New Roundabout on old tuam Road

veryangryman

http://www.westmeathindependent.ie/news/roundup/articles/2009/05/13/39392-monksland-developers-reject-traffic-disruption-claims/

I cant quite visualise where it will eb/what it will look like. Can someone with a better imagination than me do a drawing please? :pac:

BoB_BoT

this I'd like to see too. I can't seem to grasp how it improves flow but if you did want to get onto the motorway it improves it. bit chaotic tbh :P

It will just look like a standard four exit roundabout with the fourth exit going straight into the pharmaplatz site.

alke

I've seen 2 crashs at that junction and another further up at the elan/collins garage juntion. They need to do somthing on that road.

alke

alke wrote: »

I've seen 2 crashs at that junction and another further up at the elan/collins garage juntion. They need to do somthing on that road.

What, since the roadworks started or before? From what I understand, the road is being rebuilt all the way to the Athlone springs hotel junction.

veryangryman

Super Valu Junction is the one that needs a roundabout badly. And a footpath. And lights for the km or so between there and Elan. Madness building all the development out that area (River Village, Bealnamulla etc) without any night-time walking access.

Hard enough to fill the houses out there without the pre-requisite of a car for most.


I dont think that any work will be carried out any further west than the Elan factory TBH. As soon as the inter-urban junctions are out of sight, the rest can swivel (government policy :rolleyes:)

alke

eh before, I didn't realise they had started on that junction yet, I thought they were just doing the one over the bridge from there.

roosterman71

Is this new roundabout going at the junction to bring you back onto the east-bound lane of the DC? Or is there somewhere else its going?

roosterman71

roosterman71 wrote: »

Is this new roundabout going at the junction to bring you back onto the east-bound lane of the DC? Or is there somewhere else its going?

Yes it's the easthound exit/entry for the M6, the other leg will go into pharmaplatz.

alke

has anyone ever driven from bealnamulla to town at night? there are no streetlights, people out walking on the verge, then as you get to collins garage there is a floodlight pointing straight at you. it's blinding, they should be told to dip it or something. you wouldn't see someone crossing the road because of it.

FUBARED

Deleted User wrote: »

It will just look like a standard four exit roundabout with the fourth exit going straight into the pharmaplatz site.

Nope. Think the roundabout in question in the article will be at the junction of River village entrance and the old Tuam Rd. Massive development planned for the fields on the left where the house burned down. Also includes part of a new road planned from this junction back around to the roscommon road.

See the following link :

http://www.roscommoncoco.ie/services/planning/AthloneLAP/A4-08%20Local%20Linkage%20Options%20Final.jpg

If you look at where the new proposed roads meet up with the old and new tuam roads and imagine another exit into River Village then this is the site of your proposed 5/4 exit roundabout.

Check out this also:

http://www.roscommoncoco.ie/ePlan41/FileRefDetails.aspx?File_number=09102&LASiteID=0

FUBARED

FUBARED wrote: »

Nope. Think the roundabout in question in the article will be at the junction of River village entrance and the old Tuam Rd. Massive development planned for the fields on the left where the house burned down. Also includes part of a new road planned from this junction back around to the roscommon road.

See the following link :

http://www.roscommoncoco.ie/services/planning/AthloneLAP/A4-08%20Local%20Linkage%20Options%20Final.jpg

If you look at where the new proposed roads meet up with the old and new tuam roads and imagine another exit into River Village then this is the site of your proposed 5/4 exit roundabout.

Check out this also:

http://www.roscommoncoco.ie/ePlan41/FileRefDetails.aspx?File_number=09102&LASiteID=0

oops

Well that explains why the rest of that road is in bits, waiting for a decision on these new link roads.

roosterman71

Is there really a need for a new road from the Roscommon road to the Tuam one? Can't see a massive need for it myself considering the DC is perfectly good for the trip

Zube

roosterman71 wrote: »

Is there really a need for a new road from the Roscommon road to the Tuam one? Can't see a massive need for it myself considering the DC is perfectly good for the trip

When they make the DC into a motorway, they'll want to avoid a heap of traffic using it for just one junction.

Zube

Zube wrote: »

When they make the DC into a motorway, they'll want to avoid a heap of traffic using it for just one junction.

With the redesignation imminant(sp?) they've left it a bit late to build it!

veryangryman

Deleted User wrote: »

With the redesignation imminant(sp?) they've left it a bit late to build it!

Redesignation imminent? When was this announced? Thought it still being debated.

While a Motorway would be more useful for likes of myself who traverse the whole bypass, I dont think its much use for the whole town.

But thats another thread i guess

veryangryman

veryangryman wrote: »

Redesignation imminent? When was this announced? Thought it still being debated.

While a Motorway would be more useful for likes of myself who traverse the whole bypass, I dont think its much use for the whole town.

But thats another thread i guess

I should have said the "announcement" was imminent..

roosterman71

Still though, is there a need to spend millions building a new road when the one thats there can do the job? Its not as if there's a demand of thousands of cars everyday. Surely the DC/MW can handle it, especially since its already doing so

FUBARED

Surely the DC/MW can handle it, especially since its already doing so

And what about all the tractors / learners/ Grannys who want to travel at 35mph etc who currently use the dual carrageway to get from Roscommon rd to Monksland. They will, by law, be banned from using the motorway?

Don't thnk the purpose of the new motorway is to be a link road between roscommon and monksland. That's the job of a local access road.