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FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL said it is to start preparations for the construction of the Broadmeadow Greenway after receiving official notification that An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission for the €12 million project.
The 6km off-road walking and cycling greenway will link Malahide to the Broadmeadow Estuary. It will also include a 280 metres long bridge crossing the Broadmeadow Estuary on the Malahide Railway Viaduct.
The greenway will travel from Malahide Castle to Newbridge House through demesne and parklands, rural farmlands and village environments.
The council said it will become a destination greenway for local residents, tourists and day-trippers while also playing a role in the developing network of sustainable transport routes in Fingal.
With the Baldoyle to Portmarnock Greenway scheduled to officially open next month, the Broadmeadow Greenway will be the next piece to be completed and plans for the rest of the route, which will eventually run from Sutton to Balbriggan, will be unveiled later this year.
The Mayor of Fingal, Councillor Eoghan O’Brien, said: “This is great news for Malahide and Donabate coming as it does at a time when businesses in both towns are dealing with the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Linking two of our regional parks for walkers, joggers and cyclists will provide many opportunities and I welcome the Council’s commitment to commence construction in 2021. As a local councillor, this is something that I have pushed for many years and it is great to see it finally get the green light.”
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Excellent stuff. We need more of these initiatives.
Nice postive uplifting news
It cost Waterford Greenway 15 million for 46km
How’s this costing 12million for 6km
@tuco: Probably land prices and building a bridge.
@tuco: because there’s a bridge to be built over an estuary
@Robert Conneely: must be some bridge.they also had to build a bridge on a part of Waterford Greenway
@tuco: build your own bridge and get over it!
@Cormac McCann: ha brilliant I never heard that before!
@tuco: the majority of the greenway was built on an old railway line, so a lot of it needed modernisation. Land prices are more expensive too in Dublin. This is a full new project, hence the cost.
@Darragh O’Toole: I’d be more concerned at the €20m cost of a 2.7km cycle route in Clontarf to be honest. Somebody somewhere is making a heap of money off these public projects.
@tuco: Waterford: short bridge
Malahide estuary: really, really long bridge.
@tuco: look at the picture.
@Cormac McCann: ha ha
@tuco: Is it 280m long?
@GrumpyAulFella: No, there isn’t. Every cent is accountable, audited and you can do your own FOI if you’re still not convinced. fgs
@Robert Conneely: It’s not just one bridge. The northern section has to cross another river and a wide stretch of boggy ground. Tbh it’s more a question of why Waterford was so cheap than why Malahide is so expensive. €1m/km would be a pretty decent price for a straightforward bike path alongside a road, in my book. This is 6 km on a route that largely physically doesn’t exist yet.
@Bernard Sweeney: for a €20m spend on 2700m of tarmac, nearly €7500 per metre, I’m expecting 24 carat gold signage.
@tuco: A 250m bridge is probably quite expensive
This is great for everyone. It’ll be a lovely bike ride on a warm day. Anything to make the country healthy is a positive
@Martin McFly: It’ll also make it more convenient and quite likely quicker than by car and it’ll be very interesting to see how people use that for everyday mobility in a few years.
There are a lot of disused railway embankments that should be converted to greenways & are all state owned.
Will it include manned machine gunned positions to take out the scrotes hassling and assaulting walkers and cyclists?
@Thewestisbest: That’s it. Spread the negativity.
Great news! First few weeks of lockdown with hardly any cars, cycling was a dream. Now not so much. Would be great to have more cycle lanes around Malahide especially in the good weather. More of an incentive to leave the car at home
And starts straight away…. yet here in Ballina/Killaloe we are still waiting for a sod to be turned for our new bridge to replace the one lane one in situ.
@John Hayes*: Where ?
@Alan Dillon: that’s what it seems like.
@ross K:
They say the same sort of thing about Poitiers, Kiltimagh and the Mezzogiorno.
Great work! In Calgary, there was an initiative in the 90s to connect all major public parks with greenway style paths. I wonder if we could promote that in our cities in Eire??
High enough to cater for rising water levels ? Fairly windy I’d say safe for kids ?? I know I sound like I’m knocking it but seems like a lotof dosh for a path across a broad estuary
Baldoyle and portmarnock? It’ll be destroyed by groups of scrotes in no time.
It be all green talk till the greenparty get into a coalition with death
Is the new greenway for Baldoyle to Portmarnock a bridge or a path going around to it?
@Peter: looks more a path. Only saw it last week. It’s very impressive. Well done to all that made it.
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