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Technological University Dublin ARROW@TU Dublin School of Transport Engineering, Environment Reports and Planning 2016-12-14 Santry River Greenway Feasibility Appraisal David O'Connor Technological University Dublin, [email protected] Matthias Borscheid Northside Partnership, [email protected] Odran Reid Technological University Dublin, [email protected] See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/beschsprep Part of the Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons, and the Urban Studies and Planning Commons Recommended Citation O’Connor, D., Borscheid, M., Reid, O., NiLochlainn, M. (2016). Santry River Greenway Feasibility Appraisal. DIT and Northside Partnership Students Learning with Communities Project. Dublin Institute of Technology. This Report is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Transport Engineering, Environment and Planning at ARROW@TU Dublin. It has been accepted for inclusion in Reports by an authorized administrator of ARROW@TU Dublin. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License Authors David O'Connor, Matthias Borscheid, Odran Reid, and Meadhbh Ní Lochlainn This report is available at ARROW@TU Dublin: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/beschsprep/1 Santry River Greenway Feasibility Study Report 2016 A DIT Students Learning With Communities Initiative in Association with the Northside Partnership. 1 Dublin Institute Of Technology Feasibility Study BSc Environmental Management And Spatial Planning This project is a partnership between the Northside Partnership and DIT Environmental Management and Spatial Planning. This Project Report was designed by the students: Santry River Amanda Segatto Mariana Morita Carolina Guedes Marilia Amorim Cassia Santos Nicky Casey Darren Burns Thais Toledo Greenway Eoin O Sullivan Victor Tavares Erico Vieira Vinicius Silva Giovanna Spinelli The project is part of Module SSPL 3019 Mobility and Transport and was guided by David O’Connor, Module Coordinator and Lecturer in DIT Government and Planning. DIT Student Project Report 2016 Document Editor: Meadhbh Ní Lochlainn 2 Table Of Contents 1. Introduction 3. General Requirements 1.1. Background/Context 3.1 Coherence and Directness 3.2 Width 1.1.1. The NTA GDA Cycle Strategy 3.3 Priority 1.1.2 National Cycle Policy Framework 3.4 Lighting 1.1.3 National Cycle Manual 3.5 Paving 1.1.4 Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets 3.6 CCTV 1.1.4.1 Cycle Facilities 3.7 Environment 1.1.5 Smarter Travel - A sustainable Transport Future 2009 - 3.8 Access and Permeability 2022 3.9 Tourism and Leisure 1.1.6 Dublin City Council Draft Development Plan 2016 – 2022 3.10 Signage 1.1.7 Dublin Bikes 3.11 Migratory planting 3.12 Synergy with utility proposals 1.1.8 Dodder Greenway Feasibility Report 3.13 Green Energy 1.1.9 The Great Western Greenway 3.14 Diversions during construction 3.15 Social and Community 2. Overall Corridor Profile 2.1 Section 1: Ballymun Road – M1 2.2 Section 2: M1 – Malahide Road 4. Evaluation & Proposed Interventions 2.3 Section 3: Malahide Road – Raheny Village Section 1 - Santry to Gateway Site Section 2 - Gateway Site to Malahide Road Section 3 - Malahide Road to Raheny Village Feasibility Study Report 2016 5. Outline Cost Appraisal 6. Conclusions and Recommendations Preface Promoting the Development of the Santry River Greenway As part of the area-wide cycling audit carried out in 2014, the Santry River Greenway Corridor was identified as a key potential resource for The Northside Partnership Healthy Communities Pilot Area. increasing mobility, health and long-term social inclusion within the Pilot The North East Dublin area has been identified for the development of a Area. The greenway is identified as part of the Strategic Green Network in plan addressing health inequality and promoting a Healthy Community the National Transport Authority (NTA) Cycle Strategy for the Greater (WTO 2011) by the Northside Partnership (NSP), a local development Dublin Area (GDA). Yet, of all the greenways, it alone has not commenced company established in 1991 to address social exclusion, and the Dublin through the planning stages. In the Dublin City Development Plan 2016- North Health Promotion Department. 