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Dublin to Doolin - M4-M6 route or M7?

  • 20-08-2014 12:37pm
    #1
    Cdub
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    Travelling to Doolin on Friday afternoon.

    It looks the same on google maps time wise to either go the M4, M6 route towards Galway or go the M7 route towards Limerick.

    Anyone any experience if either is a quicker drive, traffickwise/townwise etc?


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  • #2
    Cool Mo D
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    The M7 route via Limerick is motorway all the way to Ennis, while the M4/M6 way means you will come off the motorway earlier.

    There's not much between them - you will be paying 2 tolls on either route. If one lets you avoid the M50 toll bridge, it might be worth it, depending on where you start from in Dublin.


  • #3
    Cdub
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭Cdub


    Is the exit out of Dublin more painless on either? I'm leaving at 4pm Friday so if one route offered a quicker exit out of Dublin I'd be temtpted to go that route but I don't have any experience of commuting out of Dublin on eiether route?


  • #4
    n97 mini
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    Much of a muchness. N4/M4 can be reduced to stop/start where 3 lanes become 2 at Leixlip, and where the same thing happens on the N7/M7 at Naas. Toll is a euro cheaper on the M7.
    Cool Mo D wrote: »
    If one lets you avoid the M50 toll bridge, it might be worth it, depending on where you start from in Dublin.

    They're both on the same side of the toll bridge.


  • #5
    Chris_5339762
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    M4 can be stop-start at the 3 to 2 section but I reckon that would be less of a delay than facing Newlands at rush hour, then delays around the Naas Bypass.


  • #6
    Cdub
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭Cdub


    Looks like its the M$ option then. Thanks all.


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  • #7
    ProudDUB
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    n97 mini wrote: »
    Much of a muchness. N4/M4 can be reduced to stop/start where 3 lanes become 2 at Leixlip, and where the same thing happens on the N7/M7 at Naas. Toll is a euro cheaper on the M7.



    They're both on the same side of the toll bridge.

    The toll bridge is between exit 6 (Castleknock/Blanchardstown) and exit 7 (Lucan/Palmerstown.) The exit for the M4 is after exit 7, so if you approach the M4 from south of there, you won't go through the toll bridge. You will if you are approaching it from north of exit 7.


  • #8
    Phibsboro
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    ProudDUB wrote: »
    The toll bridge is between exit 6 (Castleknock/Blanchardstown) and exit 7 (Lucan/Palmerstown.) The exit for the M4 is after exit 7, so if you approach the M4 from south of there, you won't go through the toll bridge. You will if you are approaching it from north of exit 7.

    I think N97's point is that there is no way you can join the motorway such that you would pay the M50 toll for one route and not the other...


  • #9
    n97 mini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    Phibsboro wrote: »
    I think N97's point is that there is no way you can join the motorway such that you would pay the M50 toll for one route and not the other...

    Thanks, that's what I meant. If you are on the M50 and approach from the south you don't pay any tolls to exit either on the N7 or N4. If you approach on the M50 from the north you pay to toll to get to both the N4 and N7 exits.


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