Traffic & Road Safety: Churchtown Road Upper Traffic Calming Scheme

Overview

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is proposing to carry out traffic calming works on Churchtown Road Upper, from the junctions with Whitehall Road/Landscape Park, passing Da La Salle College to the junction with Landscape Crescent. The works will include an enhancement of streetscape, traffic calming, and provision of pedestrian crossing facilities. The Scheme will be implemented under Section 38 of the Road Traffic Act 1994.

The Council is undertaking a Non-Statutory Public Consultation to help inform the design and welcomes all submissions and observations on the proposals.

Scheme Details

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are developing a traffic calming scheme for Churchtown Road Upper. The aims of the scheme is to reduce vehicular speeds in the area and to improve pedestrian crossing facilities.

Wide carriageways encouraging higher vehicular speeds and a lack of good quality pedestrian crossing points were key challenges to be considered as part of the design process. A preliminary design has been developed to address these challenges.

The proposed works are intended to:  

• Provide traffic calming on Churchtown Road Upper by narrowing the road width, installing raised tables at key junctions and tightening junction radii to reduce vehicular speeds in the area.
• Provide a safer school zone in the area around De La Salle College.
• Provide improved pedestrian infrastructure by reducing crossing distances at junctions and installing pedestrian crossing points at key locations.
• Provide a new sustainable drainage system (SuDS) rain garden to improve the urban streetscape on Churchtown Road Upper.

Details of the proposals are outlined in the documents accompanying this notice.

Why your views matter

The Council are seeking views from the public to help inform the scheme design. A non-statutory public consultation is being held on the scheme from 20^th June 2025 to 18^th July 2025 (till 12 noon).

Submissions and observations can be made;

• Via written submission to Senior Engineer, Traffic and Road Safety Section, Infrastructure and Climate Change Department, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.  A96 K6C9.
• By email to info@dlrcoco.ie
• Submit your views below, via Online Survey

Submissions or observations should be clearly marked “Churchtown Road Upper Traffic Calming Scheme”.  

The closing date for receipt of submissions is 18^th July 2025 (12 noon)

Senior Engineer, Traffic and Road Safety Section.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, County Hall, Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, A96 K6C9. 

Comhairle Contae Dhún Laoghaire-Ráth an Dúin, Halla an Chontae, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire.

Tel: 01 205 4700

Email: info@dlrcoco.ie Web: www.dlrcoco.ie