N40 - Cork South Ring Road upgrade [early planning underway]

I think going south around Ballybrack Woods is the only viable choice, but as others have pointed out to me, then it isn't a distributor road. It's a shame, as it is such a short distance (less than 200m). The extension to the Ballybrack Woods to Maryborough Ridge will include going under the Carleton car bridge and under the M28, and people don't seem to care about that. I'm not sure why the R609-R851 bridge is so controversial. I could understand wanting it to be well designed, with appropriate ways for wildlife to get through, but outright not wanting it I don't get. The same people are probably giving out about the traffic in Douglas.. The other option is just go all out on widening Church Road (which isn't even that narrow to begin with, it's just the bridge that's the problem*), but then mass-goers will probably give out about the removal of parking then.

*You can actually see evidence that it was potentially already widened at some point https://maps.app.goo.gl/Je2a9KSrkczdY9iG9

I think they're keeping quiet on that one due to the yelling over the Chetwynd - Kinsale greenway. Utterly hysterical stuff - from the people that occupied the land off CIE in the first place.

Hysterical is the right word, and whipped up deliberately by certain councillors and a small political party trying to make a name for themselves. Such cynical and head-wrecking nonsense. 

That said, there is no reason for the City Council not to proceed here. The permission came through years ago, there is no campaign against it, and it would be relatively straightforward to build. So get the funding and build it, please.

The plan is to make it bus only as part of the Airport Road to City Centre STC in Bus Connects. However, there is zero enforcement of the bus gates on Coburg Street, Patrick Street or Maryborough Hill (the latter being the best observed), so I have no faith the City Council would enforce this bus gate. Especially since the off ramp is AM only. They would need to add barriers to open only for buses, like at the back of Mahon Point

I don't understand why anyone would use this exit tbh, even if it's closer. It's near impossible to get out. It's so much easier to go down to Mick Barry Road and go onto the link that way instead

Putting pedestrian crossings across motorway sliproads is dangerous and stupid.

There should not be pedestrian crossings on any slip road from a dual carriageway. Simple as that. I'm not getting in to a debate. There is no debate to be had. It's dangerous and stupid like I said.

There should be a bus that only does laps of the roundabout all day and can ferry pedestrians safely from one side of the intersection to the other with no need for them to dirty their feet on tarmac.

I suppose we could just let them cross on a green man instead but that's not half as fun.

Yeah I've discussed Vernon Mount Bridge to KRR before with them and they were very positive sounding about trying to progress it, but no idea who's working on it or how far through it they are. Nice to hear there's movement in Lehenaghmore, a full East-West corridor would be transformational. No idea how we're going to get a North-South or a Northern city East-West corridor though!

The Lehenaghmore works are all to do with the road improvements there. They have done some clearance works both sides of the railway bridge. Plan on building a new pedestrian bridge and proper access points to the actual greenway from the Pouladuff road.

There is no actual greenway works as such. But one thing that it has done is open up the railway line for more people to see it. And it looks dreadful, overgrown and fly tipping rubbish everywhere. So maybe this might be a kick for the greenway works to get going in a few years time.

@Aontachtoir from what i gathered. It was from Vernon Mount west to the Frankfield road, west along the N40. And then joined up to the proposed Viaduct greenway. I could be wrong but they seemed to prefer this option over another new bridge into TVP from the Kinsale road side. Again I could be wrong.

will they ever just get going with it, there seems to be no urgency (and maybe funding!).

Years slip by, a few councillors/TDs bring it up once in a while and still nothing of note

I know this is not the correct thread. But I don't know where else to place it

Lehenaghmore Road Improvement Scheme and some works on the old railway line.

This is looking east back to Forge Hill/KRR direction. Clearance works and concrete foundation being built in the foreground for the new pedestrian bridge. There will be an off ramp down to the railway line also. But I presume this will be closed until the Viaduct Greenway will actually be built.

On the other side of the bridge west towards spur hill there is a vegetation clearance and another off ramp going in also.

My most recent query on the viaduct greenway was, it will start when the road works are all completed, which is Q1 2027. I presume more delays, so the greenway MIGHT start Q1 2029, then be opened Q3 2030. This is a very ambitious timeline though…..which is mad when you think about it!!!

thanks Apologies on deflecting from the N40!!

Does the money above? Does it go to different NTA projects? Or is it ringfenced and built up until when the project actually kicks off?

Yes. More specifically I just quoted what was allocated: I can't guarantee from my source (NTA/TII allocations) amounts actually spent.

One of the conditions of the granting of planning approval