M 50 question- Need quick answer

mike65

Has the M 50 reached the Malahide Road yet I ask as I have to go to Sutton tommorow comming ni from the south, propose to go the long way round, ie the M 50 rather than across the city centre.

If it has'nt, how far is it round?

Mike.

Victor

The M50 becomes the M32 at the M1 (airport motorway) and after a few hundred metres the N32. The N32 is single carriageway (watch out for muppets who still think they are on the m-way). There are traffic lights at the Malahide Road (recent roadworks - careful) the road then continues through Clare Hall (roundabouts) to Donaghmeade and becomes Grange Road at the railway bridge. Grange Road continues through Baldoyle to the coast road only a few hundred metres from Sutton.

Effectivly it is a straight run all they way (bar roundabouts).

Keeks

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thank Victor for that AA traffic update...and now over to Des at the Sports desk for the latest news in sport.

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sceptre

(complains mentally about the lack of completion on the southside and the unexpected amount of time it took to get to go to Blackrock having gone through Dundrum to get there)

Hmmmm

Victor

Can I recommend: http://www.osi.ie/mapping/maps/maps.asp?county=Dublin available from all good book agents and tourist offices, the Irish Map Centre and http://www.irishmaps.ie/productlistingT.cfm?SeriesID=15

Dublin City and District Street Guide (A4+ Atlas, the taxi-driver's friend) (ISBN 1-901496-54-6 - €8.57 check price)


Discovery series map - Map 50 - Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Wicklow (ISBN 0-904996-74-3 - €6.60)


Dublin Street Map (1-901496-96-1 - €6.03)

sceptre

Good suggestion, Victor

Might not have done me much good, relying on my OSI Road Atlas of Ireland, 2nd ed - needs a new update (though I see Easons are still flogging the 1st ed)

Victor

Originally posted by sceptre
Might not have done me much good, relying on my OSI Road Atlas of Ireland, 2nd ed - needs a new update (though I see Easons are still flogging the 1st ed)

Make sure you get the 3rd edition of the Dublin Atlas. The 1ed of the OSI Road Atlas of Ireland is actually in reprint, not sure if they changed anything, but the newer one have "First Edition" as a sticker over "Second edition"

mike65

Cheers thanks for the info, my Dublin city map is about 10 years
out of date but only bought about 4 years ago, if you follow!

Mike.

Kali

aye that dublin map book is essential in any car...
"hey theres a party out in a gaff in <some estate> in raheny, you know where it is?"
a minute later... "we're on our way".

Victor

Originally posted by sceptre
Might not have done me much good, relying on my OSI Road Atlas of Ireland, 2nd ed - needs a new update (though I see Easons are still flogging the 1st ed)

Was in Easons today. "Genuine" 2nd ed copies are available (check on first page inside for date - 2001). I still think it's lousy with a scale of 1:210,000 (like where did they get a number like that?).

The most up to date map of Dublin at the moment is the Discovery series one (map 50).

mike65

Victor, just a note to say I only had to check my bearing once near the Warrenhouse Road/Dublin St lights, otherwise better than I feared, it only took 40 mins from Ballymount Industrial
Estate to Superquinn Sutton, now why can't we have the M 50 cross Dublin Bay and connect with the N11?

Mike.

Victor

You got €750m?

sceptre

Time to raid the pension fund methinks (only kidding)

Any idea why the M50 seems to be taking so long on the south side? Is it because the EU money can't diverted into it, now that the country is effectively two regions for development?

NeRb666

Originally posted by sceptre
Time to raid the pension fund methinks (only kidding)

Any idea why the M50 seems to be taking so long on the south side? Is it because the EU money can't diverted into it, now that the country is effectively two regions for development?

cos all those muppets are objecting to it of course!

sceptre

Originally posted by NeRb666


cos all those muppets are objecting to it of course!

Ah, ta. Kind of like Kildare then.

Victor

Originally posted by sceptre
Any idea why the M50 seems to be taking so long on the south side? Is it because the EU money can't diverted into it, now that the country is effectively two regions for development?

What on earth are you thinking? Stop, delete, put brain in gear, type.

The reasons are:
objections by local residents
objections by landowners
the route is more urbanised than other sections
the terrain is more difficult than other sections
access for construction is more difficult than other sections
there had been difficulties getting enough interest from contractors
the route is strategicly the least important stretch

NeRb666

I think it's basically because non-Northsiders are gimps