Engineers should identify Cork light rail route within two years

The 17km 25-stop Luas-style system is one of the flagship projects in the ambitious Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (CMATS)

Image showing a planned LUAS for Cork sharing the old Blackrock railway line greenway. 

The preferred route for the proposed €1bn Cork light rail system should be identified within two years.

It follows confirmation today from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) and the National Transport Authority (NTA) that Jacobs Engineering Ireland has been awarded the contract to work on the route selection for the light rail transit (LRT) system linking Ballincollig, on the western outskirts of Cork city, to Mahon in the east.