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

glineli · 15-04-2015 2:22pm

m17 wrote: »

Seen mobile offices this morning at oranmore with langan on the side must be for the kiltiernan compound

Compound seems to be coming along nicely at Kiltiernan.

Carawaystick · 15-04-2015 2:49pm

There were a few bare patches on the route visible leaving Coole park over Easter. Maybe they are for archaeology or ecology, The patches were maybe 20x10 yards

m17 · 15-04-2015 10:42pm

Passed the sisk yard at 7.15 carhymore lads still working scraping of top soil

Schadenfreudia · 16-04-2015 12:08am

Golly gosh! Two Kiltiernans in Ireland with a motorway passing them by!

Who'd have thunk?

Czhornet · 16-04-2015 8:03am

Schadenfreudia wrote: »

Golly gosh! Two Kiltiernans in Ireland with a motorway passing them by!

Who'd have thunk?

Not sure about the Wicklow one, but there is nothing in the Galway one only a National school!!

Schadenfreudia · 16-04-2015 10:15pm

Czhornet wrote: »

Not sure about the Wicklow one, but there is nothing in the Galway one only a National school!!

Eh...it's not in Wicklow, it's a small village in South Dublin with a petrol station, two churches, a few schools, a pub and a few dozen houses about to be engulfed by suburban sprawl

It also has Ireland's only ski-slope!

Anyway..this is seriously off topic

Czhornet · 17-04-2015 7:44am

I passed a Komatsu 800 (80 tonne) digger on route to the motorway this morning. Some beast of a machine, a few more of these on site and they wont be long moving muck to where its supposed to be!!

glineli · 17-04-2015 8:45am

Czhornet wrote: »

I passed a Komatsu 800 (80 tonne) digger on route to the motorway this morning. Some beast of a machine, a few more of these on site and they wont be long moving muck to where its supposed to be!!

Where you pass it? Any idea where it was going for, north or south of the project?

A lot more machinery has arrived at Kiltiernan over the past few days

Czhornet · 17-04-2015 9:55am

glineli wrote: »

Where you pass it? Any idea where it was going for, north or south of the project?

A lot more machinery has arrived at Kiltiernan over the past few days

At Kiltiernan at 05.10 this morning. it was so wide the undercarriage was the only part on the low loader, the tracks were over hanging the lorry on both sides!

Youngblood.III · 17-04-2015 9:58am

Someone was saying to me, that Sisk have yet to get any plant etc on site....anyone know more?

ratracer · 17-04-2015 10:34am

This is the new approach road I was talking about near the Kiltiernan interchange:

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Apologies for the rarely seen ball of light in the sky

It is here on the map:

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'X' marks the spot.

m17 · 17-04-2015 12:10pm

Youngblood.III wrote: »

Someone was saying to me, that Sisk have yet to get any plant etc on site....anyone know more?

The hope to have with in next 2 weeks

Czhornet · 17-04-2015 12:23pm

Youngblood.III wrote: »

Someone was saying to me, that Sisk have yet to get any plant etc on site....anyone know more?

Wills Bros are have a lot of plant in doing Lagans section. Lagans are primarily surfacing contractors.

m17 · 17-04-2015 1:59pm

Just pasted rathmorrisy they have 2 Volvo a40s moving rock they are also laying access tracks

m17 · 17-04-2015 2:43pm

glineli wrote: »

Where you pass it? Any idea where it was going for, north or south of the project?

A lot more machinery has arrived at Kiltiernan over the past few days

It's in corofin it's a massive machine

m17 · 19-04-2015 6:42pm

Great work being done by Roadbridge the have started doing bridge on the tuam bypass near the old suger factory

D Trent · 21-04-2015 7:31pm

http://galwaybayfm.ie/nra-urged-consider-additional-tuam-exit-gort-tuam-motorway/

Ascii · 21-04-2015 7:36pm

D Trent wrote: »

http://galwaybayfm.ie/nra-urged-consider-additional-tuam-exit-gort-tuam-motorway/

