Greenways [greenway map of Ireland in post 1]

Case in point the old route out of Westport towards Newport.

the Part 8 advertisement of the additional pedestrian bridges at Lowtown and adjacent to Healys Bridge / Bonynge Bridge to be advertised late Q2 2025

And here it is;

Great news. Clifden to Oughterard is a substantial stretch but of limited value until it is extended into Galway city. How accurate is the route you have marked in your greenways map?

There's just isolated chunks of the old trackbed left, where two ditches still exist intact. Most of the route there is either nothing at all, it's completely demolished, or just one ditch now forming a field boundary.

There's considerable opposition from property owners, I'd be surprised if this comes to anything other than crayons on a map. At best a route with so many dog legs and diversions to make it unpleasant to use.

The Burma Road greenway looks to be now cancelled. A change of mind from Irish rail. There'll be no operational railway either for at least another 25 years, if ever. It seems like a missed opportunity.

https://sligogreenway.ie/

Dublin City Council is delighted to announce the opening of Section 4 of the Royal Canal Greenway Phase 3 — from Newcomen Bridge to Clarke’s Bridge — officially launched on Friday, 20th June at lunchtime.This video highlights some of the great new features, including a granite plaza opposite Charleville Mall Library, a drinking water fountain, and a bike maintenance station

https://x.com/DubCityCouncil/status/1937092825708957948

only a little bit but nice all the same. How long does it take to bury some electrical cables lol

not too sure it wont get vandalized really quickly to be honest in that particular location but sure time will tell

Any idea what the delay is along the L2998 between Woodville where it stops and the M8 motorway overpass near Gealscoil Ui Drisceoil where it starts again?

More Cork East updates:

The section of greenway into Eastgate (Little Island) is now substantially complete. It should be open for use soon. I'll update when I'm confident it's fully open. This might seem like a limited scheme but it's significant because options to enter Little Island at present are very poor. Most choose to cycle on the footpath because the road has heavy traffic and high HGV % and it can be quite scary. There are 2 schools and near 10,000 people arriving/leaving daily for work. So a very small scheme but I suspect will have an outsized impact.

I also popped over to Glanmire for a look and the scheme on the Hazelwood road is definitely underway now, as is the scheme between the Aldi and the Lidl in Glanmire. Large teams working on each. Without having inside info, and as a casual observer I would guess at both being usable by bike before the end of the year.

Finally also in Glanmire area the schemes connecting Fernwood and Ballinglanna are usable by bike and the chicane gates on the greenway section at Dunkettle interchange have now been remedied - one set of gates removed and replaced with bollards, the other gap between the chicane gates widened to 2m or more.

All in all large amounts of work going on in the area: that's 5 or 6 different unrelated sites putting in dedicated cycle infrastructure on a single 5km trip there with more to soon follow.

Possibly over-optimistic here but I'm predicting a finished fully cycle-able suburb with greenways as its core spine some time in the next 18-24 months. That's a serious turnaround for what was a very car dominated area.

There's a big mix of designs (greenways and cycleways) throughout though. It varies from full greenway to 2-way cycleway plus footpath, to shared footpath, to 1-way cycleways per-side etc.

I'm conflicted by whether I should be updating the greenways thread with some of the stuff I'm detailing here. An full cycle network is emerging in the area rather than an individual greenway.

And just to add, I think the catalyst for all of this was something of a "perfect storm" between a flood relief scheme necessitating road layout changes, a major motorway interchange project and a council boundary change all happening in the area.

Yes I'm only reporting fully segregated infrastructure in my updates too: I don't really consider paint to be worthy of discussion.

That kind of map you're describing would be great alright, but I think your own one is already very useful as-is. I think you could possibly even get away with removing completed schemes and only tracking progression of schemes in design/development/consultation phases, leaving the depiction of completed schemes to Google or OpenStreetMap or whoever your base layer provider would be. But it's more valuable as-is than any other maps for cycle infrastructure discussion!