Active Travel works in Birdhill

Work has commenced this week on the changes to the R445 road through Birdhill to facilitate the Active Travel Scheme with a Temporary Traffic Management system to remain in place through to the end of April 2027.

A stop-go traffic light system is in place throughout various periods outside of peak traffic times.

The works consist of the construction of a segregated pedestrian and cycle surface, on both sides of the R445, a reduction of road widths to a minimum of 6m, along the R445, in the townlands of Gortybrigane and Birdhill.

The scheme extents are from a tie-in point with the emerging Killaloe Bypass/Shannon Crossing/R494 Improvement Scheme development, just north of the existing Birdhill roundabout in the east, to the 50kph/60kph demarcation on the R445 on the Limerick side of Birdhill village.