N5 - Longford Bypass (under construction)

It says it'll be finished in November on their contractors site..
http://www.willsbros.com/Road_and_Bridge_Construction/122/project-page.html

will stick a few pics up tomorrow. will be down that way

PJ.Harte wrote: »

Here is a link to some photo's we took last week, Mostly Aerial Photographs..




https://vimeo.com/41287801


PJ

Thanks pj, would you post some more if you get any updates?

No it only gonna be a Type 2 single carriageway

from talking to the engineers, it turns out that there is 3 metre verges along the whole road, therefor in the future if they ever want to make a dual carriageway out of it the bulk work is done, merely surfacing and re-lining. They structures were also built wide enough to along for the future works with 4 metre wide hard shoulders on each of the bridges

If they ever intended to dual it, they'd need to dual part of the current Longford BP and its access road to the future N4 DC from Mullingar to Roosky. Unlikely.

Wild Bill wrote: »

Given the circuitousness of the route I wonder what % N4 - N5 traffic will use it rather than go through town?

I'm sure a few masochists will continue going through the town, but as a local I would imagine anyone who values their time in the slightest will use it.

Along the current N5 route through the town you have:

1. The end of the Ballinalee Road (the last portion of which was redesignated from R194 to N5 when the original bypass was built) is on a T-junction where traffic coming into the town must yield to vast amounts of local traffic coming up and down the old Dublin Road.
2. Traffic in the town can often be a nightmare itself.
3. Traffic lights at the Longford arms and a narrow route down Richmond Street.

Circuitous or not, the only logical reason for not using the bypass when finished is if you want to stop in the town, e.g. to grab a take away from Luigis.