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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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allthedoyles

Some locals are worried about crumbling concrete , with some asking will it be safe to cross . Also a report that one of the cable stays snapped .

Sam Russell

sdanseo wrote: »

Why didn't they just dig at the base of it and let it fall rather than picking away at it for weeks? Surely much easier to disassemble on the ground.
Seems a bit of an awkward method.

Why did they not make the temporary structures of steel, so they could be disassembled and reused?

If they just let them fall, they still have a large lump of reinforced concrete to move.

L1011

sdanseo wrote: »

Why didn't they just dig at the base of it and let it fall rather than picking away at it for weeks? Surely much easier to disassemble on the ground.
Seems a bit of an awkward method.

Crush risk for starters

sdanseo

Why didn't they just dig at the base of it and let it fall rather than picking away at it for weeks? Surely much easier to disassemble on the ground.
Seems a bit of an awkward method.

m17

The barrow crossing 04/11/19 (pic fb)

vicwatson

https://visitnewross.ie/community/22523/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-ross-bypass-bridge/

m17

The barrow crossing 03/11/19 (pic fb)

70 tonne liebhan hymac moving to the stokes town side to demolish the second temporary piller

m17

The barrow crossing 28/10/19

m17

the barrow crossing 28/10/19 (pics fb)

m17

the barrow crossing weatherproofing is now complete 29/10/19 (pic fb)

josip

m17 wrote: »

Digging out the pond on the new ross bypass 30/10/19

Great vid.

"I love work, I could sit and watch it all day"

m17

Digging out the pond on the new ross bypass 30/10/19

skodacb

Not the best weather today.

m17

The barrow crossing 29/10/19 (pic fb)

loyatemu

CoBo55 wrote: »

Demolition is his speciality .. to quote Christy Moore.

CoBo55

josip wrote: »

Great progress for just one bloke in a cherry picker

Demolition is his speciality .. to quote Christy Moore.

m17

The barrow crossing 28/10/19 (pic fb)

josip

Great progress for just one bloke in a cherry picker

eagerv

Temporary pillar half demolished today..

josip

Unfortunately I now always think of Richard Keys when I hear 'tarmac'

Will the top surface on the bridge be the same as for the rest of the bypass or does it differ to handle the lower temperatures and potential icing?

m17

The barrow crossing 28/10/19 they have started tarmac on the bridge (pic fb)

josip

The problem with the pedestrian crossings is not their type, it's the quantity of them in a very short space of time, interspersed with roundabouts and other exits/entrances.
There are simply too many things for motorists to be paying attention to, even at 30 kph.

sdanseo

blindsider wrote: »

I'm amazed that this crap comes up time and again re a bypass and how it affects local business.

Firstly, people who are forced to travel thorugh a bottleneck e.g. NR almost never stop there - they want to get THROUGH the town.

Secondly, this bypass has been flagged for more than 10 yrs - anyone who cared could see that this was scheduled a long time ago. Plenty of time for a business to plan accordingly. Bypasses are there to prevent traffic congestion - and not the harbinger of all evil, taking business away from a town or village

I completely agree. I asked the question because I'm not from the area and read about negative effects on businesses in or near Enniscorthy and was simply curious.

Greater good and all that.

Azatadine wrote: »

Yeah, what the hell are all those pedestrian crossings about? They are dangerous as hell.

Dangerous how exactly? They're well marked, could do with some advance signage but have the pelican lights. Much better than pedestrian traffic lights (a pet peeve of mine, they should be burned to the ground in 90% of current applications) which only serve to delay traffic through people pressing and not crossing or people crossing before they go red.

Even in America, king of the car, this type of non-signalised crossing is provided regularly and works well.

blindsider

I'm amazed that this crap comes up time and again re a bypass and how it affects local business.

Firstly, people who are forced to travel thorugh a bottleneck e.g. NR almost never stop there - they want to get THROUGH the town.

Secondly, this bypass has been flagged since at least 2007 (1st post on this thread) - anyone who cared could see that this was scheduled a long time ago. Plenty of time for a business to plan accordingly. Bypasses are there to prevent traffic congestion - and not the harbinger of all evil, taking business away from a town or village

Azatadine

Yeah, what the hell are all those pedestrian crossings about? They are dangerous as hell.

josip

There wouldn't be many of the businesses that would fret in my opinion.
Entering the town from the Wexford side you've got Aldi and Lidl who you couldn't really consider local anyway.
Mixed in with those you've got Sidneys and the Shelbourne. Sidneys might lose a bit, but only locals go to the Shelbourne anyway.
Next up is the Dunbrody which might also suffer a bit.

For the remaining 240m of quay that isn't derelict: any tourist driving through is so concentrated on the 5 pedestrian crossings, 2 roundabouts, 5 exits and the general walking dead that they would rarely have seen a reason to stop.
https://goo.gl/maps/FyWsnsukXkNEg77E6
I hope the engineer who thought this was a good idea was put out to grass early.

By then you're on the bridge heading to greener pastures.
The Gala petrol station will be hit hardest of all and finally there's Paddy Berry who probably won't see any drop in drum sales.

NedNew2

sdanseo wrote: »

Anyone a local? Curious to know how sentiment is split between taking away the traffic vs. fall off in trade for businesses on the old route.

Local people are very much looking forward to the opening but local businesses are nervous. Overwhelmingly it's positive though.

Sam Russell

JohnC. wrote: »

Should that be blue, considering its not a motorway? Did someone f-up or is this some sort of allowed exception?

A layby is marked by a blue P on any class of road - I assume this is similar.

sdanseo

Anyone a local? Curious to know how sentiment is split between taking away the traffic vs. fall off in trade for businesses on the old route.

JohnC.

Should that be blue, considering its not a motorway? Did someone f-up or is this some sort of allowed exception?