Minor schemes & realignments

marno21 · 05-06-2018 3:52pm

Update on Minor Works in Cork

N73 Clogher Cross/Waterdyke: 100k for 2018 for CPO, consultants to be appointed to complete design
N73 Annakisha: 5k for 2018. CPO published November 2017, Oral Hearing date awaited from ABP.
N71 Newmills: Feasibility and project appraisal to be completed
N72 Carrig to Ballygriffin: At route selection stage.

roadmaster · 13-06-2018 9:56am

Some Junction works in Westmeath

http://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/news/roundup/articles/2018/06/11/4157275-funds-for-four-road-projects-/

marno21 · 14-06-2018 6:17pm

N73 Annakisha realignment has entered the CPO stage as per Corkman today. Construction expected to begin in 2019

N80 Maidenhead near Arles in Co. Laois is to start in October, tender due in June: https://laois-nationalist.ie/2018/06/14/contract-to-straighten-dangerous-bends-at-arles-will-be-awarded-in-october/

marno21 · 18-06-2018 1:02am

marno21 wrote: »

N73 Annakisha realignment has entered the CPO stage as per Corkman today. Construction expected to begin in 2019

N80 Maidenhead near Arles in Co. Laois is to start in October, tender due in June: https://laois-nationalist.ie/2018/06/14/contract-to-straighten-dangerous-bends-at-arles-will-be-awarded-in-october/

Article on N73 realignment: https://www.independent.ie/regionals/corkman/news/cpos-agreed-for-n73-realignment-scheme-37007246.html

marno21 · 18-06-2018 1:48pm

N60 Lagnamuck scheme has gone to tender. This wasn't in the 2018 agenda so extra funding must have been allocated

https://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/publicpurchase.asp?PID=130581

marno21 · 30-06-2018 1:14am

Tender issued for 1.5km of widening of the R498 near J25 on the M7.

https://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/publicpurchase.asp?PID=131609

roadmaster · 02-07-2018 10:42am

Resurfacing working between Delvin and Clonmellon last week and i think this week

marno21 · 05-07-2018 2:41am

Kerry County Council proceeding with a realignment of the N70 SE of Caherdaniel, totalling 1.2km

http://www.kerrycoco.ie/part-v111-brackaharagh-road-project/

Dev1234 · 05-07-2018 7:46am

Hi all,

Does anyone have an update on the N63 works outside Abbeyknockmoy?

Works looked like they stopped there for a while and there isn't much progress on a weekly basis.

Is there a finish date that they are working to?

Thanks

m17 · 05-07-2018 8:05am

Dev1234 wrote: »

Hi all,

Does anyone have an update on the N63 works outside Abbeyknockmoy?

Works looked like they stopped there for a while and there isn't much progress on a weekly basis.

Is there a finish date that they are working to?

Thanks

Works where to be finished on the end of may and it was pushed back to the 29/06/18 now it looks like it will be the end of July before works are completely finished

marno21 · 05-07-2018 8:36pm

Roscommon County Council have tendered for tree removal along the route of the 3.4km N60 Oran realignment

https://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/publicpurchase.asp?PID=131895

AugustusMinimus · 06-07-2018 1:36pm

I see there is a scheme to replace an old bridge in Mountrivers Co Clare. But why on earth are they knocking the old bridge. Why not let it remain and have it for pedestrians only. Absolute madness.

https://twitter.com/gilleeece/status/1014925627269500929?s=21

Just to note that one of the photos in that tweet is of a different bridge. Doesn’t hide the fact that an old stone bridge is being knocked when it could remain beside a new bridge.

marno21 · 06-07-2018 2:21pm

AugustusMinimus wrote: »

I see there is a scheme to replace an old bridge in Mountrivers Co Clare. But why on earth are they knocking the old bridge. Why not let it remain and have it for pedestrians only. Absolute madness.

https://twitter.com/gilleeece/status/1014925627269500929?s=21

Just to note that one of the photos in that tweet is of a different bridge. Doesn’t hide the fact that an old stone bridge is being knocked when it could remain beside a new bridge.

The 2nd bridge seen in the aerial photo is a temporary bridge installed to facilitate the road being operational during bridge rehabilitation.

The original bridge is being knocked and replaced with a new bridge in exactly the same location. There was no feasibility for keeping the old bridge as the new bridge will be taking its place. There isn't funding to replace this bridge with a new one downstream combined with the added costs of road realignment. If the bridge wasn't sufficiently bad enough to require demolition, they wouldn't be doing this.

This bridge is part of a contract to rehabilitate 4 bridges, 2 of which will involve bridge demolition and replacement (Dysart Bridge on the N23 in Kerry and this bridge Mountriver Bridge on the N67 in Clare), and two which will involve bridge widening and strengthening (Beheenagh Bridge on the N72 in Kerry between Rathmore and Barraduff and Ballymona Bridge in Kerry on the N70).

The tweet above seems to be from someone who knows half the story and isn't aware of why this is being done. It's not being done because someone in Clare County Council is on a crusade against bridges. The bridge simply isn't fit to remain in place.

JohnC. · 06-07-2018 2:27pm

They also look to be replacing it with an externally similar looking bridge, just with 2 spans instead of 3.

