N9 Carlow Bypass-when will it open?

road_high

Anyone got any inside info as to when the N9bypass may at long last open.
Progress looks v good anyway, all the major brodges and stuff seem to be in place. Perhaps by next summer

Don1

no idea. Just looking forward to not having any reason to go through Castledermot any more tbh!

personaltrainer

It is expected that the new high quality dual carriageway will be completed in full by 2010

fitzyshea

The Carlow bypass is due to open in Q3 2008. It will probably open before that though as the NRA always give a date further than expected therefore they can say the road opened 2 months ahead of schedule etc. The full route from KIlcullen to Waterford is due for 2010 along with most of the other HQDC / motorways to Limerick Galway and Cork.
http://www.nra.ie/RoadSchemeActivity/KildareCountyCouncil/N9N10CarlowBypass/SchemeName,9829,en.html

wheres me jumpa

I actually heard the Carlow bypass would be open before Xmas! My sources are clearly very unreliable!

fitzyshea

wheres me jumpa wrote:

I actually heard the Carlow bypass would be open before Xmas! My sources are clearly very unreliable!

Even if they were working 24/7 they wouldnt have it open by xmas!

fitzyshea

wheres me jumpa wrote:

I actually heard the Carlow bypass would be open before Xmas! My sources are clearly very unreliable!

Even if they were working 24/7 they wouldnt have it open by xmas!

Oilrig

Don1,

bad news, it by-passes Carlow but not Castledermot...

lynch_3001

Oilrig wrote:

Don1,

bad news, it by-passes Carlow but not Castledermot...

doesnt that bypass in 2010 goes pass there? or my source like wheres me jumpas?

lucylu

wheres me jumpa wrote:

I actually heard the Carlow bypass would be open before Xmas! My sources are clearly very unreliable!

I heard that too and it would start at Prumplestown Cross (Castledermot) and come out at Milford...

ah ye can't beat Castledermot traffic & roadworks

racso1975

umm i also heard that the section from outside carlow town to that point at tinryland gaa club would be open by x mas!!! @ wheresmejumpa i wonder do we have the same useless source of info

patrickc

racso1975 wrote: »

umm i also heard that the section from outside carlow town to that point at tinryland gaa club would be open by x mas!!! @ wheresmejumpa i wonder do we have the same useless source of info

it looks possible judging by the work theyve done so far..

sk8board

At the south side of the town, the junction where the by-pass will rejoin the road to Kilkenny (junction 6) is not remotely finished. Theres not a hint of an exit being constructed, and the general flow of traffic has never been obstructed. I can't see it being open for christmas, although i've heard the same rumour.

That said, as you pass the entrance to the landfill you can see the new road very much exists, so not long now.........

lucylu

I read it in the Nationalist yesterday that it will be open end Nov early dec

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

sk8board wrote: »

At the south side of the town, the junction where the by-pass will rejoin the road to Kilkenny (junction 6) is not remotely finished. Theres not a hint of an exit being constructed, and the general flow of traffic has never been obstructed. I can't see it being open for christmas, although i've heard the same rumour.

That said, as you pass the entrance to the landfill you can see the new road very much exists, so not long now.........

they built the castledermot end of it right behind my parents place and I don't exactly remember how long it took to get it built.. but it was pretty damn quick. There's sign posts up and everything.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Don1 wrote: »

no idea. Just looking forward to not having any reason to go through Castledermot any more tbh!

that's the kind of thing a man might take personally....

fricatus

lucylu wrote: »

I read it in the Nationalist yesterday that it will be open end Nov early dec

If that's true, it's terrific news. Have you a link?

lucylu

http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/community/pdf/Clonegal,%20Kildavin,%20Castledermot.pdf


In Castledermot Notes - under bypass

fricatus

lucylu wrote: »

http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/community/pdf/Clonegal,%20Kildavin,%20Castledermot.pdf


In Castledermot Notes - under bypass

Thanks lucylu! Although they refer to it as the "Waterford and Wexford bypass".

Mordeth wrote: »

There's sign posts up and everything.

There's a lot of discussion as to whether it's supposed to be a motorway or dual carriageway. It all hangs on this: what colour are the signs? Green or blue?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

green

fricatus

Mordeth wrote: »

green

Thanks Mordeth!

So it will be a dual carriageway with 100 km/h speed limits, rather than a motorway with 120 km/h limits.

Either way though, it will make the Dublin-Waterford journey a lot easier, especially at peak times. It will be good for Carlow too... make it even nicer than it already is!

