COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, February 25, 2019

QUESTION NO. 4

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

"To ask the Chief Executive to present an update on the N81 Improvement Scheme giving details of works currently under way and confirming the schedule being followed in respect of the project and will he make a statement?"

REPLY:

A report on the Part 8 public consultation process for the N81 Landscape Improvement Scheme was presented to the meeting of South Dublin County Council on March 13, 2017.  The project is spilt into a number of phases:

• Phase 1 is the section from M50 eastwards to Whitestown Way.
• Phase 2 commences at Whitestown Way and runs westwards 
• Phase 3 is from the Templeogue area to M50.

At the detailed design and construction stage; each above phase is broken into a number of smaller phases for operational and traffic management purposes.

The initial works on Phase 1 of the N81 scheme have commenced on site just west of the M50 and will be completed in early Spring. The works include a new footpath for a section of the route on the southern section of the roadway, land shaping and forming, new planting on the central median and roadsides and re-design of the roundabout at Avonbeg. As the majority of the works on the N81 scheme are landscape planting works the timing of the construction phases is required to match the available planting seasons; i.e. September / October to March / April. The proposed landscape works in the Phase 1 section have also been extended to include an upgrade of the public lighting along a section of the N81 west of the M50, this work has been funded by Transport Infrastructure Ireland. In the interim the detailed design of the next stage is underway.