Minor schemes & realignments

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

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.

The Piltown bypass just after u leave Carrick on Suir on the Waterford side

Apparently works will commence on 16 January.

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 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

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.

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

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 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.

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/