http://www.m3motorway.ie/

Victor

I wonder why they omit the Balbriggan bypass and run the M3 through Navan. :rolleyes: For a motorway site, they oddly include no map of the motorway.

http://www.nra.ie/News/NewsAnnouncements/htmltext,1798,en.html

M3 Clonee to North of Kells - Dedicated website

7th September, 2005

The National Roads Authority and Meath County Council have recently launched a dedicated website on the planned M3 Clonee to North of Kells road scheme. The website address is www.m3motorway.ie

The website concentrates on the archaeology of the route from planning stage, to the results of preliminary site investigations, including extensive geophysical survey and test excavation. it also provides updates on the current excavations of the approximately 160 sites identified on the route by the preliminary archaeological investigations.

Amongst the documents available for download is the M3 Clonee-North of Kells Motorway Archaeology Information Series. This recently published information pack summarises the planning background of the route, in particular the choice of route for the Dunshaughlin-Navan section, which has attracted most interest. The pack principally details the archaeological work carried out to date on the whole route section by section - methodologies and results. It also outlines the future proposed work - excavation, specialist work and other research.

murphaph

That 'map' is a joke. Balbriggan is a fcukin harbour town yet it's clearly shown as land-locked on that map, the route they show as the N1 through Balbriggan is actually roughly where the M1 bypass is!

Edit: there are maps concerning the controversial bit but I can't see a full start to finish map. Half-arsed attempt.

Andrew Duffy

The entire M4 is missing too, as is the under-construction N2 dual carriageway. If they were there, the M3 would start to look less vital.

MarkoP11

Missing the points it crosses the Navan Clonsilla railway line too which is kind of illegal in a EIS/ route selection thing

You really get the vibe they are on a serious pr spend to hide the facts

mackerski

It's a balls of a map alright, but to be fair, it claims to depict the N3, not the M3, so the routing is about right. Though just about every other route on the map is badly screwed...

Dermot

Maskhadov

that website is a real amature job. Give me a few crayons and I could better

D'Peoples Voice

Victor wrote:

http://www.nra.ie/News/NewsAnnouncements/htmltext,1798,en.html

Looking at this map on the website, something is very wrong! Clearly if you are designing a road from Clonee to Virginia, starting south of Dunshaughlin, the natural angle is to go Northwest from a starting point south of Dunshaughlin. According to this map, after you bypass Dunshaughlin, you go North first, then north east. Surely a road starting SOUTH of dunshaughlin and going WEST of the orange route and ending NORTH of Navan is more logical?
http://www.m3motorway.ie/M3Background/PlanningProcess/RouteSelection/#rou