Progress is being made on constructing a two-way cycle path between the Docklands and O’Connell Bridge.
The project under construction along the south quays also included making footpaths along the quays accessible for the first time in decades and adding trees.
Most of the cycle path’s concrete buffer has been installed except for a small section approaching the Docklands end of the project at Talbot Memorial Bridge. Protective kerbing has also been built at O’Connell Street Bridge, but similar work has yet to be undertaken at Talbot Memorial Bridge.
The majority of the footpaths and services ducting work have also been installed. Work has also been undertaken to protect the existing trees and plant new trees.
Besides the kerbing around Talbot Memorial Bridge that has to be finished, the cycle path surface and the traffic lights are the other significant measures that need to be finalised.
The new cycle path is part of the interim Liffey Cycle Route and is also effectively an extension of the existing two-way cycle path in the south Docklands. This path links to Lombard Street, the Royal Canal Route, the Grand Canal Cycleway via Grand Canal Square, the North Wall Quay Cycle Path to the Point, and the contra-flow cycle path, which extends around Customs House to Busáras via the Talbot Memorial Bridge.
A drawing for the project also shows a link from Moss Street, a one-way, southbound street directly south of the Talbot Memorial Bridge. A contra-flow link from Townsend Street and Pearse Street was promised via Moss Street 14 years ago, but along with other contra-flow proposals, it was never delivered at the time.
As part of the Dublin City Centre Transport Plan, the gap in the cycle path network between the end of the Clontarf to City Centre route project at Connolly Station and the quays at Talbot Memorial Bridge will also be filled. The phasing is unknown at this time and will depend on whether there are further delays to the roll-out of the city centre plan.
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