Cork City Council announce plans for new bridge from Grange to the Tramore Valley Park

Update - 22nd June 2022... Work has now commenced on the new pedestrian bridge over the N40 South Rung Road in Cork City. This will connect the Tramore Valley Park to the Grange & Frankfield areas of the city.

The bridge is expected to be finished by the end of 2023. Hopefully by the time it is finished, the 5k parkrun in the park will have been up and running for a good while and this bridge will allow easier access for participants from Frankfield and Grange.

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Feb 2022... Back at the end of January 2022, I had a post up about how the National Transport Authority (NTA) had allocated €4.3 million for the construction of a new bridge over the N40 South Ring Road in Cork City. This new bridge will connect the Tramore Valley Park to the Grange & Frankfield areas of the city.

€4.3 million allocated for new bridge over N40 from Tramore Valley Park to Grange - Jan 2022

The Government recently announced a large number of grants for multiple Greenways, pedestrian and cycle paths and under projects. This came under the title of 'Active Travel Investment Allocations'.

A total of €46.9 million was allocated to Cork City Council projects with a further €20.4 million allocated to Cork County Council projects. Some of the projects are shown at the bottom of this post.

One of the grants was for €4.3 million for a new pedestrian bridge over the N40 South Ring Road connecting the Tramore Valley Park to Grange. I have more information about this project in a post from February 2021.

From what I understand, work on this project is going to commence in a few weeks. I don't know what the completion date is but I presume sometime in 2023?

The impact of this bridge is that it opens up the Tramore Valley Park a whole new area with lots of houses.

There was also a grant for €60,000 for a study to investigate the possibility of connecting the Kinsale Road & the Black Ash car park to the Tramore Valley Park. At present. there is no provision for pedestrians to cross the South Link Road.

It's not hard to imagine in a few years time that there will be a weekly 5k parkrun in Tramore Valley Park with people accessing it from all directions.

Some of the projects funded...

Project Code: Project Name 2022 Allocation
CCC/19/0009 Grange Road Transport Corridor & Tramore Valley (N40 bridge) €4,300,000
CCC/19/0010 Ballybrack Valley Pedestrian & Cycle Track (Phase 4) €400,000
CCC/20/0006 Glanmire Cycle Way and pedestrian improvements €1,700,000
CCC/20/0009 Passage Greenway (Ph. 2 from Mahon to Passage-west) €200,000
CCC/20/0018 Curraheen Pedestrian and Cycleway upgrade €100,000
CCC/20/0021 Passage to City Centre Greenway - Phase1 (N40 to Docklands) €3,000,000
CCC/20/0023 Half Moon Lane Improvement Scheme €100,000
CCC/21/0005 Marina Promenade Pedestrian and Cycle facilities €600,000
CCC/21/0007 Lea to Sea Cycle Route Study €200,000
CCC/21/0008 Viaduct to City Cycle Route Phase 1 (Viaduct to Kinsale Road) €220,000
CCC/21/0017 Mayfield to Glen Cycle Route €200,000
CCC/21/0018 Ballincollig to City Centre (Classes Lake to Carrigrohane) €50,000
CCC/21/0020 Donnybrook Hill Pedestrian Upgrades €550,000
CCC/21/0021 Douglas to Grange Bridge Cycle Route €350,000
CCC/21/0022 Kilcully & Upper Glanmire Pedestrian Improvement Scheme €400,000
CCC/22/xxxx Dunkettle Road Ph. 2 Pedestrian and Cycle Scheme €500,000
CCC/22/xxxx Curaheen Road Pedestrian and Cycle scheme €380,000
CCC/22/xxxx Maglin Greenway Ph. 1 €75,000
CCC/22/xxxx Glanmire to City Centre Ph. 2 Cycle Scheme (Dunkettle to City) €75,000
CCC/22/xxxx Sarsfield Road to MTU Pedestrian and Cycle Scheme €60,000
CCC/22/xxxx Sarsfield Rd to Clashduv Rd Cycle link €60,000
CCC/22/xxxx Bessboro to Mahon - Pedestrian and Cycle Scheme €60,000
CCC/22/xxxx Kinsale Rd to Tramore Valley Park - Pedestrian and Cycle Connection €60,000
CCC/22/xxxx Shanakiel/Strawberry Hill Cycle Scheme €60,000
CCC/22/xxxx Rochestown Rd to Douglas Cycle Scheme €60,000
CCO/22/xxxx Ballinacurra - Middleton Pedestrian and Cycle Route (Phase 1 Balllyanne woods Car Park to Broderick St) €1,150,000
CCO/22/xxxx Carrigaline - Ringaskiddy and Passage (Phase 1 Rafeen to Passage) €1,000,000
CCO/22/xxxx Little Island - Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge €270,000
CCO/22/xxxx Crosshaven - Pedestrian and Cyclist facilities €150,000

Pedestrian Bridge in Mahon Closed in Early Sept 2017

The original plan was that the pedestrian bridge in Mahon over the N40 South Ring Road will be closed from Monday the 28th of August to Friday the 8th of September 2017. It's unlikely to last that long though and it should open earlier.

Updates...
Fri 1st Sept. The photo above was taken at noon on Fri 1st Sept. The contractors are still working on it.

Wed 30th Aug. The bridge was closed today as the contractors were working on it. However, they should be finished in a day or two and the bridge should be open by the weekend! The St.Lukes 5k will go ahead as planned.

This is to accommodate maintenance and resurfacing works.

The map below shows the location in the south-east corner of Cork City for anyone not familiar with it.  Any walkers or runners can take a detour by using the bridge near Mahon Point which is just to the east.

Alternative route courtesy of Ruairi O'Mahony HERE