MEMBERS of the public are invited to attend an information session this Thursday (March 6) for the proposed Wickham Street to Clare Street Active Travel Scheme.
Plans for the scheme will be outlined by Limerick City and County Council at the Citizen Innovation Lab in the UL City Campus on Sarsfield Street between 6pm and 8pm on Thursday.
The route, which the Council said will proceed to a statutory planning process for the Wickham Street to Clare Street Active Travel Scheme, is the proposed ‘yellow’ route, which begins at Parnell Street and goes through Wickham Street on to High Street and Mungret Street in the city, before coming on to Broad Street and finishing on Clare Street, connecting to the Park Canal.
A spokesman for the council said that the route will now be progressed by the Active Travel team with a view to submitting a statutory planning application thereafter.
The objective of the scheme, according to the Council, is to connect the Colbert Station Quarter to the University of Limerick with dedicated walking, wheeling, and cycling facilities via the city centre and the Park Canal.
The decision follows a period of non-statutory public consultation, traffic surveys, parking surveys, and the compiling of an economic assessment report on the proposals, which has been conducted by a third party outside of Limerick City and County Council.
This assessment involved directly engaging with both businesses and consumers on the proposed project routes in the form of questionnaires and surveys.
