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Cork Metropolitan Area Draft Transport Strategy 2040 Bonneagar Iompair Eireann Transport Infrastructure Ireland CORK METROPOLITAN AREA DRAFT TRANSPORT STRATEGY 2040 LRT Cork City Council Black Ash Park & Ride Comhairle Cathairle Chaorcaí ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS National Transport Authority: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Systra: Hugh Creegan Paul Moran Ian Byrne Owen Shinkwin Tara Spain Jack Sheehan Roy O’Connor Eoin Gillard Paul Hussey Sinead Canny Cork City Council: Jacobs: Allanah Murphy Gerry O’Beirne John Paul FitzGerald Benjamin Loreille Ann Bogan Kevin Burke Joshua Noon Edith Roberts Sarah Cooper Elizabeth Kidney David Siddle Dolphin 3D Photomontages: Jennifer Egan Philip Watkin Cork County Council: Ciara Murphy Peter O’Donoghue Richard Eastman Chetwynd Viaduct Photograph Michael W. Lynch © David Moloney, used with kind permission. Padraig Moore Date of publication: May 2019 CORK METROPOLITAN AREA DRAFT TRANSPORT STRATEGY 2040 This Strategy will deliver an accessible, integrated transport network that enables the sustainable growth of the Cork Metropolitan Area as a dynamic, connected, and internationally competitive European city region as envisaged by the National Planning Framework 2040. CORK METROPOLITAN AREA | DRAFT TRANSPORT STRATEGY 00 CONTENTS 01 Introduction 3 02 Policy Context 9 03 Existing Transport Context 17 04 CMATS 2040 Land Use 23 05 Strategy Development and Outcomes 29 06 Walking 39 07 Cycling 47 08 BusConnects 55 09 Suburban Rail 63 10 Light Rail 69 11 Parking 75 12 Public Transport Interchange and Integration 79 13 Roads 83 14 Freight, Delivery and Servicing 95 15 Supporting Measures 99 16 Implementation 105 17 Strategy Outcomes 111 CORK METROPOLITAN AREA | DRAFT TRANSPORT STRATEGY 3 01 INTRODUCTION The Cork Metropolitan Area (CMA) is To address this challenge, the Cork The Strategy will provide a coherent Cork already performs in the midst of an exciting phase of its Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy transport planning policy framework and well as a major urban development. The recently-published (CMATS) 2040 (the “Strategy”) has been implementation plan around which other National Planning Framework (NPF) 2040 developed by the National Transport agencies involved in land use planning, centre in Ireland and envisages that Cork will become the Authority (NTA) in collaboration with environmental protection, and delivery of the City has positioned fastest-growing city region in Ireland with Transport Infrstructure Ireland (TII), Cork other infrastructure such as housing and a projected 50% to 60% increase of its City Council and Cork County Council. water can align their investment priorities. itself as an emerging population in the period up to 2040. medium-sized CMATS represents a coordinated land CMATS will inform the development of European centre of This projected population and associated use and transport strategy for the Cork regional and local planning, and ssociated economic growth will result in a significant Metropolitan Area. It sets out a framework investment frameworks. It will align with the growth and innovation. increase in the demand for travel. This for the planning and delivery of transport the Southern Assembly’s Regional Spatial and Building on this potential demand needs to be managed and infrastructure and services to support the Economic Strategy (RSES), the statutory Cork is critical to further planned for carefully to safeguard and CMA’s development in the period up to 2040. Metropolitan Area Strategic Plan (MASP) and enhance Cork’s attractiveness to live, the statutory Development Plans of both Cork enhancing Ireland’s work, visit and invest in. The Strategy takes its lead at national level City Council and Cork County Council. metropolitan profile. from the National Planning Framework There is limited capacity within the existing 2040 and the National Development Plan This document outlines the development of National Planning Framework 2040 CMA transport network to cater for 2018-2027 and builds upon previous the Strategy, its underpinning analysis and additional motor traffic and what capacity transport studies including Cork City Centre strategy’s development, underpinning is there will need to be allocated more Movement Strategy, Cork Area Strategic and proposed measures. efficiently. Land use and transport planning Plan (CASP) and the Cork Metropolitan will need to be far more closely aligned Cycle Network Plan. to reduce the need to travel by car and support the functioning of a sustainable, integrated transport system. Implementation of CMATS Secure Funding for Next Steps Proposed Planning & design of Measures Proposed Prepare CMATS Measures Implementation Plan 4 CORK METROPOLITAN AREA | DRAFT TRANSPORT STRATEGY Supporting