Swords Business Park

AySeeDoubleYeh

Quick one - wife's got an interview lined up in Swords Business Park. Is the park walkable from the Pavilion Shopping Centre? Looks like it's a km or so according to google maps, but want to make sure it isn't on a main road!

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

What do you mean that it isn’t on a main road? But yes, it’s walkable and there’s a footpath there. It’s safe.

AySeeDoubleYeh

I wanted to make sure there was a safe footpath, as some (older) search results mentioned that there was none or having to walk across a football pitch to get there. Your answer is exactly what I was looking for, so much appreciated.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

It’s just off a main road, but she’ll be grand walking. Only thing is that it’s a big place, the 1km is probably only to the front gate, she could be walking a fair bit after that too, depends where she’s interviewing..

the_amazing_raisin

The entrance to that business park is from the north, pretty sure there's no way to walk in from the roads to the South

She could walk up the R132 but I think the footpath there is pretty bad in that section

Probably the easiest way would be to walk up Main Street to the castle and then turn down Seatown Road just after the council buildings (there should be an Aldi down that road)

There's a pedestrian bridge over the R132 and then there's a decent footpath from that point onwards

Screenshot below might help

the_amazing_raisin

Also just be 100% sure it's Swords Business Park, there's also Swords Enterprise Park on the other side of town, plus a whole bunch of other business parks around

1sttime1

Most people seem to cut across the r132 and walk straight, it's a busy road but you see lots of people do it. Much safer to walk down the r132 think it might be a bit muddy and walk over the pedestrian bridge into the pavilions. It's a long enough track to go around the village especially if its during lunch hour. Much easier to take the footpath down to the Tesco complex, theres a few other shops there too.

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121847473#Comment_121847473

Tesco? That's the wrong direction surely?

Swords Business park is the one on Estuary Road near the recycling centre

Unless there's another Swords Business Park (which seems possible)

shoegirl

there are buses that stop off at the stop opposite Woodies on the R132 - she can then walk over the bridge, turn right at the roundabout.

Just make sure it is "Swords Business Park" and not the enterprise park or business campus which are in different parts of Swords.

If its the business campus get a 41 or 41C that goes via Glen Ellan Rd and get off the first stop on that Rd, the business campus is opposite.

sdanseo

If headed to the Northern Side of the business Park, there's a side door from Swords Central (the indoor extension of the Pavilions) directly opposite Forster Place. Walk down that to the FCC offices then through Colmcilles Estate and up Seatown Road.

For the southern side (An Post, Noonans etc) quicker to go out the main door, cross the R132 at the Malahide Roundabout then walk up to Applegreen Mountgorry and cut through there on foot.

Please use one of the several footbridges. Not many better examples of natural selection than watching gobshines cross the R132 on the level 🤐

shoegirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121914955#Comment_121914955

Its really not people's fault that there are no safe places to cross on the R132. This has been campaigned for now for years.

billyhead

I recall a case previously were a young woman was left seriously injured trying to cross the R132 near the Pavilions.

sdanseo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121916333#Comment_121916333

Much as I may not be FCC's biggest fan - that's just not true. There's 4 footbridges an average of 460m apart, which presumably represented a significant investment at the time.

Room for one more at Pinnock Hill for sure, as well as an over/underpass to link the Metro stop by the Pavilions, which together would be preferable in my view to FCC's rather overkill scheme in the works to reduce the whole thing to 50km/h.

shoegirl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121923397#Comment_121923397

There's nearly 1200 home owners in Holywell and workers from the business park which your overhead photo clearly shows on the left, who would disagree with you. And some quite horrific accidents.