Park-and-ride a recipe for chaos

CORK city manager Joe Gavin is to be applauded for his ideas for park-and-ride facilities for our rapidly growing city.

But that applause turns to gasps of disbelief on the city’s northside when he proposes to put such a facility in a heavily populated residential area beside the North Ring Road, which is already catering for 10 times the traffic that was originally intended for it.

The park-and-ride is to be sited at the intersection of four roads - two of them mere laneways. This is already a traffic blackspot at rush hour and, to compound the problem, all four roads are within a half mile of five schools.