My understanding is they plan to issue notice to treat on the cpos either before Christmas or early new year. Progress will then depend on funding. Hopefully construction costs are included in 2023 Galway County Council Roads budgets
Was on the N60 last week and saw a P&D Lydon jeep in a field. Definitely not hanging about.
Anyone know if there has ever been any discussion on upgrading the N84 road south of Shrule, just as you leave the village.? A really dangerous couple of bends on that stretch before the Caherlistrane turnoff.
The N84 in general between Shrule and Headford is a chronic stretch for a national road.
Tower junction on the N24 awarded to Wilis bros . 12 month construction timeframe.
Is that here?
No it’s on the 2+1 Piltown bypass
First minor scheme that’ll produce a 2+2 to my knowledge.
The Piltown bypass just after u leave Carrick on Suir on the Waterford side
So the N24 will finally get a very small piece of 2+2 - good to see, but a pity that there’s not more of it on that road.
It's part of a 60km scheme from Cahir to Waterford but the Minister for Transport doesn't like it so we have to wait for him to FO before it can proceed.
Ominous.
Apparently works will commence on 16 January.
Major works have started on the N60, it was dark but the road is down to one lane and look like diggers in situ.
I drove past today, vegetation clearance and topsoil strip are well underway on the Claremorris end of the scheme, not much action yet on the Balla end.
A 60km/h speed limit will come in to force along the N60 for 12 months from the 4th of January to accommodate the works. A local road in Brize will be closed for 2 months from 6th February.
Plans to upgrade the R332 which links the N84 to Tuam. Anecdotally this road has seen a big increase in traffic since the M17 opened. It's the shortest route from Westport and Ballinrobe to the M17.
I don't think it's busy enough to justify that. It will probably lose some of the Westport traffic too when the N5 opens, as the N60/N17 will become the quickest route between Westport and Tuam.
Notice to treat issued to all land owners in the past week so I guess this means the project has funding to proceed and we might see action on the ground in the next 12 to 18 months
The CPO has been issued for the improvement of the N53 from Hackballscross to Rassan, this is open for comment until the 8th February. This will complete the widening of the N53 in Louth except the 500m at the M1 junction. This scheme is 3.3Km of Type 1 single carriageway, this is an improvement on the section built with minimal hard shoulder in the recession 2010-2015 period. Most of the work is offline as the route swerves to avoid Annaghvacky where there is poor horizontal alignment and existing properties with a current 60 Kmh limit.
The state via the shared island fund should offer the NI Roads service funding to extend the upgrade from Rassan through Cullaville up to a new crossing on the fane river
A small scheme at the border would help (this is thought of as the Louth-Armagh border , but the southern side of the verge is actually in Monaghan).
Cullaville is a blight, but not easily bypassed. THe junction is dangerous, they should have put a roundabout there.
The bridge is certainly being looked at, but then that has been true for the last 40 years or so.
Continuing along the existing N53 route may have made sense previously but the with the N2 Ardee to Castleblayney project progressing, I think it would make more sense to route the N53 to join the N2 further south than it currently does. The N2 will be DC so no need for a National Secondard running parallel. A dumbbell junction is proposed on the N2 more or less due west of Cullaville, the N53 could join there.
Then we should look to extend the N53 further west via Lough Egish where there is quite a bit of industry. Eventually it should be extended via Cootehill to Cavan town which would really improve regional connectivity and make the N53 a proper NatSec (linking Dundalk with Blayney is hardly worthy of that classification). SC would suffice with a walking/cycling path alongside.
A very good proposal. I wonder if extending another National Secondary (either N53 or N54) towards Carrick-on-Shannon would be a good idea to provide another National Road through a part of the country that has very few such routes.
to speed it up, all you would need to do is rename Cavan/ Monaghan/ Leitrim as "Mayo East" and there'd be national secondaries of dubious need all over the shop
Agreed with this routing but the Rassan-N2 part must be a new build that does not pass through NI. Brexit has made the current routes of the N53 and N54 unreliable in the long term. There mightn't always be a NI Protocol.
Whatever happened to the proposed Dundalk-Sligo route via Cavan? I wasn't entirely convinced of the merit of this route as it is somewhat indirect. There is a case of an improved Monaghan Enniskillen route which could form a link in an East-West spine
It would be quite difficult to get south of the Fane river starting at Rassan, unless you have a left turn.
The N53 and N54 routes operated as Concession roads (then T22 and T15) during periods when you couldn't bring a pound of butter over the border, I wouldn't expect any form of Brexit development to make any appreciable difference. If there was any such development then it would end NI in less time than it would take to build a road.
I was suggesting a new build link from current N53 to N2. It would swing west at the border and then go northwest to tie in to the N2 at the planned junction at Broomfield L4300. Part of the route might be north of the border but only a very small amount. I'm sure a route could be chosen that stays in ROI territory entirely.
I don't believe there has been any progress at all on that, I don'tthink it even exists as a specific project for TII. West of Cavan town, its just the National Primaries, some of which are getting improvements unrelated to such a route. The real problem is north of the border where the road is awful but little prospect of anything being done.
With the Belturbet bypass in place and upgrades to the N16, most of that route west of Cavan town and south of the border is in reasonable condition. The N16 particularly on the Sligo end needs work but the Lugatober section is due to be done soon. East of Cavan town, an entirely new road is required but it would be a big undertaking and wont happen any time soon. I think a good starting point is the N53 as that concession road needs replacing. Building a link to the N2 would be a good start and then look to work west from there.
10Km of wholly new route would be expensive and hard to organise. It would be cheaper and less controversial to follow roadmaster's suggestion of paying the NI authorities to improve the road and then build a short link road from the roundabout where the improved N2 will meet the existing Castleblayney bypass.
On the N25 at Rosslare Port, the Ballygillane Roundabout at the beginning of the new Harbour Link road is almost completed.
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/news/dangerous-lack-of-lighting-and-signage-on-new-rosslare-roundabout-42294124.html
The actual access road itsself is at the final planning permission and CPO stage since autumn last year (2022).
http://rosslareeuroportaccessroad.ie/latest-news/
That doesn't get around the problem that the N53 involves crossing out of the EU and back into it again.
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