M50 ugrade - Construction begins in July

darkman2

Just looked at the M50 upgrade site on www.sdcc.ie and whilst the preparatory works, i.e cutting down of trees etc, are underway construction proper wont start for a while yet. When it does, in July expect massive disruption:rolleyes:

As regards phase 2:

Present Position: March 06 Tendering process has begun and expressions of interest have been invited. It is anticipated that the tendering process will be completed in April 2007 and construction work will commence shortly thereafter.

randomname2005

That kind of makes sense as the traffic is usually reduced during the summer (maybe not on the M50) when people are on holidays, schools are off et.c but still not going to be fun.
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Pfungstadter

I thought they started a month ago when Martin Cullen announced it and they showed him beside the motorway on the news, don't travel the road anymore so I thought it was under way.

Uuuh Patsy

Anybody have any information on the sequence of upgrading. Will they do the Mad Cow first and will they build each slipway seperately or will it be 2 years before we can use any of the upgraded sections?

jmkennedyie

Dunno. The interchange modifications are so extensive that I doubt they can go slip by slip. I guess they'll do cutaways and build as many of the bridge supports as they can, and then gradually shimmy traffic around incrementally. It's going to be like ballet, but with dumper trucks, cranes and cement mixers . Also, I expect that they'll upgrade Liffey Valley and Red Cow ends in parallel. At least they pretty much tackled the whole of the Naas road in parallel - a similar upgrade except without the spagetti junctions.

Fool 5000

I know they are doing preparation work before the commention of construction in July but why would cutting down a couple of trees really take 4 months:mad:

full forward

These junctions will be a lot of fun. No more using roundabouts to do U turns. My ould pair wont have a hope/

darkman2

jmkennedyie wrote:

Dunno. The interchange modifications are so extensive that I doubt they can go slip by slip. I guess they'll do cutaways and build as many of the bridge supports as they can, and then gradually shimmy traffic around incrementally. It's going to be like ballet, but with dumper trucks, cranes and cement mixers . Also, I expect that they'll upgrade Liffey Valley and Red Cow ends in parallel. At least they pretty much tackled the whole of the Naas road in parallel - a similar upgrade except without the spagetti junctions.

Yes and they expect to have it done in two years:eek: Id give it 3 years min lol:D

coward

Fool 5000 wrote:

I know they are doing preparation work before the commention of construction in July but why would cutting down a couple of trees really take 4 months:mad:

i think that they cut down the trees early as there is some kind of tree preservation order in place between march and august each year?

NavanJunction1

coward wrote:

i think that they cut down the trees early as there is some kind of tree preservation order in place between march and august each year?

Bird nesting season?

narommy

Yes nesting season.

Has to get all the trees on the Limerick-Nenagh Bypass chopped as well