Has a particularly high accident rate and there’s been a lot of local pressure to improve this - traffic volumes have increased a lot on this road since the M9 opened but the N80 has stayed the same
What looks like a bit of clearance and flattening for site compounds has been established. A few lads there digging today.
I do fear that they are about to reduce the entire of the R498 to 60kmh as part of the reduction in speed limits in a few months, which will be an awful stretch of road to potter along at that speed.
Tralee Northern Relief Road due to open middle of next year according to below. I think this will really increase the access to and benefit of the existing Tralee bypass as this relief road will enable motorists from all villages and towns north and north west of Tralee to avoid the town completely as they head to Limerick, Cork and beyond.
https://www.radiokerry.ie/news/main-contract-for-section-a-of-tralee-northern-relief-road-awarded-to-tipperary-firm-420473
I'd agree with you on not reducing the speed on the R498 overall but the Latteragh bends section should likely have been 60km/h all along.
Hopefully thevworks will get underway soon
Looks like Sligo CoCo are getting the ball rolling on extending the recently improved stretch of road at Lugatober on the N16 down to Sligo Town. A distance just shy of 4km. Early stages yet
https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=5159672
Still think they should be heading west not south to hook in with an eventually widened N15.
Why do you think heading west is a better option?. Is it the land topography?
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121672762#Comment_121672762
Very nice job done on this realignment- open but with speed restrictions and landscaping etc still being completed. Would be a great shame to see the likes of this revert to a silly 80kmh blanket limit- where road conditions are poor yes an 80kmh limit is appropriate but not on higher standard national primary roads
N17 is a primary road, so the so-called "blanket" 80 km/h limit wouldn't apply. Primary roads are 100 km/h by default unless that's not a safe speed.
Hard to tell because of the bad post embed, but I think he's taking about N77 which is a national secondary road, so could be lowered to 80 next year. But again councils can make exceptions to the default limits and presumably a newly engineered section of road would meet criteria for 100km/h
Simply because there's no need to upgrade the N15 and N16 when both are parallel roads leading into the same town and only 2.5 km apart.
Anyone know if the N52 Cavestown to Kilrush project between Clonmellon and Delvin has moved any further on?
R498 Latteragh out to tender
https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=5235103
22 million euro.
The R498 looks extremely busy for a regional road.
About time. That section of road is absolutely terrible. It is remarkably busy for an R road.
Realistically there should be 2+2 from the M8 junction to the north of Thurles, and new-build S2 all the way to Nenagh.
Mayo roads office going mad with the crayons!
There must be some reason they did that. Seems like they are trying to make a point . Doesn't make sense otherwise.
Thurles needs a bypass for sure but the road east of it to the M8 is adequate, never that busy. Doesn’t need to be 2+2
Nenagh-Thurles definitely would warrant a proper N road.
Wasn't sure where else to put this so I'll put it here (website seems to not be working right);
https://carlowsouthernreliefroad.ie/public-consultation/
What is the CSRR? The CSRR is a long-term strategic project that will provide a 7-8 km multi-modal transport corridor around the southern part of Carlow town. The project aims to reduce traffic congestion in the town centre, provide improved and/or new transport facilities and improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists.
I'd be worried about this being a "multi-modal transport corridor". To me, the logical thing would be to create an N80 southern bypass running from the N80 south-east of the town, around to the existing relief road on the western side. The existing N80 to the north and west of the town then becomes a distributor road and the town centre becoming much more pedestrian/cyclist/public transport friendly. A "multi-modal transport corridor" on the edge of the town sounds like a road with cycle lanes which nobody will ever use while the town centre remains riddled with cars.
Glenamuck Road scheme (near Carrickmines Retail Park) due to partially open next Thursday:
DLRCoCo
Opened
That road and the final part are a huge change for the area that will unlock its development over the next decade or two. Expect residential development in that whole area to sprout up.
Very easy for DLR Co Co to get these things built as it will pay for itself very quickly via developers contributions
More sprawl - Just what Dublin needs!
Um, what? We have a housing crisis?!
We should be building new developments everywhere possible as fast as possible.
Any word on a contractor for Latteragh yet?
Certainly no work going on yesterday when I passed through.
Not at the expense of the city becoming super sprawled into greenfield areas instead of developing the many brownfield sites that can accommodate tens of thousands of homes within the city footprint. It means all services to these outer suburbs are poor, unviable and stretched further.
Apart from quality of living going down for people living in distant suburbs, the cost/benefit doesn't add up over time to keep investing in infrastructure like transport further and further out into low density areas.
It's just bad planning; a mutually exclusive issue from the housing crisis, which I agree is a supply issue.
The real root cause is the planning and legal system which make millions from the process which, by the way is completely ludicrous and doesn't happen at anything near this level in other EU countries.
Build as much as possible into the countryside and sprawl the city is the wrong attitude to a strategic problem for the future of the country.
Theres an article about it today. Funding approved, preferred contractor notified. Two years to get it done.
https://tippfm.com/news/traffic/r498-latteragh-bends-project-back-on-track/
