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N40 - Cork South Ring Bandon & Sarsfield Flyovers

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  • #152
    Prowetod
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Prowetod


    There was a small piece about this in the Evening Echo today (pg5):

    "Cork City Council has been granted €14.5million by the NRA to build the South Ring Road flyovers.
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    The city council said it plans to be in a position to award the contract for the flyovers shortly and the 2011 allocation will enable work to begin on site"


  • #153
    Irish and Proud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Irish and Proud


    Hi Folks,

    I don't think the following is an April's Fool joke - I've dug up something (document dated 11/03/11) very interesting about speed limit orders for the N25 around the Sarsfield and Bandon Road Roundabouts - these limits are supposedly for 12 months!
    NOTICE OF MAKING OF ROAD WORKS SPEED LIMIT
    ORDER N25 SOUTH RING ROAD INTERCHANGES
    SECTION 10 ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 2004

    In accordance with Section 10 of the Road Traffic Act 2004,
    Cork City Council hereby gives notice of making a Road Works
    Speed Limit Order in respect of N25 South Ring Road
    Interchanges in order to facilitate road works as follows:

    • N25 Eastbound (Ballincollig Bypass — Bandon Road
    Roundabout)

    A proposed 60km/h speed limit to apply from 790m West
    of Bandon Road Roundabout to an existing 60km/h speed
    limit at 246m West of Bandon Road Roundabout.

    • N25 Eastbound (Bandon Road Roundabout — Sarsfield
    Road Roundabout)

    A proposed 60km/h speed limit to apply from 253m East of
    Bandon Road Roundabout to an existing 50km/h speed
    limit at 255m West of Sarsfield Road Roundabout

    • N25 Eastbound (Sarsfield Road Roundabout — Pouladuff
    Road Overbridge)

    A proposed 60km/h speed limit to apply from 95m East of
    Sarsfield Road Roundabout to a proposed 100km/h speed
    limit at 1480m East of Sarsfield Road Roundabout

    • N25 Westbound (Pouladuff Road Overbridge — Sarsfield
    Road Roundabout)

    A proposed 60km/h speed limit to apply from 1480m East
    of Sarsfield Road Roundabout to an existing 50km/h speed
    limit at 280m East of Sarsfield Road Roundabout

    • N25 Westbound (Sarsfield Road Roundabout — Bandon
    Road Roundabout)

    A proposed 60km/h speed limit to apply from 110m West
    of Sarsfield Road Roundabout to an existing 50km/h speed
    limit at 280m East of Bandon Road Roundabout.

    • N25 Westbound (Bandon Road Roundabout — Ballincollig
    Bypass)

    A proposed 60km/h speed limit to apply from 196m West
    of Bandon Road Roundabout to a proposed 100km/h speed
    limit at 600m West of Bandon Road Roundabout.

    The roadworks temporary speed limit shall apply for a period
    of 12 months from 1st April, 2011 to 31st March, 2012, and have
    the effect of reducing the current speed limit to 60km per hour.

    Source (see page 370 - document starts at page 365)

    Does this mean the N25 CSRR Upgrade contract has been signed, or that same is imminent? I don't know the actual above source myself - could someone verify this for the record. Again however, I'm pretty sure that this is no April's Fool joke. Let's hope we see a start this month!

    Regards!


  • #154
    spacetweek
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    Irish and Proud wrote: »
    Does this mean the N25 CSRR Upgrade contract has been signed, or that same is imminent? I don't know the actual above source myself - could someone verify this for the record. Again however, I'm pretty sure that this is no April's Fool joke. Let's hope we see a start this month!

    Regards!
    Can't for the life of me imagine why you think this might be a joke... :)
    There was never any doubt that this was starting this year. The speed limit orders above are merely confirmation of what we already knew!
    I'm very excited to see this getting underway. Totally essential for the neglected Cork region.


  • #155
    Prowetod
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Prowetod


    Waiting patiently for this to start! Any idea when we'll see a bit of action there? Are they going to be working on both at the same time or one at a time?