technical documents have Current Challenges Many competing demands for scarce A number of also been prepared to document the work There are a number of challenges across road and kerbside space for different characteristics of the undertaken in developing CMATS, including the wider Cork Metropolitan Area that road users; transport demand analysis, transport were considered in preparing this Strategy Some high capacity roads within Cork CMA result in problems option development, transport modelling These are set out in the following sections: City such as the N22, N27 and N40, that and inefficiencies with and transport networks appraisal. cause community severance and hinder Land Use and Physical Constraints pedestrian and cyclist movement; and respect to the movement The complete set of background Cork is projected to be the fastest A lack of a strategic orbital corridor to of people and goods reports comprise the following: growing Metropolitan Area in the State. the North of the city resulting in strategic Baseline Conditions Report; The substantial increase in population, traffic and HGV movement from the Planning Datasheet Development employment and educational use N20 routing through the city adding to Report; will lead to a subsequent increase in congestion, noise and pollution. Demand Analysis Report; demand for travel; Travel Behaviour Transport Modelling Report; A legacy of dispersed patterns of residential, employment and retail An over-reliance on the private car for Transport Options Development Report; development, particularly outside of relatively short trips; Supporting Measures Report; the central city area; Relatively low mode share of cycling and Strategic Environmental Assessment A unique and challenging geography limited (though improving) dedicated (SEA); and characterised by steep topography and cycle infrastructure; Appropriate Assessment (AA). waterways; Low walking mode share outside of the The general unsuitability of the road current City Council administrative area; The Strategy is considered to be flexible network - particularly within the medieval A high level of car use for the school run, with the ability to scale up public transport city core and arterial routes - to suppressing the use of public transport, capacity and frequencies as neccessary accommodate relatively high volumes of walking and cycling and contributing to along CMATS agreed transport corridors. peak time vehicular traffic; car-based congestion during the morning Cork City’s pivotal role as the major and afternoon inter-peak periods CMATS is a considered to be a ‘live’ regional centre for employment, document and will be subject to a periodic Low level of parking control through, education, retail and leisure for a large review process (typically 5 years) over the for example, controlled parking zones, geographical area leading to a significant lifetime of the Strategy. leading to commuter parking in number of long distance trips made residential areas; and primarily by car; Complex one-way systems creating high speed environments. BRT CORK METROPOLITAN AREA | DRAFT TRANSPORT STRATEGY 5 Public Transport Provision Unprotected and unmarked bus set- Congestion and Economy A need to facilitate the movement of A largely bus based local public transport down areas frequently occupied by Concerns that on-going congestion will goods on the strategic road network network with a limited number of high parked cars, forcing passengers to board inhibit the ability of the CMA to attract and to maintain efficient access to key frequency services (i.e. headways of 15 and alight in the carriageway; further inward investment; locations including the Port of Cork and the National Road network. minutes or better); A suburban rail service serving some Concern from major employers that public Long journey times and delays on the of larger East Cork settlements but a transport provision is insufficient to cater Public Health and Deprivation current bus network negatively impacting disconnection between the location of for an increasingly millennial and car-free passengers and operating costs; stations relative to the town centres that workforce; Concerns over rising levels of physical they serve; inactivity and childhood obesity; Split inbound and outbound bus routes, Traffic congestion and delays at key and longer journey distances created by Constraints on the rail network that limits locations on the national road network A recognition of the need to incorporate one-way systems; frequency and capacity at Kent station; during peak periods, such as the more active travel and incidental and exercise into our transport system Inadequate level of Real Time Information Dunkettle Interchange (junction of the through the re-shaping of our public (RTI) and bus shelters outside of the city
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