Temporary Closure of Glenageary Road Upper

stannman

8 months to reconstruct 1km of road - seriously?

DLR COCO WEBSITE WROTE:

"Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has received an application from Roadstone Ltd to temporarily close Glenageary Road Upper from the junction of R829 Sallynoggin Roundabout to the junction of Killiney Roundabout from Monday, 3rd July 2023 to Thursday, 29th February 2024.

A Traffic Management Plan will be in operation and pedestrian and local access will be maintained at all times. Diversion routes will be clearly signposted. 

The purpose of the closure is full road reconstruction works will require the road to be excavated with associated ancillary works on the footpath.

Any interested parties may lodge objections/observations in writing to the Senior Engineer, County Hall, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire or email info@dlrcoco.ie on or before Noon on Wednesday 21st June 2023."

https://dlrcoco.ie/news/general-news/temporary-closure-glenageary-road-upper

L1011

These closures usually have a huge contingency element to them.

Larbre34

Like Monkstown Road and Tivoli Road before it, UGR requires a full excavation to a new foundation and replacement of all supplies and services.

So that's between 100,000 and 150,000 cubic metres of material to removed, services to be capped, diverted and replaced and the same volume of matter put back.

It would actually take less than half the time to build a new road of that length on a green field site.

helimachoptor

The road seems in pretty good condition, and its a reasonably new road, so i would have expected just a resurfacing exercise

coylemj

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120739964#Comment_120739964

'Just a resurfacing exercise' could be done in a few nights - as they recently did along stretches of the N11. I'd say this project will involve cycle lanes and the finished layout will be nothing like what the road looks like today.

Alias G

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120739964#Comment_120739964

Have you actually travelled this road recently. It is in bits and badly in need of repair.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120739964#Comment_120739964

It's not. Its shagged. The foundations and the binding courses are 60 odd years old.

And also are the jumbles of pipes and wiring conduits under the surface.

A surface dressing would be a complete waste of money and effort, as in a year we'd be back to square one.

Unflushable Turd

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120739964#Comment_120739964

you must be thinking of the section in front of the mini Tesco, that is relatively new. The section the other way, towards Killiney Towers roundabout is awful.

helimachoptor

Sorry, I was thinking from Glengeary to the Graduate 😭

The killiney rdb - agree its terrible