N25/N30 - New Ross Bypass [open to traffic]

jd · 10-06-2015 8:21pm

jd wrote: »

Report in today's Wexford people that contracts still not signed and the construction will not start until very late 2015, or more likely 2016. They say construction on both projects should be finished by 2018. There is even a chance that the Enniscorthy scheme may start first. I'll link to the article when it is online later this week.

Article on link now at
http://www.wexfordpeople.ie/news/start-date-on-new-ross-and-enniscorthy-bypasses-delayed-31289478.html

allthedoyles · 25-08-2015 12:23am

jd · 25-08-2015 2:19am

That's not the proposes New Ross Bridge

josip · 26-08-2015 1:12am

Other side of the planet, you can almost make out the crocs in the picture.

Bards · 24-09-2015 6:48pm

Looks like this contract has finally been awarded

http://www.cisireland.com/project?id=121504&title=%E2%82%AC215m-n25-new-ross-bypass-ppp-scheme

delaido · 24-09-2015 9:37pm

Contract was awarded ages ago.... But not signed yet though.

Bards · 24-09-2015 11:13pm

delaido wrote: »

Contract was awarded ages ago.... But not signed yet though.

Preferred bidder status is what you mean, contract award means contract has been awarded to the preferred bidder.

Loads of jobs on job sites for civil engineers in relation to this which would not be advertised unless contract were signed

delaido · 24-09-2015 11:17pm

Definitely not signed yet!

jd · 29-09-2015 9:27am

Wexford People today

Wexford Co Co Roads department: All preliminary work complete, contracts should be signed first or second week of October, construction to start November.
All nice and visible for a Spring election!

allthedoyles · 29-09-2015 8:15pm

Our Irish office is looking to recruit 4 number experienced Resident Engineers with Road/Traffic Management experience as part of our Authority’s site supervisory staff for the forthcoming “N25 New Ross Bypass PPP” scheme in Counties Wexford/Kilkenny in the South East of Ireland. The project will involve the construction of approximately 14.8km of National Route comprising of approximately 13.6km of Dual Carriageway and approximately 1.2km of Single Carriageway and associated works. It will also include an Extrados bridge crossing the River Barrow which will have two 230m main spans and a total length of about 900m.

We are expecting the appointment of the Resident Engineers to take place in September/October 2015 for duration of approximately 40 months. This period will be spent on site in the vicinity of New Ross.

The recruiting process is underway again :

https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGWebHost/jobdetails.aspx?jobId=993770&partnerid=25141&siteid=5169

Leonard Hofstadter · 29-09-2015 8:41pm

I take it when they refer to Dual Carriageway they mean Type 2 (or 2+2)?

L1011 · 29-09-2015 8:56pm

captainspeed wrote: »

I take it when they refer to Dual Carriageway they mean Type 2 (or 2+2)?

Both. 4km T1, 9.6km T2.

http://www.wexford.ie/largefiles/EIS/Vol1/EIS.pdf

Bridge and approaches T1 it seems which makes sense, reducing the risk of huge costs for any future upgrade.

Leonard Hofstadter · 29-09-2015 11:18pm

That's great. It would be nice if the HDQC part was given a speed limit of 120 km/h and re-classified as motorway, though I suppose for the sake of 4 km the higher speed limit will result in next to no time saving. The Waterford City bypass most certainly should be upgraded to motorway and given a proper speed limit, I know TII (formerly the NRA) aren't fans of short stretches of motorway but from a planning perspective it makes far more sense, especially given the Irish inability to plan anything, plus the higher speed limit would be good as well from a time saving point of view.

marno21 · 29-09-2015 11:23pm

captainspeed wrote: »

That's great. I take it when they eventually get around to doing the end of the Waterford bypass to the start of this they will make it a HQDC. Hopefully when that sees the light of day they will have the good sense to re-classify the HQDC part of the New Ross bypass to West Waterford (where the existing Waterford bypass ends) as motorway. It's absolutely crazy that the Waterford City bypass has a speed limit of only 100 km/h.

This is the N25 Waterford-Glenmore Scheme, which is planned as HQDC/Type 1 Dual Carriageway. Surely Kilmeaden - New Ross will then be redesignated M, similarly with the N22 in Cork when Macroom-Ovens is done

Leonard Hofstadter · 30-09-2015 12:00am

marno21 wrote: »

This is the N25 Waterford-Glenmore Scheme, which is planned as HQDC/Type 1 Dual Carriageway. Surely Kilmeaden - New Ross will then be redesignated M, similarly with the N22 in Cork when Macroom-Ovens is done

Yeah, hopefully that will be the case. Waterford-Glenmore should be a really short scheme, probably only 8 km long so it shouldn't be too expensive for them to do. But once that's done then they should definitely make all that part of the N25 motorway, there will be about 30 km of continuous HDQC or so by that stage, so that definitely deserves upgrading to motorway. 120 km/h running would shave another three minutes (compared to 100 km/h) on that eventual stretch of road.

