Re-examine tidal barrier proposal: City deserves a better flood plan
We often plan too small and miserably. We often plan as if infrastructure that meets today’s needs will also meet tomorrow’s needs. Anyone who remembers how very choked Cork’s ring roads were before flyovers were installed — they had been vetoed by the Department of Finance — won’t argue with that statement. Neither will anyone sitting in a tailback at the Jack Lynch Tunnel, which was designed to accommodate a fraction of the traffic using it. Those ensnared in Luas of Dart upgrades in Dublin will concur.
We are at that point again. Proposals on flood protection for Cork city centre suggest that quay walls might be heightened. This is hardly ambitious, much less revolutionary. It is
