NRA have this morning advertised for engineering consultancy to design medium to long term solution to the junction!
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I don't have any answers for you I'm afraid: I just know that the whole thing is supposed to be free-flow at the end with no traffic lights anywhere, so any traffic lights are for some other abnormal traffic flow of some kind. The only thing I can think of is tunnel shutdowns, like the maintenance shutdowns. Link K and L go to the tunnel, so my thinking is that for urgent tunnel stoppages/blockages, they'd try and stop the traffic out here where it's 60kmh and try and clear the residual traffic via the tunnel escape route. I'm honestly only speculating.
link K traffic would be many many multiples of any traffic coming westbound from link L , so stopping them would have minimal impact , and traffic metering is to be done by the by the small square VMS units which will display variable speed limits depending on the traffic load
You would put it down the ramp if it’s for metering in order to not block the roundabout.
But why stop them 100 meters down the ramp . Surely you'd put them at the roundabout exit . also I would think the VMS signs would be used to divert traffic in that scenario ?
Wasn’t talking about sbmayo’s speeding fine. Was about the reduced sight lines on the N25 off ramp due to the new hump in the road.
Yep I presume it's for this kind of thing...
Any chance they would be for metering traffic into the tunnel in the event of a tunnel closure?
Temporary.
Can’t have been too far out either if it was in the townland of Dunkettle.
So whats with the traffic signal signs ?? (Taken from latest Dronehawk Video). Suely not a signalized merge from Link L to link K . Dunkettle was supposed to be signal free . This will back up westbound tunnel traffic going forward
If the fixed charge notice referenced the 100 special limit, it had nothing to do with the roadworks. You were clocked further out the M8. The entire Glanmire Bypass is a "special limit" because the normal motorway limit is 120.
sbmayo's fixed charge noticed related to the 100 special limit, i.e. further back the M8 before the roadworks limit kicks in.
Speed limit is 60kph. Would hope this removes the risks of poor sight lines (as long as people stick to the limit of course).
Yeah, sorry, you're upset but I'm afraid there is no excuse. Just be thankful you got caught for 118 in a 100 and not 118 in the 60 roadworks zone.
Also given that car speedometers overestimate speed, you probably saw about 125kmh on your speedometer.
Anyway, I went over the new hump at the end of Link M this morning - not a bother with it but if people go too fast down it you can't see cars stopped at the lights.
118kmph in a 100kmph zone and you want to appeal? You were speeding and you got caught. Suck it up. Ignorance is never a defence.
Limit on that section is always 100km/h from Glanmire to Dunkettle and vice versa. I've noticed Garda speed traps on one of the overbridges in the area previously. You might have been caught by something like that. Not a hope for an appeal I would say.
I got a speeding ticket through the post for doing 118, "Exceeding Special Limit 100" at "M8 DUNKETTLE, GLANMIRE, CORK" on June 4th. I never noticed any camera or anything on my way through that day, and I drove it the same as I always do, keeping up with traffic, being safe and not doing anything stupid as its not always clear whats going on around there. I go through maybe 3 or 4 times a month - it seems to change every time! Any grounds for appeal? It's my first offence and not pleased. Thanks.
More from Drone Hawk.
And the road is wholly re-opened now
Judging by the photo in today’s short email update, it seems I was completely wrong about how long it would take to build up that embankment. They seem to have built it up to the height of the new Link M bridge in under 24h! That is seriously impressive.
Significant traffic leaving the Blackrock area now also as Cork vs Roscommon finished up an hour ago in Pairc Ui Chaoimh
Btw an aside, is it normal for all the VMSs on the N40 to be on standby? Are they no longer displaying travel times?
Yeah, its Dunkettle... people are going through Glanmire and the Old Youghal Road to avoid the whole thing.
....when the diversion route is still quite empty.
Traffic is nuts on Old Youghal Road coming up from Glanmire to the Barn to Mayfield - was all backed up about 2 hours ago anyway - this couldn’t have anything to do with Dunkettle though, surely? Traffic in general just seems crazy today.
I went down to the dunkettle roundabout and back to interchange, but was just being nosey....quite a few people did it too, I'd say most were caught out really. When coming back, traffic was backed up a good bit.
A quick look at Google shows that almost no-one is actually following the diversion through Little Island and into the tunnel, instead preferring to trundle through Cork.
Via the diversion, Little Island to Kinsale Road is 16 mins.
Ploughing through Cork, Little Island to Kinsale Road is 48 mins.
Looks like they're flying through it anyway, and the hump isn't that big(likely very different when heading down the slip).
Looks like you’re right. Equipment just approaching the the bit yet to be done over the roundabout.
Looks like it. I thought there was going to be westbound traffic but just the slip closed. Perhaps they've combined it with a "regular" overnight closure for surfacing, or perhaps they're just going to tough it out for the weekend and do loads.
Has all traffic also been blocked on the N25 flying over the roundabout heading towards Tivoli. Looks like it on the cameras.
Some great drone footage from a user called BCL Adrian.
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