Jamie2k9 · 30-09-2015 10:23am

Surely Kilmeaden - New Ross will then be redesignated M

Unless the New Ross bypass is all Type 1 you can't upgrade it with spending more money.

Carawaystick · 01-10-2015 11:44am

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Unless the New Ross bypass is all Type 1 you can't upgrade it with spending more money.

Parts of the M50 have no hard shoulders and are not hqdc; where there's a will theres a way.
I mean the road over the Suir bridge is already a motorway, just not a Motorway.

jd · 01-10-2015 12:23pm

Article online in Wexford People today

http://www.wexfordpeople.ie/news/november-start-date-for-bypasses-31570145.html

Director of Services with Wexford County Council's Roads Department, Eamonn Hore told this newspaper that the contracts will be signed in the first or second week of October and work will begin shortly afterwards.

Mr Hore said: 'All preliminary works are completed and work should start in November. The timeline has gone from vague to definite and the contracts should be signed now in the first or second week of October. All court and property issues have been finalised. There is nothing remaining to be done apart from signing the contracts.'

jd · 06-10-2015 12:05pm

In this week's People again.

THE New Ross and Enniscorthy bypasses which have been included in the government’s newly-announced €27 million capital plan for the next six years will be completed by mid-2018.
Cllr George Lawlor said both projects would start before the end of the year following months of delays.
".. what appeared to be a minor issue with regard to a foreshore license involved a lot of individuals at the highest level to get it done, including the Attorney General. "

Geogregor · 06-10-2015 10:40pm

Director of Services with Wexford County Council's Roads Department, Eamonn Hore told this newspaper that the contracts will be signed in the first or second week of October and work will begin shortly afterwards.

Are we considering the current week as the second week of October or still the first?

Just asking

Leonard Hofstadter · 18-10-2015 12:52am

Apparently there will be a sod turning a la what was done with the M11 on Friday in about six weeks' time, according to that guy who works for Brendan Howlin. Another box ticked for the Wexford electorate in time for the next election. Good news either way that it's finally going to happen soon!

allthedoyles · 18-10-2015 11:33am

captainspeed wrote: »

Apparently there will be a sod turning a la what was done with the M11 on Friday in about six weeks' time, according to that guy who works for Brendan Howlin. Another box ticked for the Wexford electorate in time for the next election. Good news either way that it's finally going to happen soon!

Think the sod that was turned last Friday was for the Enniscorthy bypass

VR6 · 19-10-2015 2:06pm

allthedoyles wrote: »

Think the sod that was turned last Friday was for the Enniscorthy bypass

Yes and work is not actually scheduled to begin till January.

At this rate they will announce the opening ceremony a year before the project is finished !!!

Geogregor · 20-10-2015 9:30am

VR6 wrote: »

Yes and work is not actually scheduled to begin till January.

At this rate they will announce the opening ceremony a year before the project is finished !!!

How about vegetation clearing or topsoil removal? Won't anything start earlier? They could do that while they finalize the design details for bridges and other bits.

Mellifera · 20-10-2015 1:41pm

They will no doubt start some works but a lot of it tends to be seasonally affected as well.

allthedoyles · 26-10-2015 1:03am

Here are some facts and information about the New Ross Bypass:
The project was approved by An Bord Pleanála back in December of 2008.

The project will cost roughly €217m.

An estimated 300 jobs will be created throughout the course of its construction.

Work on the project is expected to begin at the end of 2015 / early 2016.

The bypass is expected to be completed by 2018.

The new bridge will be 900 metres in length, making it Ireland’s longest bridge (in comparison, the bridge in Wexford Town is 590 metres in length).

Read more here :

http://wexfordhub.com/new-ross-bypass/

delaido · 20-11-2015 11:29pm

I thought the contracts were meant to be signed by now!

Schadenfreudia · 21-11-2015 12:52am

delaido wrote: »

I thought the contracts were meant to be signed by now!

I thought they were signed a month ago?

jd · 21-11-2015 7:48am

That was n11 enniscorthy by pass, these were separated out to 2 PPPs

Geogregor · 22-11-2015 1:09am

jd wrote: »

That was n11 enniscorthy by pass, these were separated out to 2 PPPs

True. But there were also rumours about imminent signing of the New Ross bypass contract as the shore licence issue was seemingly resolved.

So, what's happening now?

N25/N30 - New Ross Bypass [open to traffic]

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