N8/N25/N40 - Dunkettle Interchange [open to traffic]

ANPR and cameras are already in place on N40.

The trouble is I don't believe it is "piss poor driving". The people doing it are likely competent drivers, but choose to be terrible on the roads and bully everyone else. Thats harder to solve.

But the police etc here have absolutely no interest in doing anything about it.

Nah, its the wholly unnecessary 2-into-1 and then the subsequent merge into the with the Little Island traffic on the N25 slip into the tunnel southbound that is causing the problems there. And the result is some people are going down to the Dunkettle Roundabout, doing a loop of it, and then accessing the tunnel via the N25E to N40S loop - which is causing some delays again on the M8S.

I know that there are constraints there, but that 2-into-1 is just ridiculous I think. Would flow better without it.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41357416.html

I keep reading that the NRR is now the only other solution to resolve traffic here.

How will an NRR help with N25 - Tunnel traffic. It will hardly remove any traffic from this movement.

So what's causing the East Cork backlog into tunnel, the merging lanes before the tunnel?

Would be quite a detour although likely faster given traffic levels on both routes.

Pretty much it ,the design of the merge points isnt great , moving the n25 merge back was a good idea , but the little island merge is very long , and the final merge is right before the bend ,

It could be tweaked

Nothing really much construction wise, more likely landscaping details. Weird not getting the weekly update

I'm not sure many here are saying it's the solution to the Dunkettle Interchange? Rather plenty people (me included) are saying that capacity expansion of the N40 (for instance at Douglas) isn't a sensible use of money. The N40 north is needed for N/M20 to Dunkettle link, and it's needed for the N/M20 to Ballincollig link, but it's not going to solve N25/N40 traffic issues.

The issue isn't the DkI, the issue is reams of one-off-housing with no sustainable connectivity or alternative connectivity.

I'd like to take a second to point out that the same public representatives who are bemoaning the traffic on the N25 are pushing for new large housing developments to be built and connected right onto the N25 (using public money, no less!). They're in no way a trustworthy source of information or transportation ideas. I'd go further and say that some of them haven't got a clue what they're talking about and are best ignored.

The cheerleaders and facilitators of the DkI issue are the same ones complaining about the mess they're very actively creating. If I was in the NTA or TII I'd be absolutely fed up of hearing their nonsense.

By way of explanation, development after development is getting approved in the County LA area with no facilitating infrastructure. Ballinglanna, Waterrock, Adamstown, Blossomhill, Broomfield, Castleredmond etc etc etc. Each of these is promising that there will be no significant increase in car traffic, in order to get approval. Each one is getting cheered on by the council, because houses are so desperately needed. Each one is adding lots of additional traffic onto the N25.

Even on a basic level, the same council took the planning regulator to court for trying to stop them building a surface outlet mall in Carrigtohill!

"I'm pro unsustainable growth in car traffic, and someone needs to solve the mess I'm creating"

There is big rail project currently ongoing to serve those housing developments in East Cork you're talking about. It includes two new stations to serve Water Rock and Carrigtwohill West with electric trains running up to every 10 minutes.

However, to get commuters off the N25 to N40 route (The JLT) a significant improvement in the intermodal interconnection environment is needed at Kent Station connecting the Cork East area to the Cork South area.

Thats a big part of the problem. The bus links are terrible from Kent. You can't even get from the station to the hospital without changing buses or walking up a dodgy set of steps. There should also be many more bus lanes in the city.

Signage is finally being updated at Dunkettle Roundabout (and the entire length of the N8, bar the eastbound roundabout sign). So far, the N8 exit and M8/N40/N25 exit signs updated with N40. Glanmire exit sign still to be done. While one of the N8 on ramp roundabout signs from the tunnel was updated to remove Cork and replace it with City Centre, all of the new signage at Dunkettle Roundabout says Cork, until the very first sign on the N8 (just <50m after the roundabout). Little Island still has the City Centre/Cork/Limerick mix up, and another sign showing the same mistake has since been added.

the signage on the N40 indicates that it’s accessible from both lanes. It’s an absolute mess.

Who are you mailing? I'm going to send them something too.