22/06/2005

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Mayor Dowds calls on Minister for Transport to provide buses to make bus corridors effective

At today’s opening of Grange Castle Road,  Mayor Robert Dowds called on the Minister for Transport to provide buses to make effective the newly constructed bus corridors of South Clondalkin and the Orbital Route in South Dublin County.

Dublin Bus says that they need 22 buses to get these routes operating. The vast bulk of the network of these bus corridors in now in place but there are no buses made available as yet

Today’s road opening will have a major impact on the infrastructure of the County and is part of a three phase carriageway that when completed will link from the Naas Road to the N4 in the North and the N81 to the South.

At Planning stage since the early 1970’s it is  recognised by the Dublin Transportation Office as part of an integrated transport objective and included in their report – 2000 – 2016 DTO Platform for Change.

The provision of this road also conforms to the principles underpinning the ‘National Development Plan’ (2000-2006) and the ‘Strategic Planning Guidelines for the Greater Dublin Area’ in terms of promoting continuing sustainable economic and employment growth.

The road was constructed with the assistance of grant funding from the Department of the Environment and Local Government, the Dublin Transportation Office and the National Roads Authority.  The balance of the costs associated with constructing the roads were provided from the Council’s own resources. The cost of providing this section is  € 33 million.

This section is just over 4.7 km in length starting at the Adamstown roundabout and includes overbridge crossings of the Cork-Dublin Railway Line and the Grand Canal. It terminates at a grade separated interchange on the N7 at Kingswood.

There are new link roads at Baldonnell Road and before the N7- the Green Isle Road which links to the Old Naas Road and Boot Road.

This link improves infrastructure links to the Grange Castle Business Park to the main carriageway to the South – N7.

The Mayor was also delighted to see the positive effect that the new Green Isle Sliproad has made to the local infrastructure in terms of helping to ease traffic congestion and provide a new route to the Lynch Green Isle Hotel from both sides of the Naas Dual carriageway".

Issued on behalf of the Council by Corporate Services Department, Tel. 4149000.