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Phoenix Park Castleknock Gate to close

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  • #62
    celticbest
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    Just wondering if anyone know what stage the works are at ??

    Is there any chance that it will be completed before the end of November??


  • #63
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    Hard to know without seeing the full plans. The roundabout has taken shape anyway, the kerbing around it is all done although they'll need to remove some at the end of the footpath and cycle lane, they were working on it bank holiday Monday. Not too sure about the drainage though, the ditches from the Castleknock gate to the roundabout were full of water meaning if there was continuing rainfall it would have spilled over.


  • #64
    celticbest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,088 ✭✭✭celticbest


    Does anybody know if the re-opening of the Castleknock Gate is still on for the 30th of November as stated on the phoenix Park website??

    http://www.phoenixpark.ie/newsevents/title,11997,en.html


  • #65
    Jip
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    The roundabout looks more or less done but I don't know how much work is involved with drainage as the ditches either side have been full to the brim each time I've gone by.


  • #66
    pvt.joker
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    its opening on monday 23rd November


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  • #67
    MIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭MIP


    pvt.joker wrote: »
    its opening on monday 23rd November

    Thanks, confirmation here for anyone who wants it:
    http://www.phoenixpark.ie/newsevents/title,11997,en.html


  • #68
    daymobrew
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    It was open this evening. It looks quite minimal.


  • #69
    BostonB
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    daymobrew wrote: »
    It was open this evening. It looks quite minimal.

    Other than a brick circle you'd think it had hardly changed. I wonder is it as visible at night? Be interesting to see does it flood now.


  • #70
    hawkwing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,963 ✭✭✭hawkwing


    I thought when it was closed for a few weeks that they might resurface the road also but this was not done.


  • #71
    BostonB
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    I see the indo says this junction had one of the highest accidents in the city for years. Is that true I find that hard to believe.

    Of course the indo is hard to believe at the best of times


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  • #72
    daymobrew
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    BostonB wrote: »
    I wonder is it as visible at night?
    On the approach from Ordnance Survey Road, there is a very visible reflector right at the junction - it looks like one of the vertical markers that made up the old roundabout.


  • #73
    Jip
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    BostonB wrote: »
    I wonder is it as visible at night?.

    Very, I went by it one night last week on the bike with a fairly decent light and it was like I was approaching an landing strip such was the amount of very reflective cat eyes. That's as long as they remain clean I guess.


  • #74
    BostonB
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    daymobrew wrote: »
    On the approach from Ordnance Survey Road, there is a very visible reflector right at the junction - it looks like one of the vertical markers that made up the old roundabout.

    I kinda meant more visible than the temp one. Which had the advantage of being removable for events like car racing.


  • #75
    daymobrew
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    BostonB wrote: »
    I kinda meant more visible than the temp one. Which had the advantage of being removable for events like car racing.
    Compared to the temp one I don't think that the roundabout itself was very visible - it is very shallow, sort of like the bump roundabout on Auburn Ave at N3.

    I was commenting that one should not fail to see the junction because of the reflective item at the edge of the roundabout. I think you have to see it.


  • #76
    BostonB
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    You're right. Came through last night and is lit like a run way. Is smaller now and the turn is either narrower or the kerbs stick out more.


  • #77
    Bunnyhopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    BostonB wrote: »
    I see the indo says this junction had one of the highest accidents in the city for years. Is that true I find that hard to believe.

    When it was just a crossroads it had a fairly bad reputation, alright, but that's going back a while now.

    I cycled past there the other day and I did wonder what they'd been doing for all that time. The road surface between the Mountjoy roundabout and the Castleknock gate is a bad as it was. The new roundabout looks so tight that I'd say it'd be hard to get around it without swinging wide of the marked lane. Plus, from what I've heard there seem to have been the same old problems with flooding (mind you, this might not be the fairest time to judge that one).


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