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N5 - Longford Bypass (under construction)

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  • #52
    slipknot1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭slipknot1


    just wondering does any1 know who providing security on the longford by pass


  • #53
    PJ.Harte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭PJ.Harte


    Longford by pass looks to be moving along nicely



    http://vimeo.com/25366471


    PJ


  • #54
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,879 ✭✭✭SeanW


    Nice video - indeed the bypass is coming along rather well.
    Too bad about the crappy music.


  • #55
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,147 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    SeanW wrote: »
    Nice video - indeed the bypass is coming along rather well.
    Too bad about the crappy music.
    Haha, yea - worst song ever!


  • #56
    Wild Bill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    PJ.Harte wrote: »
    Longford by pass looks to be moving along nicely



    http://vimeo.com/25366471


    PJ

    Great song. :cool:


  • #57
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,879 ✭✭✭SeanW


    I had another look at the bypass works today.

    From the existing N5 the earthworks and rough paving is done about 250m in - you could drive that 250m theoretically with machinery.

    Around where it crosses the 'unofficial bypass' (the Lisbrack road) they're still doing the earthworks. I didn't see how far they have gotten on at the N4 end as I don't be out that way much.


  • #58
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,555 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    N4 end had the earthworks for the RAB nearly done last time I passed which was about a week ago.


  • #59
    Mayo Exile
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    Longford County Council have a newsletter available on the bypass. Issue 1 published in July.

    Link: http://www.longfordcoco.ie/uploadedFiles/LongfordCoCo/Our_Departments/Roads/Documents/N5_Longford_Bypass/N5NewsletterJuly11.pdf


  • #60
    Wild Bill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Lord it is good to see a bit of construction going on, however modest! :)


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  • #61
    Mayo Exile
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    Signs up at each end of this road last Friday (28th Oct) that the road is closed & for local traffic only. Working on the bridge over it maybe?


  • #62
    The Westerner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭The Westerner


    Issue 2 (November 2011) of the newsletter on the bypass now available.

    Link: http://www.longfordcoco.ie/uploadedFiles/LongfordCoCo/Our_Departments/Roads/Documents/N5_Longford_Bypass/N5BypassNewsletter2.pdf


  • #63
    stevielenihan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭stevielenihan


    would any one be able to take any photos?


  • #64
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,555 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    N4 running lanes are now pushed over to the side to allow for work to begin on the RAB at that end of this scheme.


  • #65
    yop
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    Any completion date on this?


  • #66
    stevielenihan
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    yop wrote: »
    Any completion date on this?




    it should be complete around october.


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  • #67
    UrbanMonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭UrbanMonkey


    It says it'll be finished in November on their contractors site..
    http://www.willsbros.com/Road_and_Bridge_Construction/122/project-page.html


  • #68
    stevielenihan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭stevielenihan


    UrbanMonkey wrote: »
    It says it'll be finished in November on their contractors site..
    http://www.willsbros.com/Road_and_Bridge_Construction/122/project-page.html




    When it was shown on rte news it said it would be complete around october 2012


  • #69
    stevielenihan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭stevielenihan


    anyone going to take any photos of the road?


  • #70
    Wild Bill
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    stevielenihan wrote: »
    anyone going to take any photos of the road?

    I dunno. Often asked that myself....maybe cameras haven't reached Longford yet?


  • #71
    Ascii
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    will stick a few pics up tomorrow. will be down that way


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  • #72
    L1011
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    N4 is now running around the (quite small, I feel) RAB at the end of this scheme.


  • #73
    Wild Bill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    What is a quite small RAB? :confused:


  • #74
    L1011
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    roundabout.


  • #75
    zathan
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭zathan


    Hi all!

    Have been following this thread a bit myself - but just so happened to be passing through Longford at the weekend - so I took a few snaps - they were while the car was moving [I was passegner ;) ] so they may not be that great - but if you know the area you should be able to decipher them!


  • #76
    ardmacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,476 ✭✭✭ardmacha


    What is a quite small RAB?

    Reichsautobahn perhaps? Is there one planned for Longford?

    1943_Reichsautobahn_5.jpg


  • #77
    PJ.Harte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭PJ.Harte


    Here is a link to some photo's we took last week, Mostly Aerial Photographs..




    https://vimeo.com/41287801


    PJ


  • #78
    Wild Bill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    PJ.Harte wrote: »
    Here is a link to some photo's we took last week, Mostly Aerial Photographs..




    https://vimeo.com/41287801


    PJ

    Great stuff!


  • #79
    mayo.mick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭mayo.mick


    PJ.Harte wrote: »
    Here is a link to some photo's we took last week, Mostly Aerial Photographs..




    https://vimeo.com/41287801


    PJ

    Thanks pj, would you post some more if you get any updates?

    Swinford Weather



  • #80
    road_high
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    Looks a fine piece of road. Pity they are not making it 2+2 like the Castleisland bypass, assume it's still Single Carriageway?


  • #81
    Ascii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭Ascii


    No it only gonna be a Type 2 single carriageway


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  • #82
    spacetweek
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    Ascii wrote: »
    No it only gonna be a Type 2 single carriageway
    From the video, I'm really amazed at the width of the road, and generous engineering specs. Looks like a lot of levelling had to take place.
    The reservation seems very wide for a singler.


