Newtown90 wrote: » Any idea how long this is planned for? Was a nightmare yesterday morning at 6.45, had lots of idiots passing all the traffic qued up at the red lights and going against oncoming traffic rather than wait the 10 minutes. It was flowing much better this morning.
peter.teahan wrote: » No update since the 11th May...just like the Covid app?
aisling86 wrote: » They are working on the bypass tonight....my head is wrecked not used to this heavy machinery noise by night!
yerwanthere123 wrote: » Are they near enough to be keeping you awake? You'd think that wouldn't be allowed if so.
cantalach wrote: » Occasional night works during various phases of construction are included in the planning application for most major infrastructural projects. Not that I'm not sympathetic to Aisling86. "Sleepless in Teerbeg".
steeler j wrote: » There is an update vide on YouTube about a week ago . It's about the section around the town ,I think
marno21 wrote: » Links fixed for you there steeler j. Looks like atm they are going balls out to get the new alignment open at Carrigaphooca before the Bank Holiday. They had the new tie in at the western end almost complete today and the old road landscaped over.
Nedved85 wrote: » Just wondering is there a service station planned along the bypass?
Quackster wrote: » There is planning permission being sought (granted?) for one just off the Macroom West exit.
yerwanthere123 wrote: » Is this the one out the Millstreet road or a different one?
Chris_5339762 wrote: » Ok I've been nerding out a little bit tonight, just wanting to see if I could work out just how much time this new road will save, given that all the towns on this route are 50kmh, and the "bit inbetween" is largely impossible to drive at more than 60kmh. I have a big file of GPS tracklogs of whereever I go, and I have been along this road eight times in various directions. Now, ALL OF THEM ARE OFF PEAK, some are REALLY off peak, like 8am Sunday morning. The average time from the eastern tie-in to the western tie-in for me was 22m05sec. Thats obeying all speed limits, not that you could possibly break any of them anyway. Lets say 22mins for ease. (Shortest was 19min, highest was 25min) They say on the project website a total of 22km of dual carriageway (quite the coincidence). We'll assume thats correct and that you can get a smooth 100kmh out of it. That makes it just over 13 minutes to get from east to west tie-ins, or vice versa. So off peak, as in a Sunday morning, you're looking at 6 minutes saved in the absolute "worst" case of tearing through Macroom and not getting stuck behind anyone anywhere. On average, I'm saying a 10 minute time saving on a standard off-peak day - but as I generally travel early weekend mornings my data is quite biased, this could be closer to 12-15 minutes saved I'd say.With 10 minute delays at Macroom, probably worse on a bank holiday, you're easily looking at 20 - 30 minutes saved. Overall -Offpeak - 12 to 15 minutes savedPeak - God knows, but could be 20 - 30 minutes saved Not to mention a **slightly** improved quality of the drive!!!
cjmcork wrote: » ...... to ram into an artic turning off for Danone!
KrisW1001 wrote: » 20 minute delays aren’t unusual in Macroom on Friday evenings. All it takes is a badly parked car and a few trucks trying to pass through the town in opposite directions.@cjmcork - Lissarda should have been bypassed long ago: N22 Ovens–Macroom was planned back in the early 2000s, and would have been built at the same time as, or just after, the Ballincollig Bypass. Sadly, there were a lot of well-connected people living along the Lee Valley who didn’t like the effect that a motorway would have had on their prospects for land rezoning, and unlike me and you, they had money to run a well-organised pressure campaign (remember “Save the Lee Valley”?). At the time (2001), traffic on the route didn’t justify a motorway, but the government had money and was overcompensating for decades of half measures on roads projects. Today, the route is at between 20k AADT (Ovens) and 13k (Ballytrasna, west of Lissarda); the Ovens figure is towards the top end of what a 2+2 can handle, so it will probably need at least the eastern part to be built as Type 1 DC when it eventually gets built.
daveboy01 wrote: » The bypass isn't all about speeding up journeys for car drivers travelling from Cork to Kerry or vice versa. The improvement it will make to the lives of the residents of Macroom is immeasurable. Because it's basically a one street town that is constantly choked with traffic (including buses and HGVs) walking or shopping in the town has become very unpleasant in recent years. Not just that but a lot of the minor roads around Macroom are used as a rat run for speeding motorists to avoid the traffic - so walking or cycling on these roads has become dangerous. The opening of the bypass (in 2023 hopefully?) will make a massive difference to life in Macroom - regardless of how many minutes it shaves off journey times.
