A ‘concrete’ example of planning incompetence

WATCHING the destruction of the two pedestrian bridges over the south link over the weekend was another ‘concrete’ example, as if one was required, of the on-going and wanton waste of public monies.

It is also an indictment of the dysfunctional planning and road-engineering systems in Cork city and county councils that these structures, erected only some 20-odd years ago, had to be removed at enormous cost to make way for the new flyovers. Is it possible, at planning stage, that the necessity for flyovers sometime in the future was unforeseen or ignored?

Presumably, we will have a public enquiry, sometime soon, into the managerial and planning decisions which drove the construction of these two over-engineered and under-utilised follies, and maybe get some accountability as well.