N22 - Macroom to Ballyvourney (Macroom Bypass) [open to traffic]

No harm that there's a bit of enforcement on this. In fact any new stretch of road opened should be well patrolled for the first few months in order to get a standard well and truly established.

Another shout out to the people on the this thread who got very angry when it was suggested that some people may actually be breaking the speed limit on this new road 😁

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41327263.html

If you mean me, in my defence (and I still stand by it) I haven't seen many people do over the limit on the road the few times I've been on it. But I seem to be fairly consistently hitting it in bad weather which is definitely a factor.

I'll let you know when I plan to drive it next, so you'll know to expect rain.

Firstly, nobody on this thread said that “nobody ever speeds on this road”. I called BS on a ludicrous claim that “120/130 would be the average” because I had not observed anything like that. Another poster said, “most people seem to be doing it right,” and yet another poster said, “people are overwhelmingly sticking to the limit.” Don’t try to twist what people wrote.

Secondly, an ADT of about 8,000 vehicles per day for 14 months is about 3.36M journeys. So the 360 detections over that time period represent 0.01% (1 in 10,000) of journeys. Do you really think they’d have numbers that low if, as was claimed, the average was greater than motorway limits? No, you don’t.

You’re just another person trying to normalise your anti-social behaviour.

With a small difference; different bunch spent the money, and different bunch is making the money 😆

That dogleg is outside the upgrade scheme boundary,but yes it should be higher up Cork Co Council's list, than it obviously is, along with other street improvements along the old N22 through Macroom.

That story would make a thread on its own. I won't tell it because I only know little bits of it, but I also noticed that the lad with the caravan is gone at least for now.

Since the thread has been awaken I'll take the opportunity to ask, how is Macroom town doing now since the reopening? Any green shoots of new life like cafes etc now that the town isn't clogged with traffic?

Found this from 2015 on BOARDS.IE

Macroom Bridge
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Is there always a person in a portacabin on the bridge on the Cork side of Macroom? What's the story there? :confused:

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I've wondered that myself! And what's the story with the ladder at the entrance?

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A few years ago there was a number of cars in the field by the bridge. The owner was taken to Court to remove the cars; they were deemed a health hazard.

The Judge had to plead with him to clean up the site.

Maybe that man lives in that port cabin. After all the legal proceedings and clean up costs he may not afford a house.

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There was a load of asbestos (and other stuff) dumped there a few years ago. Presume the cabin was a site cabin left over from the clean-up.

The ladder is a lame attempt at securing the cow-tail pump that it's tied to from theft I assume.

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/corkman/news/esb-hit-with-bill-for-asbestos-cleanup-at-site-near-macroom-27096480.html

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/esb-faces-15m-bill-over-illegally-dumped-asbestos-205587.html

I wonder has he passed away?