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N2 not M1

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  • 23-07-2009 10:13pm
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    biddyro
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    Why do trucks prefer the N2 and not the M1 to get to Dublin?


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    Aard
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    Do you have any data that verifies this? Because that sounds like shenanigans-talk to me.


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    GerardKeating
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    biddyro wrote: »
    Why do trucks prefer the N2 and not the M1 to get to Dublin?

    There is a toll on the M1, none on the N2


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    amacachi
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    Aard wrote: »
    Do you have any data that verifies this? Because that sounds like shenanigans-talk to me.

    Here you go.


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    DWCommuter
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    Just north of Collon on the N2 you can link up with the M1 via an R road to/from Dunleer and avoid the toll. Its not just trucks. We all do it.:D


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    Zoney
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    Google maps suggests you'd only be on non-DC/motorway road for 42 km. Easy to see why people would do it to avoid the toll, despite having to go through Slane.

    If Slane had been bypassed already it would be a complete no-brainer. Plans for Slane bypass are on the 1979 Road Plans for the 1980s (most of the rest of that has been finally built now).


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    Wishbone Ash
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    biddyro wrote: »
    Why do trucks prefer the N2 and not the M1 to get to Dublin?
    If the truck originated in Slane and was going to Finglas, it would be a bit pointless going over to the M1 to get there!


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    biddyro
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    thank you most interesting. Why do you think then, like in Europe, we do not have any tolls on the exits off the M1?


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    L1011
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    biddyro wrote: »
    thank you most interesting. Why do you think then, like in Europe, we do not have any tolls on the exits off the M1?

    We do! But only on a small section. Only certain sections of our motorway network are tolled. On the M1, M4 and M8 this means theres sections with a mainline plaza and further booths on exits during the section.


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    BrianD
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    I used to travel to Belfast quite a lot in the '90's and the N2 was always a rat run for trucks. Initially it seems it was to avoid the bottleneck at Drogheda and then I presume to avoid the tolls.

    In the past a lot of the trucks would exit the N2 and head over to the N3 via Rathoath and via back roads to the N4 and avoid the tolls and the congestion on the pre e-tolling M50.

    I presume that old habits die hard!


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    Carawaystick
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    No further money should be spent on upgrading the N2 south of the N33 junction. There is a Motorway about 6km away - the M1.
    It is lunacy to build a parallel motorway to the same place.
    The N2 should be de-trunked and trucks stopped passing Slane and the N51 route through Slane upgraded to bypass the village East West.


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    JupiterKid
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    Lorries should be completely banned form driving through Slane. The bridge and hills are utterly unsuitable for heavy goods vehicles. End of.


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    Scottie99
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Lorries should be completely banned form driving through Slane. The bridge and hills are utterly unsuitable for heavy goods vehicles. End of.

    The hills are no problems I can assure you, although maybe in winter its different :D


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    Wild Bill
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    Might be better to build the Slane Bypass. The ordering of road schemes to try and force trucks to use tolled motorways is very annoying. Especially as the Authorities don't have the courtesy to acknowledge that they are doing exactly that.


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    rev.it.up.betty
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    Scottie99 wrote: »
    The hills are no problems I can assure you, although maybe in winter its different :D


    i beg to differ. just think back to that accident late last march when a truck slammed into a line of cars . it was lucky no one was killed. he lost his brakes, coming down the hill........:eek:


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    corktina
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    rev.it.up.betty wrote: »
    i beg to differ. just think back to that accident late last march when a truck slammed into a line of cars . it was lucky no one was killed. he lost his brakes, coming down the hill........:eek:

    the hills arent the problem...stopping at the bottom is.....its hazardous and HGVs should be limited on it.

    (incidently and off-topic, why is it that Trains have fail safe brakes where the air pressure holds OFF the brakes and road vehicles dont?


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    rev.it.up.betty
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    limiting them wont solve the problem... it only takes one out of control hgv to cause carnage.


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