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N4/N5: How should they be developed?

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  • #202
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    SeanW wrote: »
    I know there's no chance of the project going ahead even this decade because of the state of the economy, but I wonder, could it be cut up into those little projects the gov't is now doing?
    Dunno about that. Wasn't there talk a while back of making it a PPP? I know there are other more urgent ones to be done first but it could take place after 2016.


  • #203
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    Noticed some good news and some bad there:

    The N4 Collooney-Castlebaldwin upgrade has been reactivated by the NRA on the sly. This will upgrade a poor-quality stretch of the N4 south of Sligo.

    The bad news is that they are going to build it as standard single carriageway! This beggars belief. The existing road is already at this standard! Surely we should be standardising on dual minimum for the whole N4 route?


  • #204
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,545 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    That was intended to be a mix of Type 2 and Type 1 - motorway standard - DC. Single is a complete waste of money and unlikely to be much cheaper.

    http://www.sligotoday.ie/details.php?id=19536 suggests they want to do it Banbridge Bypass style - buy the land and build all structures for dual but only lay single. The Banbridge BP has long since been dualled, but its a pointless penny pinching exercise and I fail to see how they could do a T2DC like this - its inherently a T1 layout.


  • #205
    Sponge Bob
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    Even a half dualller is better than what is there now. Given the current state of the public finances the same may be done to the awful stretch north of Sligo too.


  • #206
    veryangryman
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    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    Even a half dualller is better than what is there now. Given the current state of the public finances the same may be done to the awful stretch north of Sligo too.

    I doubt north of Sligo is anywhere near in the list of priorities. Traffic counts id imagine drop off significantly for anyone heading towards Donegal. Much less of a risk accident-wise than the N4 stretch.


  • #207
    spacetweek
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    MYOB wrote: »
    suggests they want to do it Banbridge Bypass style - buy the land and build all structures for dual but only lay single.
    Well that is not quite so bad.


  • #208
    [Deleted User]
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    Looks like the CPO's for the Westport to Turlough dual carriage way will be going a head shortly.

    http://www.midwestradio.ie/index.php/news/21359-taoiseach-welcomes-confirmation-of-cpos-for-n5-from-turlough-to-westport

    Will likely be started before the next election.


  • #209
    lotusm
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭lotusm


    that is great news, that road to Westport is lethal and has claimed many road deaths in recent years..


  • #210
    dubhthach
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    west1_re.jpg

    He'll want to get that started before the Election that's for sure.


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  • #211
    [Deleted User]
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    dubhthach wrote: »

    He'll want to get that started before the Election that's for sure.

    If he doesn't do something soon in his own constituency soon there is a very real chance that he will not be elected to the next Dail in Mayo. No Taoiseach or Minister have done less for there own constituency. Less and less jobs here every single month. Castlebar has a disturbing amount of closed businesses on its main streets, very few people under 30 left here:(.

    Only for the wind/wave/biomass energy and Gas that is coming online from Mayo and the jobs its providing it would be a lot worse down here. Shell on there own expense have done more to improve the roads in west mayo than 50 years of government. Its Botox/Allergan thats getting the N5 to westport pushed through.

    The N5/N26/N58 is also proceeding with route selection and now down to two preferred routes, see below. Can't see this part starting anytime soon unless coke or Hollister threaten to pull out due to the state of the road.

    http://www.regdesign.com/?page_id=590


  • #212
    markpb
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    If he doesn't do something soon in his own constituency soon there is a very real chance that he will not be elected to the next Dail in Mayo. No Taoiseach or Minister have done less for there own constituency.

    Maybe he's has bigger things on his mind like not letting the country sink into bankruptcy?


  • #213
    [Deleted User]
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    markpb wrote: »
    Maybe he's has bigger things on his mind like not letting the country sink into bankruptcy?

    I agree and would suggest we are still in bankruptcy. Just saying he will not get re-elected if he continues to neglect some of the local issues that he was elected locally to address. Probably off topic at this point.....so i'll leave it at that.


  • #214
    spacetweek
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The N5/N26/N58 is also proceeding with route selection and now down to two preferred routes, see below. Can't see this part starting anytime soon unless coke or Hollister threaten to pull out due to the state of the road.
    http://www.regdesign.com/?page_id=590
    Just to be clear, are they going to upgrade Foxford-Bohola and Foxford-Swinford or just one?


  • #215
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    spacetweek wrote: »
    Just to be clear, are they going to upgrade Foxford-Bohola and Foxford-Swinford or just one?

    There will be a dual carriage way from Turlough to Bohola, bypassing Ballyvary. This will link onto the Dual Carriageway from Westport.

    A separate dual road will be built from Mount Falcon outside Ballina bypassing Foxford and linking onto the dual carriageway on the Castlebar side of Ballyvary.

    Separately the N26 from Swinford to Ballina will have an inline upgrade, with a bypass of Swinford and Foxford included.

    So basically the Ballina - Bohola route is been scrapped as it does not suit those travelling to Dublin or those going to Castlebar/Westport. Instead there will be two separate routes.


  • #216
    spacetweek
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    Would be handy to extend N26 from Swinford to the N17.


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  • #217
    seligehgit
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    Any opening date for the Ballaghaderreen bypass?


  • #218
    D Trent
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    seligehgit wrote: »
    Any opening date for the Ballaghaderreen bypass?

    See here
    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2056489117/25/#post91752898


  • #219
    Middle Man
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    spacetweek wrote: »
    Would be handy to extend N26 from Swinford to the N17.

    Was kind of thinking that too - it seems obvious given the very short distance involved.


  • #220
    guylikeme
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭guylikeme


    Word today that Strokestown-Tulsk is being done

    Source http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/new-35km-road-to-bypass-tulsk-and-strokestown-1.2356021

    Kenny wants votes, bless him


  • #221
    lotusm
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭lotusm


    great news, about time. it has to be the worst bit of national road in the country


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  • #222
    L1011
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    lotusm wrote: »
    great news, about time. it has to be the worst bit of national road in the country

    Primary, possibly, but it doesn't hold a candle to the N56s wonderful sightlines and vertical alignment


  • #223
    Leonidas BL
    Registered Users Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Leonidas BL


    L1011 wrote: »
    Primary, possibly, but it doesn't hold a candle to the N56s wonderful sightlines and vertical alignment

    Go further down between Dromore west and the Junction for Enniscrone and its like cobblestone. Soon as you cross the Mayo border its smooth again.


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