New road & infastructural projects in Ireland.
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N7 – M50: About the best that could be done given the available land. Three of the four movements involving the N7 outside the M50 are freeflowing; since M50 North – N7 West must yield to trams anyway it uses the existing roundabout.
Thanks for those images Andrew they certainly provide some clarity to the situation, has anyone seen the images for the Monastery Road overbridge?
Thanks Andrew, it’s a great help to upload them,
I still think the Red Cow will be congested!
On the Map, where the NB ramp coming from Naas road (Clondalkin side) heading towards M50 NB – there more than enough room to have a loop between there, for the Tallaght bound traffic to merge on to the Naas road without facing a “not necessary traffic light ” and meet the Luas Line,
Does anyone understand me, lol? 🙁Its great to see the new monastery road bridge been built as part of the M50 upgrade. 🙂
I mentioned before about the Newlands cross mess? Whats going to happen when the M50 upgrade is finished, it will be a Crucifixion cross. , Its already well over capacitated, and has the crown in Ireland for been the busiest junction in the land. 😮
Has anyone got the figures and facts for traffic capacity and forecasts of the Interchanges?
😡 so is there any future expectations for Newlands cross, :confused:
the junction is going to be crazy when the M50 is upgraded……. 😡
Grade-seperating Newlands Cross is a specific local objective in the South Dublin County Council Development Plan:
http://www.sdcc.ie/index.aspx?pageid=123&deptid=11&dpageid=97@Thomond Park wrote:
Thanks for those images Andrew they certainly provide some clarity to the situation, has anyone seen the images for the Monastery Road overbridge?
I have not yet seen images but I was told today that the engineers are Roughan and O’Donovan ( Boyne Bridge and Taney Bridge ) and that its some sort of double pylon cable stay. I’ll try to get hold of drawings.
JJAbout before-the start of the discussion: ye know the way that on maps the blue is the motorway, well i suppose dual carriageways should have blue status on the map, it makes more sense. Bye,
Patrick😮 whole reason for the blue signs is to signify motorways!!!! and dual carriegways signs are painted in green and should not be the same as motorways signs “logical”, as explained earlier , so it’s absalutely obvious to why they are different colour……
Road news,
M4 Kilcock-kinnegad Motorway is 12months ahead of schedule and will be opneing in 3months
sligo relief road is supposdly opening in september
Dundalk western bypass will open shorlty after that,Much needed sections of road,
Any news on Portlaois -Castletown/cullahil section M7 ??? it was supposed to have stated already , yet again delayed 😡
its missery travelling thru Mountrath on bank holidays.
Think priority has been given to Cork and Galway routes in the current development plan, so Castletown section is probably on hold for a while. At the other end of that road, think a route has been finalised or is in the process for the Limerick/ Nenagh route. What is happening at the Parkway in Limerick – you posted a planning application on the Limerick thread earlier, but it was a bit technical for my fried brain?
@dave123 wrote:
Road news,
sligo relief road is supposdly opening in september
Can back this up – Sept 2nd, I think. It looks well – nice bit of natural stone finishing along inner-town part. Should help Sligo town-centre develop a bit – badly needed Government attention required here – time to remember that Ireland also has a north-west corner.
The planning application dave posted is for the proposed parkway valley complex, supposed to be another liffey valley type centre, this is great news for all the traffic, yet more cars on this section, the application includes modifications to the parkway r/bout, supposedly designated turning lanes and 2 tunnelled slip roads, we’ll just have to wait and see if this actually happens, there seems to be some rumours floating around that when(if) this complex is completed the old parkway will be flattened,to provide room for a proper junction, a train stop could also be established there in the future. The limerick southern ring phase 2 rossbrien to cratloe(including shannon tunnel) is supposed to start early next year,it’ll take 3 years to build, a contract went out recently for fencing off of the limerick -nenagh route from the temporary roundabout at finnegans to the nenagh bypass,theres supposed to be some differences over the type of interchange to be used here, at the moment its an elevated r/bout(a la mad cow), there is fortunately a flee-flowing junction planned for rossbrien(N20/N7)
The M7 portlaoise to borris in ossory and M8 portlaoise to cullahill are being built as one project, and its going to be tolled, again there was disagreements about the M7/M8 interchange, its only going to be a limited access one, coming from the south you’ll only be able to turn off for dublin,no limerick, nenagh off slip ,similarily if you’re driving from say nenagh,roscrea or any of them towns there wont be any cork bound slip road. Do we ever learn our lesson, we dont ever seem to plan for the future in building our infastructure, why not future proof it and avoid costly modifications in 10,15 years time, look at all the mistakes: M50(obviously), kinsale road roundabout, N6 dual carriageway into galway, limerick to shannon dc, nenagh bypass( has to be widened 5 only years after it opened), we’ll probably be adding the port tunnel to this list next year!
Its just so infuriating the attitude we have in this country, unambitious, always settling for the easy way out! 😡
http://www.bannon.ie/propertydetail…remType=Listing
I think the only word for this is OVERKILL!
You can’t object to progress
The Tipperary road entrance into Limerick is dreary and industrial – although I suppose it is hard to find any city with pretty outskirts these days,
🙁 I agree , it terrible! in the last few months there has been land sold there like diamonds! a tleast three retail parks have gone up and B&Q have also a massive site there, another business park is currently underconstruction , not to mention two other site that sold like hot cakes.
but at least the business parks and retial parks are not as dreary as the main entrance at the Limerick – Tipperary roundabout,the Traffic volumes on thet road is rapidy getting over capacitated.
lenghty delays there are common at rush hour , despite the new ring road.taking traffic away from the areathe Tipperary Rd Interchange is a mess!
sourhtern ring road phase 2
Tubourg,
You have postings regarding mixed-use development at the Racecourse on the Dock Road. Seems the retail planning application was withdrawn in Feb. Any idea what is happening out there?
I have just read out the paper article relating to the Dublin’s traffic problems on the Irish times yesterday
Some of the plans notes as follows,
Proposals to have a free flow Red cow junction rather than having traffic lights on it (current proprosal)
Fast track upgraded M50 and upgrading surrounding roads into Meath, Kildare and Wicklow, which will be a relief to thousands of commuters, as well as investment in rail
Low cost quick schemes for investing into public transport such as metro/rail to airport and a high frequency travel for lorries and HGVs using the M1 & M50
Fast tracking Hueston station to Connolly underground rail link.And a blue zone where no cars allowed in the city centre, I think? likewise Munich in Germany.
There is more on that article
I can’t seem to get a hold of the issue :confused:Also what do you think of the new Dundalk bypass, is it really beneficial???
The M4 Kilcock to Kinennegad will be opening at ChristmasAlso the Red cow roundabout and Naas road widening is also going well, the Naas road is over six months a head of schedule!! , Great news for commuters nationally!
query on the Metro airport Link, is it still on the line or stacked???
@dave123 wrote:
Where by having a free flow red cow junction , upgraded M50 and surronding roads into Meath, Kildare and Wicklow, which will be a relief to thousands of commuters.
low cost quick shemes for investing into public transport such as metro/rail to airport and high frequency travel by the M1 to M50 for truckes & Hueston station to Connolly underground.Can you rephrase that, please? I can’t make it out.
Thanks
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