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N5 - Westport to Turlough [open to traffic]

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Exactly. Nenagh is one that springs to mind. Before the motorway it was absolutely horrible. Filthy dirty and constantly snarled with traffic. It's lovely now. Very lively with loads of people about. Completely rejuvenated.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭KrisW1001


    There’s been huge evidence against the “bypasses kill towns” people ever since Naas.

    What this probably is, is some guys who own filling stations complaining about lost trade. Fuel sellers are literally the only business that benefits from traffic-clogged main streets.



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,623 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    how much passing traffic stops in Castlebar anyway, the only place it's on the way to is Westport which is only 15 mins up the road. We've gone to Westport and Achill (from Wicklow) in the last couple of years and it never even occurred to me to go into Castlebar.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    There are some nice restaurants in the town, plus it's the only place to do big shopping in Mayo. Those who want to go there will go there. Those who don't won't. The biggest obstable to going to Westport and Castlebar in summer is the traffic. I avoid Westport during the summer season. It's not worth the hassle. That's precisely what a bypass does: frees towns from interregional and interurban traffic and returns them to the local population to live, work and enjoy safely.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭UsBus


    Such a shame this site has all but collapsed. There's so few people posting and getting involved in discussion. Just heard breaffy residents on radio talking about the hell there are being put through with rock breaking and the effect on their property.

    With regard to the road, at least there finally seems to be some tar going down on the Castlebar Ballinrobe road at the Toyota garage. I make it nearly 6 months this has been on traffic lights. Farcical effort, they could have either concentrated on the bridge or got the main road section completed much quicker to keep traffic moving. This is the main route for traffic going to Galway.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    The Windsor Road overbridge outside Castlebar, the first bridge over the new N5 to open to traffic. Tie-in to existing N5 in the background of first pic. Pics courtesy of Jack Walsh drone photography.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭Cosmo Kramer


    The argument doesn't make sense in Castlebar's case anyway, because the passing traffic hasn't gone through the the town centre since the original bypass was built around 1990. Passing through Castlebar to go from Dublin to Westport you pretty much just pass four petrol stations, the football stadium, the back of the hospital and a few housing estates on Westport road and you're out of the town again. You had to turn off to go anywhere useful anyway.

    I'm just about old enough to remember the same arguments being made when the first bypass was built, and there was nothing in it then either. In fact it almost doesn't bear thinking about what the traffic would be like in the town of the first bypass had never been done.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭spakman


    I remember the bypass being built (at Cathal duffys roundabout), but don't remember the road layout before then. How would traffic coming in from ballyvary side got to westport Road?



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,461 ✭✭✭mayo.mick


    Would have come in the old turlough road, in by the Welcome Inn, left down Lininhall street and up main st, past the TF and the hospital and out the Westport road then. Used to take about 35/40 mins that time to get from Swinford to Castlebar (apart from the time I had my appendix out, the father got me over to the hospital in a record breaking 25mins!!!)

    I was coming back from Castlebar last week and there was roadworks again in Ballyvary, traffic that side of the road was diverted in at the petrol station and on that real old Castlebar main road and came out at the side of the Wishing Well. Boy does that bring back memories of travelling that road in the 70's and 80's! How far we have come (in some ways).



  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Nice little video of the stone sub-base being laid between Westport and Castlebar last week.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Windsor road overbridge outside Castlebar, and the views from the bridge looking north (top) and south.



  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    The new underbridge over the Lodge road in Westport is taking shape.



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,352 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    is it single or dual carriageway at that point?



  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette




  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Just to show the progress that's been made on earthworks in the last 3 months, here's a picture I took of the Western cutting at Drumneen, near Islandeady, at the start of August.

    Compare that to a pic of the same location yesterday:




  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    The eastern cutting at Drumneen in early August and three months later in early November. In the first pic the road is still mud and drainage is being installed. The second pic from last week shows the road foundations being laid.




  • Registered Users Posts: 9,352 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    I see reports of october 2022 finish date for this.



  • Registered Users Posts: 35 Spiaire


    Great progress being made.



  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Some views on the Newport road outside Westport:

    Piling in an area of soft ground at Attireesh.


    Sections of the underpass for the great western greenway, taken from the temporary greenway diversion.


    Old greenway route blocked off.


    Not sure what they're blasting, the ground here is all just soft drumlins.


    New culvert at Attireesh.



  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    The Lodge Road underpass is now open to traffic.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,493 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    Bloody lights on the Ballinrobe road are now on a 300 second timer. Some amount of arsing around at this junction with no respect for the people who have to use this road every day.



  • Registered Users Posts: 35 Spiaire


    No respect at all.

    You would nearly think they were building a new road, the amount of work going on....



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭UsBus


    It's embarrassing the length of time it's taking to complete this junction. The original lights were in place for about 6 months. Only after the first resurfacing was completed did they start ground works for the bridge ramp on the Ballinrobe side. This is offline and should have been progressing at the same time. 300 second timer is a joke on the main road out of town to Galway.



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,352 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    you would be faster going out the westport road and going via derrywash.



  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Couple of new aerial shots courtesy of Mayo County Council. Top is Islandeady and bottom is N84 junction.



  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Completion date pushed out to Q1 2023 according to Mayo County Council.



  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Blacktop going down at the N84 junction. Hopefully they will finish the bridge soon.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,610 ✭✭✭Pete_Cavan


    Pretty sure that is a dark coloured stone capping layer rather than surfacing.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭KrisW1001


    It does look like they will be able to divert N84 onto that new bridge pretty soon, though. It’s always a good sign when you see parts of the project carrying traffic.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 745 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    It doesn't say it in the article, but the new kerbs are made from 88% recycled plastic.



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