New Shop Maynooth

It's not surprising so many are breaking red lights when some of them only stay green for about 3 seconds. Parson street is going to be a nightmare.

24hr works cost a lot more than daytime/daylight only ops. Lighting, power for said lighting, reams of paperwork and most of all - wages. Also may not even be that easy to find four/five shifts of workers.

That's why they're basically non existent on commercial builds and only really turn up on things like bridge lifts

Obviously it costs more, but there are times that spending a bit more is worth it.

And to not inconvenience and entire town and University I'd be fine with that. Traffic will be backed up in 4 directions as a result of this for basically a year.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19tHXyh32D/

Actually, if this is true, it's all looking comical. While still searching, spotted another ad looking for a 360 digger driver on a jobs page, same contact number as ad above.

So, if true, day before work starts, they are looking for traffic management staff and construction workers

https://kildarecoco.ie/News/CommencementofWorksMillStreetMaynooth.html

Finally found something official, only posted up yesterday on Kildare CoCo website.

So now it's a 12 month projext, with multiple phases and this weeks works will have only temporary traffic and pedestrian measures in place but no road closures?

People on the Straffan Road can nip around the back road to Tesco.
Will be even easier if/when they open up the road from Mullen Park into Griffin Rath.

There's also Supervalu too. Donovans for picking up a few quick bits. Not exactly a massive hardship.

People on the Newtown/Rathcoffey Road never had any supermarket on their side of town.…..

Exactly. Delighted with these works. Only drivers are affected.

These works wont do anything to help buses that are always stuck in traffic. Only solution is the ring roads and banning private cars from main street.

Mill Street isn't going to be restricted whatsoever, what makes you think that? And why would cars end up encroaching on to cycle lanes? Not sure how you have come to this conclusion at all. There will still be 2 car lanes once the work is completed, one in each direction, exactly as it is today. Cycle lanes will be mostly segregated from car traffic, which is better for everyone.

Nobody disputes the fact that the ring road ultimately is needed to take cars out of the town, but as I mentioned in a previous post, the Mill Street works are not being done to alleviate traffic. They have a completely different purpose (improving the street for pedestrians, cyclists, and the general streetscape). If we don't bother doing any other works until the ring road is built, we might aswell be waiting for Godot.

FYI - I have a car, bike, and 2 feet. I utilise all 3 modes to get me from A to B depending on the circumstance. Yes I will be inconvenienced temporarily while the works are going on if I happen to be driving somewhere, but so be it.

The same gobshites no doubt using the roads/paths that were previously upgraded in a similar manner as here.

If they had their way, we'd still have the old Bond Bridge with cars driving inches from the wall with people trying to walk over it without getting the belt of a wing mirror, petrol pumps in the middle of the main street, and a stinking mill with rats scurrying around as kids walk past to school.

Anyone know what the zoning is for that site that's now for sale on Rathcoffey Road? It's on the right as you head towards Rathcoffey before you cross the motorway.