Still though, I got to like Carlow on the way through when I was living in Dublin... stopping at the Statoil on the Dublin road on the way in, for an ice cream... the odd Abrakebabra stop when hungry... checking out the students between the Hanover bridge and CW IT...

Won't miss the queues starting out at Lapple heading south on a Friday evening though!

Bards

fricatus wrote: »

Thanks Mordeth!

So it will be a dual carriageway with 100 km/h speed limits, rather than a motorway with 120 km/h limits.

Either way though, it will make the Dublin-Waterford journey a lot easier, especially at peak times. It will be good for Carlow too... make it even nicer than it already is!

Still though, I got to like Carlow on the way through when I was living in Dublin... stopping at the Statoil on the Dublin road on the way in, for an ice cream... the odd Abrakebabra stop when hungry... checking out the students between the Hanover bridge and CW IT...

Won't miss the queues starting out at Lapple heading south on a Friday evening though!

only a matter of time before all HQDC's are 120 Km/h just like this bypass

fricatus

I read in the Times today (sorry no link), that the bypass is being held up because some developer is not getting a right-of-way?

Sorry now, because I'm sure I have that ar$eways... can anyone fill us in on what's actually happening?

fitzyshea

fricatus wrote: »

I read in the Times today (sorry no link), that the bypass is being held up because some developer is not getting a right-of-way?

Sorry now, because I'm sure I have that ar$eways... can anyone fill us in on what's actually happening?

Wher ein the Time swas that? I didnt see it. Was it about the carlow Bypass or the N9 motorway as a whole. As far as I am aware the road is on schedule for next year and it looks like it too.

fricatus

fitzyshea wrote: »

Wher ein the Time swas that? I didnt see it. Was it about the carlow Bypass or the N9 motorway as a whole. As far as I am aware the road is on schedule for next year and it looks like it too.

Yesterday's paper (Wed 14 Nov), and it was a small article on maybe page 4 or 5 (you know, one of the small ones in the sidebar). It specifically mentioned Carlow and a "bypass", but I don't know if it said anything about the N9. Maybe there's a smaller relief road being built in the town and that's what it's about?

Sorry I can't remember any more details...

fitzyshea

Have it here it says that the construction company has claimed that the final section of the bypass is been delayed by Carlow County Council because of its insistence that an unsafe access be provided to a landowner. Nesselside Builders Ltd, owned by Sean McLoughlin also claims a Carlow County Council offical Seamus O'Connor Has made threats to damage his business.

Interesting. Sounds like the kids are unhappy in CCC.

fricatus

fitzyshea wrote: »

...Carlow County Council ... insistence that an unsafe access be provided to a landowner...

Do Carlow CC have any right to provide access to this bypass? I thought it was the NRA's area of responsibility, and that they, naturally enough, would only allow the planned three junctions (because the plan is to eventually redesignate the road as a motorway).

fitzyshea

Just an update on my last post. I think this road refers to the inner relief road not the bypass. As Mcloughlans (Dinn Ri) Are building that not the bypass. It was in the Nationalist again this week.

patrickc

i tell ya carlow with bypasses, inner relief roads what will be next?

fricatus

patrickc2006 wrote: »

i tell ya carlow with bypasses, inner relief roads what will be next?

Well I saw today coming through the town, that there's a place called "Shamrock Plaza" being built. Lovely Irish-American "forty shades of green" sound to that!

fitzyshea wrote: »

Just an update on my last post. I think this road refers to the inner relief road not the bypass. As Mcloughlans (Dinn Ri) Are building that not the bypass. It was in the Nationalist again this week.

Good. The idea of "access issues" to what's supposed in future to be a motorway would be too much to bear on a Sunday evening in winter!

lucylu wrote: »

I read it in the Nationalist yesterday that it will be open end Nov early dec

Having driven by there today, I can't see it being open in the next 2-3 weeks. There still seems to be loads left to do. However, the sign put up by the NRA said late 2008. That seems like an exaggeration in the opposite direction.

Any (reliable) updates?

rossious

I had a look from one of the bridges down on the road before the catledermot exit and it looks almost ready to go. On the KK side there are in the middle of building a roundy next to the road, left heading south, and have lots of tarmac for the exit laid.
They did complete the Castledermot ramps, signage and roads in no time there a few months back, so I can't see that it won't be open in the next month or so.
The new road will run from the landfill site on the south of Carlow to just before Castledermot. The resaon for not bypassing CastleD on this section is because the route heads cross country for a while after Castledermot, heading to Kilkullen and won't have a chance to intersect the main road for a while. Castledermot is in for an awful pounding when all this happens because with no queueing for Carlow all that traffic will arrive on Castledermont, to a roundabout, at once. We'll then have a roundabout, with Carlow traffic on one entrance and waterford traffic from another all queueing to going though the new, narrow road though CastleD.

