As the Port of Cork moves its operations from Tivoli to Ringaskiddy, the old docklands area is due to be redeveloped. As part of the project, there is a plan for a new greenway going from Horgans Quay to where the Dunkettle Roundabout is now. This will in turn connect to the greenways going to Glanmire and to Midleton.
The Port of Cork Company have just announced that they will be applying for planning permission in November 2025, to significantly upgrade access to and from its Tivoli Docks site in Cork City.
As part of the plan at the eastern end, the Dunkettle roundabout will be replaced with a new junction which will include a greenway. The image below shows the southern side of the new Dunkettle juntion is shown below.
The key feature of the new junction is that traffic on the N8 going east-west or west-east will pass unimpeded under a new bridge with no traffic lights.
The road above marked A is the new access road from the redeveloped Tivoli site to the new junction.
Traffic from Glanmire will pass over the new N8 bridge which will have traffic lights. They will then turn right onto the down ramp B and will merge with the N8 traffic going into the city.
Traffic coming out of the city and heading towards Glanmire will take a slip road to the right where there will be traffic lights, very similar to what it is like at the moment.
From a walking / running / cycling point of view, there is going to be a new greenway which is highlighted above in green.
As can be seen from the image, the new greenway will come out of the city and run parallel to the railway line. It will then go under a bridge and do a small loop to gain height to cross over the junction.
The image below shows the northern side of the junction.
Traffic on the N8 flows unimpeded under the new bridge.
Traffic coming out of the city and heading towards Glanmire will use the offramp marked A which will have traffic lights.
Traffic coming from the east that wants to go to Glanmire will use the offramp marked B. The image shows two lanes turning right for Glanmire. There is one lane left for the new redeveloped Tivoli site.
Traffic coming from Glanmire heading towards the city cross over the bridge and turn right. Glanmire traffic heading east take the slip road at C and then merge with the N8 traffic.
Greenway users will have to negotiate two traffic junctions with traffic lights. The good thing here is that these are slip roads which will be no way as busy as the N8.
The image above shows the western end of the Tivoli site near Silversprings and the new greenway is shown in green.
In conclusion... That's the current plan as it stands and if it goes ahead then I'd guess that it might be something like the mid-2030's before it's built.
Who will use the new greenway? There are plans for some 6,500 new homes in the new Tivoli site which is a town in itself and it's likely those residents will be the biggest users of the greenway.
Going off other greenways, the biggest users will be walkers with the balance split between runners and cyclists.
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