{"id":225,"date":"2010-10-16T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T12:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/question-to-sdcc-re-newlands-cross-traffic-congestion\/"},"modified":"2010-10-16T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T12:36:15","slug":"question-to-sdcc-re-newlands-cross-traffic-congestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/question-to-sdcc-re-newlands-cross-traffic-congestion\/","title":{"rendered":"Question to SDCC re Newlands Cross Traffic congestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL<\/p>\n<p>Monday, October 11, 2010<\/p>\n<p>QUESTION NO. 1<\/p>\n<p><strong>QUESTION: Councillor S. Crowe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>To ask the Manager will he in view of the ongoing daily difficulties  experienced by commuters traveling in and out of the City and the importance of  Newlands Cross route to good traffic management in South Dublin County area, can  he outline if discussions have\u00a0taken place \u00a0with the NRA in relation  to this section of roadway, if the tender has been circulated and can he say  when works will begin\u00a0to alleviate traffic congestion at this junction?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>REPLY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The importance of Newlands Cross to the management of traffic in our County  is fully appreciated by all parties and specific arrangements have been planned  to allow for the necessary construction works to take place while minimising the  disruption to traffic flows.\u00a0 The contract provides that two lanes in both  directions will be kept open.<\/p>\n<p>The construction scheme is part of a PPP bundle\u00a0contract being organised  by the NRA which includes the Rathnew Bypass in County Wicklow. The tendering  process is\u00a0well advanced\u00a0and it is expected that a contract will be  signed in Nov 2010 with a view to construction commencing in  2011.\u00a0\u00a0Construction is expected to take 21 months to complete the  junction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL Monday, October 11, 2010 QUESTION NO. 1 QUESTION: Councillor S. Crowe \u00a0 To ask the Manager will he in view of the ongoing daily difficulties experienced by commuters traveling in and out of the City and the importance of Newlands Cross route to good traffic management in South Dublin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}