The Tralee Blog

Just a small update on this otherwise idle (for now) blog.

See pic, everybody is welcome!

A newly written comment by Stevie regarding my post about the conversion of the old Tralee-Fenit railway line showed me that there might easily be a confusion of two quite different things mentioned on this page. Currently two major tourism related projects are going ahead in and around Tralee, both involving old railway lines. [»]

As already reported earlier, the Lee Valley Park project will be one of the biggest investments in tourism infrastructure of this decade. And today is a big day for the project: work has started near the Aqua Dome. As all this will completely have changed the landscape between Tralee and the Blennerville Windmill in a couple of months, I today decided to take some final panoramic pictures of the area as it looks now. One of them actually dates back to juli 2007, when even the old stonebridge hadn’t been touched yet. Enjoy! [»]

In one of my earlier posts I wrote, that the newly built cycleway running alongside the Big River near the Brewery Road junction will eventually end in front of the Dunnes Store on North Circular Road. Wondering why I didn’t see any progress with this way I did some research and it turns out that I was wrong. The cycle way will not “break through the wall” near the Dunnes entrance, in fact it is to follow the old railway line towards Edward Street and will (probably) end/start right opposite the railway station. And I was also wrong in assuming that the building works in Castle Street will lead to the immediate widening of the footpath. Although it is still planned to do that it has not happened yet.

After almost ten years of intensive planning the proposed ”Lee Valley Park“ between Tralee and Blennerville can finally take shape. Mary Hanafin, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport, yesterday announced - somewhat unexpectedly by most in the current economic climate - that a quite generous grant of almost 3 million Euro has now been allocated to the project. I think this is great news for Tralee, especially because the park will be the only new tourism project of that scale in Ireland to go ahead this year. [»]