No to be fair, everything is local is this business and you need to know the location to understand the issues
Accessible footbridges are a legal requirement when a existing one is replaced and the one in Newbridge is fairly tricky for a able bodied person
Access from the northside of the station i.e. the new car park is by a narrow bridge with little or no space for pedestrians
The real issue is IE want to charge for the old car park when the new one opens, that doesn't seem fair and there is a 8 digit sum available for park and ride development sitting in the DoT less than half of the 35+ million available has never been allocated.
IE are claiming priority is given to pay parking since it makes a return. Strange then that the extended car park in Thurles and the new one being built in Templemore are/will be free
We recognised that the car parking thing wasn't sustainable (see election demands), particularly in Newbridge given its a good 10 minutes walk to the town centre, a bus service would do wonders
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