Rochestown Road Traffic Calming and Clarke’s Hill update

After months of haggling I managed to get the Design for Traffic Calming on the Rochestown Road on the agenda of the Area Roads and will post the minutes of same when they arrive in due course.

In a nutshell the design (which in fact was ready I understand in Dec. 2006) was duly shown to us. The design is from the entrance to the Douglas Court Shopping Centre to Rochestown Rise. It is proposed to have cycling lanes, footpaths, central road markings, dedicated bus lay by, and traffic lights at the top entrance to Maryborough Estate.

Subsequently, the Senior Engineer informed us that currently there are plans to lay the second phase of a watermain from Rochestown Inn to Wainsfort and that this may hold a portion of the work up. They also have to decide how the project is to be funded. The design will be put before Council soon and should be going out for public consultation following that. I have also placed this matter on the April Agenda to keep the pressure up.

In relation to the upgrading of Clarkes Hill (and footpaths etc), I have placed this matter on the Agenda for the March Area Roads Meeting and you can be assured I am vigorously pursuing this matter also. I regret that both these issues have taken so long to progress and find it highly regrettable and incomprehensible that these matters have taken so long to come before us despite numerous representation, debates, e-mails phone calls etc and badly reflects on the local government system.

I trust that this update in informative for you.

Regards Deirdre