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Waterford to Danesfort Motorway

  • 15-02-2010 3:06pm
    #1
    comeraghs
    Registered Users Posts: 957 ✭✭✭


    Due to open March 8th according to KK people ....

    great day ...I´ll never have to see Ballyhell, Thomastown or Mullinavegas again :)
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  • #2
    jonnycwh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭jonnycwh


    jesus thomastown will be even deader than it already is. yes deader is a word :D


  • #3
    nkay1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,975 ✭✭✭nkay1985


    comeraghs wrote: »
    Due to open March 8th according to KK people ....

    great day ...I´ll never have to see Ballyhell, Thomastown or Mullinavegas again :)

    Will be very nice alright.

    We're finally getting some decent transport infrastructure!


  • #4
    Bards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭Bards


    been discussed in depth (With photos) over at Infrastructure

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055372962


  • #5
    longshanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    jonnycwh wrote: »
    jesus thomastown will be even deader than it already is. yes deader is a word :D

    its a perfectly cromulent word


  • #6
    comeraghs
    Registered Users Posts: 957 ✭✭✭comeraghs


    Thomastown will benefit from the bypass ... the place could be attractive to tourists when all that traffic is gone & people can park.

    BallyHale & Mullinavat are totally Bolloxed!


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  • #7
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,271 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    comeraghs wrote: »
    Thomastown will benefit from the bypass ... the place could be attractive to tourists when all that traffic is gone & people can park.

    BallyHale & Mullinavat are totally Bolloxed!
    I wonder will those pr1icks still cover the kips in flags every August when they realise now we have no reason to ever be in their sh1tty little villages again?


  • #8
    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭testicle


    comeraghs wrote: »
    Thomastown will benefit from the bypass ... the place could be attractive to tourists when all that traffic is gone & people can park.

    Tourists???? In Thomastown???? Have you gone insane?


  • #9
    linny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 572 ✭✭✭linny


    no we'l stick them up all along our lovely m9, so ye can enjoy them:D


  • #10
    gobo99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 566 ✭✭✭gobo99


    CantGetNoSleep wrote: »
    I wonder will those pr1icks still cover the kips in flags every August when they realise now we have no reason to ever be in their sh1tty little villages again?
    sure mabey ye will pass through on your way home with Liam McCarthy some day, blowing horns and waving fl........ no wait you were right the first time.


    What i want to know is will waterford fans still take the coast road home?;)


  • #11
    alpha2zulu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭alpha2zulu


    linny wrote: »
    no we'l stick them up all along our lovely m9, so ye can enjoy them:D

    Well technically it is the Danesfort-Klimacow motorway ...the M9 ends several miles from Waterford after all.:D

    Anyway the 8th March opening date is now looking dead in the water because of some alledged health and safety issue. All covered over in the M9 thread.


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  • #12
    wellboy76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭wellboy76


    gobo99 wrote: »
    sure mabey ye will pass through on your way home with Liam McCarthy some day, blowing horns and waving fl........ no wait you were right the first time.


    What i want to know is will waterford fans still take the coast road home?;)



    Hurling really is the bee-all and end-all up there isnt it:rolleyes:


  • #13
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,510 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    wellboy76 wrote: »
    Hurling really is the bee-all and end-all up there isnt it:rolleyes:

    nah its not, he's likely just trying to wind you up....poor poor attempt
    :rolleyes:


  • #14
    gscully
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭gscully


    wellboy76 wrote: »
    Hurling really is the bee-all and end-all up there isnt it:rolleyes:

    I'm no hurling fan, but I do appreciate the All-Ireland competition. It gives the KK folk a chance to forget about their aspirations of becoming a real city and concentrate on something more attainable :p


  • #15
    Bards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭Bards


    gobo99 wrote: »
    sure mabey ye will pass through on your way home with Liam McCarthy some day, blowing horns and waving fl........ no wait you were right the first time.


    What i want to know is will waterford fans still take the coast road home?;)

    well, at least we'll feel at home on the new road, what with all those blue and white signs instead of the black and amber ones we had to endure for all these years:D


  • #16
    JohnC.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/Motorway-to-open-on-Monday.6156455.jp
    At this point, it's well known the motorway opens Monday, but if you fancy a cycle on it, for charity, there's a cycle from Danesfort to Waterford and back on Sunday.


  • #17
    wmpdd3
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    Finally!


  • #18
    old gregg
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    out of interest and lashings of laziness on my part cos I don't often travel that way to Dublin but if you travel this new route towards Dansefort, what happens when you get there if going to Dublin? Do you still have to do the regular journey into Kilkenny and then on to Paulstown to meet up with the rest of the motorway? And for folks who do go this way, is it still faster to go via Thomastown?

    I know it will eventually all meet up but just at the moment what's the story, morning glory?

    Golly I made a meal of that:p


  • #19
    rayc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭rayc


    Yeah at the minute the primary route will be to continue into kilkenny and follow the ring road around to the Dublin exit. They're doing some upgrade works on the ring road at the minute in preparation for the traffic increase.

