The plans envision it as a park, not a site for housing. Environmental monitoring reports detail its impacts on surface water and ground water, as well as the gases it is emitting.
There's a plan to reduce motor vehicle traffic along the route, and install kerb-segregated cycle lanes along most of it – but moving very, very slowly.
They're still thinking about the best way forward, and that might be improving the current system rather than replacing it, said Alan Dillon, Minister of State with responsibility for the Circular Economy.
"We comply with the statutory requirements in maintaining a register, and there is no requirement to have it up online," City Planner Emer Uí Fhátharta said at a meeting last week.
In both cases, councillors pushed changes to the planned variations that they said were meant to force the construction of not only housing, but other infrastructure there too.
Intel has a plant in Leixlip, and another in Israel. It's a major employer and taxpayer in Ireland, where its executives meet pretty regularly with senior government figures.
The council rejected a planning application for the base, but that hasn't stopped the company, which says it is still flying and "considering the next steps available to us".
The council increased fees at a car park near the station, and some councillors worried it'd push people to drive into town instead of commuting by train.
