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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, June 17, 2021

MOTION NO.

MOTION: Councillor Peter Kavanagh, Councillor Liam Sinclair, Councillor L. Donaghy, Councillor S.McEneaney

To amend SM3 Objective 13 as follows: To support new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines as a means of providing new public transport links, where rail options are demonstrated by the NTA not to be achievable in the short-term, including for the planned Metro (Metrowest) and along the Outer Ring Road and Adamstown-Citywest corridors.

REPORT: 

The motion seeks the insertion of the text ‘in the short term’ into SM3 Objective 13 so that it reads as follows:

‘To support new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines as a means of providing new public transport links, where rail options are demonstrated by the NTA not to be achievable in the short term, including for the planned Metro (Metrowest) and along the Outer Ring Road and Adamstown-Citywest corridors.’ 

It is considered more appropriate to amend the objective to reference the period of the County Development Plan as follows:

‘To support new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines as a means of providing new public transport links, where rail options are demonstrated by the NTA not to be achievable over the period of the County Development Plan 2022-2028, including for the planned Metro (Metrowest) and along the Outer Ring Road and Adamstown-Citywest corridors.’

RECOMMENDATION:  

It is recommended that the motion be adopted with amendments, to revise Policy SM3 Objective 13 to read as follows:

‘To support new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines as a means of providing new public transport links, where rail options are demonstrated by the NTA not to be achievable over the period of the County Development Plan 2022-2028, including for the planned Metro (Metrowest) and along the Outer Ring Road and Adamstown-Citywest corridors.’