Businesses should not fear change - An evolving city centre

Change is constant but as we are human, how that change is delivered is not. How change is managed, or embraced, often defines whether evolution has a positive impact or not. Irish Water was set up to deliver a badly needed social good but because the project was poorly imagined and even more poorly communicated, it fell victim to the naysayers’ bile. It languishes in the graveyard of good ideas killed by ineptitude. Another generation will have to resolve the country’s water crisis. Postcodes are another advance consigned to the white elephants’ knackery because of mismanagement. There are myriad examples.

It is possible, but not inevitable, that the project to modernise the centre of Cork City by limiting vehicular access to St Patrick’s Street might end up there too. A daily driving ban from 3pm to 6.30pm was introduced on March 27.