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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

MOTION NO. 24

MOTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

"That this Committee expresses it thanks to traffic engineering staff for the conducting the recent walk of the Lucan Road/Chapel Hill area to review issues of road safety along routes to the school; and to ask for a report on the steps necessary to implement the following proposals identified during the walk:

  1. To address the narrowness of the footpath on the north side of Lucan Road, immediately west of the entrance to St. Ed’s hospital;

  2. To provide bollards to prevent vehicles ‘for sale’ parking on footpaths bewteen Esker Lane and Ballydowd Grove;

  3. To seek a review and possible reconfiguring of crossing & island at junction of Lucan Road and Chapel Hill;

  4. To provide additional parking on-road at Chapel Hill; including lengthened drop-off zone outside St. Mary’s BNS;

  5. To provide bollards to prevent vehicles running up on footpath at mini-roundabout at junction of Main Street and Lucan Bridge."

REPORT:

The most important step necessary to implement the proposals is to identify a source of funding for implementation.

Item 1:

At present there is a bus lane and two vehicle lanes on this road. A very small improvment could be facilitated in the footpath width by narrowing all of these traffic lanes. This would also require relining a long section of the Old Lucan Road. The principle issue here is the kerb height. If the footpath was a minimum of 125mm above road level, the limited local area of narrow footpath could be tolerated. To achieve this, it is required to place a continuous new kerb on top of the existing with no works to the footpath. This work could be supplemented with laying a new footpath and raising all the service covers at considerable expense. As a complete alternative, a continuous row of bollards could be placed but these would have the effect of narrowing the footpath locally.

Item 2: Yes, bollards or a raised kerb as detailed above could be provided.

Item 3: Yes, a number of solutions are possible here. One is illustrated on the attached plan for consideration.

Item 4: This is possible and illustrated on the attached plan.

Item 5: These can be provided and a seperate to additional work requested to create an additional traffic lane on Chapel Hill into the roundabout. Both these measures are illustrated on the attached plan.