N11/N25 - Oilgate to Rosslare Harbour [route options published]

Councillors seem to be picking up signals that funding to move to the next phase might be in jeopardy when the time comes. Hopefully this is politicking to engineer TII into looking elsewhere for their cost-savings rather than an early signal that the project might stall yet again.

Raised in the Dáil by Verona Murphy at leader's questions - nothing definitive from the Taoiseach in response - which I'm choosing to interpret as a positive sign.

The surrounding land is flat, but it’s all at 10-20 metres elevation - the port itself is basically at sea level, on a low ledge constucted at the base of this "cliff" . As you exit from the port on the current road, there’s a fairly steep ascent before the road swings left into Rosslare village.

Although the video shows entry by the old main gate, if you look closely, you can see that there is also a direct route from the new approach road into the passenger-car reception, highlighted below:

I imagine the main gate will be used mainly by foot passengers, and local bus services.

Sounds like he is pushing ahead with this, instead of our esteemed Minister for transport who is there nice and comfortably sitting on his hands.

Rosslare-New Ross is an extremely quiet stretch of road, and was extensively re-built to a high standard in the 1990s: it'll be among the last parts of N25 to be upgraded.

Honestly I think it would be better to bypass Ballinaboola before Barntown but even that is probably a long way down the line given traffic volumes.

The label on that map is misleading: Barntown is actually right beside where option E crosses the old N25, so bypasssing it wouldn't need anything as big as the dotted-line road to Larkin's Cross shown on that map. I expect it'll be done as a longer-than usual slip road to the N25/N11 interchange

We’re talking about very small distances here. The map you posted shows just 3.3km of the N25 west of the roundabout, and that distance will be shorter for the new road: from the new alignment out to Larkin’s cross is going to be a distance of less than 3 km

To get past Barntown would need maybe 1.5 km of new road, and that’s well within the normal range of a link road on a major route upgrade.

Could be an issue with the traffic lights in Oylegate

I wonder have they changed the sequence of the lights.

I know on the weekend when the road first opened there was chaos because of the lights in Oylgate (I got caught in myself) and I heard subsequently that the sequencing was changed to favour the mainline which seemed to resolve the problem. I've driven the road a number of times since and never had a delay after that first time. It could just be sheer traffic volumes but still seems odd that after a long period of no issues it's suddenly cropped up again.

I heard today that they’ve started narrowing down the corridor, not sure how true it is, would they have designs already on this. Also that there’s a start point of 5 years. Could be bull now but they are talking to landowners apprantely 🤷🏼‍♂️