N6 - Athlone Bypass Upgrade works

veryangryman · 27-02-2012 5:34pm

billbond4 wrote: »

Signs up that the J9 GarryCastle,Moydrum,Blyry slip roads will be closed from Thursday 1st March for FIVE weeks :mad:

All that sh1te for traffic lights. And just to make things even more of a pain, they have temp traffic lights to lube the motorist up. Adds 3 minutes to my journey (and thats before they close the exit off)

billbond4 · 27-02-2012 5:37pm

Yipp, WCC have **** loads of money this year for Roads and Signs in Athlone.
What recession ??
Thats diamonds they put in the roadpaint to make it sparkle at nighttime :-)

Wild Bill · 27-02-2012 10:36pm

What a load of ......eh......negatively charged particles

Great signage; another €3,500,000,000 in promissory notes paid for a dead bank.

Wonder how much those gantry signs cost? :cool:

Wild Bill · 27-02-2012 10:37pm

veryangryman wrote: »

Adds 3 minutes to my journey

Three minutes eh?

That's....lemme see....180 seconds. :eek:

JupiterKid · 28-02-2012 4:31am

Does anyone have any pics of the Athlone Bypass as it looks now, all resurfaced and looking new again?

billbond4 · 28-02-2012 7:22am

Wild Bill wrote: »

What a load of ......eh......negatively charged particles

Great signage; another €3,500,000,000 in promissory notes paid for a dead bank.

Wonder how much those gantry signs cost? :cool:

Going to ask wcc how much all the new gantrys cost

billbond4 · 28-02-2012 7:28am

Wild Bill wrote: »

veryangryman wrote: »

Adds 3 minutes to my journey

Three minutes eh?

That's....lemme see....180 seconds. :eek:

Yeah 3 minutes twice a day for 5 days (assume going to work) for 5 weeks = 150 minutes. So two and half hours wasted sitting in traffic

veryangryman · 28-02-2012 9:58am

The point is that Garrycastle junction did not, i repeat NOT need these lights. Even in the evenings you could get out of the junction (even turning right) within a mnute, maybe 2 at the absolute most

billbond4 · 28-02-2012 10:27am

No junction needed traffic lights (some could have done with pedestrian lights) traffic flow was fine before hand.

28-02-2012 10:50am

Those junctions should have mini-roundabouts, that's all they need to give fair traffic flow sharing!
They would have been cheaper to install and maintain and would have cost much less in electricity to operate!

But WCC decided on the most costly option. :mad:

billbond4 · 28-02-2012 11:53am

Ah sure, its only money from the EU, spend it away

whyulittle · 28-02-2012 4:24pm

I don't get the hostility towards the gantry signs? It's an NRA programme putting them up, not WCC. It's not as if they exist on their own on any other road - they go hand-in-hand with the ADS and finger posts.

I drove the bypass for the first time today since they went up and think they fit in well. At least these won't get buried in the trees and bushes. A couple of new brown signs gone up as well.

28-02-2012 4:26pm

whyulittle wrote: »

I don't get the hostility towards the gantry signs? It's an NRA programme putting them up, not WCC. It's not as if they exist on their own on any other road - they go hand-in-hand with the ADS and finger posts.

I drove the bypass for the first time today since they went up and think they fit in well. At least these won't get buried in the trees and bushes. A couple of new brown signs gone up as well.

Nothing wrong with the signs as such, it's just the fact that the existing ones are less than two years old!

whyulittle · 28-02-2012 4:37pm

Yeah but it's not like those signs are now being ripped out of the ground. The gantries could just as easily have gone in at the same time as the others were replaced.

billbond4 · 29-02-2012 10:33am

The signs are barely 5 months old :eek:
No planning involved at all with WCC, i.e.
First concrete barriers were put down.
Then sections of road between Coosan and town Centre upgraded.
During upgrade parts of road were closed and then reclosed.
Signs put up for exits last year removed and replaced with gantrys.

Im just waiting till they decided they want to put lights on the bypass and close it again for another year

billbond4 · 29-02-2012 3:51pm

Traffic management plans are up on WCC
http://www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/news/name,11302,en.html
No mention of google as the copyright owner of the maps though

flazio · 29-02-2012 9:22pm

Noticed that the signs for J13 East Bound finally acknowledge that the Motorway ends at that junction (Blue sign with Green route ahead and White Route Slip) and the route distance sign after the junction has been changed from blue to green.

29-02-2012 9:33pm

flazio wrote: »

Noticed that the signs for J13 East Bound finally acknowledge that the Motorway ends at that junction (Blue sign with Green route ahead and White Route Slip) and the route distance sign after the junction has been changed from blue to green.

