N59 - Moycullen Bypass [completed Dec 2023]

Agree, will be good for Moycullen to remove this car traffic.

Claregalway next..... (Should have been done decades ago but the M18 was meant to solve all that.)

You don't reckon they will be on site in the next 10 days or so! 🛑

No updates here for nearly a year, but construction is well underway now. Google Street View was updated recently and shows the progress well. I haven't been down that way for years so it was nice to see. There is a twin road/river overbridge about halfway along the scheme which looks quite impressive!

The roundabout on the Galway city side of Moycullen has opened to traffic.

First works were January 2022, so if they get to completion in October 2023 that would would be 21 months. Still good going on a 24-month schedule, though.

I live locally and the latest I've heard is "the end of October". I must post a few photos of the road on here for anyone who is interested. There isn't a huge amount left to do. The whole bypass is tarmacked (not sure if it needs another layer), and the roundabouts at either end are open.

I was surprised as well by that steep ramp as well, especially because I was on my bicycle the first time I encountered it 😂

I haven't heard of any additional works for within the village. There will still be a huge amount of traffic going through the village and main crossroads daily coming to & from the southern/eastern side of the hinterland. It would have been great if there was another access/roundabout somewhere in the middle of the bypass.

I didn't see any sign but it's been a couple of weeks since I was on that side of Moycullen.

Not long to wait now😀

Something fairly amiss with this bypass.

Aside from traffic and school, there is a large coach company and large hauliers who have depots on the Church Road.

Added to this, there is a bottleneck hairpin at church itself.

As we know, the bypass runs under, without a slip road, so the trucks and buses have to manoeuvre all these.

4 slip roads may not have been necessary as the bypass City side exit/entry to Church Road may have been enough to cover traffic requirements.

You just need to watch the manoeuvring of the busses and HGVs at the tight village crossroads+ having to pass school + church (funeral removals etc) to see the safety risk alone, not to mention traffic build up.

Fairly daft, as one thing for sure, the as slip roads will be added at some stage.

Likely sold for votes at a later stage and paid for by the public.

At a cost and inconvenience multiples of what it would cost during construction of bypass.

Reads ok to me.

And the undermining??

Slip roads, roundabouts whatever. Pedestrian and cyclist risk? Feel free to watch the trucks and buses from 2 significantly large depots manoeuvre the school, church and extremely tight village crossroads.