Minor schemes & realignments

The British border force are not going to set up a checkpoint in Cullaville asking people their nationality! They'd be told to f*ck off.

The A37 is excluded from the UK HGV levy for instance.

The A37 number s so good that they decided to have two of them! This dates back to the original road numbering in NI n 1923.

Nobody gets confused as they are not near each other.

Yeah terrible stretch of road. Will be a huge improvement in terms of drivability and more so safety when done. I've only travelled it two or three times but it tells a lot in that I know exactly where you are talking about.

If this is the scheme that they are currently working on (about one kilometre out the Neale Road from Ballinrobe) then it is merely widening to facilitate a turning lane for a new cemetery that is being built.

Heres the project page. It doesnt look like the most spectacular project on the map but the current road is barely Regional road status. Obvious dating from the times that people were driving horse and cart and windy roads were a benefit in hilly countryside.

This would be fine if Sligo was the destination of most of the traffic. However, much of the N16 traffic is heading towards the N17 or N59, this requires an Eastern bypass of Sligo. Linking the N16 to the N15 just pushes more traffic across the present throughpass route.

I can't see an eastern bypass of Sligo ever happening. It obviously won't even be looked at for a decade. When/if it is ever considered, things will have changed a lot, I wouldn't be surprised if a tunnel from N4 to N15 was a better solution then.

I drove on N16 last week.

I think I recall seeing works have started at Lugatober.

At long last ! Us Sligo peeps have been waiting for this for a very long time. Delighted to see it finally out to tender even if its only for the consultancy piece - its moving !

This new road will be transformative for the town, given Sligo towns arduous one way system. This road and bridge will effectively cut that out if your heading to/from the North side of town.

Maybe they are non-native and not of ecological value.

This is continuing to progress, hopefully we'll see a tender for the main construction contract sometime this year.

Massive safety improvements there, and a very good path/cycleway too.

Great job.

From the article;

Why do they think that drivers overtaking another car would not be looking ahead for traffic from the other direction? From Google Maps I can see that there is hatching in the middle of the road there so the right turning lane should be clearly visible, particularly if there is a car sitting in it.