Dublin Port Tunnel
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Will the tunnel only be for traffic to and from the docks or will it also be used by vehicles travelling to and from the M50/M1 to the city centre? Either way are there any plans to give it a name other than Dublin Port Tunnel?
It will be called the M50, as will presumably the small stretch of M1 between the tunnel and the current M50/M1 junction, which will hopefully be upgraded by then to prioritise through traffic. Tolls will be charged for cars and bikes, whereas trucks will be free since they will not be allowed on the quays. Whether overheight trucks will be banned or the tunnel heightened we haven’t been told yet.
Thanks for that. Work was progressing on my last visit so assume it will be ready for traffic in early 2005. I have also read about an eastern bypass under the bay. Is it ever likely to happen (at least in the next decade)?
Calling it M50 doesnt make sense. Its not the M50 its an extension of the M1 to the port surely (???)
The M50 is supposed to be an orbital motorway; the final part will go partially underground from Sandyford to the port tunnel. The South Eastern motorway being built (sporadically) at the moment will be called the M50 until it is presumably renamed M11.
http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=50421&pt=n
There is a fresh call for an immediate investigation into whether or not the Dublin Port Tunnel is safe.
It follows the leaking of internal documents relating to its design in recent days.
One letter claims some of the design and construction work is unsafe and could pose a danger to workers and local residents.
Dublin North Central TD Finian Mc Grath wants Dublin City Council to come clean on the issue.
“I`ve been handed explosive information”, he says.
Deputy McGrath adds, “Serious flaws in the design have been highlighted. The words that I see in the confidential report are the construction being defective, and they also have major concerns in relation to leakage in the tunnel and talking about cracking and water proofing failing in certain areas”.
:rolleyes: Oh dear
Everyone gets so upset when the word “leakage” gets mentioned in relation to tunnels (remember when the Lee tunnel opened?). It’s actually normal for these things to leak – which is why pumps are installed. It’s impossible to build a perfect seal. I imagine it’s just some local politian is over-reacting to the “news” that the port tunnel will leak.
Legal action threatened against council
11 April 2006 12:31
Road hauliers have threatened to take legal action against Dublin City Council following last night’s decision to ban trucks from 7am to 7pm from next year.City councillors last night voted to accept the council’s strategy for heavy goods vehicles.
However, the councillors also voted to introduce a complete ban on large lorries on roads around the city centre a year earlier than originally planned.
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A proposal to extend the ban to smaller trucks earlier than planned was dropped following advice from the City Manager, John Fitzgerald.
Dublin City Council’s HGV strategy, published last month, proposed banning lorries with five axles or more from a cordon around the city centre between 7am and 7pm.
This is to take effect two months after the opening of the Port Tunnel later this year.
However, it allowed for trucks to have access to Dublin Port via East Wall Road on the northside and Sean Moore Road on the southside, until the first phase of M50 upgrade works was completed in 2008. Councillors have now decided to close off these access routes for hauliers on 1 January 2007.
Councillors also wanted to extend the ban to lorries with four axles or more from March 2007. However, that amendment was dropped after Mr Fitzgerald said it was ‘completely crazy, not feasible and would cause chaos on the M50’.
Councillors discussed the HGV strategy for more than three hours last night. Many felt it was a ‘fudge’ and did not go far enough towards banning lorries from Dublin.
Others raised the issue of enforcement. Councillors said the strategy would not be worth the paper it was written on unless it was properly enforced.
I hope that the City Council do this it will add signifiacntly to the quality of the pedestrian experience between the canals. 😀
Yes usual whinge from vested interest group – what ever happened to the rights of a decent quality of life of those people working and living within the CBD – this is a badly needed part of reclaming the city, if these hauliers put a stop to it then you may as well concrete over the Liffey for them.
Why should one group get the run of the city?
Is there an actual firm opening date at this stage?
not yet TP, looking at October / November or possibly December, whenever all aspects are deemed ‘safe’ ….
practically all works seem to be finished at this stage …Within the next 12 weeks I imagine.
The road markings are being painted, the gantries are up and the emergency equipment has been delivered – cant be too long.
The emergency services have yet to start training.I am led to believe that this will take 6 weeks. This training was originally to start in April!
i heard someone on the radio bashing the port tunnel for the delays , but in doing so they explain a big reason behind the 5 years build.
at some point the machines were not longer allowed to do 24hour digging , and so the timetable went out the window
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The emergency services have yet to start training.I am led to believe that this will take 6 weeks. This training was originally to start in April!
200 firefighters completed training in Switzerland a week or two back. They may want to get use to the DPT enviroment but they are already trained:)
The articles in the the papers are ranting about the traffic congestion around the M50 being made worse by the opening of the Port Tunnel.
Mission Accomplished.
Wasn’t that the objective – to remove the traffic from the city centre ?
Hundreds of trucks avoid Dublin tunnel
22 December 2006 11:34
Traffic is reported to be moving again around the Point Depot roundabout in Dublin following gridlock there this morning.Hundreds of trucks again avoided the tunnel, opting to drive along the quays and through the centre of Dublin to begin their journeys to the south, southeast and west of the country.
On RTÉ Radio’s Morning Ireland, Jimmy Quinn of the Irish Road Haulage Association said he was surprised that more truck drivers had not availed of the new port tunnel route.
But he said he was confident that in time they would.
When does the ban come into force?
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