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The State of the N5

  • 30-01-2011 11:27AM
    #1
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 14,008 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I was travelling along this road a few days ago and it struck me that in the year 2011 this route is nothing short of an embarrassment and a total disgrace. It is dangerously narrow, is very twisty and belongs to the year 1911 and not 2011. It is a death trap.

    If you compare it to the M6 motorway that traverses the south of the county the N5 is nothing more than a goat track. It is a complete farce.

    When is this road going to be properly rebuilt and realigned? Anything is better than the current road.:mad::(


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  • #2
    james098
    Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭james098


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I was travelling along this road a few days ago and it struck me that in the year 2011 this route is nothing short of an embarrassment and a total disgrace. It is dangerously narrow, is very twisty and belongs to the year 1911 and not 2011. It is a death trap.

    If you compare it to the M6 motorway that traverses the south of the county the N5 is nothing more than a goat track. It is a complete farce.

    When is this road going to be properly rebuilt and realigned? Anything is better than the current road.:mad::(
    +1 I agree


  • #3
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 14,008 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    I see that there was another fatal accident on this section of the N5. This road would be an embarrassment to a Third World Country.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/1125/breaking58.html

    It is frankly outrageous how long this road has been neglected when you consider the massive motorway building programme elsewhere in Ireland over the past 15 years.:mad:

    I know that a bypass for Ballaghadereen is set to go ahead soon, but when will the rest of this atrocious goat track be replaced?:confused:


  • #4
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    blame Flynn
    when there was money floating about years ago to upgrade the roads in the west of Ireland it all went to Mayo.


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