Car ban looms for St Patrick’s Street as Cork’s traffic set for overhaul

Private cars could be banned from Cork City’s main street by the middle of next year under radical traffic plans due to be published tomorrow.

Details of the car ban, and the proposed changes to traffic flows on Grenville Place around the busy Mercy University Hospital campus will be outlined to key stakeholders — including the retailers, the Cork Business Association, gardaí, and Bus Éireann — tomorrow.

However, the Irish Examiner has learnt the proposals include a ban on private cars from St Patrick’s Street from 12.30pm to 6.30pm seven days a week.