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Public Meeting re. Kirwan Roundabout

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  • #92
    antoobrien
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    Wild Bill wrote: »
    Well, I come from a small estate (by Dublin standards) of about 1,000 people and there is one exit at a roundabout and traffic lights in both directions from the roundabout within a few hundred metres. (The roundabout had four roads joining but they recently closed one off!)

    Doesn't cause any problems.

    Did they tell you you have to go towards wicklow to get to Dublin Bill - because they're effectively telling these people they need to head away from Galway in order to get to town.


  • #93
    Sniipe
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    Whistler12 wrote: »
    Bingo!! The plan is to close the sandy road exit when they convert cemetery cross to a 4 lane junction. Hayes said this at the public meeting in the pillo but then got away from the subject rapidly!

    Is this written anywhere? Would that mean that the roundabout would become 3 roads instead of the 5 currently?


  • #94
    Whistler12
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    No, this would still leave 4 arms, tuam road, moneenageisha, bohermore and sean mulvoy road. They are doing their best to keep this off paper until they draw up the full plans for cemetery cross. They know what effect it would have had on the vote on Monday night if it was made known publicly.


  • #95
    dloob
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Who is proposing a new road there?

    Edit: I doubt the ESB would be too keen - the only purpose of such a road would be if the Cemetery Cross exit were to be closed.

    It would also be creating another junction on a short stretch of road.

    It will be the road of junctions if they do that.
    The removal of the bodkin roundabout is going to move the shopping center exit on the Sean Mulvoy road through the playing pitches.


  • #96
    Whistler12
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    Very surprised no-one from Hibs FC is kicking up about the new entrance going through their astro pitch or is there a side deal being done? Which one of the Crowe's is hiding the brown envelope??


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  • #97
    dloob
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    antoobrien wrote: »
    Did they tell you you have to go towards wicklow to get to Dublin Bill - because they're effectively telling these people they need to head away from Galway in order to get to town.

    Yes they will probably have to first drive at least 200 meters away from Galway to get to town now. :eek:
    Whistler12 wrote: »
    Very surprised no-one from Hibs FC is kicking up about the new entrance going through their astro pitch or is there a side deal being done? Which one of the Crowe's is hiding the brown envelope??

    Must have been a deal done with them, the bodkin change was approved without much fuss.
    Should have already started now if the contractor hadn't pulled out.
    From the plans it looks like most of the pitch will be left and it will go through were the trees are.
    I bet Michael Crowe came up with that route, he has had it in for those trees for a while.


  • #98
    Whistler12
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    Most of Mikes little forest was removed when they put in the astro pitch.


  • #99
    antoobrien
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    dloob wrote: »
    Yes they will probably have to first drive at least 200 meters away from Galway to get to town now. :eek:

    There's nowhere particularly safe to do a u-turn out there - unless you're talking about going into pirvate land (no the church entrance is not suitable for turning). To be quite frank they should not be making an extra junction to facilitate some brain dead thinking back in the 80's/90's when they planned BNT


  • #100
    dloob
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    antoobrien wrote: »
    There's nowhere particularly safe to do a u-turn out there - unless you're talking about going into pirvate land (no the church entrance is not suitable for turning). To be quite frank they should not be making an extra junction to facilitate some brain dead thinking back in the 80's/90's when they planned BNT

    Extra bit from the advertiser today.
    The menlo park junction is to reviewed after a year to see if lights are necessary.


  • #101
    Sponge Bob
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    http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/52108/menlo-roundabout-to-be-converted-to-signalised-junction
    Director Hayes insisted that realigning the Menlo Park Hotel exit was the preferable option in order reduce rat running through Menlo, and to ensure that jobs in the Liosbán estate were not affected.

    He also told councillor that the Font and Morris roundabouts will be completed by the end of the month, with a view for works to begin on Bodkin next year, once funding is sourced for the completion of the project.

    No they won't. Is he a compulsive liar or something.?? Next month some time. :(

    I thought that Bodkin and the Magic Roundabout were to be done at the same time so is the magic kicked back to 2013 as well???


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  • #102
    antoobrien
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    dloob wrote: »
    Extra bit from the advertiser today.
    The menlo park junction is to reviewed after a year to see if lights are necessary.

    If they do this now then they're necessary now, anybody with a pair of eyes can see that. Hell they were told when the visited Dublin's traffic management center that the secret to the traffic improvements in Dublin is to reduce as much as possible right turns (nothing to do with the extra lane on the M50, barrier free tolling, & luas then lads:rolleyes:). And GCC want to add an uncontrolled right turn - seriously wtf?


  • #103
    antoobrien
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    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/52108/menlo-roundabout-to-be-converted-to-signalised-junction



    No they won't. Is he a compulsive liar or something.?? Next month some time. :(

    OT Sponge Bob but they're only about 1/2 weeks behind (the morris looks like it's mostly done if the works in Briarhill were anything to go by). 12 weeks would have been last Monday but most people are taking the 20th as the completion date. They could be finished before the June 1st


  • #104
    Sponge Bob
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    The whole lot including marking signage cleanup and planting etc will not be "completed" this month, no way.


  • #105
    [Deleted User]
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    I dont know, it'll be awful close. They are definetly on the last stretch of it.


  • #106
    Sponge Bob
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    The City Trib ( end of Kirwan article) quotes Hayes as saying the Font and Morris will be "substantially" complete by the end of the month....so he was seemingly misquoted in the Advertiser and I was right anyway, they won't be finished until June.


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