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update from Enjoy Malahide Facebook

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BROADMEADOW VIADUCT WALKWAY/CYCLEWAY UPDATE: There has been significant progress made on the Broadmeadow Way project since last reported. Fingal County Council is currently reviewing the Environmental Impact Statement for this proposal. When all the documentation is complete and ready to lodge with An Bord Pleanála, the Council plans to bring a presentation to the project committee.

Fingal County Council are engaging with affected landowners to purchase land and to agree accommodation works, and Irish Rail is working closely on this project. In parallel Fingal County Council have made progress in addressing environmental/legal issues pertaining to the railway causeway across the estuary, and the Council is preparing funding sources for the project implementation stage.

Thanks to Councillor Eoghan O'Brien for the project update

Alan Farrell

Allyall wrote: »

Allegedly the farmers had agreed terms with FF to allow some form of pathway to go around the Broadmeadows estuary, anywhere that it may have encroached or be forced to go into their land.

I continue to be puzzled by your continued fanciful references to FF when referring to a matter which is being completed by the Council, for at least ten years.

As a matter of fact, one of the landowners happens to be a supporter of Labour, not that that matters one little bit.

The progress of this proposal is down to the availability of funding to Fingal. They didn't have enough, now they do. It will go ahead sooner rather than later.

Allyall

Alan Farrell wrote: »

I continue to be puzzled by your continued fanciful references to FF when referring to a matter which is being completed by the Council, for at least ten years.

As a matter of fact, one of the landowners happens to be a supporter of Labour, not that that matters one little bit.

I referenced FF as it was they who claimed it, I also used the word allegedly.

I definitely have no fanciful or otherwise connections with FF/FG/LAB/GP/SF etc.

I think it takes a certain type of person to want to be a politician in the first place, and I don't fit into that category.

Alan Farrell wrote: »

The progress of this proposal is down to the availability of funding to Fingal. They didn't have enough, now they do. It will go ahead sooner rather than later.

Déjà vu

http://issuu.com/seanfitz09/docs/pages280212/7

Alan Farrell

Allyall wrote: »

Déjà vu

http://issuu.com/seanfitz09/docs/pages280212/7

The article you have quoted references money from the Department to facilitate "Taking the project one step closer to fruition".

From recollection, it was €200k or thereabouts.

Allyall

Alan Farrell wrote: »

The article you have quoted references money from the Department to facilitate "Taking the project one step closer to fruition".

From recollection, it was €200k or thereabouts.

TBH, I don't care about the delay, and can understand plenty of other things needed to move first. As long as those ugly railings are gone, moved down or replaced with something less dirty looking. A perfectly good recreational area has been destroyed. It could easily have been avoided and at a cheaper cost.

Are they still going to try and squeeze a carpark in there, despite everyone being against it?

dslamjack

Broadmeadow Way prioritised... or so the Fingal Indo's headline goes--Will this be started let alone completed in our lifetime,I suppose it's no accident that we're in the midst of Election mania.
Full article here..http://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/news/broadmeadow-way-prioritised-34433898.html

Allyall

Allyall wrote: »

Fianna Fail are waiting to get back in, before they announce that they have finished that walkway/crossover/"Orbital Route".

dslamjack wrote: »

Broadmeadow Way prioritised... or so the Fingal Indo's headline goes--Will this be started let alone completed in our lifetime,I suppose it's no accident that we're in the midst of Election mania.
Full article here..http://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/news/broadmeadow-way-prioritised-34433898.html

From the article

Cllr Eoghan O'Brien (FF)

Senator Darragh O'Briens younger brother whom he gave his council seat to. Obviously feeling pretty confident he will get back in, and as soon as he does, JCB's, Cranes and other industrial vehicles will move in.

FF - "Look what I/we did, as soon as we're back, ball is rolling, aren't we great!"
I presume all the other 'paused' projects will start back again too.

Everyone else will forget/not care that it was those who left it ugly for years, and are responsible plenty of other landscape atrocities around that same area.
Pity the people who were in up until now didn't know how to do it, or didn't even reference it or any of the other 'projects'.

dslamjack

OMG...Broadmeadow viaduct ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadmeadow_viaduct ..
It's 600 meters long,how hard can it be to build a blooming footpath 2/3 meter's wide x 600 meters long,we'll probably have to wait till it cost's 2/3 million sq meter and FF are in power.
The FF lad's are never short of a JCB or Crane ,once their's a million or two involved.
I get it , God it's a mighty job,very very big altogether,give us a break.
Hearse's going in to Dardistown Cemetary move quicker than this crowd,It's taken 10 year's or more with the Castle,and another 10 years to finish it at the rate their going.
You would seriously lose the will to live trying to get this crowd to move on anything.
I wouldn't be expecting this Council to do anything about homelessness any time soon either considering they can't put a footpath on a bit of infrastructure that's been around since 1844.

Carawaystick

I don't think the issue is the viaduct, It's the route through farmland to the Kilcrea gate.

Allyall

Carawaystick wrote: »

I don't think the issue is the viaduct, It's the route through farmland to the Kilcrea gate.

That was/is an issue in itself, but that would be a tiny bit of the walk and doesn't affect the rest of the 'orbital' route.
Also the cranes and equipment were at the viaduct ready to place the tops, but everything was 'paused' when the election came up.
After the election the cranes sat there for an extra 2-3 months before being taken away.
The viaduct could and should have been finished when they were there. So the extra pathway up to Kilcrea gate had/has nothing to do with that.

dslamjack

I see Cllr Eoghan O’Brien (FF) talking in the North County Leader --- The County Leader spoke to Cllr Eoghan O’Brien (FF), who has been pushing this objective during these meetings; “It’s been a slow process to date. There’s a lot of issues around wildlife, so the idea behind my motion and the adding of the objective to the development plan was to ensure that we had something there that said that Broadmeadow Way would be prioritised during the life of the new development plan.”

So it might get done by 2023..... story here....http://www.northcountyleader.ie/2016/02/16/north-county-goes-coast-to-coast/

donfers

Sorry to bump the thread but any update on this guys - why set a date of 2023, get it done by end of year, it's not such a gargantuan project ffs