What's going on here then?

Danno

The past week there has been work going on at the M7-N77 slip. This is the former Cork N8 road exit at Portlaoise. Note that the work is on the unused slip...

http://maps.google.ie/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.012821,-7.302046&spn=0,0.03665&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=53.012319,-7.302827&panoid=zBJvYqrEnsygFTlpfTjEGA&cbp=12,146.26,,0,8.44

SeanW

Your attempt to put an google map view into a frame didn't work, boards doesn't allow HTML.

Danno

Have linked instead...

wildefalcon

Is Laois County Council involved?

Then God alone knows, with that shower of tossers involved it could be anything from a new headquarters, complete with blast shutters, to yet another civic plaza area, with stainless steel architect designed and tax payer paid for statues.

What it won't be is something that will make life easier for residents of Co Laois.

SeanW

Incidentally, why was that slip never opened?

-Corkie-

SeanW wrote: »

Incidentally, why was that slip never opened?

Afaik there was a farmers entrance at the end of it and it was proving dangerous for him to enter/exit it. IIRC the slip was open for some time.

Empire o de Sun

So it was easier/cheaper for them just to close it rather than solve the problem

etchyed

wildefalcon wrote: »

Is Laois County Council involved?

Then God alone knows, with that shower of tossers involved it could be anything from a new headquarters, complete with blast shutters, to yet another civic plaza area, with stainless steel architect designed and tax payer paid for statues.

What it won't be is something that will make life easier for residents of Co Laois.

Irrelevant, irrelevant, irrelevant. This forum is about roads. Please take your Laois County Council soapboxing elsewhere. Maybe someone will listen to you at your local pub.

Chris_5339762

-Corkie- wrote: »

Afaik there was a farmers entrance at the end of it and it was proving dangerous for him to enter/exit it. IIRC the slip was open for some time.

As the sliproad was also inescapable it would also have to be designated motorway. Not sure if that would have anything to do with it but it would have been good to say that we, as a country had a farmers entrance onto a motorway.

corktina

would be handy for all the Tractors to access the Motorway....:rolleyes:

Rovi

Had a look at it yesterday evening; it appears to be being completely removed and replaced with topsoil.
I suspect it'll be grassed over by the end of summer.