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N40 - Cork South Ring Bandon & Sarsfield Flyovers

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  • #302
    harry21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭harry21


    I saw they started the columns that will support the bridge beams on the Ballincollig side of the Bandon Rd. roundabout. There is a big foundation and large circular steel rebar sticking out of the ground.

    Didn't get a chance to take a pic.


  • #303
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    Construction is starting to get very interesting now. They've starting building the ramp that will carry the N25 over the current roundabout and some of the concrete flyover cells have already been erected. Latest update attached.

    I'd imagine that a small chunk of the sports ground between the Sarsfield roundabout and the Kinsale Road flyover will have to go to accommodate the new parallel roads, here:

    sarsfield-1.jpg

    Driving by it, it's hard to believe that there's enough room there as is.


  • #304
    charlemont
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    That wall is fairly new as it is, It was built during preparation works and wont be touched by the new lay out.


  • #305
    sheff_
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭sheff_


    charlemont: 'That wall is fairly new as it is, It was built during preparation works and wont be touched by the new lay out'.

    Yip. That's St Finbarrs GAA. The land between that wall and the existing road was CPO'd from the club in around 2006/7. The pitch directly above the red rectangle is the realigned pitch due to that new wall truncating the old pitch. The pitch extending off the photo to the right was also narrowed slightly due to the CPO.


  • #306
    neddynasty
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭neddynasty


    harry21 wrote: »
    I saw they started the columns that will support the bridge beams on the Ballincollig side of the Bandon Rd. roundabout. There is a big foundation and large circular steel rebar sticking out of the ground.

    There is big foundation in the centre of the roundabout now too ready for more columns. It's on the East side of the centre of the roundabout if that makes sense. Noticed it this morning. Tried to take a pic but it was too dark. They're making nice progress in the last few weeks.


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  • #307
    neddynasty
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭neddynasty


    Pretty poor pic attached of some of the works on the west side of the Bandon Roundabout. Took it on my phone as I was passing this morning. Will try better the next time.


  • #308
    SeanW
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    Tremelo wrote: »
    They've starting building the ramp that will carry the N25 over the current roundabout
    Semi Off-Topic but I would have thought it would make more sense to run the Sarsfield Road OVER the N25 - as you drive down from the City to the current SR, the road goes downhill. I've never taken it but the Sarsfield Road after the SR seems to go back uphill.


  • #309
    cork_south
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    Today

    http://i.imgur.com/A2UMu.jpg

    http://i.imgur.com/GBvoH.jpg

    http://i.imgur.com/q81V9.jpg

    http://i.imgur.com/tgKQ8.jpg

    http://i.imgur.com/5iBVJ.jpg


  • #310
    Amtmann
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    They're after digging a ferociously big hole immediately west of the Bandon roundabout, and the structure of the western flyover support is taking shape. If it's dry tomorrow, I'll take pictures from several nearby bridges for a somewhat bird's eye view of things.


  • #311
    niloc1951
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    SeanW wrote: »
    Semi Off-Topic but I would have thought it would make more sense to run the Sarsfield Road OVER the N25 - as you drive down from the City to the current SR, the road goes downhill. I've never taken it but the Sarsfield Road after the SR seems to go back uphill.

    We're talking NRA here, why do you expect 'sense' to enter the room :confused:


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  • #312
    -Corkie-
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    Tremelo wrote: »
    They're after digging a ferociously big hole immediately west of the Bandon roundabout, and the structure of the western flyover support is taking shape. If it's dry tomorrow, I'll take pictures from several nearby bridges for a somewhat bird's eye view of things.

    I will be on the lookout for you...;) I was supposed to be working here but some numpty decided to do the work for nothing...:mad:


  • #313
    Amtmann
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    -Corkie- wrote: »
    I will be on the lookout for you...;) I was supposed to be working here but some numpty decided to do the work for nothing...:mad:

    Any of the haulage lorries I've seen had no name on them. SIAC have plenty of logos up around the place.


  • #314
    harry21
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    Saw a lorry with M. Harrington on it today by the Dunnes stores side drawing earth.


  • #315
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    I got a load of photos this morning. They're being uploaded to Photobucket now...


  • #316
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    This is the view east, towards the Jack Lynch Tunnel. As you can see, a large area was reserved in the centre of the dual carriageway to facilitate construction of the flyover. The arched bridge in the distance is the Bandon Road pedestrian bridge, which will soon be demolished.
    DSCF4416.jpg

    The view westbound from the same vantage point, towards the N22 Ballincollig Bypass and, beyond that, Killarney:
    DSCF4417.jpg

    And here is the Bandon Road pedestrian bridge:
    DSCF4425.jpg

    From atop that bridge, here is the view east. Note the CPO'd car park spaces from the Dunnes Stores centre:
    DSCF4418.jpg

    Here is a more centred photo from the same vantage point:
    DSCF4421.jpg

    Now, looking west from the pedestrian bridge, here is the Bandon Roundabout itself:
    DSCF4422.jpg

    Here in greater detail:
    DSCF4423.jpg

    Here's the commemorative plaque of the Bandon Rd pedestrian bridge:
    DSCF4426.jpg

    And now, this was taken alongside the nascent flyover ramp itself:
    DSCF4440.jpg

    Self-explanatory:
    DSCF4441.jpg

    DSCF4442.jpg

    DSCF4443.jpg


  • #317
    alanucc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭alanucc


    Thanks tremelo, great photos. Pity that the good vantage points on the footbridges wont be there much longer.


