So the balls-up has started since last night which makes Fairview from clontarf to Edges corner a single lane with bollards down the centre.
This will be a permanent feature and works will take 21 months.
On the jeweller guy. I passed by yesterday and none of the parking on that side of the road has been removed. All of the work is on the park side which never had parking anyway.
How was his business impacted exactly?
there's always complaining on facebook, to be fair...
No, there was a woman who's part of a local residents initiative that wasn't happy at all. Lots of complaining took place on a local facebook group when the works began earlier this year.
Is this just speculation or what?
I think it's just people who want stuff for Ballybough itself, on the main roadway. They don't think it's fair that they aren't getting any of the planting mainly, but will have to take all the extra traffic. I think at the time, one person pointed out how few trees they actually have. And to be fair, it's an even worse kip than North Strand Road already.
That's the most hyper parochial view I've ever heard of, ballybough and the North strand are parallel to eachother and only about 250m apart. They're within eyeshot of eachother at most points. How could any investment happen on one and not benefit the other. It'll give people there easy cycling walking and bus access to the entire Dublin coast and docklands area
The people of Ballybough are going to go mental too. They have to deal with all the extra traffic but none of the work is going to benefit them. No new trees, parklets or cycle lane for those guys.
I think the rage this road closure will cause on Dublin Live and Facebook etc should be investigated as an energy source that could be harnessed
work started on design in the last few weeks.
Was intrigued by this - I googled and came upon this video:
I thought that it looked the business, and the project must have momentum if they were commissioning videos of it - and then I saw the 2017 uploading date...
Okay great thanks. It will be great when that's all done. Including the Greenway that Dublin Port are building around the port and including East Wall road
If you look at the second picture of the leaflet (screenshots posted above), you'll see that section 5 highlighted in purple includes a link along the north bank of Tolka through Fairview all the way to Alfie Byrne Road.
I can't see easy diversions around this either to the east or to the west . For the Malahide road inbound perhaps Griffith Avenue and Swords road but both those are busy out anyway . East Wall will just terminate near the permanent mess that is the Beckett Bridge/Sheriff St junctions anyway
LOL that is going to drive the local cranks nuts.
There's also plans just started for a Greenway along the Santry river from Santry demesne to bull island.
Is there information on this anywhere? First I've heard of it.
Opening up that no-go area on Northside of river would be fantastic if done right. The area just needs some street lighting and maybe some CCTV?...
Thanks for sharing. The road closures are going to greatly increase traffic in Marino as well. Lots of people will turn off the malahide road and come through it to "beat" the traffic. Best of luck as it's extremely tight especially on Philipsburg avenue. Can't wait to see the final product and should make the cycle in to the office a lot more enjoyable.
that's what we got.
I live a stone's throw from the main areas impacted and haven't received anything in the door since this all started.
I think an understated benefit of this scheme is that they're going to build a cycle lane along the north side of the Tolka river as it passes Fairview park - this will really open up and connect the two sides of the park on either side of the rail line and make that undesirable no-go area under the railway bridge over the Tolka (on the north bank) far more attractive to park users.
anyone else get an information leaflet about this through their door? we got one on friday; we're probably 3 or 4km away as the crow flies.
It does seem fairly slow going. I pass the works regularly and there's often very little going on.
The various works to improve infrastructure along each of the core corridors are going to cause issues for a year or two all across the city in the coming years, so we are going to have to get used to it.
Dublin Bus have already updated the N4 running times once, so there’s no reason why they can’t again if the need arises.
Also great that they decimate the reliability of a route that was only introduced 2 months ago to replace the crappy 17a and has proven to be a huge success
It's lucky they planned for future traffic and allowed a LIDL and an ALDI to be built directly opposite one another on East Wall Road, we really do have The A-Team in planning in this country.
thats going to push a lot of traffic down East Wall/East Rd instead to try and avoid it.
Still seems very long in what you would cover in a full year, I just hope it's not abandoned midway through or that it gets finished and a month late they want to replace the gas or telecom lines through it and have to dig it all up again.
The water mains along the entire route are being replaced and diverted. I would imagine that alone is one of the principal reasons?
Given the speed they are currently building on Amiens St it would seem this is an understatement. funnelling inbounds from howth road, malahide road and clontarf road through the fairview strand/Philipsburgh avenue junction ? Thats nuts as its extremely constricted
How is it going to take at least a year to finish when there's no tunnelling or bridges going in? Is it lads on an ANCO course building it?
