BusConnects and NTA controversial plans for Cork: unique opportunity or highways to Hell?

Author and journalist Mary Leland reports on city and suburban Cork changes afoot

UCC, or bussed? The college's entrance gates may be about to see a sea-change of city traffic flows by the Lee. Pictures:  Larry Cummins

Who remembers mangolds? And why has that lamented vegetable become something of an emblem for the turmoil of anxiety, not to mention anguish, unleashed this past year in Cork by a catalogue of proposals from the National Transport Authority aimed at relieving the city of its familiar car-created congestion?

It’s a long and complex question but the answer is simply a word: