— Greenway will open up views rarely seen and give safe access to Dublin Port’s ferry terminal.
Dublin Port’s Tolka Estuary Greenway is now open to the public along the northern perimeter of the port. It opens up a part of Dublin that was previously not accessible to the public, with views of the Clontarf seafront and Bull Island, as well as Howth Head in the distance.
Access to the greenway is via Eastpoint Business Park using its entrance on the Alfie Byrne Road.
Dublin Port confirmed to IrishCycle.com this afternoon that the greenway is now open to the public, and the company is planning an official launch event next week.
The cycle path on the Alfie Byrne Road is part of the coastal route along the northern part of Dublin Bay and is connected to the new East Wall Road cycle path. It also connects to a small section of the Tolka Greenway in Fairview Park, which, in turn, links to the nearly finished Clontarf to City Centre project.
The Clontarf route links the new greenway to the Royal Canal Greenway and onwards to the Grand Canal Route, providing access to the southside and the city centre.
In the longer term, there is a plan to link the Tolka Estuary Greenway directly to the Docklands as part of Dublin Port’s Liffey Tolka Project.
When the Tolka Estuary Greenway project was under construction, Dublin Port described the new greenway as a “celebration of an area of the Port that has never been accessed by the public before, and it is a key element of Dublin Port’s ambitious Tolka-Estuary Project.”
The section of the greenway that has now opened is phase one of the project, and it ends at access to the ferry terminal area. As previously reported, Phase 2, which is dependent on further sea defence works, will continue onto the eastern edge of the port. The full length of the greenway will be over 3km, and what’s opened today is estimated to be just over 2km in one direction.
East Point Business Part posted a video preview of the route last week:
