Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport
Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Garvan Cummins:
It has been extremely successful as a greenway. It is about the buy-in of the community. There was a lot of consultation in Waterford by the county manager at the time, Mr. Michael Walsh, and the council. He wanted to get everyone on board and did not want people, including the farming community, to be unhappy as tourists were coming. He did not want to be meeting farmers at their gates and being told the council did something to them by pushing through the greenway. His whole thing was about keeping everyone on board and happy. There were different things about its construction, but that is not what we are here for today. For example, car parks were put in so hundred of cars were not parked at the sides of roads. There are 14 car parks along the way. Different services are available along the way. It was done really well. It was also aided by natural territory because it is beside the sea and a river, and under the Comeragh Mountains. There were a number of other features.
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