Bilberry - Embarrassing Road for Greenway Tourism

Sure, the council got shafted with funding. Can’t remember the full details but originally, they were meant to get funding to do the greenway all the way into the city centre. But the full funding was not given in the end leaving the council having to find money.

Waterford people really need to wake up to the way government treats Waterford.

So they did nothing with it for four years. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Possibly. However the angle put forward here by others is that they sat on their hands for four years after not getting all the funding they wanted.

I was interested to see that this will link up with the Sustainable Transport Bridge over the Quays, and that they're looking into another greenway going into Tramore.

The Tramore one in particular would seem like a no brainer, but I wonder if that involves putting in a segregated cycle path along the existing main road, or whether they want to follow the route of the old railway.

Why would Rosslare send freight to Dublin via New Ross-Waterford when there's already a more direct line there?

I'd say they'd be trying to give tourists another option of somewhere to go/stay/return to. Repeat business could be more easily encouraged if people have new places to explore.

I could see Tramore getting a big boost from it - think of the 'cycle and surf' type marketing, and eco friendly packages that'd follow!

It might also encourage more commuters and day trippers to cycle back and forth to Waterford safely. Families with young kids would be delighted, and it'd reduce congestion in the town.

Further down the line it might even facilitate some greater promotion of the Copper Coast route.

im wondering myself, has it stalled, the small section i walked was well under construction, with a fine bridge built across the new bypass, was talking to a local, he certainly wasnt too happy about it, and understandably so, im sure i wouldnt be too

happy about it either, if i was in that situation.

I wouldn't blame him, I cycle the Waterford Greenway regularly and often pass, the m50 gang, the hutch, the dunduns and the kinahans scooping out the place!

this is just a very strange & illogical take on things....

right, since you re doubling down on this daftness.

Have you ever heard of any increase in crime, in any rural area, in anyway greenway, in any part of the country, that has been attributable to the introduction of a greenway?

To suggest the the introduction of a greenway is a legitimate threat or has any material or even immaterial impact on home burglary is genuinely the stuff of complete NIMBY sensationalist, fanciful utter bullshit

Maybe we should build a big cage over the greenway and access, that should help security!

Spot on. The guy has some seriously moronic views.

Yeah, going to be really interesting. Part of it is going to be a platform out over the river.

Road Closure Grattan Quay , Waters Gate from 7th Nov to 26th Dec 2021 to facilitate piling works for new Boardwalks as part of Bilberry to City Centre Greenway

It’s great to see this progressing i know they said it will be fully completed in 18 months ,but hopefully they will have something in place for the tourist season next March or April.

The plans were posted in the main Greenway thread and I think they bypass the halting site with a walkway built on the other side of the wall right up to the bridge

The left turn onto Rice Bridge from Grattan Quay will be removed making space for the Greenway route to cross onto the quays more safely. The whole junction is being realigned to facilitate the greenway passing through it towards the quays!