Thought Canney would have a little more common sense than this. Construction has started and he is on about a new entrance to the town...stuff of fairies.
This kind of crap rose its head on the M18 Gort to Crusheen. The earthworks were almost complete and the concillors were bleating on about how an additional entrance could be added at the south of the town even at that late stage.

red bull · 21-04-2015 9:22pm

D Trent wrote: »

http://galwaybayfm.ie/nra-urged-consider-additional-tuam-exit-gort-tuam-motorway/

That exit would be on to the Tuam bypass not on to the motorway ?

serfboard · 21-04-2015 11:08pm

Ascii wrote: »

Thought Canney would have a little more common sense than this. Construction has started and he is on about a new entrance to the town...stuff of fairies.
This kind of crap rose its head on the M18 Gort to Crusheen. The earthworks were almost complete and the concillors were bleating on about how an additional entrance could be added at the south of the town even at that late stage.

Two possibilities here - either he knows nothing can be done about it now and he's just saying it for the sake of saying it - i.e. Being cynical. Or
He doesn't know that nothing can be done about it now; he never bothered his arse to do even a cursory check of the design and is therefore now making a fool of himself.

I suspect it's the former since he must know that Tom McHugh called for this a couple of years ago and got nowhere with it.

m17 · 22-04-2015 6:50am

serfboard wrote: »

Two possibilities here - either he knows nothing can be done about it now and he's just saying it for the sake of saying it - i.e. Being cynical. Or
He doesn't know that nothing can be done about it now; he never bothered his arse to do even a cursory check of the design and is therefore now making a fool of himself.

I suspect it's the former since he must know that Tom McHugh called for this a couple of years ago and got nowhere with it.

Looking for votes for next year's election

ratracer · 22-04-2015 9:16am

Two large dumpers and two large diggers landed at Lagans near the railway line at Labane yesterday.

Ascii · 22-04-2015 9:26am

serfboard wrote: »

Two possibilities here - either he knows nothing can be done about it now and he's just saying it for the sake of saying it - i.e. Being cynical. Or
He doesn't know that nothing can be done about it now; he never bothered his arse to do even a cursory check of the design and is therefore now making a fool of himself.

I suspect it's the former since he must know that Tom McHugh called for this a couple of years ago and got nowhere with it.

A wise man once said "..tis better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt..."
A quick phone call on the QT to Galway NRDO would have set him straight before he started throwing sound bites around the place. Don't get me wrong, I like Sean....but in the event of an upcoming election in 18 months this really appears to be "vote getting" with all this "I am fighting for the people and business of tuam" nonsense.

m17 · 22-04-2015 9:41am

Roadbrige where putting up signs around corofin

m17 · 23-04-2015 6:51am

Sisk have rock blasting notice near there carthymore yard

glineli · 24-04-2015 7:37pm

Great activity around Kiltiernan. How deep do they have to dig? Also on back roads between Labane and Gort a lot of rock breaking going on.

m17 · 24-04-2015 9:19pm

Rock blasting starting in carthymore next Friday 01/05/15 at 12.30

Ascii · 24-04-2015 9:34pm

I will do the northern end at the weekend and get some snaps if someone can get a few of the middle or the southern end.

Schadenfreudia · 25-04-2015 11:52am

Any of you folk equipped to add the M17/M18 (under construction) to Openstreetmap?

(as has been done for the M11 Rathnew - Arklow)

mackerski · 25-04-2015 5:28pm

Schadenfreudia wrote: »

Any of you folk equipped to add the M17/M18 (under construction) to Openstreetmap?

(as has been done for the M11 Rathnew - Arklow)

Yes, but we will need survey information. How about some GPS waypoints for the points where the mainline can be identified from crossing roads? Or indeed, if anybody can walk parts of the alignment that'd be mighty too.

I've already mapped the M6 junction (with a lot of poetic licence for now).

Schadenfreudia · 25-04-2015 7:06pm

mackerski wrote: »

Or indeed, if anybody can walk parts of the alignment that'd be mighty too.

It's a long long way from Clare to here

I see the junctions - good work. There must be loads of GPS-walkers in Galway?

