Traffic Calming Plans Rathfarnham Templeogue 2023

Section 38 of the 1994 Road Traffic Act, a Road Authority may in the interest of the safety and convenience of road users provide such traffic calming measures as it considers desirable in respect of a public road in its charge. South Dublin County Council proposes to install traffic calming measures, subject to available funding at the following locations:

• Knocklyon Ave - raised tables at junctions with Knocklyon Mews and Knocklyon Park

• Orchardstown Drive junction - tightening at junction with Anne Devlin Road

• Whitecliff Estate, Rathfarnham - traffic calming island at 2no. junctions within the estate

• Hermitage Park Rathfarnham - traffic calming island at its junction Hermitage Ave

• Glenvara Park - junction tightening at 2no. junctions within the estate

• Mount Down Road, Manor Estate – junction tightening at entrance from R112.

• Silverwood Drive - junction tightening at junction with Taylors Lane

• Palmer Park, Ballyboden - tightening at junction with Taylors Lane

Submissions can be made to South Dublin Council Council’s consultation portal. Each proposed location is listed. Please indicate on any comments or submissions any specific location(s) to which your submission refers. Once works commence they cannot be reversed. Your preference on the proposed traffic calming measure can be made as follows;

• On South Dublin County Council’s Public Consultation Portal website http://consult.sdublincoco.ie by midnight on 15th August 2023.

• In writing to the Senior Executive Officer, Roads Department, Land Use, Planning and Transportation, County Hall, Tallaght, Dublin 24, to be received on or before 5.00pm on 15th August 2023, simply stating the specific traffic calming locations to which you are referring . Submissions should be clearly marked “Traffic Calming Programme 2023”.

All submissions received will be considered and will form part of the Chief Executive’s report on the public consultation process which will be presented to the Council for noting.