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

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The m17 at ballinphuil corofin over the past 14 months part one2345

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Part two 678910

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Part three 1112131415

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Part four 16171819

D Trent

m17 wrote: »

Part four 16171819

For what reason did they decide against having the Motorway going up over the hill.
I mean the cost to blast and cut through I hill like that I'm sure is astronomical

Goofy

D Trent wrote: »

For what reason did they decide against having the Motorway going up over the hill.
I mean the cost to blast and cut through I hill like that I'm sure is astronomical

I'm guessing the slope of the hill would be too steep. Cut out the top half of the slope and use the material removed to make a ramp at the bottom half of the slope. Turns a steep hill into a gradual one.

m17

D Trent wrote: »

For what reason did they decide against having the Motorway going up over the hill.
I mean the cost to blast and cut through I hill like that I'm sure is astronomical

At the start it was going to take a year for the blasting to take place,the did it in 7 months,it also took 61 blasts to remove all the rock and every bit has been used,it cost about 24 million

spacetweek

D Trent wrote: »

For what reason did they decide against having the Motorway going up over the hill.
I mean the cost to blast and cut through I hill like that I'm sure is astronomical

For a road to qualify as a motorway, it must have gentle gradients. If the route would make the hill too steep you must flatten it.

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The m17 at carthymore looking towards tuam 31/08/16]looking towards rathmorrisy

Czhornet

D Trent wrote: »

For what reason did they decide against having the Motorway going up over the hill.
I mean the cost to blast and cut through I hill like that I'm sure is astronomical

Rock is a valuable commodity on a road job, it is used for the tarmac and the concrete on the job, Most of the road jobs I have been on, the rock cut has been over blasted, by that I mean extra land might have been bought off the farmer to allow for more rock extraction and processing.

The M7 at Ballinahinch was 50 metres deep at its deepest point!

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The m17 at ballybanagher 25/01/15 01/09/16

dok_golf

Would anyone know when the new bridge near Coldwood N.S. on old N6 is due to open?

m17

dok_golf wrote: »

Would anyone know when the new bridge near Coldwood N.S. on old N6 is due to open?

It's a old bridge at this stage was to open last March but it's been delayed about six times,there waiting on eircom who are laying Cable's in the coldwood area opening date now looks like the end of October 16

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The townland of gortoe where sisk have started work on the last bridge on the m18 1.5kms south of rathmorrisy

JCX BXC

What is that mess that is a bridge south of Kilcolgan? It's an absolute mess, shocking layout.

Zubeneschamali

Carnacalla wrote: »

It's an absolute mess, shocking layout.

Do you mean it is a mess now during works, or that the finished layout will be a mess?

ratracer

Carnacalla wrote: »

What is that mess that is a bridge south of Kilcolgan? It's an absolute mess, shocking layout.

As a regular user of that bridge ( I presume you mean at Kiltiernan) I agree, the design of it is terrible. I would guess that the designers deliberately introduced the curve to slow traffic approaching it, but it is very poorly done.

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The 8th flyover over the m17 at cloontooa will open 27/09/16top of flyoverlooking towards rathmorissylooking towards tuam

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The 9th flyover over the m17 at the townland of killeelaun will open on 4/10/16top of the flyoverlooking towards rathmorissylooking towards tuamthe flyover

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The last 1km of the m17 04/09/16this where the kilmore roundabout will be

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Bridge over the nanney river on the tuam bypass beams going in to place at the end of the month 05/09/16

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The m17 at ballybanagher corofin 22/03/1505/09/16

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The townland of castlelambert 07/09/16 the start of the m17 gets its frist layer of tarmac looking towards rathmorissy 1.5kmslooking towards tuam 24kms

Irish_rat

m17 wrote: »

Ariel view of rathmorrisy 08/08/16

:-o

Nice work lad, the road is really taking shape now. You may be the new kid on the block but you've taken over the forum in a good way.

Insane updates thanks

m17

Irish_rat wrote: »

:-o

Nice work lad, the road is really taking shape now. You may be the new kid on the block but you've taken over the forum in a good way.

Insane updates thanks

Cheers mate

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Concern over plans to downgrade main county roads when motorway openshttp://connachttribune.ie/concern-over-plans-to-downgrade-main-county-roads-011/

Zubeneschamali

m17 wrote: »

Concern over plans to downgrade main county roads when motorway opens

Concerns have been raised over the reclassifications, which will result in increased maintenance expenses for the County Council’s roads department.

Seems reasonable to me.

mackerski

m17 wrote: »

Concern over plans to downgrade main county roads when motorway openshttp://connachttribune.ie/concern-over-plans-to-downgrade-main-county-roads-011/

N18 "upgraded" to a National Primary route? Even though it already is one?

m17

mackerski wrote: »

N18 "upgraded" to a National Primary route? Even though it already is one?

The would want to take a look at this forum before they start printing stuff like that there still saying early 2018,that has changed to nov 17

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The underpass on the weir road tuam