Michael Moynihan: Doubling the flow of traffic down a narrow street makes little sense

That's the essential nature of change: People are affected and not always for the better

The Bus Connects plan aims to deliver a sustainable public transport network for Cork. Picture: Eddie O’Hare

I previously wrote here about a primary school near where I live, one which had enjoyed a small victory in the not-so-small matter of pupil safety.

Our Lady of Lourdes NS in Ballinlough was looking to ensure that its pupils could cross the roads around the school safely — heavy traffic coming through the area made crossing those roads a fair challenge on many mornings, a challenge heightened by the now-traditional insistence of drivers defying the limiting effects of their own sunglasses by wedging their SUVs into the space reserved for  (Remember the blood pressure, eh? — ed.) Anyway, the news was good for the school during the summer, when Cork City Council got in touch with them with plans to put those safety measures in place.