why does motorway change back to N road on approach to city?

buzz11 · 07-06-2011 03:00PM #1

Why does the motorway change back to National Primary Road several km's before the end of the road? I'm baffled by this.

Who's in charge of the N section? City council or County?

Fey! · 07-06-2011 03:39PM

It's possibly so that you don't hit the roundabout at the end doing 120kph.

Not that you'd notice with the carnage on the roundabout.

From experience, the City Council, the NRA and the County Council all refuse to take responsibility for the roundabout section. And the RSA don't care that it's a dangerous piece of road, and the Gardai can't release accident statistics for it!

Not sure about the rest; presumably County Council or the NRA.

Head The Wall · 07-06-2011 03:55PM

That section of road wasn't even supposed to be there, the outer bypass was supposed to join the motorway at the Oranmore exit. I would say its classed as an N road because they probably had to get extra funding for it and there may be extra costs associated with it being a motorway e.g SOS phones etc

cats.life · 07-06-2011 04:19PM

120kms me backside, i havent seen any one doing 120 ,or even 100kms on that road, you would think it was the airport runway , cos its like they build up speed to get to the roundabout and take off.

Sponge Bob · 07-06-2011 04:24PM

Head The Wall wrote: »

That section of road wasn't even supposed to be there, the outer bypass was supposed to join the motorway at the Oranmore exit.

It is supposed to be there but not as we know it Jim. The bypass is going to start around 1km west of the Oranmore junction ( sometime around 2033 or so

) and as it will not be motorway grade there is no point making the road a motorway until the next junction.

The western bit of dual carriageway will then become the Galway East exit.

Map showing it here

http://www.galwaycity.ie/AllServices/Planning/Publications/FileEnglish,3522,en.pdf

Bummer1234 · 07-06-2011 08:04PM

cats.life wrote: »

120kms me backside, i havent seen any one doing 120 ,or even 100kms on that road, you would think it was the airport runway , cos its like they build up speed to get to the roundabout and take off.

So what speed they doin???

why does motorway change back to N road on approach to city?

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