Navan Relief Road

Chris_533976

I've long been curious about this project.

http://www.nra.ie/RoadSchemeActivity/MeathCountyCouncil/N51NavanInnerReliefRoad/SchemeName,15440,en.html

Construction of this 1 km single carriageway scheme commenced in March 2006. This project connects the N51 Athboy road to the N3 in Navan. The contractor is Regan Civil Engineering Ltd.
Mainline Length (km): 0.6

Has this seriously taken nearly three years or has someone forgotten to take the thing down?

Stroke Politics

Seriously, it has.

They started on this road from the N3 side, and seem to have gotten as far as the Moate Hill on the Athboy Road. They have carved through it, and you can see where it ends from the Athboy Road Roundabout. Lights up, tarmac completed and lined; then everything comes to a sudden halt as they try to negotiate their way over a railway line connecting the soon-to-be closed Tara mines and connect with a roundabout that has about 6 exits, including one to a Sacred M3 Highway (which no-one will be able to afford to use when it opens) and a new Retail Park, which will house Homebase (but I would not be surprised if they pulled out of this if they had a poor Xmas in the UK)....

I can't understand this short piece of connective road took three years, scarcity of labourand expertise whilst the Sacred Highway was being built, perhaps?

Irish and Proud

Stroke Politics wrote: »

Seriously, it has.

They started on this road from the N3 side, and seem to have gotten as far as the Moate Hill on the Athboy Road. They have carved through it, and you can see where it ends from the Athboy Road Roundabout. Lights up, tarmac completed and lined; then everything comes to a sudden halt as they try to negotiate their way over a railway line connecting the soon-to-be closed Tara mines and connect with a roundabout that has about 6 exits, including one to a Sacred M3 Highway (which no-one will be able to afford to use when it opens) and a new Retail Park, which will house Homebase (but I would not be surprised if they pulled out of this if they had a poor Xmas in the UK)....

I can't understand this short piece of connective road took three years, scarcity of labourand expertise whilst the Sacred Highway was being built, perhaps?

Something's very wrong there!!!

Given that some major stretches of m-way were built in less than 2 years, it has taken 3 years thus far to build about 2km of reduced S2! :eek:

Heads should roll! :mad:

Regards!

tonc76

Stroke Politics wrote: »

Seriously, it has.

They started on this road from the N3 side, and seem to have gotten as far as the Moate Hill on the Athboy Road. They have carved through it, and you can see where it ends from the Athboy Road Roundabout. Lights up, tarmac completed and lined; then everything comes to a sudden halt as they try to negotiate their way over a railway line connecting the soon-to-be closed Tara mines and connect with a roundabout that has about 6 exits, including one to a Sacred M3 Highway (which no-one will be able to afford to use when it opens) and a new Retail Park, which will house Homebase (but I would not be surprised if they pulled out of this if they had a poor Xmas in the UK)....

I can't understand this short piece of connective road took three years, scarcity of labourand expertise whilst the Sacred Highway was being built, perhaps?

From experience Iarnrod Eireann can be unbelievably difficult to deal with