It’s frustrating that this junction only has limited access. I’d imagine local businesses such as the Mills Inn won’t be thankful either. Travelling from east to west, road users will need to travel through Ballyvourney village to call into the Mills or do a U turn on the county bounds by which time you’re well passed the Mills.
Why a limited design like this ? A little more spend and we’d have a full junction.
What was going on when this project was in design & approval?
A big budget and then to leave two junctions incomplete. Madness
That junction is frustrating as hell though. Why not just facilitate all movements and be done with it.
Sane as the M7 - M8 and M7- M9 junctions.
Even just looking at how they align onto the roundabouts.
I think OSM is wrong there - whoever drew it just didn't realise.
There aren't many bricklayers, electricians or carpenters involved in road construction. And there aren't 50k (the number of tradespeople we're short) people working on these jobs either.
Roads construction isn't finished either. The N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramoge is about to go to construction. The M28 isn't far behind. The Limerick Foynes road is hopefully heading towards construction too.
They might have a go at finishing that childrens hospital in Dublin😉. Fantastic work, lovely video.
Adare bypass has to be next :)
Does anyone know that since 3 big road projects are finishing up (Macroom, Dunkettle, Mayo) this will free up construction workers and will help a bit in alleviating the housing crisis?
Really starting to look complete now.
I have to say; what a fine job by the contractors here. It does look excellent altogether, there are no words to describe how much of an improvement it is over the old route. It is quite the leap forward.
The tie in at the western end is fantastic too.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.95841/-9.19314 suggests you can exit the new road at the Slievereagh end coming from Macroom direction but the latest dronehawk video shows different.
That makes perfect sense. Pretty much all Eastbound traffic will free-flow into the new road; any eastbound join here would be from Baile Bhuirne anyway, so it's no big deal to join at Tonn Lain at the east end of Baile Mhic Íre instead. A westbound exit would really serve nowhere much as you've just passed the only significant settlement for 10 km: most westbound exiters would immediatey U-turn back into Baile Bhuirne, so it's better that they use Tonn Lain instead.
That western "junction" is really a tie-in with the existing route, and it seems to have been limited in order to make a 2+2 upgrade to the west simpler to achieve.
Yes. And re-enter heading west.
No eastbound entry/westbound exit.
So just to be clear on this, can you exit for Ballyvourney at the Slievereagh junction coming from Killarney?
Yes, I can see a lot of U turns on the county boards.
Slievereagh & Carrigaphooca…….two incomplete junctions on the one project.
Yes as I understand it.
There’s west facing slips only. So you can get onto the N22 westbound at Slievereagh and you can exit for Baile Bhuirne coming from Killarney. You can’t exit coming from Macroom or you can’t get onto the new road towards Macroom
2 options:
a) Exit at Toonlane
b) Continue and do a U turn either on the road or at one of the side roads west of Slievereagh
I’m not for a second advocating option b but I can see it happening.
Re: Slievereagh junction.
Basically you can’t exit off the Slievereagh junction to access the Mills / Coolea area
Exit from the N22 is only from the Toonlane junction to allow access Ballyvourney west/Mills/Coolea area
Is this correct?
Here is the latest newsletter from the contractor: http://www.n22bbm.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/N22BBM-Newsletter-July-2023-EN.pdf
...at the expense of everyone else in Macroom? To quote St Benedict: "F__k them".
Is that definitely the case? I thought the whole thing was closing - probably to pacify the residents up that direction.
We’ll get to see what it would have been like if the temp roundabout had never been put in in that case.
It'll still be open from the Millstreet junction
Will be mad having the bypass close for a few days in August, will serve as a nice reminder of why it was so badly needed!
If access to the N22 is to be provided at that location it would have to be some sort of retrofitted slip roads and I can't see it happening tbh.
The current mess has to go or it would be a complete death trap when the new section opens.
Great. The chance of that roundabout staying or being reinstated is virtually nil so.
The bypass is closing for 4 days in August, August 8th to 11th. Roundabout will be removed from the new mainline over those 4 days and the new road will open the whole way from Coolcower to Ballyvourney on the 11th.
What’s the plan for the roundabout when the new section opens? Block access to the old road and remove the roundabout via online work over the following week?
Travelled west to Kerry today. The 24/7 security is still at the 2 mile bridge. This must be in place about 12 years now. Is this specially for the old codger in the caravan or what? Any enlightenment?
Report from TG4 about issues relating to services signage for Múscraí - confirms next section of bypass to open next month.
Drove out there over the weekend. The wearing course has started from the temporary roundabout, further west it looks like they are getting ready for the black stuff through the big cut, with surfacing laid as far as the big bridge before the big cut. It won't be long closing in.
I very much doubt TII will give a fiddler's what local councillors think in this case. They can recognise vote-winning populism just like the rest of us can. And even if this gligín is correct that some truck drivers will choose to go east through town instead of turning left at the Millstreet Cross, doesn't he as a county councillor have the ability to propose a by-law banning HGV through traffic? The road through Macroom is now a non-national road so Cork County Council has a lot more control over it than they did before.