  • #83
    Ascii
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭Ascii


    from talking to the engineers, it turns out that there is 3 metre verges along the whole road, therefor in the future if they ever want to make a dual carriageway out of it the bulk work is done, merely surfacing and re-lining. They structures were also built wide enough to along for the future works with 4 metre wide hard shoulders on each of the bridges


  • #84
    spacetweek
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    Ascii wrote: »
    from talking to the engineers, it turns out that there is 3 metre verges along the whole road, therefor in the future if they ever want to make a dual carriageway out of it the bulk work is done, merely surfacing and re-lining. They structures were also built wide enough to along for the future works with 4 metre wide hard shoulders on each of the bridges
    Sounds great that they future proof it, but I highly doubt you'd ever need dual here? They should really be rerouting the N5 elsewhere, as discussed before.


  • #85
    L1011
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    If they ever intended to dual it, they'd need to dual part of the current Longford BP and its access road to the future N4 DC from Mullingar to Roosky. Unlikely.


  • #86
    Ascii
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    spacetweek wrote: »
    Sounds great that they future proof it, but I highly doubt you'd ever need dual here? They should really be rerouting the N5 elsewhere, as discussed before.


    AADT is very low.... no chance of it ever becoming a dual carriageway


  • #87
    Wild Bill
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Wild Bill


    Given the circuitousness of the route I wonder what % N4 - N5 traffic will use it rather than go through town?


  • #88
    L1011
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    Given the circuitousness of the route I wonder what % N4 - N5 traffic will use it rather than go through town?

    Its quite likely to be a LOT quicker for N5->N4 traffic but don't think it'll have the same effect the other way.


  • #89
    SeanW
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    Given the circuitousness of the route I wonder what % N4 - N5 traffic will use it rather than go through town?
    I'm sure a few masochists will continue going through the town, but as a local I would imagine anyone who values their time in the slightest will use it.

    Along the current N5 route through the town you have:
    1. The end of the Ballinalee Road (the last portion of which was redesignated from R194 to N5 when the original bypass was built) is on a T-junction where traffic coming into the town must yield to vast amounts of local traffic coming up and down the old Dublin Road.
    2. Traffic in the town can often be a nightmare itself.
    3. Traffic lights at the Longford arms and a narrow route down Richmond Street.
    Circuitous or not, the only logical reason for not using the bypass when finished is if you want to stop in the town, e.g. to grab a take away from Luigis.


  • #90
    nordydan
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    MYOB wrote: »
    Its quite likely to be a LOT quicker for N5->N4 traffic but don't think it'll have the same effect the other way.

    They could dual it in one direction then!


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  • #91
    erratic
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭erratic


    BTW the Lisbrack road has reopened


  • #92
    Storm2
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭Storm2


    Nice to see the bypass motoring along nicely so far. I've never been to Longford although the shiny new bypass will help unclog the ancient town centre with its diabolic surface. Pity the N63 is still dumping traffic into the town, but you can't have everything I suppose. Also, if Longford were to repeat Kells' manoeuver of making the town centre full of Regional Roads then the Irish Government will probably run out of money and die. Also, the N63 is a NS road, not an NP. That's the bottom line of it.


  • #93
    UrbanMonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭UrbanMonkey


    Just read on the paper the other day that 2 of the 3 bridges have already been bombed with graffiti. :cool:

    No matter how many times they try to clean it or whatever, there will always be graffiti under that new railway bridge. It's a golden spot!


  • #94
    stevielenihan
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    UrbanMonkey wrote: »
    Just read on the paper the other day that 2 of the 3 bridges have already been bombed with graffiti. :cool:

    No matter how many times they try to clean it or whatever, there will always be graffiti under that new railway bridge. It's a golden spot!



    Graffiti is dead.


  • #95
    UrbanMonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭UrbanMonkey


    stevielenihan wrote: »
    Graffiti is dead.

    Say what you want. It's my passion.. Along with hip-hop.

    Oh, and by the way, graffiti is well and alive in Longford.
    http://www.shannonside.ie/news-details.php?nid=12715&action=newsdetails


  • #96
    countryjimbo
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭countryjimbo


    Passed this recently and its fairly well advanced, anyone know when the opening date is?


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  • #97
    capnjack
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    Word around the parish pump is that it's opening next Friday.
    http://www.midwestradio.ie/mwr/news/9820-new-longford-bypass-to-open-to-traffic-on-friday-next.html


  • #98
    road_high
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    Great news for Longford, the N5 is/was a major bottlekneck through the town. Looking forward to seeing completed pics.


  • #99
    yabadabado
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    opening tomorrow,2 months ahead of schedule according to the local news.


  • #100
    black47
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    yabadabado wrote: »
    opening tomorrow,2 months ahead of schedule according to the local news.

    Good news for Longford. Wonder will the Ballaghhadreen bypass start soon? Enda seems to be progressing the N5 upgrade by stealth. No major fanfare but the route is being developed bit by bit.


  • #101
    airman737
    Registered Users Posts: 187 ✭✭airman737


    Opening at 11am This morning. I am going to try and be the first car on it :-)


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