R139 "Malahide" signs on M50

Ernest

The NRA (or whoever is responsible) have recently redesignated the N32 road from the end of the M50 to Baldoyle as R139. The advance exit signage from the M50 and from the M1 all label this road as being R139 MALAHIDE. This should really read "R139 MALAHIDE RD" rather than "MALAHIDE" since, in reality, the road takes you to Baldoyle, Howth, Sutton, Clontarf, Raheny and north east suburbs - not Malahide as such.
In order to get to Malahide from the motorway on the R139, you would have to take a sharp left northward at the Hilton Hotel/Clare Hall junction. However there is no direction sign for Malahide at this junction when coming from the Motorway.

vickers209

was a sign there in 2011 is it gone?

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.40419,-6.183587,3a,75y,96.1h,74.32t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s254bCagwFzUqcWbIOM4eMw!2e0

Davy

vickers209 wrote: »

was a sign there in 2011 is it gone?

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.40419,-6.183587,3a,75y,96.1h,74.32t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s254bCagwFzUqcWbIOM4eMw!2e0

Sign is still as the pic

The Hill Billy

Probably best discussed in the Roads forum. Moved from Dublin County North.

tHB

sdanseo

Completely true. If I'm at the M1/M50 junction and want to go home to Malahide, I use the M1.

icdg

vickers209 wrote: »

was a sign there in 2011 is it gone?

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.40419,-6.183587,3a,75y,96.1h,74.32t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s254bCagwFzUqcWbIOM4eMw!2e0

It was still there last Saturday. It needs to be replaced by a white backed sign now that the road has been detrunked.

Ernest

icdg wrote: »

It was still there last Saturday. It needs to be replaced by a white backed sign now that the road has been detrunked.

I stand corrected but also perhaps vindicated. Last time I passed by I could not see the green sign - probably blocked by a truck - but I checked yesterday and this sign is still there clearly pointing to Baldoyle as the destination of the R139, as I said, and with turn offs on the R107 (Malahide Road) to Malahide and Portmarnock on the left and to Coolock and City Centre on the right. Why the motorway exit sign describes the R139 as going to Malahide (rather than Baldoyle or Howth) remains a mystery.

I can also verify that as of yesterday the old green and yellow "N32" signs remain in place on the road between the motorway junction and the crossroads with the R107 - in both directions.

icdg

Oddly, the original signage erected in 1996 did indeed sign the destination of the N32 as Malahide Road rather than Malahide. Its only changed since the Port Tunnel opened if not even more recently. It is however, very exceedingly rare for a street name (as opposed to a road number) be signed as a destination outside of Dublin city centre, from my reading of TSM 2010 its not actually allowed, its meant to be towns or townlands in most cases except when City Centre is allowed or if one of the two remaining Superdestinations that are allowed is used, namely Northbound and Southbound (and they are really only intended to be used on the M50.

The terminal destinations for the now detrunked N32 were specified as "M50" (an odd case of a road number being a terminal destination) and Malahide. Even though it never went to Malahide. The only other case of a road number being prescribed as a terminal destination for a national road is M1 on the N33.

sdanseo

There was definitely signage for Malahide via N32 - no "road" - with the original M50, prior to the M1 to Lissenhall and the Port Tunnel. We used to come home (to Malahide!) that way all the time and I remember it even as a kid.

jd

Seeing as the road R139 terminates at the junctiom with the Hole in the Wall Road in Donaghmede, perhaps the sign should say Donaghmede?

ardmacha

Perhaps it should say "hole in the wall"

mackerski

jd wrote: »

Seeing as the road R139 terminates at the junctiom with the Hole in the Wall Road in Donaghmede, perhaps the sign should say Donaghmede?

No, it goes right to Baldoyle.

icdg

The original signage can be seen here - http://www.pathetic.org.uk/lost/m32_ireland/photos/

Its almost all replaced now though.

jd

mackerski wrote: »

No, it goes right to Baldoyle.

Ah, ok, I was going by google maps. I should, of course, used OSM
Incidentally, the R809 is not continuous.

mackerski

jd wrote: »

Ah, ok, I was going by google maps. I should, of course, used OSM
Incidentally, the R809 is not continuous.

Indeed, the R809 is now in three separate sections, Raheny, Donaghmede and Baldoyle.

BMJD

There is still a sign with N11 pointing straight ahead as you head eastbound before the Malahide Road junction. Go home road planners, you're drunk!


R139

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