    Slightly off topic but not worthy of a thread, what are peoples opinion of the new set of lights on sarsfields road (next to the funeral home), saw someone drive straight through a red light today. It will take a bit of time for people to notice that they are functioning. I hope it's not the case but I can see some serious delays at the junction at the top of sarsfields road at rush hour:(


  • #156
    caeser
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    From what i know from a source, there has been a problem with the lowest tender (think its some part of the contract) and they have had to be eliminated from the process in the last couple of weeks. they will have to now look to the next lowest. So basically no start for the near future:(


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  • #157
    niloc1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭niloc1951


    caeser wrote: »
    From what i know from a source, there has been a problem with the lowest tender (think its some part of the contract) and they have had to be eliminated from the process in the last couple of weeks. they will have to now look to the next lowest. So basically no start for the near future:(

    Interesting, so what about the 'Road Works Speed Limit Order in respect of N25 South Ring Road' 60KmPH effective since 01/04/2011 'til 31/03/2012.
    Me thinks it could be a serious revenue collector / points deliverer / quota satisfier possibility for those in need .


  • #158
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,538 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    niloc1951 wrote: »
    Interesting, so what about the 'Road Works Speed Limit Order in respect of N25 South Ring Road' 60KmPH effective since 01/04/2011 'til 31/03/2012.
    Me thinks it could be a serious revenue collector / points deliverer / quota satisfier possibility for those in need .

    Needs the signs changed first. Effective speed limit for fining is the higher of the signs or the speed limit order, not the lower.


  • #159
    Prowetod
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Prowetod


    Any updates?


  • #160
    cork_south
    Registered Users Posts: 708 ✭✭✭cork_south


    eoccork wrote: »
    Any updates?

    I wish :-(


  • #161
    Hogzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭Hogzy


    So much for it starting last December.


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  • #162
    audab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭audab


    I think you can forget about seeing this for a while. As caeser said, the lowest tender has been rejected and the Council has moved on to the second lowest. Whoever gets the contract, you can expect at least one objection to the award. Nothing can proceed until the objection is dealt with. This contract is going nowhere fast, a bit like the traffic on the roundabouts...


  • #163
    cork_south
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    I think "Construction Imminent" should be removed from this thread title :(


  • #164
    blindsider
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    audab wrote: »
    I think you can forget about seeing this for a while. As caeser said, the lowest tender has been rejected and the Council has moved on to the second lowest. Whoever gets the contract, you can expect at least one objection to the award. Nothing can proceed until the objection is dealt with. This contract is going nowhere fast, a bit like the traffic on the roundabouts...

    apparently, the traffic volumes are down and some in the Co. co. are questioning the need to complete the job. Apparently, there are other uses for the money.


  • #165
    cork_south
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    blindsider wrote: »
    apparently, the traffic volumes are down and some in the Co. co. are questioning the need to complete the job. Apparently, there are other uses for the money.

    These lads in the county council obviously don't travel that road very much.
    It was backed up from bandon to Sarsfield Friday afternoon on my way home.


  • #166
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    blindsider wrote: »
    apparently, the traffic volumes are down and some in the Co. co. are questioning the need to complete the job. Apparently, there are other uses for the money.

    It's a good thing that the NRA are in charge of this road, rather than some yahoos on the council.


  • #167
    namloc1980
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    blindsider wrote: »
    apparently, the traffic volumes are down and some in the Co. co. are questioning the need to complete the job. Apparently, there are other uses for the money.

    This is typical of politicians in this country and why they shouldn't be left anywhere near infrastructural projects. Do they expect the traffic volumes to remain down forever? Wouldn't now the ideal time to do these projects....less traffic to disrupt....lower construction costs. But no, politicians can't plan beyond the next election.