2022, Dublin City Council (DCC) states that it is its objective to ‘develop, within the lifetime of this plan, the Strategic Cycle Network for Dublin city Poor health has been identified as an issue for people who live in areas – connecting key city centre destinations to the wider city and the affected by structural disadvantage and and social exclusion in North East national cycle network, and the implement the NTA’s Greater Dublin Area Dublin. A community survey in 2008 and a health needs assessment in Cycle Network Plan; to bring forward planning and design of the Santry 2003 both highlighted risk factors for high levels of chronic disease risks River Greenway, incorporating strongly integrative social and community in the surveyed neighbourhoods and raised problems relating to mental development initiatives’ (DCC, 2016, p. 108). Initial appraisal, as part of health, income levels and environmental issues which all impact on the Northside Partnership Healthy Communities Pilot, suggest that it can health. Sustainable transport was identified as one of the key areas which potentially be among the most viable, in terms of health, community could bring social, economic, environmental and health gains to the Pilot regeneration and local economic development. Area. DIT Environment & Planning Community Links Active Research Project. Since 2013 DIT Environment & Planning have engaged with the NSP through the auspices of DIT Students Learning with Communities to support the Healthy Communities Pilot Project. DIT’s area of input is to study specifically transport and mobility within the pilot area. 4 Preface The planned Santry River Greenway is mostly segregated from traffic, which, in their study on infrastructure preferences for cycling, Caulfield et al (2011, p. 2) found to be the ‘most preferred form of cycling infrastructure, regardless of cycling confidence’, meaning that investment in the greenway has the potential to encourage non-cyclists to use the route. This Santry River Greenway Feasibility Study, which is a collaborative project between the DIT Environmental and Spatial Planning Class and the NSP, aims to contribute to the development of the greenway by outlining the key interventions required to make it happen. 5 1. Introduction 1. Introduction The Feasibility Study Report addresses the route in three sections. Each section has been analysed with regard to its geography and Greenways are corridors of land that connectDITpeople Dublinand Instituteplaces land Ofuse Technologycharacter. Furthermore, the study proposes measures to together. By improving bicycle and pedestrian facilities, this type of BSc DT106 3 Environmental achieveManagementenvironmental, And health,Planningcommunity and economic benefits route promotes the mobility of the community, which can greatly help improve the health profile of an area. ImprovementsSSPL3019in Mobilityhealth 1.1 And Background/Context Transport are not only an achievement in their own right, but they also bring about economic benefits. For instance, using the World This Feasibility Study is informed by the following documents and schemes: Organisation’s (WHO) Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) Deenihan and Caulfield (2014) estimate that an initial investment of €12 million • The NTA GDA Cycle Strategy would yield between €26,695,000 and €141,222,000 in health benefits • over a ten year period1. Moreover, greenways can improve water quality, National Cycle Policy Framework reduce the impacts of flooding and also enhance cultural awareness and • National Cycle Manual community identity. • Design Manual for Urban Roads and Streets • Smarter Travel - A sustainable Transport Future 2009 -2022 This study covers the entire length of Santry River Greenway, which • Dublin City Council Development Plan 2016 - 2022 is an objective of the National Transport Authority (NTA) Cycle • Dublin Bikes Strategy for the Greater Dublin Area (GDA). The greenway runs • Dodder Greenway Feasibility Report across the outer northern suburbs from the coast at Bull Island, • The Great Western Greenway through Raheny and Coolock, to Santry. This report aims to carry out an initial feasibility assessment of the corridor; to record its current condition; and to suggest possible actions to improve sections of the new greenway. 6 1. Introduction 1.1.1 The NTA GDA Cycle Strategy Not only will Ireland have a healthier and happier population – an The Irish Government, the NTA and various state agencies are committed incentive in its own right – but there will also be economic gains, as to ensuring that cycling as a transport mode is supported and enhanced. increases in cycling help reduce congestion and result in a fitter and Current policy measures for achieving local and national goals are set out more alert work force. in various documents produced by the Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport and its agencies. According to the framework, to encourage more cycling, there needs to be cycle-friendly urban design and road networks, which make use In order to maximise the efficiency of investments in cycling infrastructure, of traffic calming measures to ensure the safety and comfort