AugustusMinimus · 06-07-2018 2:46pm

I really do think it is a shame that this bridge was demolished.

It was demolished due to a state of disrepair, simply that it was no longer up to standard.

I don’t know the cost of CPOing additional land and the cost of slightly rerouting the road but I don’t think it would have been that significant.

L1011 · 06-07-2018 2:48pm

If the bridge didn't have the hydraulic capacity for flood waters it'd have to go; may be the reason here.

Kevwoody · 07-07-2018 1:11pm

marno21 wrote:

This bridge is part of a contract to rehabilitate 4 bridges, 2 of which will involve bridge demolition and replacement (Dysart Bridge on the N23 in Kerry and this bridge Mountriver Bridge on the N67 in Clare), and two which will involve bridge widening and strengthening (Beheenagh Bridge on the N72 in Kerry between Rathmore and Barraduff and Ballymona Bridge in Kerry on the N70).

Excavators and site offices have moved in at Beheenagh Bridge on the N72, great to see this dangerous bridge being removed. Will there be a temporary bridge installed here similar to the one on the N67?
I passed it a few weeks ago and saw the temporary structure and thought for a second it was the new bridge! Makes me wonder could more have been done to keep the N23 open during construction? People are ignoring all the road closed signs, sitting at Kerry Airport yesterday I saw at least 3 coaches pass heading to Castleisland, and within 10 minutes they had to come back to Farranfore.

roadmaster · 09-07-2018 11:06am

I presume this new road is part of the planning and will become public but i cant recall a private PLC using Etenders to advertise work. Maybe they have in the past.

https://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/publicpurchase_frameset.asp?PID=131819&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE&PS=1&PP=ctm/Supplier/publictenders

L1011 · 09-07-2018 12:32pm

Its not common but it does happen. That road is a required condition of the planning and has to be built and handed over before the rest of the work starts; its basically a relief road for Maynooth Main Street.

Dev1234 · 10-07-2018 11:38am

Regarding the N63 Galway coco got back to me and have stated that the temporary traffic lights will be removed within the next 3 weeks and tarmac to be completed by the end of August.

marno21 · 20-07-2018 11:28pm

Engineering consultancy services required by Cork County Council for N73 Annakisha realignment. Absolute dogs dinner of a road

https://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/publicpurchase.asp?PID=132302

Donegal Storm · 28-07-2018 8:20pm

Not sure if its been mentioned but there looks to be a realignment/widening ongoing along few km of the N2 south of Emyvale. Drove it for the first time in a while earlier and a lot of mature trees have been chopped with marker pins along the new alignment

marno21 · 30-07-2018 1:19pm

Donegal Storm wrote: »

Not sure if its been mentioned but there looks to be a realignment/widening ongoing along few km of the N2 south of Emyvale. Drove it for the first time in a while earlier and a lot of mature trees have been chopped with marker pins along the new alignment

Yep, this is the N2 Monaghan-Emyvale Phase 3. The whole lot from Clontibret-Border will eventually be replaced by 2+2 dual carriageway in the next few years.

spacetweek · 01-08-2018 8:11pm

marno21 wrote: »

Yep, this is the N2 Monaghan-Emyvale Phase 3. The whole lot from Clontibret-Border will eventually be replaced by 2+2 dual carriageway in the next few years.

Fine. But just in case that takes some time, upgrading the existing road is worthwhile.

Rulmeq · 01-09-2018 9:14am

I noticed some roadworks over near Peamount the other day, and found this online dating from 2006.
http://www.sdublincoco.ie/Media/Item/11436

It's a nice new route, but it will probably mean more traffic queueing at the lights at the hatch bar.

roadmaster · 03-09-2018 4:19pm

This probably comes under more realignments than minor schemes. I had a few meeting in North Monaghan and Cavan today with me over back the N54 a few times. The sections in Monaghan are not to bad at all with just some dodgy sections on the east side of clones ( we wont mention the death trap that is the A3 section of this road in Fermanagh . But the N54 in Cavan is very poor is there any reason the monaghan sections got upgraded but not the cavan sections. Even the N54 monaghan section that has fermanagh at each end is very good.

serfboard · 03-09-2018 7:20pm

roadmaster wrote: »

any reason the monaghan sections got upgraded but not the cavan sections

Heather Humphreys?

roadmaster · 06-09-2018 10:49am

Looking by the surfacing this morning i would say the road was completed long before she was in office

munchkin_utd · 06-09-2018 2:19pm

roadmaster wrote: »

Looking by the surfacing this morning i would say the road was completed long before she was in office

yep, most of that work happened in the late 90s and early 2000s bit by bit.

Just a pity that the part of the road through Fermanagh is still as bad as ever was from the Cavan border at Legakelly/Castle Saunderson to the first time it switches into Monaghan

Donegal Storm · 07-09-2018 4:58pm

Is there any particular reason theres so much resurfacing going on at the moment around the country? Off the top of my head I've seen resurfacing on the N14, N15, N17, N4 and N2 over the past few weeks and for the most part I never noticed issues with any of the sections being resurfaced. Seems like a waste of money that could have been spent on actual improvements to the roads

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