M28 - Cork to Ringaskiddy [under construction; 2028 completion]

I see the current end date is now 2030……

that's fairly depressing for 12.5km (2.5km/yr)… with no significant bridges, tunnels, etc..

Some of the personal comments he puts on Youtube can be wonky too. He had been responding positively to a lot of "bring bak de traaaane" posts on the Youghal Greenway videos. The usual "no hi vis" and "lycra clad" bingo cards. Again, absolutely fantastic videos, just the written content isn't perfect.

Bloomfield tie-in and Maryborough is probably the most finicky parts.

who did dunkettle?

Is that definite? Any news of when they will start? Isn't there less leeway for extras in fixed price infrastructural projects? If there's a ton of rock along the route then its tough luck. You've seen the cards in the the tender documents, including site investigations, and you have to play them.

BAM Civil will do N28.

BAM Building is doing the Children’s Hospital.

They have the same ultimate owner, but they’re separate organisations within that group: this was a lot clearer before 2008 when they traded as Ascon and Rohcon, respectively.

Just to be clear, there are two contracts. Sorensen Civil Engineering are main contractor for the Protected Road Project from Barnahely to Ringaskiddy. BAM Ireland (BAM Civil) are apparently the contractor for the Motorway section from Bloomfield to Barnahely, which incorporates a short non-motorway stretch at it’s Northern end.

Have heard BAM also - totally different source - in Dublin, would you believe it? 99% reliable.

I’m only surmising here but, in view of the huge amount of taxpayer monies being allocated, one final ministerial signature doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. That’s not the same thing as cabinet approval. When my boss approves me to spend up to €5,000 on a work trip, they still have to sign off on the airfare and the hotel reservation, even if they’re within the approved limit. Checks and balances. But I really don’t know how these things work in the public sector.

I’ve just noticed something that I’d previously missed in the August press release about the contract going to tender. The last paragraph says, “subject to cabinet approval”:

https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/news/tender-published-for-m28-motorway-linking-rochestown-with-ringaskiddy

As I mentioned before, longstanding tradition is that caretaker governments don’t write big cheques. So that likely explains the delay. Now that the new cabinet is finally in place, it’s presumably just a case of how quickly the new minister gets up to speed. Hopefully, this will be resolved soon.

I really don’t know. But several people have said recently in this thread that the contract is going to BAM, which sounds like things are at least close. And I’m just saying that we’re now out of the political interregnum.

There is machinery back at the Rochestown Road entrance to Bloomfield

A further 350 houses planned just south of Carrigaline. The town is at absolute bursting point.

It will have a single dumbbell interchange linking it to the M28. I’ve said before that a second interchange was required to feed into the R613 west of the town.

The traffic trying to enter the town at peak times on the R611 will IMO back out onto the M28 from the Cork direction.

It’s already horrendous. However, we’ll not have nearly twice the flow heading towards the R611 when the M28 opens. It’ll be chaos.

I haven’t heard of any plans to bring commuter or light rail to Carrigaline. I think more improvements to bus services / bus connect is as good as Carrigaline can hope for.

Apologies, bad habit of mine but that comment was dripping in sarcasm. Unfortunately the southern edges of the city have no public transport planned in either short, medium or long term apart from Bus Connects, and our friends in the city/city council have done their best to make that unviable.

I have spoken to elected and non-elected candidates on this and they don't want to know. They just blurt out "Bus Connects" and consider the matter closed.