Route of old Railway line – possible new greenway route (Baltinglass)

On the Map No.1 for Baltinglass in the draft county plan there is a dotted line showing a “Route of old Railway line – possible new greenway route”. Greenways are brilliant and a great use of disused railways – however on behalf of Quinns of Baltinglass I must highlight some problems with this proposed route. Quinns operate a largescale (9acres+) industrial business on our site on mill street. The old railway line as per your map passes right through our yard. This is now a very busy yard – involving feed trucks, grain trucks, HGVs, vans, tractors etc. – as well as administrative offices and a large hardware/agri/homestore. There is no possible way a greenway route could access any of these lands. The old railway station (mentioned in the draft plan) is currently in full use in the middle of our yard as a logistics office for our business. I am sure this proposed route is a high level aspiration which will involve more investigation and planning in time to make it more concrete – but I just wanted to flag early that this section of the old railway is not fit for any part of a new greenway as it is now fully commercially developed. Please find some photos attached of the site. I look forward to seeing what route is looked at in future and we would thoroughly welcome a greenway that connects cyclists to Baltinglass