Brian Guckian...European Parliament Petition

Brian Proposes a Monkstown-Stillorgan Greenway.
Public Transportation-Only Corridor.
He has lodged a petition with the European Parliament Luxembourg.


Mr. Brian Guckian
XX xxxx Road,
Stillorgan,
Blackrock,
Dublin,
Ireland.

Dear Sir,

On behalf of the Secretary-General, I am writing to you to acknowledge recent e-mail on 3,8,2006,

Your petition has been entered in the general register as petition No. 575/2006 and I should be most grateful if you would use that reference number in any future correspondence.

Your petition has been forwarded to the committee on petitions which will, first of all, take a decision on its admissibility, i.e. on whether the subject of your petition falls within the sphere of activities of the European Union. If the committee declares it admissible, it will then examine the substance of your petition.

The committee will write to you directly to inform you of its decision on admissibility.
If your petition is declared admissible the aforementioned committee will examine it at a meeting open to the public in accordance with the provision of the European Parliament’s internal rules of procedure.

May I draw your attention to the fact that the procedure for the examination of a petition may be fairly lengthy, given the large number of petitions that we receive which have to be translated into twenty official languages of the European union and then examined by the committee on petitions.

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Introduction
The Monkstown - Stillorgan Greenway is an exciting new way of reconciling transportation objectives with sustainability in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown.

What is the Greenway?
The Greenway is an entirely new public transportation-only corridor, following the orbital reservation of the proposed Monkstown Ring Road. It provides for bus, cycle and pedestrian modes of transport, as well as a new linear park.

Fulfilling Objectives
The Greenway completes an orbital corridor from Stillorgan to Dun Laoghaire, first proposed in the 1970s. But importantly, it is based on 2006 transportation thinking. And critically, it leverages public transport use. This is further discussed below.

Greenway Features
The Greenway, facilitating sustainable transport modes, needs less roadspace than a car-based design. Importantly, the width can be reduced in critical areas (such as Yankee Terrace) because the vehicular bus traffic would be significantly less continuous and more predictable than regular car-based movements. This means that very short single-way sections could be provided, eliminating the need for CPOs and consequent social impacts.

If necessary, very short single-way sections can be provided on the Greenway to avoid property demolition.
This is made possible by the less continuous nature of bus traffic and by traffic signalling technology.

Example
A bus waits for one travelling in the other direction before entering
the short single-way section.
The Greenway also features parallel cycleways and pedestrian routes and allows for large-scale planting and landscaping to form a linear park