Car park should not be allowed at market

CORK CITY COUNCIL has done an amazing job on reinvigorating Cornmarket St (Coal Quay) in Cork city.

I think it looks beautiful with three different colours of stone creating a lovely wide street with a type of a plaza at the river end of it.

Why, then, are people allowed to use it as a car park on a Sunday? There is a market here on a Sunday and the traders need somewhere to park, perhaps the 15 or so legitimate parking spaces on this street could be reserved for them. It was 7.30pm when I was there and the market is well over by then.

I don’t think that this would be allowed happen in such a street in another European city, such as Berlin or Amsterdam.

Paul Twohig

Richmond Hill

Cork