N5 Ballaghaderreen Bypass

antoobrien

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that's why it was always such a nightmare to get through, all the local traffic plus the passing traffic was too much for the road to take.

Cars would be constantly joining and leaving the queue while driving through.

I still cheer to myself when driving past it.

tonytoc11

How has this progressed over the past few weeks?

macker16

I will try and get a few pictures up:cool:

bijou

Just wondering if anyone knew how they're going to "connect" the new bypass to the old road at the Tibohine/Frenchpark end? I heard somewhere that they were going to put a round-about there.

tonytoc11

Any updates? It must be near completion?

spacetweek

tonytoc11 wrote: »

Any updates? It must be near completion?

Not due till the end of the year but at this stage I'd expect the structures and earthworks to all be done.

tonytoc11

They were completed months ago

Peanut Butter Jelly

The last time I passed (April), the two ends of the bypass still had work left, as well as clearing the leftover dirt and the junction layout had to be done.

YouTookMyName

opened for xmas?

macker16

Opening for the august bank holiday weekend

yop

macker16 wrote: »

Opening for the august bank holiday weekend

Great job. What do they think it will take off the journey to Dublin? 15 minutes?
I'm looking at a job in Longford and wonder what sort of time it will take from Cbar to Longford.

MayoSalmon

yop wrote: »

Great job. What do they think it will take off the journey to Dublin? 15 minutes?
I'm looking at a job in Longford and wonder what sort of time it will take from Cbar to Longford.

At least...should be able to do that in an hour if your up bright and early

godskitchen

Yep, opening bank holiday weekend.

You should do longford in a hour no problem.

It was possible to do castlebar to longford in an hour in the right conditions on the existing road,so i am told.

D Trent

godskitchen wrote: »

Yep, opening bank holiday weekend.

You should do longford in a hour no problem.

It was possible to do castlebar to longford in an hour in the right conditions on the existing road,so i am told.

Right conditions must have meant it was Christmas day

yop

Even at 5.45am leaving Cbar when I was travelling to Dublin to work I wasn't able to get to Longford in an hour. It was closer to hour and 20 mins.

An hour to Longford would be great. Quicker than going from here to Galway and better roads!

joujoujou

Without Strokestown -- Frenchpark piece upgrade, it won't be easy (well, maybe if you leave C'bar at 2 am... ).

yop

Well I will be travelling down it the weekend it opens, so hopefully will get a better idea.

veryangryman

Roscommon - Westport... after bypass will it be a better job to do it via N61-N5 rather than N60-N5?

Opinions?

joujoujou

yop wrote: »

Well I will be travelling down it the weekend it opens, so hopefully will get a better idea.

I'll be there as well. Want to film end-to-end travel in both directions.

MayoSalmon

Remember the days when it used to take 5/6 hours drive from Dublin to Castlebar?

yop

MayoSalmon wrote: »

Remember the days when it used to take 5/6 hours drive from Dublin to Castlebar?

It used to be chaos, Edgeworthstown, Ballaghdereen, Charlestown, Swinford! Nightmare!
Took me 7 hrs in Dec 2010 due to the weather!

Peanut Butter Jelly

Is there any word of a Strokestown or Frenchpark bypass? I think I worked it out to be a 1.2km road to bypass the former.

macker16

Endas working on it

flat 2 the.....

How come they are only bypassing towns and not making a new road from mayo to dublin like they did with the N6/N7/N8 and all the rest of the main national roads

afatbollix

To be honest not enough people use it.

flat 2 the.....

afatbollix wrote: »

To be honest not enough people use it.

I worked on the ballah bypass and the amount of traffic was constent and the amount of hevy good being hauled would be as much as the m6 , is there not alot of industry in mayo

MayoSalmon

flat 2 the..... wrote: »

I worked on the ballah bypass and the amount of traffic was constent and the amount of hevy good being hauled would be as much as the m6 , is there not alot of industry in mayo

No it wouldn't

markpb

flat 2 the..... wrote: »

How come they are only bypassing towns and not making a new road from mayo to dublin like they did with the N6/N7/N8 and all the rest of the main national roads

flat 2 the..... wrote: »

I worked on the ballah bypass and the amount of traffic was constent and the amount of hevy good being hauled would be as much as the m6 , is there not alot of industry in mayo

It's amazing the data that is collected these days. Here is the *actual* traffic volume per direction per day for this year:

N3 Between Virginia and Kells, Co. Cavan
10,043 (7.5% HGV)

N4 Between Dublin Road and Granard Road Roundabouts, Longford Bypass
10,357 (8.5% HGV)

N6 Between Jn11 Athlone (Centre) and Jn12 Roscommon
30,629 (4.3% HGV)

M7 Between Jn16 Portlaoise (East) and Jn17 Portlaoise (Centre), Co. Laois
24,313 (10.4% HGV)

The midpoint of the N4/N5 carries half the traffic of the N7 and only one third the traffic of the N6 at equivalent points. This is why the N6 and N7 are motorways and the N3 and N5 get bypasses - the volume isn't there to support building a motorway. (There are exceptions to this, Dundalk carries 12,000 but is strategic and political because of the link with Belfast.)

Interesting, you may have a point about HGVs. The percentage of HGV traffic is quite high at the west end of the N5. Unfortunately the NRA have no traffic counters on the N6 west of Athlone.

N5 Between Tulsk and Frenchpark, Frenchpark
4,528 (10.7% HGV)

MayoSalmon

Thanks for that.

Regardless of stats though the N5 Between Tulsk and Strokestown should be upgraded due to the sheer danger of the road above all else.

almccabe

yop wrote: »

Well I will be travelling down it the weekend it opens, so hopefully will get a better idea.

Will the bypass be open Friday morning?