Yeah great but for the love of god please no more low bridges.
I’m sure people will be for it until it materialises that a journey from Bantry to Cork will probably cost around 3 or 4 times that of the cost of driving and take around twice as long.
It wasn’t a mistake. It was wilful sabotage of infrastructure.
As they mention in the article, you can still make your own submissions on what you’d like the railway network to be [here](https://strategicrailreview.com/) until Friday.
I’ve seen people suggesting West Cork doesn’t have the population density to justify this, but isn’t that a chicken and egg problem?
There aren’t enough people living there to justify this, so the rail network was dismantled (and “shouldn’t be restored”). So now there’s less reason to live there, so more people leave (and/or fewer people move there).
And this is how you end up with a stagnant economy and emigration in rural areas, and the opposite in urban areas, with high inward migration, spiralling growth, along with congestion and cost-of-living problems.
DAMN FUCKIN RIGHT bring back the trains. I DONT want to go to Cork to Waterford, THOUGHT FUCKING DUBLIN!!!!
The government should obviously take a loss to provide rural train services (and I know Cork isn’t rural. Im saying in general).
It would help the brain drain/movement out of rural areas, and help investment and more even development of the country. And of course, it’s good for tourism, ordinary people and rural businesses.
Imagine how great a train service down the Wild Atlantic Way would be?
Id love it if that opened, from Cork to Baltimore, through Clon and places would be a day out in itself just to experience the sights of west cork from a train.
If the lines were still there I’d be able to see trains pass from my house and be within walking distance of a stop. I’m 20 mins from Cork City by car. We’re not just talking “West Cork” like Clonakilty or Skibbereen but basically everything west of Ballincollig.
With the explosion in housing developments between Ballincollig and Macroom (and within those towns) in the last 15 years, and still on-going, a rail service would be fantastic.
Every day the N22 is a continuous steam of commuters into the City and surrounding.
Granted it’s NY but they used to just build the subway and rail out to the middle of nowhere and let development work it’s magic. Hundreds of pictures of almost monolithic looking rail infrastructure out in the middle of nowhere. Now if you compare pictures even 10 and 20 years after it’s built it’s crazy how much was built snd how quickly.
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Yeah great but for the love of god please no more low bridges.
I’m sure people will be for it until it materialises that a journey from Bantry to Cork will probably cost around 3 or 4 times that of the cost of driving and take around twice as long.
It wasn’t a mistake. It was wilful sabotage of infrastructure.
As they mention in the article, you can still make your own submissions on what you’d like the railway network to be [here](https://strategicrailreview.com/) until Friday.
I’ve seen people suggesting West Cork doesn’t have the population density to justify this, but isn’t that a chicken and egg problem?
There aren’t enough people living there to justify this, so the rail network was dismantled (and “shouldn’t be restored”). So now there’s less reason to live there, so more people leave (and/or fewer people move there).
And this is how you end up with a stagnant economy and emigration in rural areas, and the opposite in urban areas, with high inward migration, spiralling growth, along with congestion and cost-of-living problems.
DAMN FUCKIN RIGHT bring back the trains. I DONT want to go to Cork to Waterford, THOUGHT FUCKING DUBLIN!!!!
The government should obviously take a loss to provide rural train services (and I know Cork isn’t rural. Im saying in general).
It would help the brain drain/movement out of rural areas, and help investment and more even development of the country. And of course, it’s good for tourism, ordinary people and rural businesses.
Imagine how great a train service down the Wild Atlantic Way would be?
Id love it if that opened, from Cork to Baltimore, through Clon and places would be a day out in itself just to experience the sights of west cork from a train.
If the lines were still there I’d be able to see trains pass from my house and be within walking distance of a stop. I’m 20 mins from Cork City by car. We’re not just talking “West Cork” like Clonakilty or Skibbereen but basically everything west of Ballincollig.
With the explosion in housing developments between Ballincollig and Macroom (and within those towns) in the last 15 years, and still on-going, a rail service would be fantastic.
Every day the N22 is a continuous steam of commuters into the City and surrounding.
Granted it’s NY but they used to just build the subway and rail out to the middle of nowhere and let development work it’s magic. Hundreds of pictures of almost monolithic looking rail infrastructure out in the middle of nowhere. Now if you compare pictures even 10 and 20 years after it’s built it’s crazy how much was built snd how quickly.
Fucking YES PLEASE!