N25 - Carrigtwohill to Midleton [route options published]

Yep. I'd fully agree. But it's nowhere near as urgent as the lakeview roundabout junction and East of Midleton though.

The problem is that the local councillors are saying that the N25 needs to be upgraded by TII, for the express purposes of allowing the council to pursue unsustainable development dreams around a newly created junction at milebush...and in doing so, undermining the N25 a little bit.

In short, they want to turn a piece of national infrastructure into their pet distributor. It's not reasonable. They messed up Oatencake, so someone else must fix it, is the attitude. I wouldn't even have minded if they had put in a local distributor plan around milebush, but they didn't bother: their plan was for retail and warehouse sprawl, like they did in Little Island, Cobh Cross, Kinsale Road, Togher, Frankfield, Airport Business Park etc etc etc. That's been their business plan for decades.

They pick a junction on a national road near the city and try and coax businesses to set up near the city, with no supporting infrastructure, hollowing out the city and creating unsustainable developments in the process. Now they want a new junction to built (by TII!) just to facilitate it!

Houses directly on it and short merge lanes. Needs to be resolved. But I fully agree with you, they're not urgent issues whatsoever. In East Cork, this is literally one of the best and safest roads by a long way. The "urgency" to get it done is all to facilitate unsustainable development.

The gridlock referred to currently is being caused by a new set of traffic lights in Ballinacurra which allows a minor road (the "dark road" ) access to the main Ballinacurra road but as a result caused this massive tailback every evening on the n25. It could be fixed in 5 minutes by changing the light sequence.

Have to say that I would agree with this - the modelling should ensure that the route with the most traffic gets a longer priority. Yes that might be frustrating for those on the minor road but volume should determine the sequence. Indeed that's what was done with Oilgate eventually and resolved the issue almost completely.

All this confusion could be avoided by sticking to the OG Carraig Thuathail. ;^)

The trouble with Carrigtwohill specifically is that the mangling kind of says "Rock of Two Hills" which is believable.

Their cycle route through the new scheme was crazy too. They wanted local people to respond to the survey saying that the road was unsafe and needed to be upgraded accordingly. I suspect most locals saw that the proposed "upgrade" was just intended to facilitate development around them, and didn't engage positively. The design proposed to route all non-motorway traffic down Midleton main street to improve safety FFS, a poor effort at best.