I think I'll be bringing my coffee in the car with me to work!!!, and maybe a bowl of crunchy nut.... I'll have the time to eat em anyways!!

lucylu

obviously you were all motoring too fast through CD thats why they made a stones of the road
The new Primary school is going to be start building in the next few weeks (on the Athy Road) so I can't understand why they made a balls of the road outside the existing school you have to swerve to avoid the footpaths. As for 2 footpaths on both sides of barnhill there is only 2 or 3 house past the pitch and putt - why bother ...waste of money me thinks...

I feel sorry for the few remaining shop owners in C Dermot 3 years and counting of roadworks, archelogical digs, sewerage pipe renewal that didn't need renewing, the few resurfacing attempts and broadband...

rossious

lucylu wrote: »

As for 2 footpaths on both sides of barnhill there is only 2 or 3 house past the pitch and putt - why bother ...waste of money me thinks...

Think thats their way of slowing down the traffic. Make the road narrow and scary looking!!! :rolleyes:

cargo

Well guys any date on this opening yet?

Is it still likely to be this side of Christmas?

patrickc

lucylu wrote: »

As for 2 footpaths on both sides of barnhill there is only 2 or 3 house past the pitch and putt - why bother ...waste of money me thinks...

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theres 12 houses past the pitch and putt...

lucylu

on the right hand side of the road after the Pitch and Putt....nothing!
there are 12 houses or so on the left... why have 2 footpaths...apart from traffic calming

patrickc

lucylu wrote: »

on the right hand side of the road after the Pitch and Putt....nothing!
there are 12 houses or so on the left... why have 2 footpaths...apart from traffic calming

maybe people like walking on the right hand side.:D

Bards

Extract from http://www.carlow-nationalist.ie/news/story/?trs=mhmhkfgbey&cat=news
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So it looks like February or March 2008 for the Carlow bypass to open

"Mr Cullinane continued that the council expect the motorway to be opened in “February or March of next year” and said they would expect this to considerably lessen the traffic on the Tullow Road."

fitzyshea

Yeh looks like it is to open in Feb/Mar, will just have to wait and see now. The roundabout on the Kilkenny road is getting there nicely. Tis a pity the next phase ie: Kilcullen - Carlow and Carlow - knocktopher hasnt started yet. Hopefully contracts will be signed soon.

Bards

fitzyshea wrote: »

Yeh looks like it is to open in Feb/Mar, will just have to wait and see now. The roundabout on the Kilkenny road is getting there nicely. Tis a pity the next phase ie: Kilcullen - Carlow and Carlow - knocktopher hasnt started yet. Hopefully contracts will be signed soon.

Work is due to get under way on both of these section during March 2008

sk8board

They've been working on it through Knocktopher now for ages. It not easy to find/see it, as you've to head our a small country road from the village, but its been worked on at both sides of that small road for maybe even a year.
it looks like just excavation work, and building up the earth foundations for fly-overs

cargo

Any recent updates as to when they hope to open this yet?

Bards

cargo wrote: »

Any recent updates as to when they hope to open this yet?

have you read the thread at all... only 4 posts back I posted an update

cargo

Well seen as I had posted in the thread previously I would have thought it was obvious I was reading and keeping an eye on the thread. :mad:

That was a few weeks ago and it was suggested Feb/March and we're now 3 weeks away from Feb so I was just curious, sorry Bards

Bards

not much happens over the Christmas period anyhow with regards to construction... didn't realise you posted before

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

haven't you read the thread at all? only 8 posts back he asked the question..

Bards

Mordeth wrote: »

haven't you read the thread at all? only 8 posts back he asked the question..

even more reason for the OP to read from his last post to find the answer to his question

cargo

Bards wrote: »

even more reason for the OP to read from his last post to find the answer to his question

I can see this thread hitting the 1000 post mark rather quickly now!!

Bards

:D:D

Meanwhile getting back on topic, I read in the Nationalist over the Christmas period that the council is hopping to have the Bypass open in time for Easter which is early this year (March 23rd)

patrickc

saw that too about by easter, with any luck it will be by then
although not looking forward to the backlog in castledermot then

wheres me jumpa

Heard a councillor on the radio today complaining about a lack of barriers around the flyovers.