The project is now expected to be completed in 2024

The long-awaited Liffey cycle route has been delayed again and will not open until 2024, two years later than expected.

The project to build a segregated 5km cycle path along the capital’s main river began seven years ago. If completed by the new deadline it will have taken 12 years.

In April the National Transport Authority announced that it had finally selected the route of the cycle track, which will run along the north and south of the quays. Construction was expected to start in late 2020 under the plan.

It has now emerged that last month Dublin city council informed members of the budget consultative group that the “estimated completion date” for the Liffey cycle route was now 2024.

The project has been dogged