Post Tagged with: "Tralee Town Centre"

TRALEE Municipal District councillors have unanimously approved proposals for a number of works on roads and pavements in the town centre, at the meeting of Tralee MD on Monday. The proposal included a combination of pavement finishes and levels. Road widths are being reduced to slow traffic movements and footpaths […]

AS public consultation on the next phase of multi-million-euro enhancement works in Tralee town centre continues, members of the public are invited to attend an online webinar next week to learn more about the proposals. The new phase of upgrading works in Tralee follows the allocation of funding under the […]

KERRY County Council has announced a pilot scheme for enhancements to shopfronts in Tralee town centre. The Tralee Town Centre Pilot Shopfront Enhancement Scheme aims to improve the streetscape environment by encouraging and supporting business owners to upgrade their shopfronts. The scheme applies initially to Upper and Lower Castle Street […]

A NEW strategy for Tralee, recommending changes to the streetscapes and public areas of the town, is to go to public consultation in the near future. A draft of the Tralee Town Centre Public Realm Strategy 2018 was presented to councillors at the Tralee Municipal District meeting on Monday, where […]

THE amazing mural at the Abbey Street/Dominick Street junction off The Square is due to be finished today and it looks amazing. The new mural, some 20 metres long by 10 metres high, has been slowly revealing itself in Abbey Street just off The Square, over the past week in […]

MANY of you who have passed Dominick Street or the Abbey car park might have noticed a bit of painting going on over the past few days. A new mural, some 20 metres long by 10 metres high, on the theme of the Rose of Tralee, is slowly revealing itself […]

ANOTHER change on Denny Street came into being this morning, as parallel parking was introduced. There was still one lane closed as work is still going on, but the street has been fully resurfaced and it looks very smart with the tarmacadam laid and the new cycle lane in place. The […]

AHEAD of the introduction of a new two-way traffic flow on Denny Street, Tralee, later this month, parallel parking will come into effect on the street this weekend. The street will be lined for parallel parking over the coming days, replacing the existing perpendicular parking arrangements. Cars will park parallel to […]

THE results of a study of Tralee town centre will be presented in June to provide the framework for further renewal of the town. Back in October, Tralee was chosen as one of ten ‘pilot’ towns in the National Town Centre Health Check (TCHC) Training Programme. ‘Town Centre Health Check’ surveys of […]

AS part of the next phase of a €1.7m investment in the Denny Street/The Mall area of Tralee under the Tralee Active Travel project, Kerry County Council is proposing to close The Mall and Bridge Street (from the junction with Russell Street towards the Mall) to traffic from April 24 to November 21. […]

THE Mall is set to close to traffic from April 24 and won’t reopen to vehicles until November when the transformation of the area is complete. In a press briefing on Monday, Kerry County Senior Engineer, Eamon Scanlan, outlined the timeline of works for the town centre. The contractors are on schedule to complete works […]

WORK will begin next week on a new taxi rank at the car park next to Boots/Tesco town centre. The rank will have around 14 spaces and will stretch along the side of the Boots building and around the corner into the Abbey car park. It will be ready by the […]

BRIDGE Street won’t be part of the first phase of the Tralee town centre works due to commence in May and it may be a while before resurfacing takes place there due to lack of funding. When the plans were initially announced last May, artists impressions of a resurfaced Russell Street […]

  WORK on making Denny Street a two-way will begin on Monday and is scheduled to be finished by the start of May, people heard at a public meeting in The Ashe Hotel last night. It is anticipated work could then start on The Mall area, but it’s unclear whether it will continue […]

WORKS to convert Denny Street into a two-way and the creation of a pedestrian-friendly Mall area will begin in days. John Craddock Ltd, a Kildare based contractor, signed the contract for the Tralee Town Centre improvement works funded by the Department of Transport and Kerry County Council as part of […]

TRALEE Chamber Alliance has described the decision by Kerry County Council and Irish Water, to dig up part of Tralee town centre for the next six weeks as “bizarre”. A letter from Kerry County Council was issued to businesses this week, saying work would start this coming Monday on replacing an existing […]

TRALEE has been chosen as one of ten ‘pilot’ towns in the National Town Centre Health Check (TCHC) Training Programme. The Heritage Council of Ireland and RGDATA are developing this training programme, a key aim of which is to raise awareness, understanding and appreciation of the critical role that historic […]

PLANS for two way traffic to return on Denny Street have received the go ahead along with a number of other changes to Tralee town centre at the meeting of Tralee Municipal District on Tuesday. There has been considerable opposition over the loss of 66 car spaces on Denny Street and the effect […]

CONCERN has been expressed about the state of the footpath on Russell Street as two people have already fallen over holes in one part of the path in recent weeks. A local business owner brought the holes – located just outside Barbereile barber shop – to our attention and said they had seen […]

COUNCIL officials and have told traders that scrapping the intended two-way traffic plan for Denny Street was not on the table and work will commence in two weeks time. However, the traders are hopeful the Council take on board suggestions including finding more parking spaces around the Ashe Memorial Hall. At a meeting of a […]

TEN new jobs will be created in the coming days with the opening of a new cafe where Charlie Nelligan’s Coffee Shop used to be located. Mr Nelligan retired from the coffee shop on Christmas Eve and sold the business to Jaroslaw Lukasiewicz, a Polish man, who has been living […]