W2D-009 Planning regulations-1.txt
DUBLIN PORT TUNNEL SCHEME DEVELOPMENT
EARLY HISTORY
Proposals for major roads to relieve the City of traffic and improve access to the Port, have been presented in numerous studies over the last thirty years with recent attention commencing when a route for the Port Access and Eastern Relief Route, was shown diagrammatically in Dublin Corporation's "Traffic Study of Dublin Port and Custom House Docks Area", dated October 1989.
PORT ACCESS AND EASTERN RELIEF ROUTE STUDY
In January 1991 a firm of consultants was appointed to carry our a study of routes linking the M1 Motorway on the north side of the city to Booterstown on the south side of the city. Six routes were examined in the northern section of the PAERR report. These were known as routes A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and A6. Information on the routes is contained in the following pages of this handout.
NORTHERN PORT ACCESS ROUTE STUDY On 10th November 1992, the Government decided not to proceed with the Port Access and Eastern Relief Route. However the need to provide Port access still existed, and the northern section of the PAERR between the M1 and the Port was carried forward for further study, and reported on in the Northern Port Access Route (NPAR) report. This report recommended the A6 Route. DUBLIN TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVE STUDY
As part of the Dublin Transportation Initiative (DTI), proposals for a Port Access Route were again evaluated. This evaluation considered three infrastructural schemes, one of which was the (A6) Northern Port Access Route, and a management option. The DTI confirmed that a tunnel should be constructed along the NPAR route. The DTI also recommended that the scheme should be a accompanied by management of heavy goods vehicles and also should be tolled for private cars.