Good! I was wondering whether they would sort out that anomaly only the other day.

Wild Bill · 29-02-2012 11:01pm

billbond4 wrote: »

No mention of google as the copyright owner of the maps though

ffs.

Have you got a kitchen sink handy? Throw it in will ya?

The words of Brendan Behan spring to mind......:cool:

veryangryman · 01-03-2012 9:50am

flazio wrote: »

Noticed that the signs for J13 East Bound finally acknowledge that the Motorway ends at that junction (Blue sign with Green route ahead and White Route Slip) and the route distance sign after the junction has been changed from blue to green.

And the opposite the other side - blue signage is now replaced with green.

Im a broken record but WHAT a waste of money. Get it right the first time and even if its wrong, use any few beans you have on something useful (like lighting on the bypass or a burly (and h0rny) man to hop on any idiot that decides that walking or cycling the hard shoulder is a good idea. Oh dont get me started on the joggers going contra flow near Monsksland :mad::mad::mad:

Zubeneschamali · 01-03-2012 10:02am

veryangryman wrote: »

a burly (and h0rny) man to hop on any idiot that decides that walking or cycling the hard shoulder is a good idea. Oh dont get me started on the joggers going contra flow near Monsksland

It's not a motorway: they are allowed.

I think it should be a motorway, with upgrades to J10 and J13, closure for J9, J11 and J12 and new/improved link roads off-line for local traffic.

But we missed our chance in the boom years, and it's Never Going To Happen.

veryangryman · 01-03-2012 10:25am

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

It's not a motorway: they are allowed.

I think it should be a motorway, with upgrades to J10 and J13, closure for J9, J11 and J12 and new/improved link roads off-line for local traffic.

I dont doubt the legality of it - its the stupidity and dangerous-ness of it im concerned about.

whyulittle · 05-03-2012 5:12pm

Nice new painted on roundabout at J11 at the T-junction to go into Coosan.

It looks like the turning lane for the traffic going from B&Q onto the bypass eastbound, has been reversed - now it's for traffic going from Coosan to the bypass westbound.

05-03-2012 8:56pm

whyulittle wrote: »

Nice new painted on roundabout at J11 at the T-junction to go into Coosan.

It looks like the turning lane for the traffic going from B&Q onto the bypass eastbound, has been reversed - now it's for traffic going from Coosan to the bypass westbound.

That description has totally confused me!

I'll be down that way in the next few days, so will see it anyway.

whyulittle · 05-03-2012 9:08pm

whyulittle wrote: »

Nice new painted on roundabout at near J11 at the T-junction to go into Coosan.

It looks like the turning / filter lane (under the flyover) for the traffic going from B&Q direction onto the bypass eastbound, has been reversed - now it's for traffic going from Coosan to the bypass westbound.

Deleted User wrote: »

That description has totally confused me!
I'll be down that way in the next few days, so will see it anyway.

Best I can do!

No big deal either way. Just personally I would join the bypass from the B&Q direction more than from the Coosan direction.

Zubeneschamali · 06-03-2012 10:21am

whyulittle wrote: »

No big deal either way. Just personally I would join the bypass from the B&Q direction more than from the Coosan direction.

The arrows on the plan seem to suggest that there'll be no right turn up that eastbound ramp, you'll have to do a 180 at the mini roundabout and turn left (and probably get caught twice at the lights).

flazio · 13-03-2012 12:13am

What exactly are they building under the flyover at Exit 9?

13-03-2012 12:15am

flazio wrote: »

What exactly are they building under the flyover at Exit 9?

A pedestrian bridge.

billbond4 · 13-03-2012 2:53pm

Junction 9 - Garrycastle Interchange:

Ø Two-way traffic flow has returned to the Junction 9 Bridge and will remain in place until the week of resurfacing commencing Monday March 26th.

Ø During the resurfacing the two-way traffic flow will not be interrupted before 09:30 each day.

Ø A new pedestrian/cyclist bridge will be installed over Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th March. The dual carriageway will be closed under the Garrycastle bridge to mainline traffic during this period and the On and Off ramps will be temporarily re-opened during this period. Diversions will be in place to manage dual carriageway traffic.

Ø The project is on track for completion in the 1st week of April 2012.

Junction 10 - Ballymahon Road Interchange:

Ø Works are planned to start in 3 weeks time, approximately Week starting 2nd April.

Ø Closure of the On/Off ramps is envisaged at a later date for 10 days.

Ø This closure will not occur until after Junction 9 ramps re-open

Wild Bill · 13-03-2012 9:28pm

flazio wrote: »

What exactly are they building under the flyover at Exit 9?

A troll bridge

N6 - Athlone Bypass Upgrade works

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