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N25/N30 - New Ross Bypass [open to traffic]

King Kelly

This week's local papers have the listings of CPO's for the New Ross bypass so some relief in prospect at the bridge in town.

Are their any images of the new river crossing available? I'm told it will be the highest bridge in Ireland. True? Where it's due to join the Waterford road at Glenmore is certainly a high point.

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Sam Russell

alta stare wrote: »

<snip> Backseat modding is not acceptable.

Mod: If you want to make jokes, there is a thread for it. Of course it was deleted because it followed a mod instruction to leave the jokes out.

The occasional joke is OK, particularly if it apposite, and funny. However, the umpteenth variation of that same joke becomes tiresome.

alta stare

Azatadine wrote: »

Yeah. It will definitely have a significant impact on travel time.....and stress. Nothing worse than sitting in those damn queues.

It'll probably have a knock on effect to the Barntown roundabout In Wexford though and that's atrocious in the evenings as it is.

The traffic in ferrybank (Waterford) in the mornings is horrible. After an hour drive hitting that traffic is a nightmare.

Sam Russell

Mod: Can we cut the jokes now.

allthedoyles

Is it true they now working 24/7 to completion ?

serfboard

thomasm wrote: »

Two people in the last few days have said to me there is an issue with both ends aligning and that some Spanish contractors who were on site have been sent home while this is looked at. No idea if true or not and could be idle talk.

Ah yes, the hardy perennial that is the "bridge not meeting in the middle".

Has probably been said about every bridge ever, and has defintely been said about every bridge discussed on boards.

Don't worry - someone's pulling your leg there.

josip

http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/chunnel_blunder

thomasm

Two people in the last few days have said to me there is an issue with both ends aligning and that some Spanish contractors who were on site have been sent home while this is looked at. No idea if true or not and could be idle talk. Is work ongoing at present ?

Azatadine

alta stare wrote: »

I drive it a few times a week and sometimes i find it the longest hour of my life. I reckon the new bridge will take 20 mins off the journey. The amount of slow moving vehicle's drives me mad.

Yeah. It will definitely have a significant impact on travel time.....and stress. Nothing worse than sitting in those damn queues.

It'll probably have a knock on effect to the Barntown roundabout In Wexford though and that's atrocious in the evenings as it is.

josip

If ye think it's bad driving through it, try living there...

alta stare

Azatadine wrote: »

November? Great! I've been going between Wexford and Waterford through that hell hole New Ross for nearly 20 years so cant wait.

I drive it a few times a week and sometimes i find it the longest hour of my life. I reckon the new bridge will take 20 mins off the journey. The amount of slow moving vehicle's drives me mad.

alta stare

Azatadine wrote: »

November? Great! I've been going between Wexford and Waterford through that hell hole New Ross for nearly 20 years so cant wait.

I drive it a few times a week and sometimes i find it the longest hour of my life. I reckon the new bridge will take 20 mins off the journey. The amount of slow moving vehicle's drives me mad.

Azatadine

November? Great! I've been going between Wexford and Waterford through that hell hole New Ross for nearly 20 years so cant wait.

m17

sdanseo wrote: »

Each side of the bridge only 4.25m wide or am I reading that diagram wrong?- Surely not one lane each way?

The bridge is 6.35m wide on each side it's going to be a dual carriageway with hard shoulder can't wait to drive on it next November

JohnC.

sdanseo wrote: »

Each side of the bridge only 4.25m wide or am I reading that diagram wrong?- Surely not one lane each way?

I assume the 210 on each side is part of the road too, assuming it's like the one on the Waterford bypass with no pedestrian/cycle access.

sdanseo

Each side of the bridge only 4.25m wide or am I reading that diagram wrong?- Surely not one lane each way?

NedNew2

tonc76 wrote: »

Unusual to see a drawing in cm?

M or mm are generally used, no?

I know someone who works with BAM there. It's the Spanish company, Dragados, who use cm and metres. BAM use mm and metres. The same occurred when building the bridge on the Waterford bypass.

Of course cm is the agreed standard and it's no problem at all.

my3cents

josip wrote: »

It looks like the one on the 28th was taken from higher up, making the gap look much a tad narrower than 3 weeks earlier?

FYP

josip

m17 wrote: »

The barrow crossing 06/04/19 (pic insta_matic instragram)
28/04/19

It looks like the one on the 28th was taken from higher up, making the gap look much narrower than 3 weeks earlier?

josip

BAM probably charge a few million extra to display in mm or m.

tonc76

m17 wrote: »

Bridge deck drawing

Unusual to see a drawing in cm?

M or mm are generally used, no?

m17

The barrow crossing 30/04/19 (pic fb page)

millb

JohnC. wrote: »

Do the cables go from deck to deck through the pillar, or deck to pillar with an end anchored in the pillar? I'm guessing the former, but I don't know.

deck to deck through a series of cable box "saddles" in the pillar

from the wiki link
"As a result of these characteristics, the "stay cables" on extradosed bridges are not treated as such by the design codes, but are instead considered as external post-tensioning tendons that have been deviated upwards from the deck to the towers to increase the superstructure's load capacity over the main supports.[2]:1 Extradosed bridges frequently extend this approach by making the extradosed tendons continuous over the towers via saddle supports and using anchorages only at the deck connections, significantly simplifying the tensioning operations.[4]:33,61"

m17

The barrow crossing 24/04/19 (pic instragram )

Sam Russell

JohnC. wrote: »

Do the cables go from deck to deck through the pillar, or deck to pillar with an end anchored in the pillar? I'm guessing the former, but I don't know.

I know little about bridge design, but Wikipedia is your friend. Extradosed bridge design.

JohnC.

Do the cables go from deck to deck through the pillar, or deck to pillar with an end anchored in the pillar? I'm guessing the former, but I don't know.

m17

eagerv wrote: »

Side view today 27/4/19
The gaps are getting small, 10cables now on centre pylon.

They have eight more cables to install brilliant pic btw

eagerv

Side view today 27/4/19
The gaps are getting small, 10cables now on centre pylon.

m17

Bridge deck drawing

m17

The barrow crossing 23/04/19(pic N25 twitter )

Chris_5339762

Yeah and they'll have to be taken down once the bridge is finished.

I'd expect several months of the bridge being "done" and people foaming at the mouth wondering when it'll open!