Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

Good Evening,

I hope you are keeping well. Council Officials informed Councillors this evening that they intend to proceed with their plan to make Deansgrange Road one-way for traffic to create a two-way cycle track on the road.

Councillors were told that the proposed one-way system would run from the junction with Kill Lane on the southern end to Springhill Avenue / Brookville Park at the northern end of Deansgrange Road.

This would result in the rerouting of traffic (and the 84 and 84A bus services) to Baker's Corner and onto Abbey Road/Link Road, before rejoining Deansgrange Road. 

You will recall the Zoom meeting I held when the issue was first proposed and the Council's public engagement process last October. 

Over 6,430 submissions were made by members of the public on the wider project to improve safe cycling infrastructure in the County - of which 63% of respondents were in favour of improved facilities.

However, in relation to the proposal for Deansgrange Road only 13% of submissions were in favour of the proposed one-way system. The full report is available here (the Deansgrange section is covered from page 64). 

Given the lack of public support for the one-way system Council Officials undertook to examine two alternative options for the cycle route. Officials have now rejected these alternative options and they are proposing to proceed with the original plan. They propose to commence the works on or after Monday 27th September. 

I understand that Councillors will consider the matter at their meeting in early September. Councillors Michael Clark (Killiney-Shankill) and Justin Moylan (Dún Laoghaire) have expressed concern about the proposal and they will ask for alternatives to be considered.  

You can engage with Councillors by email at grpcouncillors@dlrcoco.ie or individually, details here. 

The change will obviously have significant implications for some businesses in the area. They should contact the Council at 01 205 4700 / info@dlrcoco.ie to get more information about what it will mean for access to their premises.

If you have any queries or feedback, please get in touch, 

Kind regards,

Cormac

Cormac Devlin TD

Fianna Fáil TD for Dún Laoghaire 

Dáil Éireann

Leinster House

Kildare Street

Just put cycle path on grass / flood defense wall and get on with it.

Absolute bullshit going on.

Worried about a tiny bit of grass and poxy seagulls.

So 2 alternatives were considered and rejected. FF now asking that "alternatives" be considered. What are the alternatives @Larbre34 ?

But it is not in isolation. It forms a key section of the proposed Park to Park route linking Blackrock Dart Station to Killiney Beach. At present when you exit Clonkeen Park in Deansgrange village, you are dumped out on a busy road with no safe route to continue on to the next section of the route at Brookville.

The alternatives looked at I believe were to go up to Bakers corner, left down Abbey Road, left on the link road and rejoin the route. An uphill diversion of almost a kilometre

Also " a decent cycle corridor" on the N11 is far from accurate as anyone who uses it can testify..

Another proposal to compliment this is to open a through route through the cemetery from this cycle path up to Holly Park thereby making 2 or 3 large national schools accessible safely by bike from that end of the catchment.

the new cycle track on Victoria quay is horrendous and actually increases the danger to cyclists as you now have to cross into the lane occupied by high speed buses in order to cross the bridge outside Heuston to go towards the Phoenix park. Previously you could occupy the middle of the old bus lane and make them overtake properly

And before anyone tells me they can wait at the top , just watched for 45 minutes and 10/10 cyclists crossed left to right outside the Guinness factory exits

Support. Huge numbers. Electoral pressure on sitting Councillors. It's all good collateral.

There's a cycle light at the end for crossing but it's a joke. Waited for 5 minutes at it the last time before giving up and taking my chances with a gap in the traffic.

It wasn't given preferential treatment for planning reasons, the red carpet was rolled out for their plan by the City Council, to try to avoid having the Council's plan taken to Court, because the Council knew the basis proposed for it, by them, was so flimsy.

Cards on the table now. S2S is the only acceptable plan. The only high quality cycleway that will be permitted locally, is one by the shore, on or beside the inevitable flood protection measures in the next few years. The locals don't own the roads, but they do have the ear of elected representatives and they do have the resources to keep the fight going indefinitely. That may frustrate some of you, but its just reality.

Also, a consortium including NAMA has just this week lodged its application for an SHD on the IGB site, 600 new homes. That plan factors in the R131 and R802 as two-way regional routes, for improved public transport provision as well as car traffic. If you think the high ups in the DoHP are going to permit that to be jeopardised by Owen Keegan's 'Moby Dick' on Strand Road, you'd be mistaken.

We'll probably get the High Court decision soon, itself a very interesting development for all local authorities who have provided measures under the COVID banner. Irrespective though, I don't see Strand Road ever happening, it's been overtaken by too many events. And really, that's what the residents were relying on all along.

I'm still waiting for the Green Party and/or the Government to fall!

The Luas Red Line is to be extended to the IGB site, and it will be served with busses, cycle lanes, and pedestrian network...also easy access to the Dart. Why does it need a lot of vehicular access? It is close to the city centre, and will have a substantial transport network. Is it to appease the minority that demand the right to drive in the city? Another red herring!

To be honest, it makes town/urban planners look like prostitutes who will design and write whatever the highest bidder is willing to pay for rather than follow best practice.