M6 - New road from Athlone to Ballinasloe

snowy2008

hi guys

when is this new road going to be open? will it bypass ballinasloe, i hate driving thru it in the evenings, its always jammers! i saw them do alot of work over the weekend so hopefully it will take a chunk off the journey to galway

biko

You mean the new motorway M6?

Some info from Infrastructure

Wiki

By late 2010 the motorway will have replaced almost all of the single carriageway N6

snowy2008

i dunno, i just thought i heard this part was going to be opened and i was looking over the bridge and it kinda looked nearly ready to use

Brouhaha

Athlone to Ballinasloe opening next Thursday

Socos

I had heard it was ahead of schedule and due to be opened by race week

snowy2008

would i be even using this road if i was travelling from loughrea to dublin? id do anything to bypass ballinasloe town at this stage!

GerardKeating

teresa2008 wrote: »

would i be even using this road if i was travelling from loughrea to dublin? id do anything to bypass ballinasloe town at this stage!

The new road (opening this week) is NOT a by-pass of Ballinasloe, since it ends on the Dublin Side of Ballinasloe,

The next section (Ballinasloe-Galway) opens early 2010 will do a full by-pass of Ballinasloe.

Brouhaha

teresa2008 wrote: »

id do anything to bypass ballinasloe town at this stage!

You'll be able to when the B'sloe-Galway section opens next year by going out the link road they're building from the Loughrea bypass to the motorway but it will cost you a toll as there will be a toll bridge this side of B'sloe on the motorway

GerardKeating

Brouhaha wrote: »

You'll be able to when the B'sloe-Galway section opens next year by going out the link road they're building from the Loughrea bypass to the motorway but it will cost you a toll as there will be a toll bridge this side of B'sloe on the motorway

One could avoid both Ballinasloe AND the toll by using the existing N6 road out of LoughRea and joining the M6 at the "West Ballinasloe" Junction.

dec25532

Think the whole M6 Ballinasloe to Galway is going to be open by early 2010and I had assumed the toll was to be located in the Craughwell area. The only trouble is that it will bring traffic into Galway city quicker and add to the congestion there. The sooner the Galway city outer bypass is started the better and it would be no harm to stamp on those bog cotton protesters.

kaizersoze

dec25532 wrote: »

Think the whole M6 Ballinasloe to Galway is going to be open by early 2010and I had assumed the toll was to be located in the Craughwell area. The only trouble is that it will bring traffic into Galway city quicker and add to the congestion there. The sooner the Galway city outer bypass is started the better and it would be no harm to stamp on those bog cotton protesters.

Toll is located at Cappataggle.

dec25532

kaizersoze wrote: »

Toll is located at Cappataggle.

Of course, you are right. It will become an expensive exercise travelling to Dublin on a regular basis.

biffoman

if u gota go to the airport then ur fecked.toll on the m6,m4, and m50.both ways.the sooner the build the airport in the midlands [clara]the better.at least theres only one toll then.

ManFromAtlantis

biffoman wrote: »

if u gota go to the airport then ur fecked.toll on the m6,m4, and m50.both ways.the sooner the build the airport in the midlands [clara]the better.at least theres only one toll then.

ya thats right. if going to airport....toll m6 x 2 and m50 so return in a car could be approx in or around €15 - €18 on tolls !!!:eek:

i'm all for clara int airport !

biffoman

spoke with my father about it and he said its goin ahead allrite.the m6 was constructed with it in mind.he said that land was bought up for it.there will be a few landowners around the area rubbing there hands.

ManFromAtlantis

biffoman wrote: »

spoke with my father about it and he said its goin ahead allrite.the m6 was constructed with it in mind.he said that land was bought up for it.there will be a few landowners around the area rubbing there hands.

does brian cowen own the land?

biffoman

if not theres a few quid in it for him somewhere along the line.anyway me other half is on rute to athlone this morning.she should get to the "new road"by the time all the back slapping and well done lads,12000000 cars off the auld sections and on to our newly constructed il rob the fecken face off ya motaways[on budget and on time]god i feel a bit better for that.

Patrickhegart

biffoman wrote: »

spoke with my father about it and he said its goin ahead allrite.the m6 was constructed with it in mind.he said that land was bought up for it.there will be a few landowners around the area rubbing there hands.

thats the biggest load of rubbish I ever heard. Why would the government subsidise another airport and unless its subsidised its not a comercially viable business.

The last thing we need is another ****ty half arsed airport with crap flight times to airports in the middle of nowhere(fact is if you want an early morning flight out & late evening return flight from Ireland(other thn london) you have to use Dublin beacuse the likes of Ryanair only have flights out midday when they have a spare plane from most other airports and they are a waste of time imho). There are already too many airports competing against each other in Ireland and they are damaging each other(in the west alone we have Galway/knock/sligo/donegal/shannon). If we only had one between all these then it could be an alternative to Dublin like Cork sort of is.

There is already a good enough small airport in Abbeyshrule Longford for small non comercial aircraft

ManFromAtlantis

Patrickhegart wrote: »

thats the biggest load of rubbish I ever heard. Why would the government subsidise another airport and unless its subsidised its not a comercially viable business.

The last thing we need is another ****ty half arsed airport with crap flight times to airports in the middle of nowhere(fact is if you want an early morning flight out & late evening return flight from Ireland(other thn london) you have to use Dublin beacuse the likes of Ryanair only have flights out midday when they have a spare plane from most other airports and they are a waste of time imho). There are already too many airports competing against each other in Ireland and they are damaging each other(in the west alone we have Galway/knock/sligo/donegal/shannon). If we only had one between all these then it could be an alternative to Dublin like Cork sort of is.

There is already a good enough small airport in Abbeyshrule Longford for small non comercial aircraft

no, its true. tis starting next thursday afternoon.

KevR

dec25532 wrote: »

Think the whole M6 Ballinasloe to Galway is going to be open by early 2010and I had assumed the toll was to be located in the Craughwell area. The only trouble is that it will bring traffic into Galway city quicker and add to the congestion there. The sooner the Galway city outer bypass is started the better and it would be no harm to stamp on those bog cotton protesters.

It's hard to know what affect the motorway will have on Galway City traffic.

Certainly outbound traffic in the evenings will be much improved because there will be a left turning slip road from the existing dual carriageway at Doughiska.

In the mornings most traffic will be using the roundabout and there will probably be large tailbacks. But then again, people feared the Athlone-Ballinasloe motorway would result in tailbacks at Ballinasloe with everyone arriving there quicker. That hasn't really happened, in fact I think traffic has improved slightly. Traffic on the old road would bunch behind slow drivers and many cars would end up arriving at the town in one go. On the new motorway there is a much more even spread/steady flow of traffic arriving at the town because you can overtake anyone going slow, there's no bunching. Traffic through the town seems to be slightly better.

Ideally they would have built a simple free-flowing 'trumpet' interchange at Doughiska instead of the roundabout. It actually wouldn't have been terribly expensive and would cause a lot less disruption to the existing dual carriageway during construction. There seems to be little or no imagination when it comes to building road junctions/interchanges in Galway, they just lazily stick in a roudabout and hope that works.

Of course none of this would be a problem if the bypass was being built.. :mad: