OVER €20million in funding has been awarded to Limerick City and County Council to develop active travel infrastructure across 2025.
€20.5m was allocated to the local authority to develop and improve Limerick’s sustainable transport facilities, including the development of segregated cycle lanes, new and improved footpaths, new pedestrian crossings, public transport infrastructure improvements, and significant landscaping upgrades.
The funding will allow the Council’s Active Travel team to progress works to schemes across the city, including the Mill Road, Corbally Active Travel Scheme, the R510 Raheen to Quinn’s Cross Active Travel Scheme, TUS to City Centre Active Travel Scheme, and the South Circular Road Active Travel Scheme.
Mayor John Moran said that the funding will help cement Limerick as Ireland’s first city with a fully integrated, safe active travel network.
“A key pillar of the mayoral programme is to ensure we either achieve or are well on the way to achieving the status of Ireland’s first city with a fully integrated, safe active travel network.
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“This allocation, and the projects it will advance, will put us well on track to achieving that aim, along with other important projects in the county,” Mayor Moran said.
Director of Transportation and Mobility with Limerick City and County Council Brian Kennedy said that “our successful partnership with the NTA continues to grow and develop and this announcement is another sign of that progress”.
Active travel schemes on the Mill Road in Corbally and Raheen to Quinn’s Cross are set to be finished this year.
