Greenways [greenway map of Ireland in post 1]

"There's been no consultation" almost always means "No one has personally asked my permission to build whatever it is and then actually listened to me and agreed not to build it when I told them no…"

That is so poor. So much planning and such little actual work.

I thought Dublin was ahead of the curve in compariosn to the rest if the country! clearly struggling also.

I just think it makes sense to invest in an urban area like this, connect people, places, schools, work etc

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41829164.html

Has anyone heard anything about this? Are the Echo just butchering the reporting (like they did with the new Luas route) or is there a serious push by the council to run buses on the greenway itself?

The mere existence of that greenway really makes some councilors soil themselves in a fit of rage.

Looking at the wayleave boundary on the property folios, there doesn't appear to be sufficient space to accommodate the greenway and a bus corridor - not without CPO-ing farmland all along the route.

Seems a little odd for Wexford County Council to try and encroach on IrishRail lands when alternative routes exist. Good they seem to have found a solution though.

Conveniently the tender was published yesterday for the Rosslare Europort Access Route, so I looked into this further.

The existing bridge which I mentioned is to be repurposed for active travel. There is also an underpass provided specifically for the Greenway (Structure B3) so IR should be told "that's where the Greenway is going and that's that". There will minimal space between the sea and the road once it is built and it won't be usable for anything else. IR should be grateful for the huge investment which the government is pumping into REP as they have done nothing with it for decades. The least they can do is spare a strip of land for a public Greenway

Burtonport-Letterkenny if delivered in full will be of huge length, 100km, and will join a ~25km existing cycleway alongside the improved N56 down to Glenties.

Seems to not subsume the trial section of railway to greenway conversion done a few years ago oddly, but go North of it. Options report is an absolute monster of a file and it's too hot to be digging through to see why!

edit: wasn't too hard to find, it goes North to get Dunfanaghy in as a major trip generator basically. Runs along the road for a lot of that so I suspect they'll be really really hoping TII decide to do a Type 3 SC upgrade and save the money coming from active travel or tourism budgets! Railway line for most of the rest of the way.

Will also follow the Gweedore Canal - the diverted waterway for the hydro plant.

Could easily see a future railway direct route being done as well.