    I'd expect, depending on time of day, it will be about the same as going by thomastown, or maybe shorter by about 5 mins. Hell of a lot nicer and less frustrating drive though.


  • #20
    baronflyguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭baronflyguy


    Kahless wrote: »
    http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/Motorway-to-open-on-Monday.6156455.jp
    At this point, it's well known the motorway opens Monday, but if you fancy a cycle on it, for charity, there's a cycle from Danesfort to Waterford and back on Sunday.
    I did the cycle with about 50 others. Clocked up 75kms round trip from Danesfort to Waterford and back again. Took about 3 hours. Headwind all the way to Waterford, much smoother cycle back to Danefort and less hilly.


  • #21
    kayaksurfbum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 700 ✭✭✭kayaksurfbum


    It was a great day for a cycle alright but i was a bit unhappy with the lack of support. there was alot of people who got to the half way mark with no food or water when they were expecting some! one guy rang his mates who were still on the way and told them to turn off the road and find a shop because they all needed water! iv done a good few sportives and they always have at least a bottle of water for the people taking part!

    It was still a great spin, my GF's first long trip on the bike, i had told her theres always tea and cakes at the end of these things. but no. not even a thanks for turning up!


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  • #22
    baronflyguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭baronflyguy


    kayaksurfbum wrote: »
    It was a great day for a cycle alright but i was a bit unhappy with the lack of support. there was alot of people who got to the half way mark with no food or water when they were expecting some! one guy rang his mates who were still on the way and told them to turn off the road and find a shop because they all needed water! iv done a good few sportives and they always have at least a bottle of water for the people taking part!

    It was still a great spin, my GF's first long trip on the bike, i had told her theres always tea and cakes at the end of these things. but no. not even a thanks for turning up!
    Yes I agree, nice cycle, and it was a good idea to get permission for Kilkennyt Co Co to do a cycle on a motorway just before it opened. The organisation of the food and water was missed. There should have been a water support vehicle at the waterford end. I gave my banana to two girls to share and offered some water at the halfway stop at the Waterford roundabout. I was lucky to carry two water bottles and extra food, when I go cycling I don't assume food and water supplied. The two who organised the cycle are fairly sound to be honest and were raising money for the hospice. It was organised at very short notice after they got permission to use the road. I suppose in future a good question to ask in advance is whether there is an organized food and water stop before leaving or turning up. I was talking to the two guys who organised it and they were thanking people, they were standing at the registration table when I met them before we set off. But they are quite guys so I guess it would have done no harm if they walked around and thanked people near their vehicles as people were setting up. It is very rare for an organised event to have no water supplied.


  • #23
    JohnC.
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    Just drove the new section while coming home from Dublin. Only 18 minutes from Danesfort to the end, near Waterford (sticking to 120). No getting stuck behind slow vehicles with little or no opportunity to overtake. It's great.


  • #24
    kensutz
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    Agreed, it was bloody brilliant to bypass all the crappy towns like Thomastown, Gowran and Ballyhale.


  • #25
    ziedth
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    I'll be driving to Kilkenny on Saturday so what are ya talking from toll to kilkenny now?


  • #26
    JohnC.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    ziedth wrote: »
    I'll be driving to Kilkenny on Saturday so what are ya talking from toll to kilkenny now?

    Toll to motorway would be about a minute or two maybe? Motorway 18 minutes. I've not timed it, but someone else said Danesfort end to Kilkenny ring road is 6-7 minutes.


  • #27
    decies
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    kensutz wrote: »
    Agreed, it was bloody brilliant to bypass all the crappy towns like Thomastown, Gowran and Ballyhale.
    If i want to go to gowran for the gg,s from waterford,whats the best route for me then,the new road or through ballyhale as usual.


  • #28
    vegas elvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭vegas elvis


    decies wrote: »
    If i want to go to gowran for the gg,s from waterford,whats the best route for me then,the new road or through ballyhale as usual.

    The most straight foward way is to take the new road and follow the signs for Dublin which will bring you into KK around the ring road. Then take the turn off for Gowran about 5 miles out the dublin rd.

    The most direct way would be to turn to the right for bennettsbridge as soon as you come off the new rd. Follow the signs for gowran once you get to bennettsbridge. The roads on this route are a bit more agricultural:D


  • #29
    savic04
    Registered Users Posts: 602 ✭✭✭savic04


    i drove home from dub airport today, road was great until gowran, then it was just the normal crap road.. that slowed up the journey, so where do you get onto the new road ?

    I couldnt see a link to the new road..

    going to/from dublin/waterford, do I now not vear off after ballyhale before Knocktopher and take the Thomastown, Gowran route?


  • #30
    kensutz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,197 ✭✭✭kensutz


    savic04 wrote: »
    i drove home from dub airport today, road was great until gowran, then it was just the normal crap road.. that slowed up the journey, so where do you get onto the new road ?

    I couldnt see a link to the new road..

    going to/from dublin/waterford, do I now not vear off after ballyhale before Knocktopher and take the Thomastown, Gowran route?

    Don't turn off at Paulstown. Drive straight on to the outer ring road of Kilkenny and head down to Waterford that way.