  • #318
    Amtmann
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    Works at this roundabout are far less advanced than at the Bandon Roundabout.

    First, here's the plaque for the pedestrian bridge, photos of which were posted upthread:
    DSCF4427.jpg

    From the top of that bridge, here is the Sarsfield Roundabout itself, denuded of the scruffy plants that once dominated it:
    DSCF4434.jpg

    Here is the view east towards the Kinsale Road interchange and the tunnel:
    DSCF4428.jpg

    Some extra clearance at the south-east corner of the roundabout:
    DSCF4435.jpg

    ...and the south-west corner:
    DSCF4430.jpg

    The view west, showing the clearing works which continue all the way towards the Bandon Roundabout:
    DSCF4431.jpg

    The south-west corner again.
    DSCF4432.jpg

    The south-west corner is quite marshy, as shown in the two pictures below:
    DSCF4435.jpg

    DSCF4436.jpg

    The north-east of the Sarsfield Roundabout:
    DSCF4437.jpg


  • #319
    Amtmann
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    alanucc wrote: »
    Thanks tremelo, great photos. Pity that the good vantage points on the footbridges wont be there much longer.

    Thanks Alan. The pics turned out pretty well alright. Yes, it'll be very difficult to get good context photos when the bridges are dismantled. The thing that strikes me, having never seen the SRR from these vantage points before, is how scruffy the whole thing looks. When the flyovers are complete, the road will look and function superbly, apart from the narrow bridge over Douglas and Dunkettle.


  • #320
    Amtmann
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    The large hole shown in this picture -

    DSCF4423.jpg

    - appears to be the foundation for the structure that I've labelled in the centre of the roundabout in the following image:

    3dbandoonrbout.jpg


  • #321
    Jayuu
    Registered Users Posts: 761 ✭✭✭Jayuu


    Great photgraphs. It really brings the scale of the work being done into perspective.

    It should make a huge difference for westbound traffic coming out of the tunnel. Its just a pity that eastbound traffic will still have the Dunkettle bottleneck at their end of the works.


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  • #322
    Outkast_IRE
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    great pics i cycle past both areas most days so can see the daily progress.

    Do we have any idea yet how pedestrians/ cyclists will be accomodated temporarily at the sarsfield rd roundabout when the bridge is down?


  • #323
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    None as yet Outkast, though a very detailed update is due over the next week which might explain the situation. Off-road cycle lanes will keep you safe and off the dual carriageway when it's done.


  • #324
    superhooper
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    Lets hope there is no subsidence similar to several apartment blocks in the vicinity including the newest which was knocked a few months back. I see a pile rig has moved in to the site in the last few days near Sars junction.


  • #325
    Amtmann
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    I noticed that subsidence yesterday alright. I think these engineers know what they're doing though. They doubtless are familiar with the Tale of the Bog of Doom.


  • #326
    staker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    Great photos lads/lassies.Hadn't realised excavations were at such an advanced stage.
    I cringe when I see those new interlocking preformed slabs erected.Fine when new but if the growth sprouts up between the joints I think they look deplorable.


  • #327
    harry21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭harry21


    Had a crane onsite today, erected the piling rig. I imagine it will be working overtime from now on.

    Didn't the existing road subside after a few years when they built it first?


  • #328
    Chris_5339762
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    Any chance someone could get photos from both pedestrian bridges of traffic at the height of rush hour (before they are demolished!)


  • #329
    SeanW
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    Just read an article in the Echo that a JCB was stolen from the worksite at the Bandon Road, most likely to do an ATM robbery.


  • #330
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    Even since I took those photos on Sunday quite a bit of visible work has been done, mostly bulk earthworks.

    @ Chris: I won't be taking any rush hour photos I'm afraid.


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  • #331
    -Corkie-
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    Works have been suspended at one of the roundabouts indefinitley due to archeology work. Seemingly the ruins of an ancient building were found while digging.


  • #332
    Amtmann
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    Probably won't take long to catalogue. I'd guess it's the Sarsfield R'bout, btw. There was a JCB in the Bandon Roundabout digging away at 7pm.


  • #333
    -Corkie-
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    Tremelo wrote: »
    Probably won't take long to catalogue. I'd guess it's the Sarsfield R'bout, btw. There was a JCB in the Bandon Roundabout digging away at 7pm.

    Last time I seen them boyos in action they were using teaspoons to dig...:D


  • #334
    cork_south
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    VEayU.jpg


  • #335
    johnayo
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    -Corkie- wrote: »
    Works have been suspended at one of the roundabouts indefinitley due to archeology work. Seemingly the ruins of an ancient building were found while digging.

    Is there a link to this anywhere. I have not seen anything anywhere regarding this.


