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M7 - Naas/Newbridge Bypass Upgrade [Junction 9a now open]

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,561 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    I still don't think widening the M7 is the answer as the only real issue is between Naas and the M9 and then mostly because people dawdle unnecessarily and/or sit in the right lane in a slow moving convoy and then leave it till the last minute to get over to the M9 exit. After that point things are generally fine.

    it does strike me as mad that we have only this one motorway out of Dublin for so many primary destinations. Maybe if they did something with the N81 for example and improved north-south links before the M50 there'd be no need to shove everything onto this single stretch of road. EG: If I was coming up from Kildare town or Carlow say and going to Sandyford then would it not be better for me to easily/quickly get across to the N81/M11 somehow instead?

    The M9 should have followed the N81 into Dublin IMO.

    3 national routes covering all of Waterford to Limerick being funneled into a single road going into Dublin was a crazy decision.


  • Registered Users Posts: 29 smncnnr


    But isn't a large proportion of the traffic travelling much shorter distances i.e. not from/to Limerick/Cork/Waterford etc?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,561 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    smncnnr wrote: »
    But isn't a large proportion of the traffic travelling much shorter distances i.e. not from/to Limerick/Cork/Waterford etc?

    A lot of it is. But 3 major roads merging into one isn't good design.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A lot of it is. But 3 major roads merging into one isn't good design.
    Yes and something made worse by the fact that the trunk is insufficiently wide enough to take the load of the branches.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 19,864 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    Maybe improving the N81 might improve matters. Making it a DC and connecting to the M9 at Kilcullen might ease the situation.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,561 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Maybe improving the N81 might improve matters. Making it a DC and connecting to the M9 at Kilcullen might ease the situation.

    Probably too late for this.

    An easier solution would be a new DC from the M50 out with its first junction at the M7M9 split. Give this DC no access to Naas or Newbridge.

    Let all Bass and Newbridge traffic go by the Naas DC.

    I doubt this would be acceptable though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭marmurr1916


    The M9 should have followed the N81 into Dublin IMO.

    3 national routes covering all of Waterford to Limerick being funneled into a single road going into Dublin was a crazy decision.

    Three national routes merging into one road isn't the only problem. The poor planning decisions, sometimes taken on foot of corruption, by county councillors and planning officials allowing the building of low-density suburban sprawl across western county Dublin, and lax planning of outlying towns from in North Kildare and parts of Co. Laois, means that there are thousands of more commuters using the road than would be necessary in a country with a better planning system.

    Then there's the fact that there's no bypass of the M50, so lots of traffic from a huge swathe of the country, from Ennis and southern parts of Co. Clare all the way across to the Waterford/Wexford borders, use this road to access the M50 and thus routes to anywhere from Cavan to north Donegal to north Co. Antrim and points between.

    Basically you've got lots of Munster traffic, plus lots of southern midlands and south Leinster traffic, converging onto one road to get to the M50 and then get onto the M1, N2 or N3 to head north.

    And obviously you've got traffic using the road in the opposite direction when heading from north to south.

    The only way to overcome this is to improve north-south connections that don't go anywhere near the M50.

    That's why I'd like to see the entire Atlantic Corridor, from Cork to Derry, upgraded to motorway/dual-carriageway, along with an extension of the M9 (not necessarily numbered as M9) northwards from Naas, then curving around to the east, to act as a super bypass of Dublin, connecting the M7, M8 and M9 to the N3, N2 and M1 while avoiding the M50.

    The second route should be built as a toll-free motorway - it would allow long-distance traffic to avoid the M50 and provide much better road connections between different regions on the island.

    A central motorway, branching off the M7 south of Roscrea (this would also require a full interchange allowing all movements at the junction of the M8/M7), heading northwards towards Athlone, then heading north-east towards Monaghan town (roughly following the lines of the N62, N55 and N54), could also be built instead of the northern extension to the M9, and it would take a huge amount of traffic away from the two coastal corridors that connect the southern parts of the island with the northern parts.


  • Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭guylikeme


    I like your idea but the fact remains that most of that n7 traffic is going to Dublin or very close to it. Losing 20% of it to these new roads would still leave a large part of the problem. Rail and bus need to be pushed hard. Navan railway, interconnector and even high rise in the city the only game in town.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 828 ✭✭✭hognef


    guylikeme wrote: »
    I like your idea but the fact remains that most of that n7 traffic is going to Dublin or very close to it. Losing 20% of it to these new roads would still leave a large part of the problem. Rail and bus need to be pushed hard. Navan railway, interconnector and even high rise in the city the only game in town.

    I think a 20% reduction in volume would have a much bigger impact than you realise. But, yes, improved public transport and higher density living would actually make a lasting difference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭marmurr1916


    guylikeme wrote: »
    I like your idea but the fact remains that most of that n7 traffic is going to Dublin or very close to it. Losing 20% of it to these new roads would still leave a large part of the problem. Rail and bus need to be pushed hard. Navan railway, interconnector and even high rise in the city the only game in town.

    Taking 20%, maybe more as time goes by, of traffic off the Naas to Dublin route would make a huge difference.

    I don't know what difference a Navan railway would make to commuters on the Dublin - Kildare - Portlaoise corridor. :D

    The main public transport initiatives on that corridor should be higher train frequencies and better journey times for trains, along with proper feeder buses in towns so that commuters can get to the train stations without driving.

    A limited stop bus service with proper bus lanes (maybe one of those guided bus lane (?) set ups) at least as far as the Luas near the Red Cow would also be handy, or preferably in as far as Hueston, with easy transfer to the Luas into town from there.

    Building a load of houses for car dependent commuters along this corridor was bloody short-sighted and is the main cause of congestion rather than the merging of three national primary routes into one road.

    If there was a significant reduction in commuter car traffic, the road would be able to cope without much serious congestion.

    It's too late now to reverse all the poor planning decisions taken around Naas, Newbridge, Kildare etc but providing better employment and other opportunities in or near those towns ((e.g. an IT in Newbridge, maybe a campus of UCC or DCU - has this been done or is it planned?) would reduce the amount of commuters heading into Dublin or its suburbs if people can go to college locally and work locally. A local third-level campus wouldn't just be handy for college students, it would attract employers and provide local employment, and it would help to reduce pressure on rents in Dublin if the surrounding towns became more developed in terms of job opportunities and college places.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭gilly0512


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    I still don't think widening the M7 is the answer as the only real issue is between Naas and the M9 and then mostly because people dawdle unnecessarily and/or sit in the right lane in a slow moving convoy and then leave it till the last minute to get over to the M9 exit. After that point things are generally fine.

    it does strike me as mad that we have only this one motorway out of Dublin for so many primary destinations. Maybe if they did something with the N81 for example and improved north-south links before the M50 there'd be no need to shove everything onto this single stretch of road. EG: If I was coming up from Kildare town or Carlow say and going to Sandyford then would it not be better for me to easily/quickly get across to the N81/M11 somehow instead?

    I'm actually starting to agree that widening the M7 to three lanes is not going to have the affect that we all hoped it might. Yes it will make a big difference to traffic leaving Dublin in the evening, as you should no longer have regular tailbacks from Kill/Johnstown to Junction 11. For those of us driving to Dublin in the morning it will probably remove the slowing down of traffic between the M9 and Naas North, however as we are now seeing traffic backing up every morning from the M50 to Junction 3 (Citywest), this is only going to get worse. I would hazard a guess that by the time widening of the M7 is complete, you could conceivably have regular morning tailbacks from the M50 to as far back as Junction 5, unless an outer ring road is built?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,929 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    gilly2308 wrote: »
    I'm actually starting to agree that widening the M7 to three lanes is not going to have the affect that we all hoped it might. Yes it will make a big difference to traffic leaving Dublin in the evening, as you should no longer have regular tailbacks from Kill/Johnstown to Junction 11. For those of us driving to Dublin in the morning it will probably remove the slowing down of traffic between the M9 and Naas North, however as we are now seeing traffic backing up every morning from the M50 to Junction 3 (Citywest), this is only going to get worse. I would hazard a guess that by the time widening of the M7 is complete, you could conceivably have regular morning tailbacks from the M50 to as far back as Junction 5, unless an outer ring road is built?

