M7 Osberstown Interchange

BuzzFish

All,

I wonder will this be re-considered now with the announcement of the Kerry Group facility yesterday. Knowing the area very well, I can see huge traffic issues with 900 people trying to getting down the Millennium road twice a day

http://www.kildare.ie/CountyCouncil/NationalRoadsDesignOffice/M7OsberstownInterchangeMotorwayScheme2008/LinkToDocument,16629,en.pdf

Sponge Bob

BuzzFish wrote: »

Knowing the area very well, I can see huge traffic issues with 900 people trying to getting down the Millennium road twice a day

That and widening to 3 lanes in that general area should be undertaken as one project...even if the interchange itself is phase 1 of 2 .

tomflynn

I can see the M7 road widening scheme to M9 now being given the impetus to proceed, with this interchange likely be progressed in tandem. I'd be surprised if these projects didn't come up in the discussions that took place between Kerry Group and the Ministers: http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/how-we-beat-off-british-and-dutch-competition-to-secure-1300-new-jobs-in-125bn-coup-3255626.html

Chris_5339762

See if we can get the Kerry group to widen to D3 to the M9 junction, upgrade that to full access and them allow them to build Osberstown!

antoobrien

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

See if we can get the Kerry group to widen to D3 to the M9 junction, upgrade that to full access and them allow them to build Osberstown!

And we can pay them back by giving them across the board tax breaks for the (audited) cost of the scheme & interest.

ardmacha

This could be a modern version of the 1970s proposal for the Soviets to build a metro in Dublin paid for by butter.

cargo

Will this not make the section very congested with weaving movements etc. The junctions will be quite together if they are all built.

Carawaystick

cargo wrote: »

Will this not make the section very congested with weaving movements etc. The junctions will be quite together if they are all built.

Cos it's not congested now?

cargo

Carawaystick wrote: »

Cos it's not congested now?

Not really what I meant but I see what you mean. I was wondering if it'd start bringing people from Naas down onto the M7 to get from one part of Naas to the other.