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savagethegoat wrote: »

the N25 east of cork is of very high quality as far as Midleton almost, evidenced by it's 120km/h speed limit.

The N22 Macroom road is very high quality (and partly 120km/h limited) bypassing Ballincollig to the Ballincollig roundabout where it's joins what used to be the N22 through Balincollig and links to the N40 South Ring .

The N20 approach is high quality from North of Blarney

The N27 is not too bad from Halfway into it's junction with the N40

All in all, I don't really know what you are talking about.

The N25 east of Cork is high quality dual carraigeway for 9.7km and low quality dual carraigeway for 6km. East of there it's not fit for purpose evidenced by the daily issues around Castlemartyr and Killeagh

The N22 is decent quality for about 5km around the Ballincollig bypass. West of the Ballincollig bypass it's below Type 1 single carraigeway, very busy and not good enough for the volume of traffic. A dual carraigeway was planned along here, and was mentioned in the National Road Needs Study 1998, which proposed parts of the N6 and N9 be upgraded to a wide single carraigeway standard and a dual carriageway built along here.

The N20 approach is dual carraigeway for around 5km and single carraigeway before that. The fact that 3 people have died on the N20 between Blarney and Mallow this year and there is several accidents a week along this stretch proves it's not fit for purpose.

The N71 from Halfway to Cork is good in stretches around Ballinahassig, but has a dangerous and short dual carrigeway section and overall isn't good enough for the level of traffic it carries.

In comparison in Dublin, the M1 is motorway for 90km before turning into HQDC, the N2 is 19km of DC, the N3 has over 60km of DC, the M4/M6 is motorway for well over 70km along its length, the N7/N8/N9 is motorway/HQDC from Dublin as far as the destinations of each of the routes, and the N11 is DC as far as Wexford, much of it motorway and a stretch between Coyne's Cross and Fassaroe which is being upgraded in the near future (in planning).

All schemes around Cork bar the M28, Macroom BP and Dunkettle are suspended. There is more active in planning schemes in Dublin (N3, N4, N7 and N11 upgrades)