Baldoyle to Portmarnock Walkway

This was posted on one of the cycling threads. I haven't be up to confirm myself

so the baldoyle-portmarnock cycle way is open?
https://twitter.com/ireland_active/status/118

They had a huge pump there this morning where I imagine it was under water again closer to the Moyne road end, river flowing down from it at the roundabout.

Carawaystick wrote: »

Thats at Robswalls in Malahide

for some reason the cyclists don't use this.

londonred wrote: »

for some reason the cyclists don't use this.

It might be because they have to stop twice inside of 200 metres to cross a road and get back onto the road (when there is a gap) or because people walk on it and ignore the bike lane.

Or maybe another reason I am not familiar with

at least 100 mtrs of it under water just north of Moyne Rd

I don't think this issue is going to go away.

I don't why they didn't build it further up the hill

Is that not more towards portmarnock around that airport thingy

antimatterx wrote: »

https://twitter.com/sticky_bottle/status/1191469556843331584?s=21

Not as if Baldoyle has a history with flooding, and this couldn't of been predicted.

The whole area is a flood plain, the greenway was delayed while developers of the houses near the station installed drainage works so the hope is that this was a blockage or other failure rather than the system simply being unable to cope

antimatterx wrote: »

Seagrange suffered awfully with floods back in the day. Baldoyle has a history with flooding

I know, we nearly got flooded out of it a few years back (less then 10 years ago) during one very heavy days rain. The park at seagrange/grangeroad is like a bog from October-Summer.

Fiolina wrote: »

We were just talking the other day about a young boy who drowned in Baldoyle in 1993.
It was near the Brookstone Road as far as I know. Can't find anything online.

One of my teachers in St Peter and Paul's back in the day told my class about that. Apparently happened during a flood, I believe around the stream that runs north through Seagrange Park and then under Brookstone Road here. I'm fairly sure he was teaching there at the time, long retired by now though. The way he told it, the boy fell into the stream somehow and was trapped at the culvert under the road. Terrible.

i was about 10 or 11, the council had dug out all along the wall to divert water under the road and connect with the stream they were burying under where the walkway into castlerosse / racecourse park is now.

the trench was about 8 feet deep and 6 feet wide. it ran parallel to the road, started about a little after where the entrance gate is now, it stopped about where the trees are now and went under the road. the trench is marked where the metal lids for the pumps are now.
it was normally about 2-4 feet deep with ground water and had been open for some time if i remember. it never caused any issues, other than someone occasionally slipping in and getting soaked and muddy, there were open streams everywhere there and we were all used to it.

however, on the day it rained, baldoyle flooded the way baldoyle always did at that time. the water was about 2 foot deep on the grange road side and the same on the segrange park side, the trench was completely covered, as was the entrance to the pipe under the road. the amount of water basically created a super strong whirlpool that was sucking everything under.

the only way thru, while staying dry, from one end of grange road to another, was by walking on the wall, although you would eventually have to jump in anyway as it only got shallower towards the racecourse shopping centre. it dried off at about the entrance to the car park.

i saw the boys that day. not sure how long it was before we heard about the drowning, they were doing the same as everyone else was when i saw them, jumping in the water and getting the past the worst bits by walking on the wall. it was always a bit of a laugh when the road flooded. usually some poor unfortunate delivery man would get stuck and hand out his flood damaged sweets under pressure from the kids.

the last i saw them i was walking back towards meadowbrook and they were heading along the wall towards the racecourse shops. from what i know, one boy fell into the trench, and got sucked into the whirlpool. the other boy and a man passing were both almost drowned trying to pull him out.

they were both a year or two older but i knew them both. there is next to nothing i can find online about it except some weird chinese site. you would probably need to go to the local library to read newspaper archives from then

https://www.zhongwaiwenxian.cn/articles_u37u3b.html

Mention of flooding in this and the works done at 15 minutes

Damaged rather than designed

https://twitter.com/davidhealyv/status/1192209798357553154?s=19

RCK1 wrote: »

Appears to be open now? Saw one gentleman cycling on it this morning

Not officially. They're waiting on ESB to connect the lights

some videos on the link below of a lad who cycles it last weekend (think hes a boardsie aswell)

http://www.stickybottle.com/blogs/video-first-look-at-new-portmarnock-to-baldoyle-greenway-in-full/

Multi-million euro Baldoyle to Portmarnock greenway slammed as 'disaster' as floods repeatedly delay opening date