    In my experience the main issue is most Irish drivers can't drive! This morning for example between Naas South (exit 10) and North (exit 9) the traffic dropped to 70 km/h in a 120. This was at 7am I might add. No accidents, not bumper to bumper, no camera van.. just idiots who can't keep up with the flow of traffic or are holding everything up because they can't drive at a steady 120 when there's no reason not to.

    Then when it widens to 3 lanes they drop to between 80-90, again for no real reason. This then is made worse by drivers in the lanes around them cutting into unnecessary gaps they're leaving, which causes our hesitant friends to immediately press on the brakes, slowing things even more.

    If you aren't capable of driving at the limit when it's safe/appropriate to do so, or you're being passed by trucks and multiple cars then you shouldn't be on the road IMO, yet until this sort of behaviour is addressed it doesn't matter how many lanes there are.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,561 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    In my experience the main issue is most Irish drivers can't drive! This morning for example between Naas South (exit 10) and North (exit 9) the traffic dropped to 70 km/h in a 120. This was at 7am I might add. No accidents, not bumper to bumper, no camera van.. just idiots who can't keep up with the flow of traffic or are holding everything up because they can't drive at a steady 120 when there's no reason not to.

    Then when it widens to 3 lanes they drop to between 80-90, again for no real reason. This then is made worse by drivers in the lanes around them cutting into unnecessary gaps they're leaving, which causes our hesitant friends to immediately press on the brakes, slowing things even more.

    If you aren't capable of driving at the limit when it's safe/appropriate to do so, or you're being passed by trucks and multiple cars then you shouldn't be on the road IMO, yet until this sort of behaviour is addressed it doesn't matter how many lanes there are.

    A huge amount of traffic is caused by poor driving. Speed is just about the only aspect of driving which is enforced in this country sadly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 489 ✭✭Pablod


    Just seen this on KFM news- includes works on between Newlands and Naas

    http://www.kfmradio.com/news/22122015-1544/%E2%82%AC43m-n7-grades


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭Chris_5339762


    Ten-T thing that seems to be doing the rounds.

    "M7 - Newlands Cross to Naas Upgrade (TEN-T) €300,000"

    I'd really like to know whats going to be planned here. I know its M50 - Naas motorway upgrade of the current N7, but thats a massive job. Let it happen though if Europe are going to pay for it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭gilly0512


    Ten-T thing that seems to be doing the rounds.

    "M7 - Newlands Cross to Naas Upgrade (TEN-T) €300,000"

    I'd really like to know whats going to be planned here. I know its M50 - Naas motorway upgrade of the current N7, but thats a massive job. Let it happen though if Europe are going to pay for it!

    Not sure what purpose it would serve, it's already six lanes, and it's far more important that the widening between Junctions 9 and 11 takes place as a matter of great urgency.


  • Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭guylikeme


    gilly2308 wrote: »
    Not sure what purpose it would serve, it's already six lanes, and it's far more important that the widening between Junctions 9 and 11 takes place as a matter of great urgency.

    Removes Tractors, pedestrians and other slow things from the road (legally anyway) thus making it safer. 300K sounds like value for a road project (albeit likely just some signage and barriers at the petrol stations on the road).


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,891 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Personally, I think that the money could be better spent elsewhere. Also, €300K seems like a paltry sum to remove all the private accesses from the DC.

    Widening the M7 from Maudlins to the M9 junction should be the priority.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,460 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Personally, I think that the money could be better spent elsewhere. Also, €300K seems like a paltry sum to remove all the private accesses from the DC.

    Widening the M7 from Maudlins to the M9 junction should be the priority.

    €300k is for engineering consultancy services and whatever else is needed in 2016

    Widening of M7 from Maudlins to M9 is going ahead regardless


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Personally, I think that the money could be better spent elsewhere. Also, €300K seems like a paltry sum to remove all the private accesses from the DC.

