Park and Ride

I have become a regular user of the City Council's Park & Ride service from Black Ash near the Magic Roundabout - more properly the Kinsale Road Roundabout - on the City Link road. It is a purpose built facility with waiting room and toilets and plenty of parking space. The service costs €5 per day for a car and up to 4 passengers, though as it happens there is no charge this week for some worthy reason that I cannot recall. Buses depart roughly every 15 minutes - more often at peak times - and make the journey in about 5 minutes, except at peak times.

The exception is important.

At peak times, the buses can be very crowded and can be considerably delayed by traffic.

By carefully choosing times, though, it can be a most impressively quick service for commuters.

I especially like the fact that I can use the N25 ring road to access it but dodge across Tramore Road/Pouladuff and down to Jail Cross if conditions or my needs so indicate. (The N25 is very prone to congestion at peak times, and I live a long way from it anyway).

Comments

[VentryVic]

Thank you for this post, your website looks very good, but core info I googled to get here was provided in s succinct matter. It is "€5 per day for a car and up to 4 passengers", as no-where on the Cork Council Park and Ride site did the mention how many people the bus ticket covered. I am visiting Cork tomorrow and wondered about parking for the city-centre. You have encouraged me to try the P+R.
Best Wishes to you.