Nice recent flypast of the Castlebar bypass section, before opening.
Any news of a date for the opening of the rest of the road? As far as I can tell, it seems like footpaths around the Attireesh part of the scheme are the only unfinished part.
Latest update from the council today is that the remaining sections are opening in June, no specific date given.
The bypass doesn't seem to have made much difference to the traffic in Castlebar. Worse if anything.
Seems it a bit quieter on the Westport road. Not as many trucks anyway.
The underpass on the Westport relief road doesn't connect to anything 🤔
And a nice video of the opening from Wills Bros - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wills-bros-ltd_engineeringexcellencesince1972-deliveringinfrastructureenrichingcommunities-activity-7056968295073099776-V677?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
Definitely much quieter at the Cathal Duffy roundabout anyway.
That should be the main place there should be an improvement - there and around Mulroys and Moneen. Around the rest of the town most of the traffic is traffic that is starting or ending in the town anyway, so won't use the bypass as much.
But probably the worst traffic in the whole town is the stretch heading towards Cathal Duffy's from the Mulroys side, and that should improve a good bit as traffic going towards Westport will now be taken away.
The idea is to get past Castlebar quicker. Which it achieves.
Barring a trip to the TF, I probably won't step foot in the town again. Just another spot in the way of Westport now gone for the tourists.
Large towns will still have local traffic. Luckily those not interested in those towns can now skip the hassle
It has already reduced a lot of that congestion which is good. Mulroys still busy but traffic not backed up. There will still be busy periods in the morning and evening for people comeling in and out to work.
The air almost seems cleaner around that part of town with a lot if the lorries and buses not coming through so plenty of positives.
Anyone want to make a nonmonetary bet as to which will open first. The new flash movie, which is scheduled for release on June 16 or the rest of the bypass.
I'm betting the new flash movie will be in Mayo cinemas before the rest of the bypass opens.
You do know that June has 30 days right? So if it opens on June 30th it's still June? Picking an arbitrary date in mid June is kind of pointless.
There’s nothing wrong with wondering if it will be the first half or second half of the month...
I’ll say first half.
Hopefully you're right. Due down in Mayo round the 12th June. Nothing like driving on a brand spanking new piece of road, especially when its a DC!
Im working on the project at the minute and would be suprised if the road is not open for your trip
The stone wall saga rumbles on.....
"Seriously inconvenienced during the construction of the dual carriageway and they do not deserve to be treated in this way now"
The sense of entitlement is high from this lot. Its a stone wall and its being dealt with. They obviously don't have anything serious to worry about in their lives.
I think the residents of breaffy who had to put up with the rock breaking might have been more inconvenienced.
They’re looking for a pay-off. They will be waiting. A long time.
"complex negotiations"
it's a short section of wall...........
not Brexit, Palestine, etc.
It's a section of road (N5) I normally drive along that I don't pay much attention too, but I had a look around the last time I was there. Bar one house near enough to where the wall was, there are no other houses (that I can see) that can actually see the wall's location. They might have a point if the wall was located near to a cluster of houses, but they don't. Counselors getting involved in this just smacks to me of them sniffing for a potential vote at the next election.
But realistically, how many votes could there be?
This smacks to me of as little as one individual hounding and hounding politicians (and anyone else who will listen) about this wall because they have fúck all else to do.
As Trump said Build the Wall - keep the Covies out.
This is hitting Ted levels of comedy on all sides at this stage.
Anybody not familiar with the spot might be imagining some ancient stretch of a sacred wall that's been torn down and a motorway put through it.
Not helped by the contractors claiming it'd cost €250k to rebuild .Also not helped by Tom Gilligan (who really would want to pay more attention to bigger problems he's facilitating) going on likes he's brokering the peace process.
There's been more talk about this wall than Trump's wall, the Great Wall Of China and the Berlin Wall combined.
Some nice pics of the Westport end of the scheme, showing the excellent new greenway alongside the new relief road, including the ramp up from the Lodge Road. Both of these facilities were only added to the scheme as a result of amendments ordered by an Bord Pleanala back in 2014. Nowadays they would no doubt be a standard part of the design.
All pics courtesy of the Croagh Patrick Greenway Campaign - https://www.facebook.com/croaghpatrickgw/
Are there any speed limit signs up yet on the Westport relief road?
I thought it would have a 60kmh limit, but looking at the pics it could easily be higher.
For anybody interested in this long running saga, here's the wall in question, before and after. Imagine the uproar if they had demolished the whole thing?! Note the overgrowth on part of it. This really was a looked after item. Not.
100 km/h according to the signs I saw this morning. Surprised by that myself.
It still should be replaced
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