— Greenway will open up views rarely seen and give safe access to Dublin Port’s ferry terminal.
Dublin Port’s Tolka Estuary Greenway is now open to the public along the northern perimeter of the port. It opens up a part of Dublin that was previously not accessible to the public, with views of the Clontarf seafront and Bull Island, as well as Howth Head in the distance.
Access to the greenway is via Eastpoint Business Park using its entrance on the Alfie Byrne Road.
Dublin Port confirmed to IrishCycle.com this afternoon that the greenway is now open to the public, and the company is planning an official launch event next week.
The cycle path on the Alfie Byrne Road is part of the coastal route along the northern part of Dublin Bay and is connected to the new East Wall Road cycle path. It also connects to a small section of the Tolka Greenway in Fairview Park, which, in turn, links to the nearly finished Clontarf to City Centre project.
The Clontarf route links the new greenway to the Royal Canal Greenway and onwards to the Grand Canal Route, providing access to the southside and the city centre.
In the longer term, there is a plan to link the Tolka Estuary Greenway directly to the Docklands as part of Dublin Port’s Liffey Tolka Project.
When the Tolka Estuary Greenway project was under construction, Dublin Port described the new greenway as a “celebration of an area of the Port that has never been accessed by the public before, and it is a key element of Dublin Port’s ambitious Tolka-Estuary Project.”
The section of the greenway that has now opened is phase one of the project, and it ends at access to the ferry terminal area. As previously reported, Phase 2, which is dependent on further sea defence works, will continue onto the eastern edge of the port. The full length of the greenway will be over 3km, and what’s opened today is estimated to be just over 2km in one direction.
East Point Business Part posted a video preview of the route last week:
That’s a big one. My next ferry + cycle trip will start much better.
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Not too sure you can legally access via Eastpoint Business park as this is private lands with barrier access. The Greenway runs on Dublin Port land from Bond Rd. which is beside one of the entrances to the business park. Hope I am proven wrong.
Hi Declan — the access to the greenway is via Eastpoint Business Part — Dublin Port didn’t want to comment much as it’s a ‘soft launch’ ahead of the official opening next week but were happy to confirmed that access is via the business park.
Great to see that Eastpoint is the access route to the new greenway. When I asked them about this a few years ago when the greenway was announced, they totally ignored my emails. The combined path is only 1.9m wide within Eastpoint but there is scope to widen it considerably without affecting the flanking trees. I could never find out if the original planning permission required the waterside path to be open to the public but hopefully it did.
greenway has gates that were locked when I arrived at 8.45 am this morning
I asked about this and Dublin Port have told me that it is at “soft launch stage” and it’s for this reason that they haven’t publicised anything on it yet.
They added that there are still some things to be ironed out, and opening hours will be confirmed next week.