Construction to begin on €1.25m Active Travel Route in Limerick City.

The project will start this month and is estimated to take 10 months to complete.

Work will begin on a new 980-metre Active Travel route between Raheen and Quinn’s Cross this month. The link will provide dedicated pedestrian and cycle crossing facilities.

Construction of Safe Routes to School infrastructure will begin at St. Nessan’s School as part of the project and the section there is marked for completion before the start of the next school year in September. 

Along the route, there will be improvements to traffic lane widths, upgrade works to bus stops, side road junctions and new road surfacing along with associated landscaping works. 

[Photo via Limerick City and County Council]

The project received an allocation of €1.25 million in funding from the National Transport Authority (NTA) in 2024, having been allocated €785,000 in 2023.    

The whole project should be finished within 10 months. A traffic management system will be in place for the duration of the project’s construction.

Works are anticipated to run from Monday to Friday between 8am and 8pm and on occasional Saturdays from 8pm to 4pm. Two way traffic will be maximised and implemented for the majority of the works.

[Photo via Limerick City and County Council]

Senior Engineer with the Active Travel team, Sean McGlynn, commented: “The Active Travel network on the West side of the city is really coming together. This project will link with the Father Russell Road project in Raheen which is now almost completed. It will eventually facilitate onward connections to the city centre via the South Circular Road Active Travel Scheme and the St Paul’s to Ballykeefe project, which have both received planning permission.

A traffic management system will be in place for the duration of the project’s construction. This may include temporary traffic lights, flagmen etc and will be subject to the specific requirements of the works area.

[Photo via Limerick City and County Council]