Re: Re: well what about the developments popping up in the shannonside ?

@Griff wrote:

Can anyone direct me to where I can see how the new Motorway to Dublin ties in with the existing roundabout beyond Finnegans restaurant – its impossible to work out where traffic coming down the Newport road will meet the roundabout .

N7/M7 Newport Interchange (Annacotty)

I came across this image at the weekend and needless to say I’m not too impressed with the NRA’s solution for the Newport Interchange at Annacotty.

The interchange feeds onto one large roundabout which distributes the flow of traffic for three slipways of the new N7/M7 (i.e. Southbound diverge, Southbound merge, Northbound diverge) and a new re-aligned road (R-445 East) which serves the separated Northbound merge slipway.

The old N7 primary road (R-445 West) from the city and the original Newport road (R-503) also feed onto the roundabout.

It seems that the N7 / M7 will run under the roundabout.

One would think with all the land available outside the city that they could easily build an interchange on just one site. No instead they choose a spot in the middle of a cluster of one off bungalows and a very small housing estate thus restraining itself to separate the Northbound merge from the rest of the interchange proper.

No lessons learnt here from the flawed Ballysimon, Rossbrien and Dooradoyle interchanges! 😮