A new plan to replace the long-hated narrow pathway alongside Blackrock Dart Station will be presented to councillors. The plans include separate paths for walking and cycling.The current path forms part of the Coastal Mobility Route, but signs tell cyclists to dismount as theres an 80-metre pinch point where it is hardly wide enough for many bicycles, prams, and wheelchairs to pass at once.Cllr Tom Kivlehan (Green Party) said: A Part 8 planning [process] for a new connection between Blackrock Dart station and Blackrock Park at Deepwell will be discussed tonight on the Dun Laoghaire Area Committee progress at last!According to a drawing provided to councillors, the project will include extending the two-way cycle path and separate footpaths in Blackrock Park towards Blackrock Dart Station.IMAGE: A Dn Laoghaire Rathdown County Council drawing of the plan.The work proposed includes closing the existing narrow alleyway beside the Dart platform and forming a new public space in what is currently part of the garden in Deepwell House, a former house of the Guinness family. On the park side, a new bridge will be required to replace the existing narrower bridge over the stream, and, on the station side, a shared area for people walking and cycling is proposed before the cycle path exits onto the carriageway on Bath Place outside the train station.Support Living Streets Dun Laoghaire, a group set up to campaign for the neighbouring Living Streets project, said: Great to see the narrow pathway beside Blackrock Dart Station (behind the old house known as Deepwell) on the agenda! A wider pathway is desperately needed as anyone who walks or cycles in the area knows.