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N3 - Virginia Bypass [route options published]

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  • #212
    marno21
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,746 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    https://www.anglocelt.ie/2025/08/06/bypass-business-case-preppeed-for-submission/

    Off to Government for approval next year, which will be followed by a submission to An Bord Pleanala.

    This should be early next year unless there's been some slippage.



  • #213
    KrisW1001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,771 ✭✭✭KrisW1001


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123546081#Comment_123546081

    It was only ever “talk”, though - this isn’t a case where a shorter town bypass would have been feasible. The complete bypass is 13 km long, and 8 km of it would have to have been built just to bypass Virginia. Dropping the 5km wouldn’t save a huge amount, and would have left Lisduff as a bottleneck, plus a short section of single carriageway between two of dual carriageway is really hard to justify on safety grounds.



  • #214
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,755 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123706512#Comment_123706512

    The Carrick on Shannon scheme was cut down leaving a village unbypassed to satisfy Ryan; and leaves a section of SC between DCs.



  • #215
    KrisW1001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,771 ✭✭✭KrisW1001


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123709580#Comment_123709580

    The suspended section of Carrick-On-Shannon was much longer, though, and was a greater part of the total scheme. Dropping it saved a considerable amount of money (blame Ryan all you want, but these cuts were an order to all departments to pull back their spending after the costs of Covid and amid the huge uncertainty of early 2022).

    In this case, the way the scheme is designed means that the only "droppable" part is 5 km out of 13 km total.. it's not going to save much money once you factor in setup and teardown costs of the whole project (maybe 25%?) so the CBA would be against cutting it.



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