Greenways [greenway map of Ireland in post 1]

No two greenways are unique and will have different mixes of recreation and transport uses. And different parts of the Greenway will differ by a lot.

For many of the more rural ones it's fair to say that the project driver was not sustainable transportation improvements but using an existing route for tourism, recreation and as someone said a linear park.

As someone said I think in the minds of some of the public and some politicans there is confusion between cycling for transport, recreation (a family putting the bikes on the back of the car on a Sunday and driving to the Greenway) and sport cycling.

So it's developed for recreation and tourism but then pointed to as a major sustainable transportation improvement.

Can be a vest frustrating and at worst falsely represent sustainable transportation improvements.

No not at all. That date is a guide for when a decision might be due. There isn't a legal deadline by which ABP needs to make a decision, except in theory for the Strategic Housing Development / SHD planning applications. It takes as long as it takes.

ABP are massively understaff and facing a series of investigations / board issues, which is slowly everything down.

The due date can also be massively misleading. For example, this project for a cycle path along the edge of Dublin Port was due 15th June 2022. There still is no decision. So there may not be a decision on the Blessington Greenway for weeks/months.

Someone put up locked gates on an access road to the Tralee to Fenit greenway. Signs telling pedestrians to stay out too. It’s supposedly a public road, but someone must not want people passing by.

Listowel greenway linking to abbeyfeale and Rathkeale opening today .When Listowel links up to Tralee /fenit ,it will surely take some beating

Make sure to bring a few "caution NIMBY's" signs to put around the place.

Some photos on the Waterford forum of the ongoing upgrade work on the Bilberry road bringing the greenway into the city centre, including installing a cantilevered boardwalk.

Excellent. That will be one of our best when it's finished. The views along Mountain Stage alone will be well worth it.

"not consulting enough" seems to be the go to NIMBY catchphrase now.

They did consult but they thought your ideas were stupid. Consult does not mean do everything you propose.

The recommendation is to build a Greenway along the road which is stupid.

I never understood this "privacy" argument. Most of the fking country lives in places that people walk past.

Here we go;

“We’re expected to give up everything but yet we don’t see a real benefit in the way the route is going as it doesn’t connect villages or neighbours, our kids can’t use it to cycle to school,” she insisted.

It's useless for locals. Who is this greenway for??

They don't have to take stuff on board. If the stuff is stupid it shouldn't be taken on board.

If the quoted resident is worried about road safety for her kids going to school she should campaign for cycle lanes not campaign to stop a greenway. Its not a one or the other thing and greenways are not for the thing she suggests.

My guess would also be that she doesn't give a sht about safe cycling and that's just a NIMBY red herring.

Does it have "no" links to nearby villages ?

I would imagine there will be a road from village to Greenway same as the rest of them.

The woman quoted is from StoneyIsland which from what I can see doesn't have a village or any kind of road capable of taking cycle lanes so it's just NIMBY red flag bllsht.

If there are objections from going through fields then they're be war fare taking away gardens changing road layouts ect ,

Although there is something in that .. to have access points near villages , ways to get on and off the Greenway .. .

And if a path can go along the road to the village so much the better , not many footpaths in rural areas ..

This is the route at present;

It connects to the towns and villages along the route. Between Portumna and Gort, I dont think there is anything which can be realistically described as a village. The whole area is one-off houses every couple of hundred metres along every road. With the Derrybrien Wind Farm to be decommissioned, maybe it would make sense to make use of some of the access roads for it which presumably will be of no use after decommissioning.

Interestingly (and positive) that the route is west of the N67 north of Kinvara, avoiding the recently created walking/cycling path recently created. It isn't suitable for something which intends to be a Greenway, hopefully they dont later decide it is good enough.

That’s great news. I think I read somewhere they will be finally starting Lucan to Hazelhatch very soon also.