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DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL has amended proposals to cut down 109-year-old trees in Fairview Park to make room for a new cycle way.
Plans to cut down the trees were met with strong resistance from local residents when announced earlier this year.
An online petition to save the trees from local woman Edel Leahy has received 12,970 supporters.
The trees were to be felled to make way for the Clontarf to City Centre cycle route, which would improve travelling to the city by bicycle.
A revised plan was circulated to councillors on the North Central Area Committee and Central Area Committee yesterday.
Under these revised plans, 42 of the 46 roadside trees will be retained.
In the circulated revised plans, DCC said that of the four trees being felled, two are noted to be in bad condition, one is thought to have a lifespan of 20 years and the other of 4o years.
“Delighted”
Commenting on the new proposal, Edel Leahy said that she was “delighted” the objectives of the group had been achieved.
“I am delighted that our sole objective of saving the Fairview Trees has been achieved,” she said.
“The residents of the local area and wider public who supported our campaign deserve great credit.
It shows that ‘people power’ can work when a serious wrong is being proposed. We also wish to thank the media who did so much to highlight our campaign.
Donna Cooney – local Green Party representative who has also been involved in the campaign – said that following on from this “victory” it was important that the council addressed other issues raised.
“It’s important that all issues of cycling and pedestrian safety outlined in our submission are addressed now, for the best possible design,” she said.
Local councillors Nial Ring and Damian O’Farrell also welcomed the new proposals.
“Dublin City Council has listened to the people and realised that no local councillor was going to support the destruction of such historically significant trees,” said Ring.
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Yeaaaa !!:)
@Martina Keogh:
Would it have been too effort for the writer to at least details on what the new proposal is?
Saving the trees only to implement a useless cycle path that no one will use would be the worst result of all
@Dow Dubrov: how lazy are these councillors if they could come up with something better than cutting down 100+ year trees?
@Richard Wright: It is useless alright and pretty dangerous too.
They need to get it right this time and if a few trees have to go to make it work, so be it
Who elects these plonkers…..
@Peadar Ó Gréacháin: The Special Branch.
I’ve just twigged the joke. A bit of light re-leaf.
@Debbie Behan: snap!
@Peadar Ó Gréacháin: unfortunately Joe public!!!
@Peadar Ó Gréacháin: We do!
Don’t councils have heritage departments that would fight this before it leaves draft plan stages. It there was no alternative, fair enough, but now there is another way of doing it?? Seems like there is no thought given to anything, maybe they should be forced to produce 10 options in order to get them to think about what they are doing.
@Richard Wright: I suppose I mean the heritage officer, but I guess Dublin would have a few making it a proper department. I don’t know how council planning works but it would make sense to get input from all departments. Cities around the world are planting trees and our guys are running around like leatherface :-P
No need to cut these trees down. For what reason. Some public servant suggested to make a name for himself.
Is the alternative to put these cycle lanes on the existing nearby two laned road and turn it into a single lane traffic bottleneck?
They can move and replant trees you know.
@Old Gordon: surely there is enough green space to build the cycle lane a few feet into the park?
@Richard Wright: a shared cycle path, cyclists and pedestrians shouldn’t be mixed. A dedicated footpath and a separate dedicated cycle path is needed
@lavbeer: there is already a 2-lane cycle path in the park. Minor detour but workable.
Good decision at long last and Hook will be happy also !
Great news. Existing 2-lane cycle path in the park is not a major detour.
@Paula Nolan: That minor detour as you call it means cycling through a unlit park during the winter. A park where a number of people have been murdered and attacked. Along with the fact it involves negating gates and pedestrians.
They were bark-ing up the wrong tree messin with the Fairview gang!
Just one trunk call to the special branch and it was sorted.they told them to “leaf”those trees where they are or else!
That trees or a lane…. let’s see the support for the trees when a lane is removed.
Power to the people…
Fairview park built with the rubble from the GPO
After 1916…sacred ground..
Know your history…
Fair play to everybody
Yellow ribbons around trees was my first clue.. MAÍTH SÍbh
Common sense stuff…
Have they not said they are now going to reduce the number of lanes for cars to 1 from 2 along that section of Fairview.
Charge all the people a dollar and a half to see them
@Elaine Kearney: this is a Joanie reference, yes?
@Declan McArdle: Yes!
Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got til it’s gone, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Thankfully they were overruled here, there are no problems only solutions as the mamma would say
@gerry fallon:
The tree musketeers are responsible.. are they the ones from special branch?
Well good place to go and put in for a claim now (dangerous roots, felling branches)
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