Concern at loss of parking spaces for cycle lane plan

DOZENS of parking spaces will be removed to make way for the first phase of a new €7 million network of cycle lanes linking Cork city to the suburbs.

City councillors signed off on the €400,000 Douglas cycle lane project at a special meeting on Monday night because the funding had to be used before the end of the year.

Work has already started on sections of the 6.4km circulatory route, which will run from the South Mall, along Union Quay, Anglesea Street, Infirmary Road, Southern Road, Douglas Road, South Douglas Road, Kinsale Road, Curragh Road, Summerhill South, Langford Row, South Terrace, Union Quay and Sullivan’s Quay.