  • #168
    blindsider
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    audab wrote: »
    I think you can forget about seeing this for a while. As caeser said, the lowest tender has been rejected and the Council has moved on to the second lowest. Whoever gets the contract, you can expect at least one objection to the award. Nothing can proceed until the objection is dealt with. This contract is going nowhere fast, a bit like the traffic on the roundabouts...

    Apparently these issues have now been resolved. I've been told that we can expect work to start soon-ish - but my source had no dates. I asked if a month or two would be realistic and she said 'maybe' - but I think she doesn't really know.


  • #169
    caeser
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭caeser


    I hav'nt got the exact date but i have it on good authority that this project is going to start in the next 4-6 weeks. Finally:D


  • #170
    cork_south
    Registered Users Posts: 708 ✭✭✭cork_south


    caeser wrote: »
    I hav'nt got the exact date but i have it on good authority that this project is going to start in the next 4-6 weeks. Finally:D

    Nice!
    I'll believe it when I see it though :-)


  • #171
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    Good. I'll be living in the Cork area by then and will be happy to document the construction with my camera :D


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  • #172
    spacetweek
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    Tremelo wrote: »
    Good. I'll be living in the Cork area by then and will be happy to document the construction with my camera :D

    Oh you're moving back to Cork Tremelo? Great, you can be our roving reporter!


  • #173
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    Moving back for three months initially anyway. Just found accommodation yesterday very close to the Bandon Roundabout as it happens!


  • #174
    Chris_5339762
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭Chris_5339762


    Was that deliberate :D


  • #175
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    Just a happy coincidence actually! It'll be good to see these two blockages released. Like i said, I'll only be there for three months and I doubt they'll have a huge amount done within that timeframe. But we'll see *heads off to charge camera*


  • #176
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,561 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Going to be some major disruption during the building process.

    How many months of a build are we talking ?

    6 or 7 months ?


  • #177
    caeser
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭caeser


    AugustusMinimus wrote: »
    Going to be some major disruption during the building process.

    How many months of a build are we talking ?

    6 or 7 months ?

    Fairly sure its going to be at least an 18 month construction period. Probably more.


  • #178
    Typewriter
    Registered Users Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Typewriter


    This is on the front page of the echo today.

    Contract signed this morning, start of constuction is before end of summer, 18-24 months completion.

    It will be built by SIAC construction.


  • #179
    veryangryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,600 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    blindsider wrote: »
    It is expected that construction will start before the end of the summer and take about two years to complete.[/B] Engineers believe that the flyovers, including the one already built at the Kinsale Road junction, could cut motorists’ peak-time journeys by up to 30 minutes.

    Read more: http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/busy-city-tunnel-to-close-at-night-158879.html#ixzz1QBBBuXDL


    Two years? Really? We built a Motorway Balinasloe-Galway and several longer stretches (including full access junctions and roundabouts) in less time

    If i got up myself and started building it now, id probably finish earlier. I know Im no civil engineer, but im no idiot either. That just looks like complete waste paying someone to work for 2 years. I know the junctions are needed, but jesus lads, hire a few Chiinese or something. The money aint there to p1ss about


  • #180
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,034 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Galway-Ballinastoe was an offline build though. It's much faster as you don't have to try to keep bits of the road open while you work on it. The M50 upgrade by contrast took 3 years to complete. 2 years for two junctions seems quite excessive though, I'm sure they must be applying the Ryanair school of deadline management.


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  • #181
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,561 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Heading towards Dunkettle from the tunnel side is going to be mental when these two roundabouts are done.


  • #182
    blindsider
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    Stark wrote: »
    Galway-Ballinastoe was an offline build though. It's much faster as you don't have to try to keep bits of the road open while you work on it. The M50 upgrade by contrast took 3 years to complete. 2 years for two junctions seems quite excessive though, I'm sure they must be applying the Ryanair school of deadline management.

    I'm sure 18 months was mentioned somewhere. Bonuses and penalties for on time completion will play a part also. They'll be doing a lot of night work as with the Kinsale Rd flyover.

