emfifty wrote: » I was up around the Osberstown I/C today and I reckon it could be open by month end. Asphalt is down both sides of link rd to Kerry Foods and demerge slip road westbound was being cleaned by a roadsweeper. Poles for signage all in place too from what I could see.
BuzzFish wrote: » Did ye think the lanes looked very narrow? I was expecting 2 lanes for future proofing but it just looks very tight. Maybe it's just the separation that makes the lanes look so narrow.
_Kaiser_ wrote: » Yep I thought myself that the merge onto the roundabout looked very narrow when I was passing the other day. Wouldn't surprise me if it'll be a single lane that of course will cause a tailback onto the exit itself at peak morning times (I expect there'll be a lot mre than just those going to the factory that'll take this exit). Why we can't just ONCE do things right the first time is beyond me!
_Kaiser_ wrote: » I expect there'll be a lot mre than just those going to the factory that'll take this exit). Why we can't just ONCE do things right the first time is beyond me!
benny79 wrote: » Have to say since the schools are back the traffic into Dublin is shocking! tail backs to exit 6/7 every morning and worse is I cant see this been fixed!
BuzzFish wrote: » Back on topic, there will be a 1000 pupil school at the opposite side of that roundabout so maybe the narrow lanes are for traffic calming purpose.
_Kaiser_ wrote: » Oh then we can definitely expect tailbacks with cars abandoned everywhere at morning peak. Wonderful!
SoupyNorman wrote: » Seems to be, the volume of traffic flowing freely up from J11 to J8 is impacting the ability of J7 – J1 to handle it. Long term, more lanes won’t fix it, but I will say that the 3 lane upgrade was ABSOLUTELY required in this instance. Now there needs to be a focus on providing real and feasible public transport alternatives. Even carpooling isn’t incentivized. Years ago I looked into setting up a website to promote car pooling and found some other person had tried and got shut down for falling foul of hackney and taxi laws.
derekbcdlkl wrote: » Why is there no Junction 20 on the M7 or Junction 2 on the M8?
theguzman wrote: » The temporary speed limit of 60km/h has since been raised to 80km/h, when this is finished (hopefully soon) will the Motorway (M7 mainline) revert to 120km/h?
pad199207 wrote: » Personally I don’t think it should. Since the road has been widened it has a more Urban or M50 feel and look to it. 100KMH would suffice. 120KMH then after the M9 split as it’s more rural after that.
Charles Babbage wrote: » it will be no different than the 120Kmh M1.
ongarboy wrote: » Are kids from Kildare being driven to schools in Dublin, hence the upswing? They'll face long enough commutes when they reach working age, why subject them to gruelling twice daily long distance trips at such a young age also?
Last Stop wrote: » Lanes will be 3.5m wide based on the cross section proposed which is narrower that the standard 3.65m but the same as M50 (amazing people advocating an additional lane miss that point) so it could end up 100kmph. Don’t know what the M1 lanes are. Personally I think that 100kmph would be safer and given the fact that it’s only 12km the time saving would be a massive 1.2 minutes.
Tomrota wrote: » I think they mean school as in college which hugely affects the N7, no?
_Kaiser_ wrote: » ^^ Had a closer look the other day myself and it does look very (and unnecessarily) narrow and tight. Is the intent to stop trucks using it or something?
beertons wrote: » Id say that never even crossed their minds. Roads are relative to the size of the bridge, which is tiny.
BuzzFish wrote: » The bridge is standard width. What's your source for it being "tiny"? Far more likely is that the lanes are narrow for traffic calming reasons. It is wide enough for trucks, busses etc. It'll just lack much extra room. I wonder if they considered a cycle lane as there will be housing development along the bypass before long.
