative for Rationalised Accessibility and Clean Liveable Environments (MIRACLES) project, are due to arrive in the city next week for a two-day conference.
They will meet with officials from Barcelona, Winchester and Rome, notorious for its crazy drivers, chaotic traffic jams and rush-hour bottlenecks, to swap ideas on how best to tackle traffic problems.
Despite his health problems, Pope John Paul II, who left hospital yesterday, is anxious to see results. Rome’s officials had an audience with the Pontiff last month during which he urged them to try to solve the city’s chronic traffic problems.
Cork City Council confirmed yesterday it will introduce bollards, as the Romans did, to restrict traffic access in the city centre within weeks.
The council could not say yesterday exactly when the system will start.
More initiatives will be discussed next week at the MIRACLES conference, which takes place in Cork on February 17 and 18.
