It’s World Car-Free Day today and to celebrate Fingal County Council are offering a FREE bike share ride. You can try one of the Tier ebikes or Bleeper push bikes for free for 40-minutes if you want to try them out for a spin. Download the Bleeper and Tier apps, to register and unlock your…
Bleeper bikes have launched a new rental bikes service for the Swords area. The new service will have three hubs at Millers Square, Brackenstown Road and Rivervalley. The press release from the company states: Bleeper’s latest expansion of our bike sharing service takes in the western parts of Swords. New Bleeper ‘Suburban Hubs’ have been…
A new road project, which will link the Rathbeale Rd and the Brackenstown Road, will have consultants appointed to it in Q3 of this year. The Swords Western Distributor Road which will go from the Brackenstown Rd, west of Swords Manor, and travel north past the new Mooretown development and across the Broadmeadown River to…
A cycling and walking link across the Broadmeadow Estuary is one step closer as the public consultation for the foreshore licence gets underway. The new greenway will be an invaluable link between Malahide and Donabate and will connect to Swords through a cycle route along the estuary. The greenway will travel alongside the railway line…
It’s the plan which will making getting in and out of the city centre quicker and easier. And this week the National Transport Authority (NTA) published their latest version of the BusConnects Swords to City Centre route and opened it for public consulation. People have until July 18th to have their say on the route.…
Some remarkable images of what the Ward River Valley as it will look should the proposed three projects were unveiled at a webinar this week. The three projects – the sports hub in Brackenstown, the Walled Garden restoration, and the historic canal rewetting – are all proposed as part of the first phase of projects…
Two active travel schemes in Swords start their public consultation phase this week. A new road design at Newtown Bridge, designed to make it safer for children to walk and cycle to Swords Celtic, is the first scheme. The second is a redesign of the Seatown Industrial Road to make it safer to cycle from…
At the junction of the Brackenstown Rd and Murrough Rd a new mini-roundabout will be put in place as part of the safe route to schools scheme for St Cronan’s School. The new design has been put forward with a view to protecting school children, vulnerable road users, and improving traffic flow at the location.…
Better designed footpaths and new cycle lanes will be coming to two more schools in Swords as part of new round of funding for a national scheme announced this week. Holy Family JNS and St Colmcilles Girls NS will both be getting funding for upgrades around access to their school. The scheme is currently being…
The project is part of the the Pathfinder Programme of 35 exemplar transport projects to be delivered by local authorities and agencies around the country within the next three years, launched by Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan. Welcoming the project announcement, Joe O’Brien TD stated: “This is great news for Swords. We will see this…