City traders should get ‘little taster’ of afternoon car ban

Traders in Cork should be given “a little taster” of the St Patrick’s Street afternoon car ban over the coming weeks to encourage them to embrace change.

That’s the view of Dr Lorraine D’Arcy, a transport and sustainable planning expert who lectures in Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), and who worked on the hugely successful pedestrianisation of the city’s Oliver Plunkett St more than a decade ago.

“People need to experience it a little bit more to understand it more,” she said.