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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, March 11, 2024

QUESTION NO. 29

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

To ask the Chief Executive if he has had advice from the Minister for Transport in respect of the spending of the grant of €22,400,000 for further Active Travel works and will he make a statement? 

REPLY:

We are delighted to announce that Active Travel has received funding from the NTA for 2024 of €22.4 Million. This funding will enable the Council to continue to deliver our agreed Cycle South Dublin programme and our shared vision for South Dublin to be one of Ireland’s most cycle friendly counties.

The delivery of a safe and connected network across the County will take time, but the Council has been making steady progress with this and we are beginning to see a new network taking shape. In 2023 the Council had a highly successful year with a spend of €22.5 Million which is seeing us deliver Active Travel infrastructure across all of the constituencies of South Dublin County Council. Some of the schemes that were progressed in 2023 and completed or close to completion are as follows,

• Grange Road Phase 2 complete (0.7Km of Scheme)
• Avonbeg Road Cycling and Walking Scheme complete (2km of Scheme)
• Templeville Road Scheme Phase 1 complete (2.6km of Scheme)
• Dodder Greenway Phase 3 and Phase 4 complete (3.4km of Scheme)
• D24 Neighbourhood Scheme Phase 1 on-site. (Full scheme will be 11km)
• Castletymon Road active travel scheme complete (500metres)
• Killinarden Park and Greenway Scheme on site
• D12 Bike Bus Network on-site (1.28Km of Scheme)
• Active Travel Schools St Marks, Oval Palmerstown and Clondalkin on-site
• Light Segregation Schemes completed at Firhouse Road, Ballyowen Road, Tallaght Main Street and Cypress Grove Road

Looking ahead to 2024 the team have secured €22.4m of funding from the NTA and the Council has agreed to supplement this with a further €5m of funding from our own Capital Programme. This funding will enable the team to progress several schemes including,

• Grand Canal to Lucan Urban Greenway works will start on site.
• Firhouse Road Scheme works to start on site.
• Wellington Lane (Whitehall Road) Active Travel Scheme works to start on site
• Dodder Greenway Section 5- Firhouse and Butterfield Road works to start on site.
• D24 Neighbourhood Scheme Phase 2 works to start on site.
• Templeville scheme phase 2 works to start on site.
• Castletymon Active Travel Scheme phase 2 - Part 8 decision
• Knocklyon to Ballyboden scheme – Part 8 decision

These Active Travel Schemes are pivotal to building a strong network of connected walking and cycling routes for South Dublin Commuters and will make a difference in giving people viable options to walk or cycle to work, school and for leisure. Increasing our efforts in getting Children Walking and Cycling to School again in a safe environment is also pivotal in both reducing traffic on our roads, improving carbon emissions, and adding to their overall health and wellbeing. As part of that programme we have been working hard with Schools and have delivered Safer Routes to School interventions at Palmerstown St Lorcan’s Boys National School, St Brigids National School, St Marks Primary School in Springfield, St Maelruains Junior National School, Gael Scoil Chluain Dolcain and we have a Trail Safe Schools zone running at Bishop Shanahan and Bishop Galvin Schools on Rossmore Road part of the wider Wellington Lane Active Travel Scheme.