N11/N25 - Oilgate to Rosslare Harbour [route options published]

newspaper article

Yesterday local newspaper 🤷🏼‍♂️ Round and round we go, where it stops nobody knows

Your guess is as good as mine, all I know is they’ve spent a helluva lot of public money getting nowhere fast

that is the plan as far as I know, but I think it’s way off as there’s a lot of far worse roads in the country. That whole route was upgraded in the late 80s and 90s as wide two lane and outside of rush hour and ferry arrivals isn’t that busy below Wexford town. Far worse roads in the country that had minimal upgrades need attention first

By the time planning goes in or is approved and works are about to start, the legislative requirements will of changed again and we'll be back to square one. It is literally that slow.

You’d be surprised how busy the N25 is all hours of the day

I see Verona Murphy is been taped as one of the Indos that may support the government and i would say this road would be one off her asks especially with her trucking background.

Phase 4 is not due to start till 2026. What if this is her ask what could be done to speed up the process?

It's absolutely appalling how slow infrastructure delivery is in this country.

2029/2030 before this begins?

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/wexford-district/new-rosslare-motorway-remains-ten-years-off-despite-increases-in-traffic/a681184604.html

And Eamonn Hore saying it could be 2029 🙄

The earlier communications suggested M/N11 would be Type 1 DC (“motorway”) for the remainder of its length: bypassing Oilgate, across the Slaney estuary and south to the point where it meets N25, east of Barntown. While the road will probably be Type 1, I think actual motorway restrictions would not begin until Oilgate: a second estuary crossing is too useful to restrict it to motorway-only traffic.

The new sections of N25 will most likely be Type 2 DC ("2+2") throughout. That's for safety reasons, rather than capacity: there's a lot of hairy overtaking here, as car passengers try to get past the HGV traffic to and from the ferry port.

The active travel route for cyclists and pedestrians is apparently holding up progress.