Mr. Hugh Creegan:

We have not published anything for the Rathfarnham to city centre corridor yet. We are not commenting on anything that people might have seen anywhere at this stage. To take the previous example the Deputy mentioned, in Fairview, we looked at many options to put in a continuous cycle route along the Malahide Road to Fairview. We believe there are disadvantages to all the other options and the one we put forward is to reroute that section through the quiet roads of Marino, with a toucan crossing at Fairview to reconnect to the cycle route, and it is a reasonable solution. Another solution we looked at was to further widen the road, which would have meant we would have to go further into people's properties on one side of the road, removing the opportunity to park in driveways, which they all currently do.

In widening these roads, we have tried to preserve the opportunity to park a car in the driveway in so far as we can, if that is what people were doing beforehand. This is a consultation, however. If people think we have got it wrong and that we should go with another solution, they need to tell us what alternative they would like and we will consider it and perhaps go in that direction, but we did not take these decisions lightly. A lot of work went into making these decisions before we came up with what we put out there.