    Driving to Dublin - go on the dual carriageway from train station to the roundabout. Then take the second exit, not the one that brings you down to the railway line, the following one. Then take the dual carriage to the roundabout and you're meeting the M9 on the third exit.


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  • #31
    EmM27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭EmM27


    Is that the end of the bypass developments then? No bypassing the stretch of road when you come off the carlow bypass up to Paulstown? I thought there would be one straight road from Dublin-Waterford.
    Thank god anyway, no more getting stuck behind slow drivers, buses & flippin tractors!! :D


  • #32
    kensutz
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    The rest will be finished later this year


  • #33
    EmM27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭EmM27


    Oh great :) thanks.


  • #34
    savic04
    Registered Users Posts: 602 ✭✭✭savic04


    kensutz wrote: »
    Don't turn off at Paulstown. Drive straight on to the outer ring road of Kilkenny and head down to Waterford that way.
    .

    That seems longer though?
    maybe not, will try it Thursday when I am back in Dublin


  • #35
    kensutz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,197 ✭✭✭kensutz


    It might seem longer but at least you do 120km/h on the motorway instead of meeting lorries and slow ass drivers going through the towns. I know what I'd much rather.


  • #36
    savic04
    Registered Users Posts: 602 ✭✭✭savic04


    time wise, will it save much..

    I went to/from dublin from Waterford city to dublin airport in around 2hours maybe 2:10....
    certainly the knocktopher to Carlow region will save time, but if i have to go through kk almost now by not turning off at Paulstown, Im wondering what time I will save..


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  • #37
    kensutz
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    You don't go through KK at all. You approach it up as far as their outer ring road and then all the way to Paulstown.


  • #38
    Speak Now
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    testicle wrote: »
    Tourists???? In Thomastown???? Have you gone insane?

    Mount Juliet


  • #39
    Speak Now
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    Jebus...why does every waterford/kilkenny crossover thread go down the city/town road :rolleyes: if we're all being honest on a interantional scale we have only one city in ireland :eek: being from beyond the pale the rest of us are only a shower of stick yielding culchies :pac:


  • #40
    Speak Now
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    So anyone drive the road yet?

    How long from the suir bridge to Kilkenny CASTLE? :)


  • #41
    road_high
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    I took a spin on it yesterday afternoon not long after it opened. Went down as far as Mullinavat and back. It is superb and could not be more far removed from the old N9/10 as one could get. Didn't count but reckoned it was about half the time that journey would usually take.
    And it was quite busy also, hell of a lot of trucks on it I thought.


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  • #42
    Aquos76
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 9,045 Mod ✭✭✭✭Aquos76


    Right folks, thread cleaned up, lets keep it on topic and drop all this is it or is it not a city ****e.


  • #43
    Cabaal
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    mfitzy wrote: »
    And it was quite busy also, hell of a lot of trucks on it I thought.

    Perhaps it just looked like a alot of trucks cause on the old road you only saw a few cars/trucks ahead of you....now you can see far far ahead :)

    Either way its a welcome addition


  • #44
    bazual
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    Usually takes me about 30 minutes from work in waterford IDA to home in mullinavat, took the new road home last night and it took 16 mins door to door and 15 mins this morning going into work.

    Used the new bridge of course with those 5 free passes cards from the southlink website.

    From new grannagh roundabout to mullinavat roundabout, Id say its about 6/7 mins going 120.

    Definately worth it if running late..............

    B~


  • #45
    EmM27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭EmM27


    Where does the new road bring you when you get to Waterford? Do you have to go through the toll on the new bridge? I can't picture it at all, dying to drive down now just to see it ha. How sad am I!?


  • #46
    Speak Now
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    EmM27 wrote: »
    Where does the new road bring you when you get to Waterford? Do you have to go through the toll on the new bridge? I can't picture it at all, dying to drive down now just to see it ha. How sad am I!?

    No you can still go for either bridge.


  • #47
    JohnC.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭JohnC.


    EmM27 wrote: »
    Where does the new road bring you when you get to Waterford? Do you have to go through the toll on the new bridge? I can't picture it at all, dying to drive down now just to see it ha. How sad am I!?

    It comes out on the roundabout nearest The Thatch pub.


  • #48
    Typewriter
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    Just after noticing that the Waterford bypass in now on google maps!...

    attachment.php?attachmentid=108530&d=1269379774

    But for some reason google have once again labelled Waterford as being in Co Kilkenny!!!:eek::eek::confused:
    I'd say there's some joker from south KK working in google.


  • #49
    mike65
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    Its been like that ever since google maps started, says it all really.


  • #50
    Ostrom
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    Driving home from Dublin this weekend, what parts are open or whats the best route to take?


  • #51
    EmM27
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    Suppose depends what part of Dublin you're coming from, if it's the north side head down Naas dual carriage way onto the castledermot/Carlow bypass & apparently the Gowran/Thomastown/Mullinavat bypass is quicker than going through those towns. So take that new road. Haven't been on that new bypass yet but i'd imagine it would be quicker.
    And if you're coming from the southside i'd imagine going down the Wexford route would be the best way?


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