N17 realignment at Milltown.

Cash is king wrote: »

I see Wills are doing the work on this bit of minor realingment but why have they not started more south towards Milltown where the road is worse imo and those bloody railway tracks would shake the teeth out of your head.

Better still why didnt they bypass that kip Milltown, it's more like downtown Beirut in terms of road surface.

I presume lack of funding answers both questions but you would imagine it wouldn't cost that much more.

Discuss.

Resurrecting an old thread here rather than posting in the minor schemes thread where it might get lost. Archaeological consultants were appointed yesterday for the Milltown to Gortnagunned scheme. Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/irish-archaeological-consultancy-ltd_appointment-archaeologicalconsultants-ugcPost-7123220587191103488-q9_e

IAC Archaeology are delighted to announce that we have been appointed by Transport Infrastructure Ireland and Galway County Council as Archaeological Consultants for the N17 Milltown to Gortnagunned Road Scheme in Co. Galway. Our successful quality-based tender proposal was selected to provide Stages 1-4 excavation and post-excavation services and act as Project Supervisor for Construction Stage (PSCS). Pre-construction works will include archaeological geophysical and architectural heritage surveys, test excavation, excavation and post-excavation analyses, reporting, dissemination and archiving. We hope to commence onsite work on this project in November. Watch our social media spaces for updates on our progress and interesting findings.

See the council's project page.

Hope this is ok but bumping this thread with ELCAT2009's post in the minor schemes thread. Progress is painfully slow on this, it seems construction is probably 2 years away. It's very frustrating that even these small uncontroversial projects take ages to come to fruition.

Notice to enter issued to land owners on the N17 Milltown to Gortnagunnad scheme with date of April 29th 2024. Indication is that site clearance, fencing and service diversion works will take place in Autumn 2024. Followed by demolition of structures. Main contract works to be tendered by Q2 2025.

So despite Notice of entry, main contract works still over a year away it seems. Progress all the same albeit slow!

Latest from GCC: Tender process expected early 2026; construction to start Q3 2026.

Have they tendered for the main construction contract yet? It will be interesting how they approach the railway crossing- there is no bridge planned and IE may be working on track clearance and other preliminary WRC related works at the same time as the road is being built.

I just noticed that the CPO for the road covers land owned by Irish Rail, including 50 metres or so of the trackbed. It's still state owned land at the end of the day, but I hope this won't lead to issues around access etc.

Are there works going on?