Following on our earlier notice concerning how to make an observation to An Bord Pleanála concerning the proposed Templeogue/Rathfarnham to City Centre
Core Bus Corridor Scheme, a summary of the key proposals as they affect Terenure appears below the following message:
Important Information for Property Owners Affected by CPO and
Interested Parties
There are two separate applications by the
NTA to An Bord Pleanála - one relating to the Templeogue/Rathfarnham to city
Centre Core Bus Corridor Scheme and the other relating to the CPOs for the
purposes of the scheme.
Templeogue/Rathfarnham
to City Centre Core Bus Corridor Scheme (ABP – 316272-23)
Templeogue/Rathfarnham
to City Centre Core Bus Corridor Compulsory Order 2023 (ABP – 316377-23)
Affected property owners are strongly
advised to make submissions to both applications. Any interested parties
can make separate objections to either or both applications.
Closing date for submissions is 5.30pm, 15th
August 2023 and should be accompanied by €50(Owners or Occupiers of land subject to a CPO can make an observation to this application free of charge, but all observations submitted to the main scheme application must be accompanied by a fee).
Note also that you can only be party to one observation to each application - any subsequent observations that include you as a named party to the observation will be disregarded.
Submission should be sent to An Bord
Pleanála, Strategic Infrastructure Division, 64 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1,
D01 V902 or via online portal https://online.pleanala.ie/en-ie/sid/observation
Full details of the scheme can
be found at www.templeoguerathfarnhamscheme.ie
General arrangement drawings
can be found https://templeoguerathfarnhamscheme.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/03.-General-Arrangement.pdf
Non-technical summary can be
found at https://templeoguerathfarnhamscheme.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Non-Technical-Summary.pdf
Proposals include the following
- Bus Gate Locations
- Templeogue
Road at Olney Grove (6am -8pm). No general traffic inbound beyond Olney.
- St Mary’s
School on Rathmines Road Lower (6am -8pm)). No through inbound or
outbound general traffic.
- Rathgar Road to
become one way inbound. Outbound general traffic to go via Upper
Rathmines Rd/Highfield Road or Grosvenor Road/Kenilworth/Rathgar Ave or
Leinster Road, Harolds Cross etc.
- Right/Left turn
bans/changes
- No left turn
onto Templeogue Road from Olney during bus gate operation.
- No right turn onto
Templeogue Road from Fergus Road during bus gate operation.
- No right turn
from Templeogue Road into Rathdown Avenue and Rathdown Park.
- No right turn
from Greenmount Road onto Terenure Road East.
- Re-opening of
right-hand turn from Templeogue into Springfield Avenue.
- Introduction
of right-hand turn from Rathfarnham Road into Terenure Road East –
bus/taxi/cycle only
- Compulsory Purchase
Orders for Road Widening -See maps 1,2,3 below.
- Rathfarnham
Road (33 properties ).
- Terenure Road
East (27 properties).
- Protected
Structures: Several protected structures on Terenure Road East
are affected by CPOs (inc nos.52,54,56,58,59,61,63,65,67,71,74,76,78).
- Kimmage to City
Centre Core Bus Corridor: While this corridor does not structurally affect Terenure
Village, and has not been formally applied for yet, the proposed Bus
Gates between the KCR and Harold’s Cross Park means that there
will be no direct route to the city via Kimmage, and much of the south
city bound traffic will be redirected via Terenure Road West or
Springfield Avenue, then through to Terenure.
- Access to the
City Access to the city from Terenure area will be via Harold’s Cross or
Ranelagh routes due to the Bus Gates in Rathmines and Kimmage.
- Traffic: Due to
rerouting and road closures, it is anticipated that many roads will
experience an increase in traffic. EIARs have not taking into account the
cumulative effect of the Kimmage route together with the
Templeogue/Rathfarnham Scheme.
- Bus Priority
Signalling Locations (this is to allow the bus to advance
before general traffic).
- Templeogue
Village in each direction.
- Rathfarnham
Road/Bushy Park Rd/Rathdown Park junction.
- Terenure Cross
Roads for bus-only right turn onto Terenure Rd East.
- St Joseph’s
Church, outbound on Terenure Road East.
- 30KPH continuous speed
limit from Rathfarnham Road (Rathfarnham Castle) through Terenure to the City centre.
- Cycling:
- Cycle track
through Bushy Park as currently exists.
- ‘Quiet Street’
treatment on Rathdown Drive, Rathdown Crescent and Rathdown Park.
- New cycle lanes
in each direction on Rathfarnham Road, Terenure Road North and outbound from
Templeogue Road to link with Rathdown Crescent.
- ‘Quiet Street’ treatment proposed along
Wasdale Park/Grove and Victoria Road with a short outbound cycle lane on
Bushy Park Road from Wasdale Park.
- No cycle lanes
on Terenure Road East.
- Bus lanes
- Templeogue
Road – outbound only to Bushy Park, then in both directions to Templeogue
Village.
- Terenure Road
East - both inbound and outbound
- Rathfarnham
Road - both inbound and outbound
- Terenure Road
North/West – no bus lanes.
- Other
- There are
fewer bus stops and reduced on-street car parking.
- There will be
removal of mature trees and greenery, however, replanting is promised.
- There are new
bicycle stands proposed and special paving for footpaths in the
village area.
Rathfarnham Road (1)
Rathfarnham Road (2)