    Widening the M7 from Maudlins to the M9 junction should be the priority.

    If the upgrading of the Naas Road can be done for 300k(!) then just do it !

    No discussion/debate needed :cool:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,551 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    If the upgrading of the Naas Road can be done for 300k(!) then just do it !

    No discussion/debate needed :cool:

    300k is the first batch of consultancy, nothing more.

    Actual upgrade will require CPOs, new accesses to houses, local access roads alongside, possibly some access bridges for same, etc. Won't be cheap by any means but will probably be cheaper than the clearly destroyed plan for an M7 from Maudlins to "J8" of the M50 - the land bank is now mostly built on.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    L1011 wrote: »
    300k is the first batch of consultancy, nothing more.

    Actual upgrade will require CPOs, new accesses to houses, local access roads alongside, possibly some access bridges for same, etc. Won't be cheap by any means but will probably be cheaper than the clearly destroyed plan for an M7 from Maudlins to "J8" of the M50 - the land bank is now mostly built on.

    Well, you know what they say....if it sounds too good to be true it almost certainly isn't true! :(


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    L1011 wrote: »
    the land bank is now mostly built on.

    Ordinarily one would get annoyed by the short-sighted building on the routes of transport corridors; but sometimes it forces better solutions.

    The Luas Green Line (old Harcourt Street route blocked by housing in Foxrock) resulted in a more expensive but vastly superior alignment.

    Not sure if that applies to the M50 - Naas link...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭D Trent


    L1011 wrote: »
    300k is the first batch of consultancy, nothing more.

    M7 from Maudlins to "J8" of the M50 - the land bank is now mostly built on.
    What about tunnelling ?
    With a new m50 J8


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,551 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    D Trent wrote: »
    What about tunnelling ?
    With a new m50 J8

    Unviable price wise. Outer Orbital, the n81 DC to Blessington and a tallaght bypass upgrade will all help reduce the load on the n7 as well as serving their own purposes and probably cost similar in total


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭D.L.R.


    L1011 wrote: »
    300k is the first batch of consultancy, nothing more.

    Actual upgrade will require CPOs, new accesses to houses, local access roads alongside, possibly some access bridges for same, etc. Won't be cheap by any means but will probably be cheaper than the clearly destroyed plan for an M7 from Maudlins to "J8" of the M50 - the land bank is now mostly built on.

    I'd argue the bigger issue now isn't Red Cow-Naas, but City Centre-Red Cow.

    The N7 has the worst city centre access route of any of the major Dublin approaches, and its among the busiest. Really mindless planning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,551 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    D.L.R. wrote: »
    I'd argue the bigger issue now isn't Red Cow-Naas, but City Centre-Red Cow.

    The N7 has the worst city centre access route of any of the major Dublin approaches, and its among the busiest. Really mindless planning.

    That's why its been signed to use the M50 and N4 instead outbound for years... not sure why its not similarly signed inbound.


  • Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭guylikeme


    L1011 wrote: »
    That's why its been signed to use the M50 and N4 instead outbound for years... not sure why its not similarly signed inbound.

    Possibly to half the load of traffic on both directions? N4 still has ballyfermot and palmerstown lights to deal with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭Chris_5339762


    guylikeme wrote: »
    Possibly to half the load of traffic on both directions? N4 still has ballyfermot and palmerstown lights to deal with.

    If theres one bridge inside the M50 that should be built (on the main arteries) its this one.

    To have GSJ pretty much all the way to SCR/Kilmainham and Heuston would be great. And more importantly, grade seperation from there OUT. Its a shame the Chapelizod bypass gets so close to the city center but then has to stop at Palmerstown.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭guylikeme


    Seems to be policy now though. If its an r road it is not going to get upgraded.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,283 ✭✭✭Deedsie


    It is very surprising we haven't had any official press release from Kildare coco on progress of this project. It was implied it was shovel ready and just waiting for funding. Funding was announced in September and we haven't had an official word from Kildare CoCo?


