"Not sure what the point of a commuter P&R there would be as opposed to a local station"
The newly proposed distributor road will eveventually connect the Ennis road to the Dublin road via the Broadford road. Cratloe is 4 or 5 miles west of limerick city, its no use to anyone coming from north or northwest of the city such as meelick, parteen or ardnacrusha. The Corbally road is already gridlock at rush hour as is the Ennis road and thats precisely why we need rail access to the city centre from this side of town.
The completed road is some years in the offing now but it will be built and if there is no strategy in place to allow access from what will effectively be the northern orbital road to the track via a station and a few parking spaces, any land around it will be zoned for residential or commercial development and sold off to a builder. Thats what always happens. Again land to either side of this road will be rezoned for residential development and this will grow the population also - Plan for the future!
The kind of carpark I had in mind was something like the small parkways you see at every suburban overground station in London, enough spaces for maybe 100 cars, in this instance maybe 200 or 300 to allow for future growth. But the city needs this because traffic congestion is strangling the city centre and the situation is only going to get worse.
As for security, what about a fence?
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