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N86 - Tralee to Daingean Uí Chúis

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    Judgement Day
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    It would be great to have a dual carriageway all the way to Dingle wouldn't it, and perhaps on round Slea Head? :rolleyes:


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    nordydan
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    I hear the Mount Brandon motorway ring road scheme is in the pipeline


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    Sponge Bob
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    nordydan wrote: »
    I hear the Mount Brandon motorway ring road scheme is in the pipeline

    That is a plan to grade separate Greens from Sheep dude :p


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    Tech3
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    Kerry is not going to get any motorways. The only chance of something that big was the Ballycarthy-Tralee dual carrigeway. As Ballyseedy woods could not have been avoided it had to be downgraded to a WS2 and tag in a offline route to Killarney with the Tralee bypass when it gets built.

    I would say the route for this scheme needs to be followed closely in order to prevent ruining the landscape with a new rural narrow single carriageway road.


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    marmurr1916
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    Not sure if the scheme referred to in the OP is the one given the go-ahead by the High Court (see below), but it seems that the N86 will eventually see an upgrade to 28km of Type 3 single-carriageway, including bicycle lanes and a hard margin:
    A failure by An Bord Pleanala to consider the needs of cyclists and pedestrians when refusing permission for a major road widening scheme extending 28km between Tralee and Daingean (Dingle) in Co Kerry has led to a High Court order overturning that refusal.
    The Board, in its relatively new capacity as a roads authority, failed to consider the needs of cyclists and pedestrians when rejecting Kerry County Council’s scheme to widen and straighten a 28km stretch of the busy N86 and include cycleways on both sides, Mr Justice Peter Charleton said.

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    He was upholding the Council’s challenge to the Board’s September 2013 rejection of permission for the N86 scheme, including a cycleway on each side of the road, plus a hard margin for maintenance and pedestrian use. A 5km stretch of the road already has a fenced off cycleway.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/bord-pleanala-failed-to-consider-cyclists-in-kerry-road-ruling-1.1759410


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