Dublin Eastern Bypass feasibility report

Cool Mo D wrote: »

Ok, lets look at the numbers then. The current M50 widening is actually adding 2 lanes - the old setup was 2 lanes plus hard shoulder, the new setup will be 3 lanes plus auxiliary lane, plus hard shoulder. To get an idea of how much it will cost to add another lane, forget the 1 billion PPP cost of the existing widening. That 1billion covers the widening plus 30 years of maintenance, and all the large junction upgrades and will include 2 further resurfacings of the road in years to come. The capital cost of widening is much less.

• Yes adding two lanes on a green wide median. Where are you going to put the traffic when widening the road further now? Where are you going to build, when there is no room currently to cater the current traffic that uses it.
• Also, your going to have to take adjacent land off the verges, removed the Lighting, walls earth and siignage, thats going to cost money. You do know that there is solid rock at the N4 junction.
• You now after a second upgrade would have to use far more tarmac, 10/2HS lanes for 30miles... That is alot more tarmac than this upgrade, alot more. and alot more than the M1 four lanes.
• You also need to replace every bridge.. old and the current ones. the Redcow will cost how much to knock, after been upgraded already?

A very similar project across the water, where all bridges had to be knocked is the M1 widening project from London to Luton, widening from 3 lanes to 4. 10 miles of widening cost £300million http://www.cbrd.co.uk/futures/scheme.php?id=138. Construction and land costs are similar there to here, so the costs should be about the same. Since the whole M50 is about 30 miles, the cost would be £900 million to do a similar job on the M50. This is about €1 billion.

The land adjacent to the M50 is far more expensive than greenfield site along a long distance motorway that of the M1. The land cost would be higher here, and land cost around the M50 would be way higher. As it's built up on either side. Also that price is in pounds.

So your quite wrong. You really have no idea, if the planners were clearly trying upgrade the M50 to it's maximum, they were stupid to build the new bridges the same width though, but it doesn't matter now, all bridges would have to be knocked. This would be astronomical in costs.

But that's not really relevant. I drive on the M50 regularly at rush hour, and the parts where widening is finished move freely now. The bottlenecks are at Blanch and Ballymount where the road narrows. Once these are removed, the M50 will be perfectly sufficient for Dublins motorway needs for the time being.

Well you brought up the topic of the M50, and now it's irrelevant.

Do you read your own posts, ffs.:rolleyes: No it's not. The road will be at capactiy once finished. We were talking about the east cost of the city where the Port tunnel currently dumps at the Eastlink bridge. The latter of the route should finish on the southside.

But the question I'm asking is - what journeys does this provide that aren't currently catered for? The only two I can see is going South to North via the port tunnel, which is catered for by the M50, or going from South to the city centre. A city centre we have spent 15 years trying to remove commuter traffic from. What is the compelling reason for this motorway? Whose lives will it improve? What strategic journeys will it allow?

• Well for one it will complete the motorway ring.
• It will allow to access points in the city. Port tunnell and Sandyford, at the moment all M50 traffic has to use the Port tunnel entrance,including traffic from the south and N7, it's a very unecessary drive.
• It will relieve traffic in Ringsend, Stillorgan, South ciriculur roads, Sandyford, Dundrum and the coast road, wherre traffic is chronic.
• It will also allow H.G.Vs have direct access to the port from the south and N11.
• It would ease the N11 hugely.
• It would give N7 traffic another alternatative to gain access to the south rather than entering the RI10 via Longmile and Walkinstown towards south Dublin.
• It will give the M50 and the city a second lung, if the M50 goes to a complete standstill the eastlink can cater for the alternative traffic.

Because I can tell you what it will make worse - the people living next to it will be forced to deal with the traffic and community severance a large motorway brings.

BALONY. Next to it, I live near the Port tunnell. It has no effect WHATSOVER negatively, infact it has removed all the trucks and heavy traffic from the main road. It gives the local road back to the poeple of the area. Also the tunnel goes underground not over my house, as will the eastlink tunnel. What is your argument here? You are just talking pure nonsense. Trafific impact would be positive, so your again wrong with this argument.

Other than completely bull****ting, have you any other valid point?

With the traffic? You live in a city for god sake. Most of it is tunnelled, and the latter half is on a green field site going through Sandyford, this greenbelt is provided for this road.

So again you don't have a clue of what your talking about. Did you read the feasbility report. No I guess not.:rolleyes:

Dublin commuters will have to wait longer for good public transport, as funds are pumped into a road network that will always be inadequate for the demand. Or those of us that have to pay for this white elephant, which could easily buy, and take your pick:
-A high capacity metro system for Dublin
-The interconnector, plus electrification of commuter lines in Dublin, plus 4 tracking of the northern line, plus improvements to the Cork and Belfast lines to give travel times of <2hours and <1.5hours respectively, and proper suburban rail networks in Limerick and Galway with dual track to Limerick junction and Athenry.
-Every other important road project in the state: the Cork Limerick motorway, the Limerick Galway motorway including Galway bypass, sorting out Newlands cross, and the Cork south ring road roundbouts, and building a bypass around New Ross, Enniscorthy, Adare, and improving the N24, N4, N17 and N25.

Yet your post, show more idiocy and contradictory nonsense. You state we shouldn't build more roads such as the Eastlink , yet your up for building of more roads in the same paragraph.

Clearly showing that you really don't have much clarity and points to anything.

Can you really say that this is a priority compared to the above projects?

It is a priority. It is a priority like the metro, I can think of many projects that are a lesser prority than the eastlink.

Like the M3, the M9, the Tullamore bypass are just to name a few, but they went ahead regardless.

You still haven't given any evidence why they shouldn't build this, other than your notions it will affect people. Do you live in D4 or something?

lostexpectation wrote: »

all that from the writer of this thread... Will we ever get a 8 lane highway http://ww.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054875131

:rolleyes:

Hahaha I feel flattered that you had to go all the way back to 2006 and find something like that.

Yeah it was a question I put out there, since we don't have a 4lane each way highway in this country. Belfast has a five lane highway. I never made a serious dicussion or made any real contender for one.

Though the M50 redcow to Newlands should be at least 4 lanes each way.
But since you had to drag a 3 year old thread, your obviously made an issue about it.

ROFL....:P

Go back to your argument of which city has a coast, and then which city does and wait which is in Dublins category, but now which has U ring or a C ring. etc.

lostexpectation wrote: »

you still havn't calmed down, take victor's advice.

i was quoting you

i was making a simple request for provide examples of coastal cities you couldn't accept this, and cotinued ranting and calling everyone retarded perhaps you could apologise for that and we can move on.

I was pretty calm, I wasn't annoyed. I couldn't accept what? I'd prefer Victor to make the judgments.
I'd prefer to stick to the topic aswell. Lostexpectation, you clearly were not making sense as you kept making constants assertions and avoiding the some truths here on the board, nor would you except any examples as I've shown you. You basically avoided my responses, On top of that you brang up old stuff on other threads that were dicussed three years ago. for what I don't know..

I personally think you have only confused yourself here. I'm dicussing the Eastern bypass issue here, nothing else. I really don't know what your going on about. Nor do I think its worth going into any more.

Anyway I hope this clarifies everything. Cus I'm done with it. P.S I thanked victor for his action.