Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In my brief remaining time, I wish to raise two other projects. This has been a most interesting discussion. Part of the greenway from Midleton to Youghal will open on 7 March, and well done to everyone concerned, while the rest of it will open at the end of the year. It is a major project that will make a massive difference. Nevertheless, given we have been told the bypass from Castlemartyr to Killeagh might not occur for six or seven years, I will be well gone out of the House by then. There has been a proposal to put in place a rapid bus transit alongside the greenway. It was built initially as a double track and it is now a single track. I have seen the drone footage. The track is quite wide and would accommodate for most of the way a rapid bus transit lane, which is just slightly wider than a bus, and that could travel up and down, although there are some pinch points and bridges that would need work. Would TII have a role in examining that and doing something with it, given the track is there with the greenway?

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