I am proposing that a light rail link be built serve the planned new
\nresidential areas between Baldoyle and Clonshaugh. Between them Dublin City Council
\nand Fingal County Council have zoned land for housing for a population
\nof approximately 40,000 people. Part of this is a new Dart Station to
\nthe east of the zoned area, just north of Baldoyle.
\n{mosimage}<\/p>\n
The engineers from the two Councils are now proposing that the While roads are being designed, there have been no studies of the public transport facilities for this enormous population.<\/p>\n We are proposing that a multi-modal transportation study be carried out analysing the rail options for this area. We suggest that the east-west route could be used for a surface metro\/light rail. <\/p>\n The light rail route would go along the proposed new distributor road to join up with the proposed Metro North and Metro West. It would start from the new Dart Station at Stapolin (Baldoyle), with stops at Hole in the Wall Road, Balgriffin, Belcamp, Clonshaugh and joining the Metro north alignment south of the Airport. <\/p>\n Trams\/metro trains could share the Metro North alignment until Ballymun and then either a) continue on the Metro West route, with interchage to the Metro North Route, or b) travel south on the Metro North alignment into the city centre, with interchange to the Metro West Route. This integration with Metro North means it will be possible to build and operate the route together with the Metro North route. <\/p>\n The link across the M1 motorway should be available only to public transport, bicycles and pedestrians. The motorway is already available to facilitate trucks and cars. Facilitating long-distance east-west traffic on this east-west distributor road would ruin the possibilities of creating a decent residential area around it.”<\/p>\n My motion directing that a study be carried out on this light rail link was agreed by the Council in September: I am proposing that a light rail link be built serve the planned new residential areas between Baldoyle and Clonshaugh. Between them Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council have zoned land for housing for a population of approximately 40,000 people. Part of this is a new Dart Station to the east of the zoned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndistributor road which will give access to the housing area should also
\nact as a long-distance access road duplicating the M50 motorway from
\nBaldoyle to Blanchardstown. The Council engineers propose that in the
\nmiddle of an area zoned for housing two flyover junctions are
\nconstructed. This proposal would have disastrous implications for the
\nresidents in the area. The lack of quality public transport for this
\nhigh-density development would ensure that all the neighbouring areas
\nof the Northside would be flooded with traffic.
A multi-modal integrated study should be carried out. <\/strong><\/p>\n
"…That the Council direct the
\nManager to seek to carry out a multi-modal transport study in relation
\nto transport in the North Fringe\/South Fringe area (Stapolin,
\nDonaghmede, Balgriffin, Belcamp, Clonshaugh) with Dublin City Council’s
\nco-operation, to include consideration of the possibilities for a light
\nrail link between the Dublin-Belfast railway line at Stapolin and the
\nMetro in the vicinity of Ballymun\/Dublin Airport and other possible
\nrail links and to include consideration of roads, bus routes, cycling
\nroutes and walking routes in the area."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"