Best Roads, Worst Roads
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Parts of the Ring of Kerry – especially Kenmare to Sneem are wodgious, Healy Rae periodically gets a contract to upgrade the odd 100 yards or so but there is a lot of joining up to be done. The N 72 Killarney – Mallow – Mitchellstown road has ro be the worst,
What was a beautiful road in Dublin has been ruined by DLRCoCo – anyone been on Vico Road recently? It used to have a nice rural feel to it, a soft edge where the grass grew through (and disguised) the old railings. Some philistine then decided to narrow the road with a poured concrete kerb and backfill the space with grey limestone (to contrast with the cream/brown granite, like)As just placed in the M3 thread, the huge bevy bringing the M3 into Tara’s Gabhra valley has got to be the worst in terms of design and wanton offensiveness to anyone that cares about their heritage. Look at the map at http://www.tarasos.com. The current route is too long, puts a 28 acre interchange at the bottom of the hill of Tara and adds c.3.5km to the 10m stretch between Navan & Dunshaughlin. This isn’t about moaning about a road for no good reason – the current route is daft!
And because of the winding and sloping route through the Tara Gabhra valley it will probably be a 80km – 100km zone like the Firhouse Sandyford stretch on the M50, or the Chapelizod bypass. Why, oh why build it like this when it could go straight as an arrow on a shorter to the west! Daft.
The M3 is totally over rated and designed for to much capacity
having a motorway past kells is inadequete!
It should be dualed to as fasr as Navan as most of the traffic that use the N3 is primarily Dublin Navan bound!When looking a the plans of the route it really takes a lot of land with those interchanges and bends that will bore the countryside, which is spectacular
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