    Whatever about timeframes etc, it really is good to see this project started - it will make a big difference to local traffic. Hopefully Dunkettle can be sorted in the meantime also.


  • #183
    AugustusMinimus
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    blindsider wrote: »
    I'm sure 18 months was mentioned somewhere. Bonuses and penalties for on time completion will play a part also. They'll be doing a lot of night work as with the Kinsale Rd flyover.

    Whatever about timeframes etc, it really is good to see this project started - it will make a big difference to local traffic. Hopefully Dunkettle can be sorted in the meantime also.

    I think it should take a lot of traffic out of Bishopstown on top of free up both roundabouts and the SRR.

    A lot of people go through Wilton and Bishopstown in order to avoid those two roundabouts. Travelling West out of Cork City centre, the Wilton road from Victoria Cross all the way to Sarsfields Road Roundabout is like a wall to traffic. Only 4 junctions that allow traffic through it. At least now one of those junctions will allow west-east traffic flow without traffic lights.


  • #184
    corktina
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    AugustusMinimus wrote: »
    Heading towards Dunkettle from the tunnel side is going to be mental when these two roundabouts are done.

    how so? there may be a slight increase in traffic using that route but the overall volume will be much as now surely


  • #185
    AugustusMinimus
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    corktina wrote: »
    how so? there may be a slight increase in traffic using that route but the overall volume will be much as now surely

    Just say there is a 1/2 mile backup going east into the Sarsfields Roundabout. Remove the roundabout, and you will add this 1/2 of backed up traffic to the backup from the tunnel. If there is 1/2 mile at the Bandon roundabout and you are adding another half a mile to the tunnel backup.

    This isn't a major problem in itself. However, if the backup comes up to the Kinsale Road Roundabout, it cause traffic chaos with traffic trying to merge into a backup. Another issue is if this cause the traffic going to the tunnel to be backed up past the Bloomfield interchange. This will directly affect traffic moving east attempting to leave the SRR via the Bloomfield Interchange. If there is no backup past this interchange, this traffic movement would not be affected.

    In the end, if you take the South Ring Road alone, the two roundabout at present only break up the backed up traffic into bite size pieces. Remove them and you are adding it to the next backup. In the end, the total amount of cars backed up will be the same. They will just be backed up in a different place.

    However, removing these two roundabouts will hugely benefit traffic going west and all other movements on the roundabouts.

    However, this will piss me off no end. I use the tunnel but only ever join the SRR at Kinsale Roundabout. In essance, those joining the SRR after Sarsfield Roundabout will now also get their fill of the former backups at those roundabouts too. A motorway network is only as good as it's worst junction.


  • #186
    corktina
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    AugustusMinimus wrote: »
    Just say there is a 1/2 mile backup going east into the Sarsfields Roundabout. Remove the roundabout, and you will add this 1/2 of backed up traffic to the backup from the tunnel. If there is 1/2 mile at the Bandon roundabout and you are adding another half a mile to the tunnel backup.

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    thats a bit of a myth imho
    The thing is that 1/2 mile tailback will also have got to the roundabout quicker and be long gone. If the overall traffic flow rate is about the same, then the tailback at Dunkettle will also still be the same speeding the overall journey for all.


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  • #187
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,561 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    corktina wrote: »
    thats a bit of a myth imho
    The thing is that 1/2 mile tailback will also have got to the roundabout quicker and be long gone. If the overall traffic flow rate is about the same, then the tailback at Dunkettle will also still be the same speeding the overall journey for all.

    That is simply not true.

    Imagine two bags of sand, each with a hole in the bottom. One bag is on top of the other. The hole in the bottom of one is leaving sand in the top of the other.

    If the hole are leaving the same volume of sand through, then the bag at the bottom will continue to contain the same volume of sand. However, if you double the volume of sand passing through the top bag, then the bottom bag will start to fill up as the sand simply can't get through the bottom one.

    However, it will still take exactly the same about of time for both bags of sand to empty as the hole the bottom bag is the limiting factor for the entire system.

