Extra 5,000 workers will show car use in the city is not viable

A “boots on the ground” approach to consultation is required to deliver Cork City’s ambitious movement-and-transport strategy, following the suspension of the St Patrick’s St afternoon car ban.

Given that an additional 5,000 people will be working in the city centre within 36 months, a planning expert said we must accept that cars are not an “ingredient of city centre success”.

Writing in today’s Irish Examiner, Will Brady, of UCC’s Centre for Planning and Education Research, said he has yet to see a city that has regenerated its urban core by encouraging car-use and incentivising city centre car-parking.