Dublin City Council’s Clontarf to City Centre Cycle and Bus Priority Project is set to be largely finished by September, and one-way traffic restrictions will be lifted at that stage.
However, work outside the shops between Fairview Strand and Edges Corner will continue until October, and snagging work will continue until the end of 2024.
The section of the project between Fairview Strand and Edges Corner has been one of the most problematic. Work was delayed due to utility issues, including the need for ESB Networks to install new cables to the buildings along this section. Work was also delayed here to avoid disrupting Leaving Cert exams at Marino College.
Cllr Naoise Ó Muirí (Fine Gael) posted one of the latest updates on social media, with slides dated July 12th.
He said: “Some updates on the Clontarf to City Centre cycleway project – great to see all the public domain improvements gradually going in – current diversion through Ballybough to be lifted in September, and general traffic will be able to travel inbound through the North Strand.”
The slides outline that the next section of the cycle route due to be opened is outbound from Howth Road to Alfie Byrne Road at the end of this month, this has looked to be close to being finished for some time now.
This is listed as to be followed by the opening of the cycle path between Annesley Bridge and Fairview Strand, which is to be finished by the end of August 2024.
The final inbound section of the cycle path just before Connolly Station and the outbound cycle track from Five Lamps to East Wall Road are to be finished by the end of September 2024.
The road resurfacing works will be completed at weekends until October. The council added that snagging works are expected along the route until the end of 2024, and these will require local closures of footpaths, cycle tracks, and traffic lanes.
