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A Limerick councillor has hit out at council management after officials brought forward a plan to adjust a section of the South Circular Road active travel project, which is currently under construction.Limerick City and County Councils planned changes are understood to focus mainly on limiting the number of people who need access to the section of the street controlled by automated bollards, while also allowing two-way access for a short section of the street for some residents.Limiting traffic movements on this stretch of the street is key to making two-way cycling work alongside motorists travelling one way and retaining parking, as councillors set as a condition under the Part 8 planning process.To limit motoring access to the bollard-controlled section, two-way access will be allowed on the South Circular Road for around 130 metres from Quin Street to Laurel Hill Ave. This will mean more residents and all school staff can access parking without handing out a large number of key fobs. Another change is the addition of more parking spaces just north of Quin Street, which will require changes to the carriageway and cycle path around this location. The council has published a Section 38 notice on its website, signed by Patricia Liddy, director of services for the councils Transportation, Mobility and Public Realm Directorate.IMAGE: The combined drawings stitched together roughly, with the August 2026 construction drawings at the top and the new plans shown at the bottom. In this section, the main changes are to make the carriageway two-way for all and the associated changes for the cycling crossover. The changes also include a new raised parallel crossing for pedestrians and cyclists, south of the Quinn Street/South Circular Road junction, and modifications to build-outs, landscaping, road markings, signs and drainage to accommodate the two-way section of street and the parking changes.Submissions can be made in writing and via mypoint.limerick.ie by 5pm on Friday November 20th.Cllr Elisa ODonovan (Social Democrats) said she is increasingly frustrated with what she claims is a lack of communication and answers from the Active Travel team regarding the ongoing works on the South Circular Road.I am being contacted almost daily by residents and businesses with legitimate concerns, yet despite repeatedly raising these issues and requesting clarification, I am not getting the answers I need to pass on to people, Cllr ODonovan said in a post on Facebook on October 26th.Councillors were briefed on the planned changes, but it is understood that Cllr ODonovan did not attend the briefing. IMAGE: The combined drawings stitched together roughly, with the August 2026 construction drawings at the top and the new plans shown at the bottom. In this section, the main changes are a removal of green areas and localised narrowing of the cycle path to allow for space for extra car parking.Now we have a Section 38 consultation proposing significant changes to traffic arrangements between Laurel Hill Avenue and St Gerard Street. These changes were not approved by councillors as part of the original Part 8 process. Yet Active Travel is now seeking to introduce them through a Section 38 process, she said.She said: Ive walked around the area and could only find two public notices, both dated simply October 2026, with no actual date of publication. I have no idea when these notices were erected.Section 38 is the process the national guidelines deem suitable for such limited changes, and the process does not require site notices. Cllr ODonovan claimed that the proposals will have an enormous impact on traffic movements, particularly for the many schools in the area, as well as surrounding residential streets and local businesses.I have repeatedly asked for affected schools, businesses and residents to be contacted directly, but I have seen no evidence that this has happened. The whole approach feels underhand, and I am deeply disappointed with how this is being handled, she said.Under her Facebook post, a member of the public asked: Who does this? If youre part of the council why arent you given the information or do you need to have a penis to belong to the hierarchy and get information? Sure seems like it.Cllr ODonovan responded: They are a law onto their own and would rather work against the councillors that live locally than work with them. They dont live here so they dont care.Another member of the public replied and asked: Who are they? and Cllr ODonovan confirmed that she was referring to the councils active travel team.Another member of the public, a resident involved with a residents group, said that if Cllr ODonovan consulted with the residents group she might learn how this new plan emerged; its called negotiating. Its not a perfect solution but a reasonable compromise, and suggested that it might be best if u dont get involved at this late stage, particularly pertaining to the section between Quin Street and Gerards Street.Cllr ODonovan responded: Thats not what your neighbours think, and then the resident replied, stating that they had never said what her neighbours think.The resident told Cllr ODonovan that other councillors had engaged with their group and attended meetings with them. The resident added: What matters is we as a group have worked long and hard to get some resolution to our fears and this new plan, while not perfect, is a help.A separate member of the public said: The Active Travel team seem hell bent on making travelling around Limerick as dangerous and as frustrating as possible Cllr ODonovan liked this comment.Cllr ODonovan has repeatedly claimed her support for active travel projects, but she has also told local media that she was completely opposed to the South Circular Road project even after it was approved by a majority of councillors.Last year, she also spread misinformation on the South Circular Road project, claiming detailed designs had not been shared even after she had previously posted a photo of the detailed designs at an event she attended, and she implied design decisions had been made by others when the changes in the design were to comply with the projects Part 8 planning permission set by councillors.More recently, as reported by this website in August, when officials proposed a small project to address cycling safety and accessibility concerns on a 60-metre-long, two-lane, one-way street that is out of place in a residential estate, Cllr ODonovan sided with residents who said they had real trepidation, safety concerns and concerns around anti-social behaviour because of the project. Cllr ODonovan complained about a lack of consultation on that project, even after councillors paused its progress, including public consultation.

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