Oldtown Mooretown - Text - Fingal County Council

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Typical Main Street
OLDTOWN - MOORETOWN
Local Area Plan
3.2.6 Mooretown Main Street
The Mooretown Main Street will form a destination for the retail
and community facilities of this neighbourhood. This street will
accommodate a green route, which will connect into the wider
open space network and the Rathbeale/Glasmore/Water Mill
Archaeological Parks.
Similar to the Glen Ellan Main Street, this street shall be the
principle urban street in this area and shall be designed as a
tree lined main street. As stated above, the streets will be
designed in conjunction with the preparation of an Urban
Design/Landscape Masterplan(s) for the lands. The Masterplan
shall have regard to the urban design criteria for the Glen Ellan
Main Street in the design of this street, which is of similar
function and form within thehierarchical street network (see
related urban design criteria in 3.2.5 above and Cross-Section
of Typical Main Street).
3.2.7 Quality Bus Network
The major public transport corridor serving Swords is located
at the eastern side of the town where a quality bus corridor is
provided along the R132 to Dublin. The proposed Metro North
will also follow this corridor. A quality bus corridor is required
along the western side of Swords to cater for the proposed
development of Oldtown and Mooretown LAP lands and to
reduce dependency on private cars in the area.
The Swords Western Quality Bus Corridor is to be delivered in
conjunction with the development of Oldtown-Mooretown LAP
lands (see section 4 phasing). This scheme is a 6 kilometre long
QBC to be developed along Rathbeale Road, Murrough Road,
Brackenstown Road to the southern extent of Swords Main
Street. The works proposed include the following elements:
lBus priority measures will be provided on the approach to
the junction of the local access road and Rathbeale Road
in the north-east corner of Mooretown LAP lands.
lBus lanes over a 150m length on the western and southern
approaches to the junction of Rathbeale Road and
Murrough Road;
lBus lanes over a 150m length on the northern and eastern
approaches to the junction of Murrough Road and
Brackenstown Road;
lNew road link, referred to here as Lord Mayor Link, from
the eastern end of Brackenstown Road to Swords Main
Street/Dublin Road to bypass the existing hairpin bend.
Planning
Department