Sandyford Busway not needed.

Have had some concern on the canvass about the return of the dreaded Sandyford Link Road, the road originally planned to run across the back of the Airfield estate. I have commented before on this madness here, here and here. I should probably explain where this is coming from. In his initial draft, the county manager proposed a dedicated busway alongside the Luas. I proposed a motion deleting this on the grounds that (1) it made no sense to connect two Luas stations by bus; (2) this was along the line of the Sandyford Link Road that was unacceptable to the council in the past; (3) the Airfield estate would lose some more land.

The rationale for this proposal was to provide a bus link between UCD and Dundrum. That's fine, but it is daft for it to go along the proposed alignment, so it was agreed that feasibility studies could be undertaken on linking Dundrum to the Drummartin Link Road. That is now in the draft development plan, and it is only the draft. You can make submission on this or any other proposal in the draft plan before 3 July. Details are here.