M17/M18 - Gort to Tuam [open to traffic]

spacetweek · 14-05-2015 11:07am

m17 wrote: »

Tuam bypass Will open may 17

Who said that?

m17 · 14-05-2015 1:10pm

spacetweek wrote: »

Who said that?

www.irishmotorwayinfo.com

Cookiemunster · 14-05-2015 1:55pm

m17 wrote: »

www.irishmotorwayinfo.com

When some random person on the internet says that they think something will happen, without any links to any sources other than their own opinion, I wouldn't take it as gospel.
Especially when the people actually building the road say it won't happen.

Reuben1210 · 14-05-2015 5:32pm

Well if it was said on that site, that person isn't too random in this discussion haha

14-05-2015 6:22pm

A circular information loop.

m17 · 15-05-2015 8:43am

Lots of plant have landed at the cartymore yard about 12 to 15 machines

Czhornet · 15-05-2015 11:06am

m17 wrote: »

Lots of plant have landed at the cartymore yard about 12 to 15 machines

machines stripping topsoil and filling with rock at Kiltiernan:)

Geogregor · 15-05-2015 11:46am

How about some photos guys??
Make some effort for the good of the forum

glineli · 15-05-2015 11:49am

Czhornet wrote: »

machines stripping topsoil and filling with rock at Kiltiernan:)

They seem to be doing great work there, great to see them working on both sides of the road

f2 · 15-05-2015 12:05pm

Applications for waste permits <site notices up> just outside Tuam

stevielenihan · 15-05-2015 12:11pm

Any Photos Of This Scheme?

m17 · 15-05-2015 12:55pm

stevielenihan wrote: »

Any Photos Of This Scheme?

Go to page 237 for pics

antoobrien · 15-05-2015 3:05pm

stevielenihan wrote: »

Any Photos Of This Scheme?

Yes, but you'll have to go search the thread.

severeoversteer · 15-05-2015 10:26pm

most of the progress I have seen is at moyvilla on the old Dublin road crossing

its madness that there isn't a junction there at the green briar at moyvilla

its just an overpass

D Trent · 15-05-2015 10:49pm

severeoversteer wrote: »

most of the progress I have seen is at moyvilla on the old Dublin road crossing

its madness that there isn't a junction there at the green briar at moyvilla

its just an overpass

Traffic is so quiet on that road now

severeoversteer · 15-05-2015 10:57pm

D Trent wrote: »

Traffic is so quiet on that road now

drive it regularly

anything but quiet if you ask me

the land is there and all to make the sliproads there are no houses in the way or anything
they have all the hard work done with the bridge etc and the 2 roads are fairly straight where they intersect

m17 · 16-05-2015 1:52pm

severeoversteer wrote: »

drive it regularly

anything but quiet if you ask me

the land is there and all to make the sliproads there are no houses in the way or anything
they have all the hard work done with the bridge etc and the 2 roads are fairly straight where they intersect

Take a few snaps if u can

darabbit · 17-05-2015 8:31pm

We have a serious rat problem since motorway works began. We have caught 9 in the past 4 weeks��. Is anyone else having this problem? I am terrified that they are going to come into the house. They seem to be gettin cheekier as one came right up to back door this eve with the two dogs inside the door!!

Deedsie · 17-05-2015 9:14pm

darabbit wrote: »

We have a serious rat problem since motorway works began. We have caught 9 in the past 4 weeks��. Is anyone else having this problem? I am terrified that they are going to come into the house. They seem to be gettin cheekier as one came right up to back door this eve with the two dogs inside the door!!

Would you consider getting a cat for the yard? Construction work regularly displaces rodents, they are looking for a new territory. Plenty of cats available for re-homing all over the country.

Schadenfreudia · 17-05-2015 9:48pm

Deedsie wrote: »

Would you consider getting a cat for the yard? Construction work regularly displaces rodents, they are looking for a new territory. Plenty of cats available for re-homing all over the country.