    In the end, both the Sarsfield junction and the Dunkettle Interchange allow the same amount of traffic flow through them. You can only improve a traffic system be removing the worst junction. As the Dunkettle junction is just as bad as both Sarsfields and Bandon in terms of no of vehicles per hour, then the overall system is not being improved.

    In fact, give that Dunkettle is an interchange of two national routes, I would imagine that Dunkettle as it expieriences even more traffic that Sarsfields or Bandon, then that it is indeed the weak link itself.

    This is of course assuming that the majority of traffic travelling eastwards after Sarsfields will continue on the SRR.


  • #188
    corktina
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    if you can get through the current two junctions quicker, you will arrive at the Dunkettle roundabout sooner AND SO WILL EVERYONE ELSE, so you arent catching up the guys in front of you anymore than you are now. The volume of traffic will remain the same except NOONE will get held up at the current bottleneck leaving only the Dunkettle to contend with. SO there'll only be the same volume hitting the Dunkettle as now and the same tailback IMHO.

    "if you double the volume of sand passing through the top bag" you arent doubling the volume, its jsut the same


  • #189
    Stark
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    Except that not everyone passing through the Sarsfield Road and Wilton roundabouts is heading towards Dunkettle.


  • #190
    AugustusMinimus
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    Stark wrote: »
    Except that not everyone passing through the Sarsfield Road and Wilton roundabouts is heading towards Dunkettle.

    See the last line of my previous post.


  • #191
    AugustusMinimus
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    corktina wrote: »

    "if you double the volume of sand passing through the top bag" you arent doubling the volume, its jsut the same

    In the end, the sand in the top bag will take exactly the same length of time to get through both bags. However, it will exit the top bag earlier and remain in the bottom bag for longer.

    If this isn't true, it would mean more sand is getting through the bottom bag faster, eventhough the hole in the bottom bag is exactly the same size. Simply impossible.


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  • #192
    corktina
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    i know its hard to get your head around but there is still only the same volume of traffic passing, the only difference is none of it is getting delayed at Sarsfield rd meaning that the first car and the last one (and every other car) are running earlier than they would be by the same amount. They are arriving in the queue at the tunnel ealier than they otherwise would be by the same amount, therefore the queue is no longer than it would have been previously.


  • #193
    murphym7
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    I think the cue will become longer at the tunnel, I see what you are saying about the same volume of traffic, but cars will get to the tunnel quicker. They will be going through the tunnel at the same rate as now, so it makes sense that if cars are getting to the tunnel quicker and the flow through the tunnel stays at the same rate the cue will be longer, classic bottle neck.


  • #194
    corktina
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    ALL the cars will get to the tunnel quicker including those in the queue...which will be clearing the junction at the same rate as now, only sooner.

    The same arguement was put out about delays at Monastervan iirc when the Kildare bypass opened. Needless to say, the delays there got no worse and the overall journey was quicker


  • #195
    Stark
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    Same argument for Newland's cross after the N7 upgrade as well I remember. The analogy with the bags of sand is useless as a road network is nothing like a single point of entry/exit system.


  • #196
    Irish and Proud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Irish and Proud


    I think we can argue about this Dunkettle bottleneck until the actual event of the CSRR interchanges opening, but I guess the point that AugustusMinimus is making is that in allowing all the traffic to build up at Dunkettle instead of having two smaller queues, there may be knock-on effects elsewhere such as the N27 at the Kinsale Road Interchange. If the queue does go back as far as there, it might clog up the N27 too via the East facing slips. The actual journey times on the N25 Eastbound at peak times might remain the same - depending how much traffic will diverge for the N27, Douglas, N28 and Mahon Point. IMO, the important thing is to get the Dunkettle Upgrade done ASAP and properly - no shortcuts! :D


  • #197
    MrDerp
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    Gonna repeat my old post here:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=65401331&postcount=62
    One simple question I ask myself is "how many people drive from Ballincollig to Dunkettle at rush hour?"

