M28 - Cork to Ringaskiddy [advance works ongoing; 2025 start; 2028 completion]

I came across this discussion today.
It's a little unfortunate that all those not happy with the M28 are being portrayed as cranks. I am as interested as anyone in proper infrastructure and planned economic development but find it hard to reconcile this with the present plan.
I have lived about 30m or so from the existing N28 for over 20yrs. The noise and vibration start about 6.30am and increase as the day wears on. Opening a window during the day floods the room with uncomfortable noise, so this is best avoided. According to Cork Co Co noise maps, our area already exceeds the WHO recommendations and the TII's own noise targets during the day and night. My children have grown up kicking ball with trucks passing almost overhead only metres away. I have never seen anyone monitoring noise or pollution in my area in the thirty years I am here.
So NO, I am not happy with the proposed route. The prospect of hundreds more HGVs trundling past my house day and night is not nice. An Bord Pleanala refused permission for the port move in 2008 and as far as I'm concerned, none of the reasons for this refusal have changed. The TII's mission statement is to provide high quality transport infrastructure and services, delivering a better quality of life and supporting economic growth. I have seen no evidence in this area that the TII cares about quality of life, shoehorning a motorway through a residential area where it clearly will not fit.

I can assure the cynics that my concerns are not about house values, mine has already taken that hit thanks.

marno 21 hopes those NIMBYs will be shot down quickly . . . . thank you for this but I don't think euthanasia is legal in this country just yet However, we do have a planning process and I believe people have a right to use it.

Thanks for your reply but I lived here peacefully BEFORE construction of the road. Don't worry though, I forgive your inaccuracy!

Also, I'm not looking for sympathy, just explaining that there is another side to the debate.

I'm not necessarily advocating the alternative route suggested via the airport but I do have enough experience of the TII to have no confidence in them to properly protect or shield the houses in my area from the negative effects of the proposed new motorway.

The infrastructure experts here are talking nobly at a macro level. I would ask them to come down to ground level and live in my shoes for a few days . . . .

TII is legally obliged to put in barriers? Have you a link for this please? I know there are design targets but if there is legal effect to a certain maximum noise level then it's news to me.

I've lived on the north side of the Rochestown Road for 30.3 yrs and was in a position to make a submission following the EIS on Mulcon Valley way back when. Does this answer the IYOFF point? (It's your own . . .)
Seven lanes here are due to become eight and people are correct, we got no proper sound barriers last time out but did get plenty of excuses about the space available etc

munchkin_utd Thanks for the pic. A barrier like that would be absolutely fantastic. The TII's own guidelines though first encourage good design as the best way to deal with potential noise problems by adopting a noise-sensitive horizontal and vertical alignment for new road projects - I believe that the road should have been moved eastwards towards the church to allow for an appropriate level of embankment and screening. I eagerly await the Environmental Impact study but somehow feel that it'll only contain proposals for panels of wooden fencing at best rather than a properly designed and effective barrier of an appropriate height and density such as the one you've shown.

Sorry for being so localised here but when you are so adversely affected it's not always so easy to see bigger picture in black and white terms as clearly as some contributors here

I have lived in my house for over 30yrs because that's how long I've lived here. I've lived over 20yrs beside the road because that's how long the road has been there!
So to summarise:
House > 30 yrs old
But Road > 20yrs old < 30 yrs old