True. Flooding an area with cats will tackle any rat problem!

I remember behind where I live there was major Terra-forming as they created a whole new residential complex on agricultural land; initially there was a plague of rats.

Then the cats got to work, every house had a few - you'd see dead rats deposited on your doorsteps as "gifts" by the cats every morning.

After a year the rats were decimated - and the cats went on to wiping out the local bird population !

m17 · 18-05-2015 12:25pm

I have more pics around corofin and tuam 1 top soil salvage área 2 temporary bridge over grange River 3 Rock breaking in corofin 4 start of tuam bypass milltown side

mackerski · 18-05-2015 1:14pm

m17 wrote: »

I have more pics around corofin and tuam 1 top soil salvage área 2 temporary bridge over grange River 3 Rock breaking in corofin 4 start of tuam bypass milltown side

Thanks for the pics. I'm not sure whether it's your camera settings or whether Boards is stripping off image EXIF data, but I can't see any GPS co-ordinates in the image I checked. These would be really useful, since it would allow us to improve the provisional alignment in OpenStreetMap.

Thanks for any co-ordinates folk on the thread can provide, whether in photo meta data or otherwise.

glineli · 18-05-2015 6:33pm

Some bad pictures from Kiltiernan this evening

glineli · 18-05-2015 6:35pm

And

glineli · 18-05-2015 6:36pm

Finally

m17 · 18-05-2015 9:29pm

Rock blasting starting at annagh hill roscommon road 22/05/15

darabbit · 18-05-2015 9:50pm

Deedsie wrote: »

Would you consider getting a cat for the yard? Construction work regularly displaces rodents, they are looking for a new territory. Plenty of cats available for re-homing all over the country.

We have two big dogs that would not be two happy if a cat arrived on the scene!!

Deedsie · 18-05-2015 10:50pm

darabbit wrote: »

We have two big dogs that would not be two happy if a cat arrived on the scene!!

They'll be less happy if they get Weils disease off the rats. Don't want to be overly dramatic about it but it is potentially a very serious problem. A smack on the nose to the dog if they are at the cat and the cats would be part of the clann in no time.

betistuc · 20-05-2015 11:02pm

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that Weils disease can only be contracted by humans and not animals.

Deedsie · 21-05-2015 12:21am

betistuc wrote: »

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that Weils disease can only be contracted by humans and not animals.

You are right I think. Just wanted to highlight the potential seriousness of it. If I had any issue with rats there would be cats all over the yard.

antoobrien · 21-05-2015 9:28am

betistuc wrote: »

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that Weils disease can only be contracted by humans and not animals.

Just because they don't get sick it does not mean they can't carry the disease and pass it on.

Cosmo K · 23-05-2015 8:48pm

I pass the Kiltiernan site every day on my way to work. Finally got around to take a picture of machinery parked at the site last night. Long exposure, 30 sec

Volvo-A-40D by cosmo_71, on Flickr

Hope its ok to post that here...?

Ascii · 24-05-2015 10:14am

Great photo

Cosmo K wrote: »

I pass the Kiltiernan site every day on my way to work. Finally got around to take a picture of machinery parked at the site last night. Long exposure, 30 sec

Volvo-A-40D by cosmo_71, on Flickr

Hope its ok to post that here...?

m17 · 25-05-2015 12:52pm

I have taken more pics around tuam 1 ballygaddy road 2 West wing end of motorway 3 1 Mile outside tuam 4 3 miles outside tuam lot of bog in this area

25-05-2015 1:46pm

Will they open that stretch from the milltown side to near the westwing bypassing Tuam ? At this rate that section would be completed by end of year ??

f2 · 25-05-2015 2:06pm

Did anyone else see Tuam Gort Mototway on utube, nice ariel shots of Roadbridge Section

kippy · 25-05-2015 2:08pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Will they open that stretch from the milltown side to near the westwing bypassing Tuam ? At this rate that section would be completed by end of year ??

