riddles wrote: » How many times have large swathes of that median wall been built and then knocked down, surely a temp structure in place before the final positions fixed is best.
lawred2 wrote: » Here we go again what?
Emme wrote: » Defending the indefensible.
Emme wrote: » At this stage I feel like trading my car in for a pony and trap. They way traffic is on the M9/N7 now a pony and trap would be no slower than a car
harr wrote: » I see people now giving out about them cutting down the trees along the side of the motorway to make way for the new hard shoulder.... KCC has confirmed planning permission was granted for this , seemingly it goes against the wildlife act of not cutting hedges between March and August.
rameire wrote: » yeah, cant believe they have been building it for 10 years. so annoying. they only started working on the road in October 2017, the contract is to have it all done by Jan 2020. it is a 27 month, 110 million contract.
tomtraubert wrote: » You can do with within that timeframe in certain circumstances, especially road safety. In this case they are probably using that caveat. In fairness though, the hard shoulder as you call it (it's actually, on a motorway, called an Emergency Lane - which is why it's bounded by a solid yellow line, you aren't allowed to use it for anything other than a breakdown, it must be kept free for the Emergency services. It's a hard shoulder on non-motorways, broken yellow line, you can pull in on it providing you don't endanger anyone) is pretty important.
regedit wrote: » I travel the section of the road on a daily basis and what I find shocking is the attitude of the staff. Long breaks, operators sitting in their cabins, on their phones, 1 digger doing something casually while 3-4 builders are gathered around and are staring at a hole. Widening of the M50 from 2 to 3 lanes was a much smoother job.
regedit wrote: » i think the builder underestimated this simple widening project.
iseegirls wrote: » You must be driving that road up to 20 times a day if you're able to monitor everybody's lunch break time. A digger doing something casually?? Operators sitting in their cabins?? Your points are so ridiculous.
Emme wrote: » I agree with the poster who said that. If you commute on that road you will be going very slowly in the mornings, far slower than 60kmph. You will have ample opportunity to see the behaviour the poster described. Indeed I saw that exact behaviour on the road last Tuesday morning. Cab drivers on phones and groups of workers (or civil engineers) huddled around talking.
JohnC. wrote: » It's not a prison chain gang and it should be pretty obvious that communication would be quite important through the project. Not communicating and discussing what is happening is what makes things go wrong.
jvan wrote: » Have the posters complaining about the work practices of the site workers ever considered that maybe they are waiting for materials or lorries that are stuck in the same traffic that you are stuck in. I don't think you really understand the logistics of working on a tight work site.
[Deleted User] wrote: » It seems to me that some motorists expect the road crews to be going at it like they are depicted in some of those "five year plan" Soviet propaganda films of the 1950s, teams of men digging in sync and others running back and forth with wheelbarrows full of dirt!
lawred2 wrote: » Have you instances to hand of similar projects being done in half the time?
gilly1910 wrote: » You must work for SIAC, as any Irish person will tell you that Projects anywhere else in the world are completed far quicker, and generally within the original costs. You can come on here all you want, and try to defend the Government/Contractors, but the history of this country is littered with projects that went way over budget, and took way longer than planned.
_Kaiser_ wrote: » What's almost as annoying as the continuing delays in getting this finished, is the way some posters here are almost taking any criticism personally and being smart-assed about it. The bottom line here is that a lot more could and should have been done to this point by taking advantage of the good weather and longer days last summer, and even working a full normal week as opposed to early finishes and weekends off. This is a core route that connects Dublin to everything south and south west of it, and a key commuting route for tens of thousands of people daily who work in Dublin, but who have been priced out (this time round or back in the Tiger years) of the property market. That's the reality and it should have been timelined and prioritised accordingly with penalties for delays and incentives for early completion. That's on the Government and related agencies and their fault for scoping it as they have. On the operational side, the contractors should only have restricted parts of the road that were actually being worked on. Much of it sat idle for months which is ridiculous and has only added to the traffic chaos and frustration from those stuck in it every day. There has clearly been a lot of padding, bad project management and unaccountability built in to this contract and there's plenty of blame to go around. This being Ireland, I don't expect it to be used as a textbook case of how NOT to handle a relatively straightforward project on a major route but it SHOULD be, and it SHOULD be called out by those stuck in it and ultimately paying for it, both on forums like this and at the doorsteps.
Be well and win wrote: » Does anyone know why there is major construction being done by Roadbridge at Floods Cross over towards Carragh just off the m7. Is it something to do with the bypass?
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