  • #336
    -Corkie-
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    johnayo wrote: »
    Is there a link to this anywhere. I have not seen anything anywhere regarding this.

    Nope I was working on it until this happened.


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  • #337
    Amtmann
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    -Corkie- wrote: »
    Nope I was working on it until this happened.

    Ha! So we have an insider. What roundabout was the discovery made on, Corkie? Sarsfield, I presume? Also, when will they dismantle the pedestrian bridges?


  • #338
    -Corkie-
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    Tremelo wrote: »
    Ha! So we have an insider. What roundabout was the discovery made on, Corkie? Sarsfield, I presume? Also, when will they dismantle the pedestrian bridges?

    I dont know. I only started there today and was sent away at 11am. I was trying to get info of the Engineers but I had no joy. I was told that I am a Contractor and get paid from the neck down...:rolleyes:


  • #339
    Amtmann
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    -Corkie- wrote: »
    I dont know. I only started there today and was sent away at 11am. I was trying to get info of the Engineers but I had no joy. I was told that I am a Contractor and get paid from the neck down...:rolleyes:

    You should be back pretty soon. The archaeologists will check it out, catalogue it, and then the works will probably resume.


  • #340
    homer.j
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭homer.j


    Tremelo wrote: »
    Ha! So we have an insider. What roundabout was the discovery made on, Corkie? Sarsfield, I presume? Also, when will they dismantle the pedestrian bridges?


    Would this find not be down at the Bandon Road Roundabout. The only work that was going on around the sarsfield road/roundabout this evening were some earth moving works beside the west-bound carriageway heading towards Doughcloyne/Togher.


  • #341
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    homer.j wrote: »
    Would this find not be down at the Bandon Road Roundabout. The only work that was going on around the sarsfield road/roundabout this evening were some earth moving works beside the west-bound carriageway heading towards Doughcloyne/Togher.

    Could be, but they've been in a 20ft hole at the Bandon Roundabout for the past week, so I don't think they'd find it only now. I could be wrong though.


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  • #342
    alanucc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭alanucc


    Corkie should be our undercover reporter, dishing all the dirt!


  • #343
    Amtmann
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    Lots of activity today except in the south-west corner of the Sarsfield Roundabout (where the piler is). Looks like full steam ahead everywhere else.


  • #344
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    Detailed updates! The pedestrian bridges are going down simultaneously over the Bank Holiday weekend.


  • #345
    sheff_
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    -Corkie- wrote: »
    Works have been suspended at one of the roundabouts indefinitley due to archeology work. Seemingly the ruins of an ancient building were found while digging.

    Any archaeology at the roundabouts would've been discovered and excavated 15 years ago when they were building the south ring. Anything missed then would've been obliterated once construction started day 1. The subsoil all around there would've been disturbed to an extent that no archaeology would've survived.


  • #346
    sheff_
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭sheff_


    SeanW wrote: »
    Semi Off-Topic but I would have thought it would make more sense to run the Sarsfield Road OVER the N25 - as you drive down from the City to the current SR, the road goes downhill. I've never taken it but the Sarsfield Road after the SR seems to go back uphill.

    I was at the public consoltation for this project about 10 years ago. They looked into that as well as the possibility of a tunnel under the roundabout too.

    The tunnel was ruled out due to the area being a bog.

    As regards a bridge over the south ring; they felt the gradiant of the Sarsfield Rd from both sides was too steep and that the W effect created by a steep decline, bridge up and down over the N25. and incline back up the hill would have safety implications, particularly for HGVs.

    Don't know how plausible or not that is but that was the reasoning at the time anyway.


  • #347
    Outkast_IRE
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    So are the pedestrian crossing maps , what pedestrains should expect to use for the next while or just over the long weekend? bit unclear on that point.


  • #348
    neddynasty
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭neddynasty


    Just got this emailed to me in work:


    Hi all,

    Please be advised of the following progress update for the N25 Bandon/Sarsfield Interchanges Upgrade –

    October 2011

    Significant night time works are planned over this coming week commencing on the evening of Monday 17th October 2010. The works will be centered on an area approximately 200 meters east of the Sarsfield Road Roundabout. The scope of works required in this area consists of the installation of new services for Bord Gais Eireann, Eircom and UPC across the full width of the South Ring Road. The works are being carried out at night to minimise inconvenience to commuters and it is not anticipated that significant traffic delays will occur.

    Works will get underway each evening at approximately 7.30 p.m. and are scheduled to continue until 6.00 a.m. each morning.


  • #349
    harry21
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    SeanW wrote: »
    Just read an article in the Echo that a JCB was stolen from the worksite at the Bandon Road, most likely to do an ATM robbery.

    There were a few stolen in Dublin too. They found at least one of them in a container heading to eastern Europe.

    I say thats exactly where the teleporter and mini-digger are headed too.


  • #350
    neddynasty
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭neddynasty


    I saw this morning they've started putting in a new footpath on the Sarsfield roundabout. I guess long term it's a temp footpath.

    Overall works are progressing nicely.


  • #351
    Prowetod
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    What day are they closing off the foot-bridges? Wouldn't mind taking a few pics from them before they're knocked down.


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