Defo wont be completed by the end of the year but if they keep going as they are going I'd suggest it will be ready to open well ahead of the rest of the scheme.
I'd suspect that the plan (although not public) is to get this finished and open as soon as possible.

Czhornet · 25-05-2015 2:22pm

f2 wrote: »

Did anyone else see Tuam Gort Mototway on utube, nice ariel shots of Roadbridge Section

Any link to this?

25-05-2015 3:33pm

Czhornet wrote: »

Any link to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mUSXL9-4uk

m17 · 25-05-2015 6:15pm

f2 wrote: »

Did anyone else see Tuam Gort Mototway on utube, nice ariel shots of Roadbridge Section

Great views of tuam vidéo is only 3 mins long

Irish_rat · 28-05-2015 3:25am

Nice aerial overview by a drone on that youtube clip.

Very good progress thus far, the ground conditions look relatively okay around Tuam.

Did Chris put this video up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDru19gRWs8

Road geeks of the past

would be laughing at this

f2 · 28-05-2015 8:44am

Spoke to one of the lads on the ground, said they were slightly behind, took longer than expected to get through the bog outside Tuam but expect to make the time up wnen the weather improves! expect the big earth move to start in three weeks.

busyatwork · 28-05-2015 11:02am

f2 wrote: »

Spoke to one of the lads on the ground, said they were slightly behind, took longer than expected to get through the bog outside Tuam but expect to make the time up wnen the weather improves! expect the big earth move to start in three weeks.

Ya the bog is trouble .
That great video ya see only haul roads done .It will be a bit longer than 3 weeks before the bog it shifted we have to get earthed banks to retain the bog has to be done first and the weather will be the biggest factor we wont be shifting any bog until a good dry spell due to the fact bog expands when wet making twice as much to be shifted

Czhornet · 28-05-2015 11:41am

busyatwork wrote: »

Ya the bog is trouble .
That great video ya see only haul roads done .It will be a bit longer than 3 weeks before the bog it shifted we have to get earthed banks to retain the bog has to be done first and the weather will be the biggest factor we wont be shifting any bog until a good dry spell due to the fact bog expands when wet making twice as much to be shifted

What ever about digging it out, its trying to get a place to dump it and level it out without it turning it into soup/slop. They will need a good stockpile of rock to tip in afterwards. Any blasting start yet?

m17 · 28-05-2015 1:41pm

Czhornet wrote: »

What ever about digging it out, its trying to get a place to dump it and level it out without it turning it into soup/slop. They will need a good stockpile of rock to tip in afterwards. Any blasting start yet?

Yes blasting has started at cartymore and annagh hill

busyatwork · 28-05-2015 8:03pm

if will be put into big lagones made of sibsoil and them leveled out when the water content is right ...now where are we going to put it is a good quistion one thing is there is enought rock on site to fill

sonnyblack · 29-05-2015 8:53am

busyatwork wrote: »

if will be put into big lagones made of sibsoil and them leveled out when the water content is right ...now where are we going to put it is a good quistion one thing is there is enought rock on site to fill

Did you have a few pints typing this?

busyatwork · 29-05-2015 9:30am

sonnyblack wrote: »

Did you have a few pints typing this?

Ya spent the whole day on the beer
Why do you ask ?

funnyname · 29-05-2015 10:01pm

Took a couple of photos from this spot near roveagh tonight.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/53°14'03.0"N+8°49'54.0"W/@53.2347074,-8.831653,18z?hl=en

shortys94 · 01-06-2015 8:51am

Lived in the Netherlands for two years now but I still keep an eye all the time on this thread, think it's just great we are finally getting this constructed in the west. For my final year of college I travelled from Claremorris to Galway everyday and I can just see how much it will benefit long distance commuters southbound in such an immense way.

Parents keep saying Tuam/Headford traffic at the moment is very bad, is this because of construction of the bypass of Tuam or is it just general traffic as usual?

M17/M18 - Gort to Tuam [open to traffic]

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