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N5 - Westport to Turlough [open to traffic]

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  • #242
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,776 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    What sort of fancy junction is on the ballirobe road?


  • #243
    afatbollix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    No roundabout on the Newport road is a bit weird.


  • #244
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,776 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    afatbollix wrote: »
    No roundabout on the Newport road is a bit weird.

    in castlebar or westport side.


  • #245
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,656 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    irishgeo wrote: »
    What sort of fancy junction is on the ballirobe road?

    Looks like a standard on/off ramp set for a flyover I think?


  • #246
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    irishgeo wrote: »
    What sort of fancy junction is on the ballirobe road?

    Here's a more detailed pic of N84 junction:


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  • #247
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,502 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    Not sure when this thread was renamed to "under construction", but I think it's clear that it is underway now, though I don't think there was any announcement.

    Is there an official site?


  • #248
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Good point, there should be a website - the N22 and N4 projects both have one.
    spacetweek wrote: »
    Not sure when this thread was renamed to "under construction", but I think it's clear that it is underway now, though I don't think there was any announcement.

    Is there an official site?


  • #249
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    Essential workers: Construction. repair/construction of critical road and utility infrastructure

    Hopefully this project can continue in an safe and appropriate way. Keep some economic activity and jobs going in the region.


  • #250
    hondar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭hondar


    Westernyelp wrote: »
    Essential workers: Construction. repair/construction of critical road and utility infrastructure

    Hopefully this project can continue in an safe and appropriate way. Keep some economic activity and jobs going in the region.

    It's shut down. construction workers will only be permitted to continue at work if they are building something that is essential to the pandemic.


  • #251
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    hondar wrote:
    It's shut down. construction workers will only be permitted to continue at work if they are building something that is essential to the pandemic.


    Really. I would have thought there was a lot of work that could safely continue on projects like this. But that's were we are I suppose.


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  • #252
    hondar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭hondar


    Westernyelp wrote: »
    Really. I would have thought there was a lot of work that could safely continue on projects like this. But that's were we are I suppose.

    Has to be done unfortunately.


  • #253
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    FWIW I went to Dunnes in Castlebar today and passed by some of the works - good progress made in the short time since I last passed on St Patrick's Day.

    There was even a steam roller to be seen at the future Castlebar West roundabout.

    Hopefully the work will restart in a month or two and the land will be drier so they can plough through it (pun intended)


    hondar wrote: »
    Has to be done unfortunately.


  • #254
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    Will we see this restart on May 18th?


  • #255
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Question is will the construction workers be allowed to travel more than 5km to get to the site? That's not clear to me at all.
    Westernyelp wrote: »
    Will we see this restart on May 18th?


  • #256
    afatbollix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    DumbBrunette wrote: »
    Question is will the construction workers be allowed to travel more than 5km to get to the site? That's not clear to me at all.

    You could always travel further than 5km. It was only for exercise you had to be within the 2/5km.


  • #257
    blackwhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,746 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    DumbBrunette wrote: »
    Question is will the construction workers be allowed to travel more than 5km to get to the site? That's not clear to me at all.

    5km is the limit for exercise only.

    For any essential travel, there is no distance limit.

    For any non-essential travel the distance is irrelevant, as non-essential travel is banned whether it is 1km or 100km.

    How on earth do people still need this explained, given the rules have been in place for 5 and a half weeks at this stage (with only the exercise distance changed since then)?


  • #258
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    My point was, the government's reopening plan does not make reference to construction work being essential work. Also there have been stories in the media of people who were travelling for work being turned back at Garda checkpoints.

    blackwhite wrote: »
    5km is the limit for exercise only.

    For any essential travel, there is no distance limit.

    For any non-essential travel the distance is irrelevant, as non-essential travel is banned whether it is 1km or 100km.

    How on earth do people still need this explained, given the rules have been in place for 5 and a half weeks at this stage (with only the exercise distance changed since then)?


  • #259
    RedDevil55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 820 ✭✭✭RedDevil55


    DumbBrunette wrote: »
    My point was, the government's reopening plan does not make reference to construction work being essential work. Also there have been stories in the media of people who were travelling for work being turned back at Garda checkpoints.

    I'm pretty sure construction work is set to start back as part of phase 1 of the road map, i.e. 18th May.


  • #260
    Cookiemunster
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 13,129 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cookiemunster


    DumbBrunette wrote: »
    My point was, the government's reopening plan does not make reference to construction work being essential work. Also there have been stories in the media of people who were travelling for work being turned back at Garda checkpoints.

    The governments reopening plans specifically mentions construction returning on May 18th along with DIY stores and garden centers reopening. How do expect that people in these areas could return to work if they weren't allowed to travel?

    And absolutely nobody who could prove that they were travelling to their essential job was turned back. I've passed through 40-50 checkpoints in the last month without any difficulty.


  • #261
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    It'll be back on the 18th so? Anyone have the inside track?


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  • #262
    mayo.mick
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    Westernyelp wrote: »
    It'll be back on the 18th so? Anyone have the inside track?

    I'm sure I heard it on mid west news one of the mornings, that work is restarting on the 18th.

    Swinford Weather



  • #263
    seligehgit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    mayo.mick wrote: »
    I'm sure I heard it on mid west news one of the mornings, that work is restarting on the 18th.

    Great news and not unexpected.


  • #264
    marno21
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,767 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    https://www.midwestradio.ie/index.php/news/38484-work-to-resume-after-18th-may-on-new-n5-westport-turlough-road

    Work indeed to restart on the 18th.

    No reason for it not to really.


  • #265
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Superb news. Total stoppage just 7 weeks, which isn't too bad for a 2-3 year job.

    Also it has hardly rained since the lockdown started, so the land will have dried up massively. Hopefully this will help speed up the earthworks.
    marno21 wrote: »
    https://www.midwestradio.ie/index.php/news/38484-work-to-resume-after-18th-may-on-new-n5-westport-turlough-road

    Work indeed to restart on the 18th.

    No reason for it not to really.


  • #266
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,776 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    DumbBrunette wrote: »
    Superb news. Total stoppage just 7 weeks, which isn't too bad for a 2-3 year job.

    Also it has hardly rained since the lockdown started, so the land will have dried up massively. Hopefully this will help speed up the earthworks.

    The lad has dried up. The flooding in the fields around the beaten path has totally cleared up.


  • #267
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    irishgeo wrote:
    The lad has dried up. The flooding in the fields around the beaten path has totally cleared up.


    I'm sorry to hear your lad has dried up ðŸ˜

    Any sign of a website launching for this project?


  • #268
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    From the Mayo forum:
    irishgeo wrote: »
    Some equipment being unloaded at breaffy road crossing point this morning.


  • #269
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,417 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    Couple of diggers working away at the Pheasanthill junction today. Good to see them back


  • #270
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 932 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Same at lodge road junction in Westport today, see attached
    Westernyelp wrote: »
    Couple of diggers working away at the Pheasanthill junction today. Good to see them back


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  • #271
    Pete_Cavan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,502 ✭✭✭Pete_Cavan


    Given 90% of the work at this stage is being done by people in individual machines, I think this should have been allowed to continue during the lockdown, same for the N22. It is very low risk work but could have saved the taxpayer a couple of hundred grand.


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