Joe O'Brien - Green Party
Fingal Greens Welcome Over €17 million in Walking and Cycling Infrastructure Investment for Fingal
1st February, 2023
The Green Party in Dublin Fingal has today (Wednesday, 1st February) welcomed the announcement of over €17 million in investment in footpaths and cycle lanes throughout the county as part of the 2023 Active Travel Investment Grants. The grants are part of the Government’s ongoing historic levels of annual investment in walking and cycling infrastructure.
Welcoming the investment, Joe O’Brien TD said:
“I’m delighted that that €17m has been allocated for investment in Fingal, including 35 different walking and cycling projects in Dublin Fingal this year. This targeted funding will go towards making walking and cycling in our villages, towns, and rural and coastal pathways more viable and safer.”
“Included in this year’s funding are allocations for projects that many local people have been looking for; including the Skerries Active Travel Plan, the Broadmeadow Way, and the Swords Cycle Network.
“These kinds of projects, will meaningfully change the way we get around Fingal. Allocations like this make it easier for our children to cycle to school without being driven, it makes it safer to walk to your local shop and it means we will all spend less time stuck in traffic jams.
“Delivering walking an cycling infrastructure has been central to the Green Party’s vision of transport since we entered Government in 2020, and was reflected in the commitments we received in the Programme for Government. Spending on cycle lanes and footpaths has increased more than six-fold since the Green Party entered Government. That’s the sort of change voters asked for and we are delivering on our promise.”
Cllr Karen Power said:
“The continued investment in the infrastructure for walking and biking is really welcome. Fingal County Council have some exciting projects planned that now have the funding needed to deliver them, including plans for the Harry Reynolds Road in Balbriggan, the active travel plan in Balrothery and a very exciting project to make the Harbour Road in Skerries safer for the many pedestrians we have especially in the summer months.
“It is particularly exciting to see the Skerries Active Travel Plan moving forward. Skerries was the first town in Fingal to experience a public consultation where instead of making proposals the council sought early input from those who visit, live and work in Skerries. The next phase is taking this input and developing proposals that the people in our town want to see delivered.”
ENDS
| Active Travel Investment Grants: 2023 Allocations | |||
| Fingal County Council | |||
| FCC/12/0001 | Broadmeadow Estuary Cycle & Pedestrian Bridge | 800,000€ | |
| FCC/13/0001 | S2S Extension Sutton to Malahide | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/14/0001 | Royal Canal Cycle Route (12th Lock-KCC) (CN2) inc. Deep Sinking Coolmine | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/18/0001 | Harry Reynolds Road Cycleway in Balbriggan | 1,700,000€ | |
| FCC/19/0005 | School streets (non-SRTS) | 100,000€ | |
| FCC/20/0001 | Donabate Ped and Cycle Bridge | 450,000€ | |
| FCC/20/0004 | Bicycle Parking | 150,000€ | |
| FCC/20/0008 | Church Fields Link Road | 1,000,000€ | |
| FCC/21/0001 | National Aquatic Centre (NAC) to Ongar Village | 220,000€ | |
| FCC/21/0002 | Baldoyle to Howth | 300,000€ | |
| FCC/21/0004 | Donabate Hearse Rd/Main St/Portrane Rd (Link 1 & Link 2) | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/21/0005 | Damastown to Clonsilla Cycle Route | 100,000€ | |
| FCC/21/0006 | Clonee to Blanchardstown Shopping Centre | 235,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0001 | Castleknock to Dunsink Lane | 185,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0004 | Hartstown / Huntstown /Mountview Road | 100,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0005 | St Cronins Road rapid build active travel | 1,387,711€ | |
| FCC/22/0006 | Rathingle / Rivervalley Road Swords | 176,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0007 | Balbriggan Road, Mill Street and Drogheda Street | 100,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0009 | Permeability Links North County | 465,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0010 | R132 Ministers Road to Blakes Cross and Kilhedge Lane | 300,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0011 | Skerries – Harbour Road | 905,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0012 | Seatown Road to Estuary Road (Swords to Malahide) | 140,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0014 | Balbriggan – Coney Hill From Devlin Bridge to Bremore Cottages | 140,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0015 | Rush – South Beach (Bawn Road across carpark and out to S Shore Road) New footpath and cycle path | 500,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0016 | New Street Malahide Improvement Scheme | 583,899€ | |
| FCC/22/0018 | Data collection for Active Travel Projects (traffic, air, noise) | 60,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0019 | Skerries Active Travel Plan | 655,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0020 | Balrothery Active Travel Review | 282,500€ | |
| FCC/22/0021 | Seamount Heights to Old Golf Links Park Active Travel Route | 300,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0022 | Broomfield to Paddys’s Hill via Naomh Marnog GAA Active Travel Route | 350,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0026 | Active Travel Office – Staff Costs | 1,100,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0027 | Swords Cycle Network – Sustainable Swords | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0028 | Active Travel scheme Castleknock to Blanchardstown via Farmleigh | 90,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0029 | R132 Junction upgrade design | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/22/0030 | Station Road Portmarnock Footpaths and Cycleway | 150,000€ | |
| FCC/23/XXXX | Scoil an Duinninigh to Waterside Footpath and Cycleway | 220,000€ | |
| FCC/23/XXXX | Chapel road to An Tagasc building Active Travel | 155,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | St Catherine’s Park Boardwalk | 100,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | Feltrim Road cycle infrastructure | 120,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | Castlelands Active Travel routes | 50,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | Active Travel Pathfinder – Swords to Airport quick build | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | Donabate to Portrane (R126) – Distributor Rd to Portrane Avenue Active Travel Routes | 40,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | SRTS (R1) – Scoil Mhuire & Iosef, Sinsear – Bayside Senior National School | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | SRTS (R1) – St. Luke’s NS Tyrrelstown Dublin 15 | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | SRTS (R1) – Scoil Ghrainne CNS | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | SRTS (R1) – Bayside Junior School (Scoil Náisiúnta Muire agus Iósef, Sóisear) | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | SRTS (R1) – Scoil Choilm CNS | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | SRTS (R1) – Rush & Lusk ETNS | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | SRTS (R1) – Pope John Paul II NS, Malahide | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | SRTS (R1) – Castaheany ETNS | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | SRTS (R1) – St. Benedict’s NS | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | SRTS (R1) – Ladyswell National School | 200,000€ | |
| FCC/23/xxxx | SRTS (R1) – St. Patrick’s N.S. Diswellstown | 200,000€ | |
| Total: €17,110,110 | |||