Schroedinger's N52?

SeanW

Hi all,

I had cause to travel extensively in the North East and Midlands yesterday, including the Dundalk-Ardee road in its entirety. I understand that this particular section was de-trunked from N52 to regional or local road some years back. However, to my surprise ALL of the road signs still have this road as the N52, and, additionally, from the M1 approaching Dundalk still points to the old N52 as the way to Mullingar, and the same is true on the Mullingar bypass as well - road signs from the N4 Mullingar Bypass still point to the N52 to Dundalk instead of Ardee. And I wouldn't be in the least surprised if every road sign on the N52 between Mullingar and Ardee still had direction signs to Dundalk.

Are the authorities (like TII) just many, many years late in updating the signage? Or why would the road be de-trunked only to make no reference to the reduced length road on the ground.

Has the road been re-trunked or something? Anyone know what's going on? Otherwise it just seems like Schroedinger's Cat.

marno21

The relevant SI is here: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/si/53/made/en/print?q=roads

The N52 legally exists between its junction with the N2 at Castle Street, Ardee and the M7 west of Nenagh.

Where this gets weird is the SI for regional roads makes reference to an R215 (the old N52 north of Ardee), but does not declare the R215 itself. TII refer to the old N52 as the R215 in their M1 junction map

https://www.tii.ie/tii-library/Network_Management/Junction%20Layout%20Maps/M1-Junctions.pdf

It is odd.

roadmaster

marno21 wrote: »

The relevant SI is here: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2012/si/53/made/en/print?q=roads

The N52 legally exists between its junction with the N2 at Castle Street, Ardee and the M7 west of Nenagh.

Where this gets weird is the SI for regional roads makes reference to an R215 (the old N52 north of Ardee), but does not declare the R215 itself. TII refer to the old N52 as the R215 in their M1 junction map

https://www.tii.ie/tii-library/Network_Management/Junction%20Layout%20Maps/M1-Junctions.pdf

It is odd.

Its beyond odd how the signs have not being changed still. Sure they even have between kells and clonmellon 100kph signs even dough its a 80kph road