M17/M18 - Gort to Tuam [open to traffic]

Geogregor

Thanks.
Any chance for something in larger scale? Ideally showing number of lanes in each section of the junction etc?
For that we would probably need some intel from the insiders working on the project but who knows...

A bit related questions, where was/is planned that service area? I mean in which quadrant of the junction.
Also, if they want to build separate left turning slips, I can't see how they can safely tuck services there.

m17

Geogregor wrote: »

Thanks.
Any chance for something in larger scale? Ideally showing number of lanes in each section of the junction etc?
For that we would probably need some intel from the insiders working on the project but who knows...

A bit related questions, where was/is planned that service area? I mean in which quadrant of the junction.
Also, if they want to build separate left turning slips, I can't see how they can safely tuck services there.

There will be no service area at this junction, there looking for planning for a service area about mile form rathmorissy on the galway side of the m6

Carawaystick

From driving past at the weekend, the roundabout looked like a pringle shape, rising up and over the M6 and returning to ground level to pass under the M17/8
Is this right?

JupiterKid

Drove through the Rathmorrissey junction works yesterday.

Very impressive. Still, I don't see how the middle bridge will have adequate clearance over the mid level roundabout. I'm sure they know what they're doing. I still would have preferred if a whirlpool interchange was built here.

JCX BXC

So, as an overall progress report, how's it going?

m17

Carnacalla wrote: »

So, as an overall progress report, how's it going?

Not that bad considering it was a hard winter rain wise a few problems with flooding around tuam bypass and around kilternan but they're well ahead on bridges and pipe laying hopefully it will open on time

D Trent

I pass Rathmorissey twice daily these days and I have to laugh wen I see one side of roundabout junction progressing so much with about 8 or 9 excavators having a great time

While on the opposite side of the carriageway there's one solitary poor fucl<er in an excavator just thinking to himself 'mother of Chrisht where do I start'?

m17

N17 set for downgrade when motorway openshttp://galwaybayfm.ie/n17-set-for-downgrade-following-completion-of-gort-to-tuam-motorway/

Cookiemunster

m17 wrote: »

N17 set for downgrade when motorway openshttp://galwaybayfm.ie/n17-set-for-downgrade-following-completion-of-gort-to-tuam-motorway/

The first line is a laugh - It’s been revealed that the N17 is likely to be downgraded following the completion of the Gort to Tuam motorway.

Revealed my arse. This is standard practice for the last decade when a motorway opens. The motorway legally becomes the N road under motorway regulations so the old N road has to be redesignated.

m17

Cookiemunster wrote: »

The first line is a laugh - It’s been revealed that the N17 is likely to be downgraded following the completion of the Gort to Tuam motorway.

Revealed my arse. This is standard practice for the last decade when a motorway opens. The motorway legally becomes the N road under motorway regulations so the old N road has to be redesignated.

All well see is more potholes

spacetweek

m17 wrote: »

All well see is more potholes

What?

spacetweek

"Speaking to our reporter David Nevin after the meeting at County Hall Councillor James Charity said any downgrade to regional status would be disasterous for the long-term future of the N17."

Jesus wept.

JCX BXC

spacetweek wrote: »

What?

Input an apostrophe in "we'll"

JCX BXC

Ah come on now. the system here for national and motorway routes is every route has a number, eg M7, N69, and the letter before it is only based on the road type. If there is an M17, there cannot be an N17.

If any politician starts going on about this they should educate themselves on Irish Roads.

Mars Bar

The thought of only being able to do 80kph on the N17 is heartbreaking.

m17

Mars Bar wrote: »

The thought of only being able to do 80kph on the N17 is heartbreaking.

Don't say things like that,it's going to take longer to get from tuam to galway

Middle Man

You could simply number the entire motorway as M18 and leave N17 as is...

L1011

Mars Bar wrote: »

The thought of only being able to do 80kph on the N17 is heartbreaking.

Nothing stopping them keeping a 100 limit

Middle Man wrote: »

You could simply number the entire motorway as M18 and leave N17 as is...

Pointless duplication and requirement for state funding for what will be a local road. Won't happen.

Middle Man

L1011 wrote: »

Pointless duplication and requirement for state funding for what will be a local road. Won't happen.

Well the Saw Doctors better get rewriting...

m17

Middle Man wrote: »

Well the Saw Doctors better get rewriting...

I wish I was on the r336 where the grass is green

Sam Russell

m17 wrote: »

I wish I was on the r336 where the grass is green

I wish I was on the M17 where the grass is green - I think that scans better.

CrowdedHouse

Ah Lads ...Stone Walls and the grass is green #sake

m17

Sam Russell wrote: »

I wish I was on the M17 where the grass is green - I think that scans better.

What happens when the get to rathmorissy,I wish I was on a excavator

Schadenfreudia

Sam Russell wrote: »

I wish I was on the M17 where the grass is green - I think that scans better.

Hopefully there won't be any grass on the M17

Middle Man

Sam Russell wrote: »

I wish I was on the M17 where the grass is green - I think that scans better.

They mentioned Claregalway IIRC, so alas that would have to be dropped from the song with the introduction of the M17 - maybe they'd make Athenry famous for a second time instead. On the flip side, since the M17 would be legally the N17, perhaps the engineers could rename the road as N17(M) so that we could go on and on with ...wish I was on that N17... albeit on a new journey as we mourn the bit about Claregalway...

marno21

Middle Man wrote: »

They mentioned Claregalway IIRC, so alas that would have to be dropped from the song with the introduction of the M17 - maybe they'd make Athenry famous for a second time instead. On the flip side, since the M17 would be legally the N17, perhaps the engineers could rename the road as N17(M) so that we could go on and on with ...wish I was on that N17... albeit on a new journey as we mourn the bit about Claregalway...

As I turned left at Rathmorrissey....

m17

The flyover at mahangh Corofin 10/02/16

paul2013

Carnacalla wrote: »

Ah come on now. the system here for national and motorway routes is every route has a number, eg M7, N69, and the letter before it is only based on the road type. If there is an M17, there cannot be an N17.

If any politician starts going on about this they should educate themselves on Irish Roads.

"If there is an M17 there cannot be a N17?"

Your wrong @Carnacalla as the N18 is currently is situ from Shannon to Limerick and currently between Gort and Claregalway which will become the R458 when Motorway opens

Middle Man

paul2013 wrote: »

"If there is an M17 there cannot be a N17?"

Your wrong @Carnacalla as the N18 is currently is situ from Shannon to Limerick and currently between Gort and Claregalway which will become the R458 when Motorway opens

He means the N17 and M17 cannot exist in parallel...

m17

Mars Bar wrote: »

The thought of only being able to do 80kph on the N17 is heartbreaking.

How come the old n6 now the r446 is still a 100 kph