Businesses angry over Cork city speed limit plan

BUSINESS leaders have reacted angrily to plans by Cork City Council to reduce the speed limit in a number of the city’s central streets to 30km/h, claiming it will prove detrimental to retailers and is not needed.

Cork Business Association (CBA) — which represents nearly 200 retailers in the city — maintains the current 50km/h limit “is working fine” and “there is absolutely no need to introduce the reduced limits on a 24-hour basis”.

The council intends to bring in the restrictions in most streets on the central island, which will include St Patrick’s Street, Grand Parade, Oliver Plunkett Street, North Main Street and Cornmarket Street.