Clontarf to City Centre Cycle & Bus Priority Project discussion (renamed)

https://www.water.ie/projects/local-projects/north-city-arterial-main-ncam

Irish Waters map show work due both on James Larkin Road and Clontarf Road

James Larkin Road work happening next month but theres no details for it? https://www.water.ie/projects/local-projects/north-city-water-supply-s

The lack of detail information about traffic diversions is astonishing Irish Water and the Councils should be informing the public directly not via ( self promoting ) politicians.

Irish Water are having a meeting on Thursday, January 29, from 5pm to 8pm, in Scoil Eoin on Greendale Road.

Irish Water seem to be depending on GMC Utilities to do the information with a Community Liason Officer on 0818 999 555

Fingal planning reference F25A/0988E, DCC WEB5455/25

Part of it is in Fingal and they havnt got a final decision they got more info required.

Irish Water says residents & business along route of upcoming North City Arterial Main waters works were invited to Information Meeting Thursday 29th,Scoil Eoin Greendale. Did any such people get a invite? (that didn't come from a politician).

They said it was an old one on the RTE News at 1 - they're digging in the park to fix it and I don't recall any works in Fairview park itself when the road was being done, but I didn't pass it too often

DCC motion to have a segregated route for cyclist when the flood barriers are in place on Clontarf promenade https://blog.karlstanley.ie/cycling-certainty-on-the-seafront/

https://dublin.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=141&MId=5736&Ver=4&ref=blog.karlstanley.ie

That the North Central Area Committee calls on the Manager to ensure that when the coastal cycle route is closed, for reason of flood works or otherwise, a temporary, segregated cycle lane is installed on the adjacent coast road for the distance and duration of said closure. In the two weeks after the last NCAC meeting on 19 January 2025 the coastal cycle lane was blocked by concrete slabs for a number of days,reopened, closed again for a number of days and reopened again. No notice was give of any of these closures and no useful signage was in place alerting cyclists of the closure.

Given Dublin City Council’s commitments to active travel and the high volume of commuters,school children and local residents who rely on this cycle route it is imperative that there is certainty that at all times a safe cycle route that is physically separated from traffic will be in place. Without this certainty the route will be unreliable and people will not use it, instead resorting to the motorised transport that creates the congestion we are trying to avoid and contributes to the climate change that causes extreme weather events in the first place.

When the coastal cycle route was closed for flood alleviation works for four months in the summer of2025 no safe alternative cycle route was provided by Dublin City Council – instead children, families and commuters were funnelled, unprotected, into busy traffic. Dublin City Council must do better. And we know it can. Because during the same flood alleviation works last summer road space was taken and used to create a safe, segregated walkway for pedestrians that was physically separated from the road by a barrier. This shows it can be done – we just need to apply the same approach to children, families and commuters who use bikes and rely on this route.