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,460 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    Deedsie wrote: »
    It is very surprising we haven't had any official press release from Kildare coco on progress of this project. It was implied it was shovel ready and just waiting for funding. Funding was announced in September and we haven't had an official word from Kildare CoCo?

    Funding was announced but not actually provided. There is no funding for construction in this years TII budget either. This government are very good at talking but not acting


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,460 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    Deedsie wrote: »
    It is very surprising we haven't had any official press release from Kildare coco on progress of this project. It was implied it was shovel ready and just waiting for funding. Funding was announced in September and we haven't had an official word from Kildare CoCo?

    Funding was announced but not actually provided. There is no funding for construction in this years TII budget either. This government are very good at talking but not acting


  • Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭regedit


    Might be good to email the Minister for Tourism Transport and Sport at minister@dttas.ie and remind him we're in election year and just emphasize how traffic doesn't move in the evenings from Castlewarden to well past Newbridge any day of the week from 15:45-18:30 in a road of national importance. The announcement was obviously made to stress what the Government was doing but 'not doing'!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 569 ✭✭✭annfield1978


    Tender for engineering consultancy services due out in Q1 2016


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  • Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭regedit


    Tender for engineering consultancy services due out in Q1 2016

    Any idea what this means in real life? From a planning and execution point, is there a long time lag
    The Irishmotorway info web site states
    The equally ambitious M7 widening scheme now has a confirmed start date of April 2017, with some preliminary work getting underway next year. The works would see 11.5 km of the M7 widened from 4 to 6 lanes from east of Naas to the split with the M9 near Newbridge. A new junction 9A would be built at Osberstown, north of Naas. A bypass of the village of Sallins would connect to this new junction. This bypass would consist of 1.6 km of dual carriageway and 2 km of single. Additionally, junction 10 will be entirely reconstructed, and will connect with a different road. Currently the junction intersects with a road leading to M7 Business Park and Newhall Retail Park (map link). The newly built junction will interface with the R445 (old N7). All of this is badly needed as at rush hour every evening, improvements to the Naas dual carriageway from Naas to the M50 at Dublin have resulted in traffic arriving at the 4-lane motorway faster than previously, and it is not able to cope.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭rameire


    regedit wrote: »
    Any idea what this means in real life? From a planning and execution point, is there a long time lag
    The Irishmotorway info web site states

    They have started to cut down central median bushes.

    🌞 3.8kwp, 🌞 Split 2.28S, 1.52E. 🌞 Clonee, Dub.🌞



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭NedNew2




  • Registered Users Posts: 862 ✭✭✭regedit


    rameire wrote: »
    They have started to cut down central median bushes.

    I drive there every day and haven't seen any evidence of bushes being cut down.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,148 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    regedit wrote: »
    I drive there every day and haven't seen any evidence of bushes being cut down.

    Drive slower. I've seen them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭alias no.9


    L1011 wrote: »
    Actual upgrade will require CPOs, new accesses to houses, local access roads alongside, possibly some access bridges for same, etc. Won't be cheap by any means but will probably be cheaper than the clearly destroyed plan for an M7 from Maudlins to "J8" of the M50 - the land bank is now mostly built on.

    The alignment coming northbound towards Maudlins looks like any new M7 alignment would have followed on between the canal and the railway. There's precious little new been built in this alignment since the M50. The Clondalkin Industrial Estate is the only area with any significant building density. It'd probably need to go north of the railway at Ardclough and back before Hazelhatch but for once, the alignment has been preserved pretty well (assuming they'd follow this logical alignment). It'd have had to terminate at the M50 however with no onward corridor to the City Center.

    Once they invested in the widening of the N7 in the '00s, I think any proposal to do this was dead.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    Given the traffic on the M50 it hardly needs another junction...the Outer Orbital would be a greater priority?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 387 ✭✭NedNew2


    Kildare Co Council has estimated that it will the end of 2019 before the N7/M7 bottleneck will be upgraded between Johnstown and Newbridge.

    Also included in the project is the M7 Osberstown Interchange and R407 Sallins Bypass Scheme.