25-04-2015 8:39pm

There's a few

Taytomal · 26-04-2015 9:41am

Does anyone know if - at the section between Coldwood and Mother Hubbards - the motorway will be going over the old N6, or if the old road will go over the motorway? Thx.

flazio · 26-04-2015 1:10pm

Taytomal wrote: »

Does anyone know if - at the section between Coldwood and Mother Hubbards - the motorway will be going over the old N6, or if the old road will go over the motorway? Thx.

The temporary re alignment opens on Monday, that would suggest to me that they are building a bridge over the motorway for the old rod

m17 · 26-04-2015 4:26pm

Czhornet wrote: »

I passed a Komatsu 800 (80 tonne) digger on route to the motorway this morning. Some beast of a machine, a few more of these on site and they wont be long moving muck to where its supposed to be!!

It's in ballybanagher corofin

gally74 · 26-04-2015 5:16pm

m17 wrote: »

It's in ballybanagher corofin

Gold rush

busyatwork · 26-04-2015 6:09pm

m17 wrote: »

It's in ballybanagher corofin

They must know somthing the rest of us dont know ,ya dont invest in such machinery for maximum 2 years muck shiften

m17 · 27-04-2015 7:37am

I taken a few snaps around corofin the first two pics where taken on the first week of the project on the 22/01/15 and the others on the 25/04/15

mackerski · 27-04-2015 8:53am

m17 wrote: »

I taken a few snaps around corofin the first two pics where taken on the first week of the project on the 22/01/15 and the others on the 25/04/15

If those are smartphone shots, did you geotag them with GPS position? If so, could you post the co-ordinates? That will help us update OpenStreetMap.

Geogregor · 27-04-2015 11:19am

m17 wrote: »

It's in ballybanagher corofin

Wow, that is a beast.

m17 wrote: »

I taken a few snaps around corofin the first two pics where taken on the first week of the project on the 22/01/15 and the others on the 25/04/15

Good to finally see some progress on pictures.

Any sign of works on the future junction with the M6? That will be complex and interesting site to watch.

antoobrien · 27-04-2015 11:55am

Some progress visible on southern side of Rathmorrisy at the weekend, but wasn't able to get any pics.

glineli · 27-04-2015 2:56pm

A lot more machinery at Kilteirnan this morning, will try to get pic on way home. Great to see activity.

The newsletter section on the directroute project website is being updated so will be interesting to see planned work for next few months

m17 · 27-04-2015 9:24pm

Geogregor wrote: »

Wow, that is a beast.

Good to finally see some progress on pictures.

Any sign of works on the future junction with the M6? That will be complex and interesting site to watch.

I was told it is going to be Ireland's biggest roundabout

mackerski · 27-04-2015 9:37pm

m17 wrote: »

I was told it is going to be Ireland's biggest roundabout

I'd expect it to be rivalled by this one.

Chris_5339762 · 27-04-2015 9:55pm

haha this place is getting like the SABRE forums. Irelands biggest roundabout thread ahoy

We can only dream about having our own Hanger Lane. https://goo.gl/maps/XgWVN

27-04-2015 9:56pm

Just be grateful it isn't like this!

https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.5629249,-1.7712928,149m/data=!3m1!1e3

glineli · 28-04-2015 8:31am

Not the best picture in the world this morning at Kiltiernan

Irish_rat · 28-04-2015 8:53am

Great photos M17, construction works look to be coming along well.

boosabum · 28-04-2015 9:04am

slightly off topic, but did anyone see BBC4 last night and a documentary about the Brititsh motorway system.
The M1 has 55 miles of motorway (110 of road in total) and 200 bridges. It was constructed in just 19 months back in the late 1950's.
Amazing to think that some 60 years later these projects cannot be completed as efficently.

veryangryman · 28-04-2015 9:07am

boosabum wrote: »

slightly off topic, but did anyone see BBC4 last night and a documentary about the Brititsh motorway system.
The M1 has 55 miles of motorway (110 of road in total) and 200 bridges. It was constructed in just 19 months back in the late 1950's.
Amazing to think that some 60 years later these projects cannot be completed as efficently.

Probably a shedload more resources available for that particular road. Serving an estimated 20 million people, would probably get more attention than a road that probably serves 500,000 at a push.

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

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