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

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?

f2 · 01-06-2015 9:29am

Tuam headford traffic bad because lorries are drawing stone from Quarry in Belclare area for fill for new roads, not unusal to see 10 12 trucks passing in an hour

ratracer · 01-06-2015 7:39pm

I stopped to snap this pic on Friday night at about 10.30pm. Alongside the machinery on the right hand side are 5 of the Volvo A3xxx dump trucks. This is between Kiltartan and Kiltiernan.

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funnyname · 03-06-2015 12:22pm

Surely all this activity points to the project finishing early so are the powers that be thinking of additional routes that could be upgraded such as the n20 and n24.

It would be waste to have all this heavy machinery and expertise in the country and let it go once this project is finished.

m17 · 03-06-2015 12:58pm

funnyname wrote: »

Surely all this activity points to the project finishing early so are the powers that be thinking of additional routes that could be upgraded such as the n20 and n24.

It would be waste to have all this heavy machinery and expertise in the country and let it go once this project is finished.

The n20 got knocked on the head

spacetweek · 03-06-2015 12:59pm

funnyname wrote: »

Surely all this activity points to the project finishing early so are the powers that be thinking of additional routes that could be upgraded such as the n20 and n24.

It would be waste to have all this heavy machinery and expertise in the country and let it go once this project is finished.

I think we might be a bit far off completion to be saying that so soon.
Whatever about machinery, those other routes would need funding which they don't have.

m17 · 03-06-2015 1:01pm

I have taken more pics near corofin

funnyname · 03-06-2015 3:38pm

Funding should be easy enough to organise especially with an election around the corner.

Planning begins now for n20 to begin when n18 finishes and n24 to begin when n20 finishes, that would bring us to the end of the next dáil. No brained re continued prosperity for the country and votes for fg and lab.

Cookiemunster · 03-06-2015 4:40pm

funnyname wrote: »

Funding should be easy enough to organise especially with an election around the corner.

Planning begins now for n20 to begin when n18 finishes and n24 to begin when n20 finishes, that would bring us to the end of the next dáil. No brained re continued prosperity for the country and votes for fg and lab.

The minister for transport has already categorically stated that the M20 is not happening. It has to be redesigned, have a route selected, go through EIS and planning before going out to tender. Even it all that started today the M17/18 would be opened 2-3 years before the M20 construction could start.

Schadenfreudia · 04-06-2015 12:31am

Cookiemunster wrote: »

The minister for transport has already categorically stated that the M20 is not happening. It has to be redesigned, have a route selected, go through EIS and planning before going out to tender. Even it all that started today the M17/18 would be opened 2-3 years before the M20 construction could start.

Indeed - and it looks like the N28 will put the M20 on the back-boiler yet again.

You want a Cork vote - that's the one to go for.

mackerski · 04-06-2015 8:52am

Schadenfreudia wrote: »

Indeed - and it looks like the N28 will put the M20 on the back-boiler yet again.

The M20 will heat your home using energy from your fireplace? Snazzy...

m17 · 04-06-2015 1:49pm

Roadbrige have put up blasting notices around corofin

Schadenfreudia · 04-06-2015 2:49pm

mackerski wrote: »

The M20 will heat your home using energy from your fireplace? Snazzy...

I reckon it will be generating heat rather than moving traffic for at least a decade

Geogregor · 04-06-2015 8:03pm

funnyname wrote: »

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

m17 wrote: »

I have taken more pics near corofin

Nice to finally see road taking shape rather than just preparatory works.

How about structures? Any progress on the junction with M6?

m17 · 04-06-2015 9:17pm

Geogregor wrote: »

Nice to finally see road taking shape rather than just preparatory works.

How about structures? Any progress on the junction with M6?

They have started on thé structuré at mahangh corofin fountion has Been dug téléphone wires have Been put underground

Gerobrien25 · 05-06-2015 10:55am

I saw yesterday evening on the way home from work, that they were digging on the Milltown side of Parsons garage on the opposite side of the road. Would this be the start of construction of a roundabout?

spacetweek · 05-06-2015 4:52pm

m17 wrote: »

They have started on thé structuré at mahangh corofin fountion has Been dug téléphone wires have Been put underground

You've gone all French there with your accents.

m17 · 05-06-2015 5:07pm

Got letter from roadbridge about Rock blasting starting next week

m17 · 06-06-2015 6:37pm

Gerobrien25 wrote: »

I saw yesterday evening on the way home from work, that they were digging on the Milltown side of Parsons garage on the opposite side of the road. Would this be the start of construction of a roundabout?

There are 3 roundabouts been put in tuam 1 at the west wing 2 before Parsons garage turn off for dunmore 3 Milltown side of Parsons garage

irishgeo · 07-06-2015 12:47pm

any major traffic delays on this on the n17/n18

Mars Bar · 07-06-2015 1:15pm

m17 wrote: »

There are 3 roundabouts been put in tuam 1 at the west wing 2 before Parsons garage turn off for dunmore 3 Milltown side of Parsons garage

The second and third roundabouts seem awful close to one other

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

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