    Consultants to oversee the tender process for the entire project are currently being recruited.

    A Council spokesman said: "The objective is to sign a contract for the construction of the project in April 2017 with all works to be completed by the end of 2019."

    A steering group has been put in place with representatives from the Department of Transport Tourism and Sport (DTTaS), Kildare County Council and Transport Infrastructure Ireland.

    The N7/M7 will be upgraded to three lanes between Johnstown and Junction 11 at Great Connell.

    Cllr James Lawless of Fianna Fail raised the issue with officials in the local authority.

    http://www.kildarenow.com/news/it-will-be-4-years-before-the-extra-lane-opens-on-the-n7m7-bottleneck-council-says/75002


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    marno21 wrote: »
    Funding was announced but not actually provided. There is no funding for construction in this years TII budget either. This government are very good at talking but not acting

    Actually that's not just talking - that's lying - something the Government majors in :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 569 ✭✭✭annfield1978


    This year will be spent appointing consultants (take 3 months) commencing June to prepare the specimen design, then pre qualification of Contractors and then formal tender process 4 6 months so construction wont start until 2017 in any case


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭gilly0512


    regedit wrote: »
    Any idea what this means in real life? From a planning and execution point, is there a long time lag
    The Irishmotorway info web site states

    How is the widening of the M7 in any way ambitious, it's hardly a major feat of engineering? However just like everything in this country, we are taken for fools by our government, who think that we should all be down on our knees giving thanks to our wonderful government for giving the go ahead to such wildly ambitious projects. Any other normal country would start and complete this project in a year tops.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,460 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    Tender has gone out for this project:

    https://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/publicpurchase_frameset.asp?PID=96682&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE&PS=1&PP=ctm/Supplier/publictenders
    The proposed scheme involves the widening of the M7 motorway from a two lane into a 3 lane carriageway, in each direction, from the three lane N7 East of Junction 9 Maudlins to the M7 and M9 merge at Junction 11 in Co Kildare. (15 km Approx)The widening will be within the boundaries of the existing motorway with the exception of the provision of attenuation ponds. It will require the upgrade of the existing road drainage system while maintaining a functioning drainage system during the period of the works. The scheme also includes the removal of the use of the existing on/off access ramps at Junction 10 Newhall and the construction of two new interchanges, one just immediately south of the existing Junction 10 and another at Osberstown approximately half way between Junctions 9 and 10. The Osberstown interchange will require a new road bridge crossing the M07 motorway, replacing an existing accommodation bridge. This will require the demolition of the existing bridge as well as the construction of the new bridge over live motorway traffic. A realignment of a local road and the construction of a roundabout will be required at Newhall as well. The proposed scheme also involves the Sallins Bypass (3.7km approximately) starting from the Osberstown Interchange terminating at a new roundabout on the R407, Clane Road, North of Sallins. The Bypass includes a link toad from Sallins town centre. The Bypass will be a Dual Carriageway from the Osberstown Interchange (1.7km approximately) to the roundabout with the Sallins link road. From this point the bypass will be in the form of a single carriageway to the tie-in to the Clane Road , R407 (2km approximately) These works involve two crossings of the River Liffey, one of the Grand Canal and a Railway underbridge and minor mammal and drainage structures. The Railway bridge is to be progressed outwith the scope of these services.

    Deadline is May 13.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    marno21 wrote: »
    Tender has gone out for this project:

    Deadline is May 13.

    Big project when you read that summary - what is the estimated cost?


  • Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭RichardoKhan


    Pity the dont take the opportunity to take the Motorway spec up to the Co Dublin border whilst they are on with things.....


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭Middle Man


    Pity the dont take the opportunity to take the Motorway spec up to the Co Dublin border whilst they are on with things.....

    That's a separate scheme - M7 Naas to Red Cow. I think the tender for the design went out recently and the brief is something along the lines of...

    1. Rebuild Junctions 5 & 6
    2. Eliminate private access to mainline
    3. Upgrade existing mainline from J1 to J9


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