    The last roundabout before Dunkettle is at Sarsfield Rd. Is every car waiting at that roundabout going to go through the tunnel? There are 6 exits before the tunnel:
    1) Togher
    2) Turner's X, City Center (Link), Airport
    3) Douglas (West)
    4) Douglas (East)
    5) Carrigaline, Rochestown
    6) Mahon Point

    An absolutely massive catchment of Cork's population who, if going home, will get off before the tunnel.

    I agree there are times when dunkettle backs up really badly, and this can affect the link, and this might be made slightly worse by traffic rapidly approaching, but it'll be infrequent. It's certainly not enough to have an overall negative impact associated with building the flyovers.

    How many 'bags of sand' will pour out at these intersections with major population areas? My guess is a lot. This is a pretty advanced queue system. Yes the arrival rate of cars to the tunnel will be less controlled, and at certain times there may be anomalies, but overall I think the effect on the system will be positive.


  • #198
    L1011
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    People had the same predictions that removing the lights at Baldonnel, Rathcoole, Kill etc would lead to traffic from Newlands Cross going back to Kill in the mornings.

    It doesn't. Indeed despite NX having identical capacity to before the queues are far shorter than before due to the Red Cow being altered.


  • #199
    neddynasty
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭neddynasty


    Start date 6th July! Whoop Whoop!

    28th June 2011
    Re: N25 Bandon/Sarsfield Interchanges Upgrade
    Progress Update
    Wednesday 6th July 2011 has now been established as the contract start date for the above scheme. Cork City Council
    have appointed SIAC Construction Ltd. to carry out the works. Arup Consulting Engineers will act as Cork City
    Council’s representatives for the Contract and RPS Ltd. will act as SIAC’s designer’s for the Scheme.
    The Scheme comprises the upgrading of over 3km of the N25 South Ring Road including:
    • Grade separation at Sarsfield Road Roundabout and Bandon Road Roundabout.
    • Construction of a realigned dual carriageway along the new route.
    • Construction of new parallel link roads between Sarsfield Road and Bandon Road.
    • Demolition of existing pedestrian bridges at Sarsfield Road Roundabout and near Bandon Road Roundabout.
    • New cycleways and footpaths.
    • Installation of traffic signals, signage including gantry signs, public lighting, noise barriers, etc.
    A scale model indicating the scope of works to be carried out as part of the scheme is on display in the foyer of County
    Hall – this area is open to the public during normal office hours.
    A two year construction period has been indicated giving an initial contract completion date of July 2013.
    Preliminary works will be getting underway over the coming days. These will include survey works, identification and
    location of existing services, establishment of site office, material deliveries to site etc. These preliminary works will
    continue for a number of weeks and no disruption to traffic flow is anticipated during this period.
    Preliminary works include the setting up of a project office on site. Contact details for this project office will be
    circulated in due course. Also, a 24 hour freephone helpline will be established for the duration of the construction phase
    – again contact details will be circulated in due course. Pending completion of the onsite office queries should be
    channeled to the above telephone number or directly to site staff via the following mobile numbers:


  • #200
    marmurr1916
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭marmurr1916


    Nice!

    For those who want to keep up to date with progress:
    Regular progress updates will be issued throughout the construction phase highlighting any milestone events and also advising on any anticipated disruption to traffic. These updates will be carried on the National Road Design Office website www.corkrdo.ie.

    The National Road Design Office website can be accessed via either the Cork City Council www.corkcity.ie website or the Cork County Council website www.corkcoco.ie.

    Those who are interested in obtaining the progress updates directly by email should forward their email address using the contact details above.

    A 60km per hour speed limit will be in place in the works area throughout the construction phase and the cooperation of motorists using the route is requested in order to ensure that the project can be safely completed.

    The email address mentioned is: n25@ccc-site.com


  • #201
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    *gasp* - Finally I have a major new road construction project to list on my site! It's been a lonely few months...


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