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Dublin Eastern Bypass

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  • 14-04-2005 9:27am
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    Zaph0d
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    There is a story on RTE today:
    IBEC Calls for Eastern Bypass of Dublin
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0414/bypass.html
    What is the vague idea of this bypass?

    Is it to build a road tunnel from the docks to Sandyford? Would it have any interchanges? If it's not tunnel all the way, you have to drag a motorway across south dublin. If there are any interchanges, again you'd be building them on hyper-expensive land. If it is tunnel all the way it would be at least three times the length of the port tunnel which sounds ambitious.

    Or is it just a line on a map?


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    jlang
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    The general proposed route of the Eastern Bypass has been across Poolbeg (either surface/tunnel, possible junction there), Sandymount Strand (probably bored tunnel to keep as many people happy as possible), Booterstown Marsh, beside the St Helens Hotel, parallel to Fosters Avenue (almost definite junction at N11), Mount Anville, Goatstown and I presume connecting to the M50 along the new bit of dualler up to the Sandyford intersection, although the junction itself would probably need some work.

    Dun Laoghaire Rathdown's long-term plans have included a reservation for it for years, although at the periodic revisions there's usually some screwball who wants it removed so that the alignment can be built on and the road can never be constructed. The land is not zoned residential but would presumably still be very expensive to purchase.

    It's mentioned in the Poolbeg development plan recently published and several of DLRCC's schemes make mention of its possible future construction. UCD's strategic development plans have reserved a strip of land for the road and some for the N11 junction. Various developments along the way have had to leave the line of the road clear where possible.

    Suffice to say the whole thing is very controversial and not yet on anybody's 10 year plan but no development has taken or will take place that would make it impossible in the future. Of course IBEC want it because soon every truck will have to go up the Port Tunnel.


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    jlang
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    Seems I was wrong - it is an objective in the DLRCC plan, but all details are deliberately not specified...

    http://www.dlrcoco.ie/planning/DevPlan04/Chapter11.pdf
    Six Year Roads Objectives
    Eastern Bypass – N11 to Booterstown and Dublin Port. The line of the Eastern By-Pass is not fixed; it’s route will be determined following the outcome of an Environmental Impact Assessment including a process of public consultation.


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