Royal Canal Greenway

It might be easier to link College Gate and Bracken Park to the open space at the end of Castleknock Way. This would give access to the proposed bridge over M50 to Park Avenue. See attached screenshot.

Even without the bridge over the M50 it makes it easy for people from College Gate and Bracken Park to get to Scoil Thomais and Laurel Lodge Shopping Centre, and 37 bus.

Following on from what Flinty997 says about objections, I cannot picture Church Court residents being happy about increased pedestrian or bicycle traffic (even though the access would benefit them too).

Cycling via Park Avenue to the Beechpark Avenue junction will be okay because it would bring you to cycle tracks along Castleknock Road (designated a Primary Radial route). Of course none of this infrastructure will be built for decades because NTA and other such bodies only specialise in producing nice maps.

The Consultation Report is now available at: https://www.fingal.ie/royalcanalurbangreenway/consultationreport

Summary of changes since the consultation:

• The number of accesses to the greenway via Delwood and Brompton has been reduced from 6 to 3
• The bridge access route/ramp from the Brompton Green area has been shifted further west, with the bridge route/ramp meandering through the wooded area, which should act to screen the bridge access ramp from the Roselawn properties
• The access point into the Brompton green area has been shifted eastwards to respect the privacy of adjacent properties
• To prevent the greenway overlooking the back gardens of the residents of Delwood Park and for security reasons, the ground level of the greenway is proposed to be lowered to match, or be lower than, the existing ground level of the adjacent back gardens and a 2m high timber palisade fence provided, with an anti-climb wire mesh fence.
• The design now includes a 2m high fence line to be maintained along the southern side of the greenway along the Brompton green area. To provide further privacy to the Brompton residents, planting and railings will be provided on the Brompton side of the greenway through the Brompton green area

Its not really much of a compromise though. Its basically what they wanted all along only very slightly modified.

I think there are less confrontational ways of doing things.

I'm curious what you think the residents wanted that you think they got?

I was trying to find a list of issues for both sides. Best I could find was they both want it on different sides of the canal and either want no access or access through the estate.

Because multiple access through the estate and path on estate side seems like there was no comprise at all.

Build a fence a bit higher and move the bridge slightly seem to make negligible difference to that. More of a sop than a compromise.

All of those were in the previous proposal though. As far as I can see, there has not been one single change to the proposals following the 2021 consultation. Any questions about the glaring omissions from the design were met with "this will be addressed at a future stage".

Which might be fair enough, but then you'd have to ask what they've been doing for the last year.

Yes.

I think if you want to involved you would make it your business to be involved or heard. Either through the association or outside of it.

If you don't I think you've voted by your inaction.

This isn't really a consultation, its a Fait accompli. They are just rearranging the curtains, hey look we've changed it...very slightly...

The south side option was never feasable given the proximity to the train track and the depth of the Deep Sinking. Getting more restrictions into and out of Delwood is more than adequate. Waterways Ireland should immediately enforce thru the courts any landgrab no matter how "historical" or inadvertant. Same should apply to the north side off the canal of the what I think is an old Anglo estate from the the Ashtown Lock heading towards Castleknock/Blanch. CPO if necessary. This was always about NIMBYism with the hope of killing off a really great initiative to bring the canal walkway back to use for the general public. Many will prefer it to cutting thru the Phoenix Park especially if Kildare CC get off their arse and complete their section enabling a completed cycleway from Celbridge and Maynooth etc to the Docks. I got some creative line of bullshit from a Kildare CC official as to why the Kildare stretch is on hold yet a great job was done in St Catherines Park? These cycling/walking routes like the Canals or the Tolka and Dodder are a huge improvement. The Islandbridge to Chapelizard one on the Liffey is great. Roll on the new Liffey bridge proposed for there and at the Red Bridge in the Strawberry Beds at the back of Farmleigh which would connect Palmerstown and beyond to the Park.

That area is developing a reputation for NIMBYism. They opposed the bridge at Riverwood Ct/Stationcourt Way as part of DART+ West and we have been left as a result with a monstrosity of a bridge at Coolmine Station.

When that happens, other concerns as with encroachment on the canal in other places will be brushed aside.

They opposed the bridge at Riverwood Ct/Stationcourt Way as part of DART+ West and we have been left as a result with a monstrosity of a bridge at Coolmine Station.

Nope. The monstrosity at Coolmine Station was in the original plan, it was always planned in addition to the Riverwood Bridge.