NRA have this morning advertised for engineering consultancy to design medium to long term solution to the junction!
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Need the Island to Tunnel slip to be done first so, by the sounds of it
That slip be done until the new N25 to Tunnel slip is completed. Real chicken and egg stuff.
Links M, L and K surfacing works are due to commence shortly, with these links opening sometime in the summer.
That current road from LI to the tunnel that comes out on the existing slip, I assume that'll just disappear some weekend and they'll finish the new configuration for dumbell to tunnel in about a day or so. Surely it won't close for extended period of time
There would be some significant earth works required to open the remaining dumbbell exit over where the current N25 to tunnel slip is.
I'll quote myself! :D
Also, does anyone else agree with me that the gantries on this scheme are utter utter rubbish? Most are, at best, misleading?
Theres a new one gone up on the N25 West proudly telling traffic for the N8 Cork to head up on the unopened slip to the new Little Island junction. They look permanent too, theres no reasonable situation where that would be needed, even during construction.
I was looking at that sign earlier, trying to figure it out. It's presumably for city traffic from the M8, since they'll be routed eastward to go west via the Little Island-N25W slip.
Just a minor gripe:
They need to uncover existing or add some signage from at the slip onto the roundabout that takes you from the eastward (from city centre direction) to the tunnel. I noticed a couple of cars getting very confused.
It's fine if you're familiar with it, but if you're looking for the N40 west / tunnel it's not immediately obvious or at least it wasn't on Friday.
Even something painted on the road would help.
I'd imagine the slip from the dumbbell roundabout would be opened in conjunction with it, it's also pretty far along allowing the closure of the current "back" of Little Island exit. Could similarly see the opening on the N25W to that roundabout too with the new alignment to the dunkettle interchange opening and closure of the current off ramp, gives more credence to the "big bang" style opening previously mentioned.
A set of traffic lights have been installed at the end of the City to Tunnel loop. This must be opening in the next few weeks ahead of a big bang opening of other links.
Must be getting close alright if they're at that stage. Excellent!
I'd say they'll wait until the schools and colleges are finished.... maybe even the state exams, before any more major openings. Just a hunch.
The vehicle parked at the start of the city-to-tunnel loop today looks like the ones that paint the road markings…
it is, they are starting their markings.
No lining started yet. They’ve done something to the tarmac where the diverge starts but cannot make out exactly what.
I may have jumped the gun.
I think they have cut deep grooves in the tarmac.
So assuming they remove the lights from under the bridge if coming from tunnel, I can't wait to see how many people will keep trying to cut in at that point to head east except its constantly moving traffic.
Great to see the progress though, getting closer to a load of it opening
Presumably they'll place physical batons/poles on that to make for a "hard" diverge point well in advance of that concrete island.
The signage looks terrible alright, on the N25W one of the over-heads cites straight ahead for the "City-centre" and left hand lane for "Cork".
Yeah, the more I look at the signage, its the worst I've ever seen here.
Recent Friday updates have been a disappointing in terms of future timelines. Hopefully we’ll get some sort of update in this area in the next few weeks.
I've tried to figure out the reasoning but I think the worst is the sign on the n25 westbound after little island where it says Limerick in the right lane, Cork in the left. It's the other way around when you get to silversprings (assuming that's what it's aimed at) but that's 5km away...
Nothing new there, this https://www.google.com/maps/@51.9140638,-8.1286763,3a,22.4y,44.26h,85.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUlHAWFj5uWnpbI3FTOdiww!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu and this https://www.google.com/maps/@51.9144721,-8.1260221,3a,75y,30.94h,94.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sO8lGraRjwMUPOiqInvBqRQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu on the N25 eastbound near the Two Mile Inn.
The mainline is a right hand bend, not left hand as the sign indicated.
Cantilever being installed on the City to Tunnel loop.
Struck me today that with most of the heavy work done and just really surfacing and smaller areas of digging, that there seems to be very little activity on site compared to several months ago.
Its still happening, but seems much slower.
A few embankments still to complete. The one at the tunnel exist has ceased completely in the last 2 weeks,
Bridge for N25 West to M8 north still needs to be poured once steel fixings are complete.
Road surfaces will need to be raised where the current roundabout is in certain places. M8 entry onto the roundabout has a very abrupt drop at the end. All this will be fine late on you’d suspect.
Credit to dronehawk.
Flying through the fence at the very start is just showing off 😂
Just looking there at the footage. There will need to be a merge from the City to tunnel traffic from the end of the new slip off the Eastbound N25 - the big curve. Then just after that, traffic from the East going to the tunnel will need to merge and there is also the traffic coming from Dublin? How will all that be managed given that it all needs to be 2 lanes once you're in the tunnel? Will the Dublin to tunnel be reduced to 1 lane to help it? And will be it 1 or 2 lanes for traffic coming from the East going to the tunnel?
I believe it's however honks first has right of way, just like in Sicily.
M8 will be one lane. City to Tunnel loop will merge into this traffic and this will continue through the tunnel in the right lane.
N25 to tunnel traffic will occupy the left lane through the tunnel.
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