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N7 - Newlands Cross upgrade

BluntGuy

Okay lads, we're gonna give this thread another go.

Please try and make sure it doesn't go the way the last thread went!

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CharlieZeroOne

be nice if the guy with the drone caught the first car across it

Chris_5339762

Be honest, who on here is going to camp in the hard shoulder to be one of the first cars to cross?

(I have considered it)

vickers209

mollybird wrote: »

can anyone tell me did they say at all what time the flyover will be open to traffic at all tommorow? not sure if i should try it out going to work in the morning or avoid it if it not open yet to traffic.

thanks

The new flyover at Newlands Cross will open to traffic on Thursday morning, 20th November 2014.
Road Users are urged to follow all directional signage and to obey the reduced speed limits in the vicinity of Newlands Cross.

The planned traffic switches will be carried out at night time in order to minimise traffic disruption and ensure the safety of road users and our construction and traffic teams. Local residents will be notified in advance of any night time works at the junction. Traffic signals will be relocated to account for the revised layout.

http://www.n7n11.ie/n7-update/

mollybird

can anyone tell me did they say at all what time the flyover will be open to traffic at all tommorow? not sure if i should try it out going to work in the morning or avoid it if it not open yet to traffic.

thanks

toastedpickles

pad199207 wrote: »

remember the old concrete surface, and ud be wizzing along and all you hear is duh dun.... duh dun..... duh dun.... duh dun..... etc going over the lines that seperated the concrete

Dont tell me we are going to have a " RIP Newlands Cross Traffic Lights" thread ?:O

Excuse me i have to.....make something....:pac:

pad199207

remember the old concrete surface, and ud be wizzing along and all you hear is duh dun.... duh dun..... duh dun.... duh dun..... etc going over the lines that seperated the concrete

Dont tell me we are going to have a " RIP Newlands Cross Traffic Lights" thread ? :O

D Trent

smokie72 wrote: »

Spent my last evening hopefully waiting for the lights to go green for several minutes on the belgard road. Hopefully the contractor will change the length of the sequence of lights for traffic on the belgard/fonthill roads from tomorrow morning?

Slightly off topic but it would be nice to see some old photos of the newlands cross. I saw one a few years ago from the 1930's. It just looked like a crossroads you would see down the country.

Actually it would be good to see old photos of the naas road as well. Does anybody remember was the red cow looked like before the m50 was built or what the belgard road looked like before 1983? I have only faded memories of both.

I'm sure if you went into The Red Cow they would have some older pictures in the wall in the foyer/bar ??

beertons

toastedpickles wrote: »

Wasn't there a set at kill? I was only a wee pickle but I remember there being lights at both sides of kill too

Yes, 2 at Kill aswell.

toastedpickles

beertons wrote: »

I remember 2 at rathcoole, and the one at Johnstown.

Wasn't there a set at kill? I was only a wee pickle but I remember there being lights at both sides of kill too

smokie72

Spent my last evening hopefully waiting for the lights to go green for several minutes on the belgard road. Hopefully the contractor will change the length of the sequence of lights for traffic on the belgard/fonthill roads from tomorrow morning?

Slightly off topic but it would be nice to see some old photos of the newlands cross. I saw one a few years ago from the 1930's. It just looked like a crossroads you would see down the country.

Actually it would be good to see old photos of the naas road as well. Does anybody remember was the red cow looked like before the m50 was built or what the belgard road looked like before 1983? I have only faded memories of both.

beertons

I remember 2 at rathcoole, and the one at Johnstown.

Chris_5339762

I remember one at Goffs.

If you get really bored, look at http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,588882,739883,0,10 and the historical maps. Should all be on there.

smokie72

In reply to nednew2 Does anyone remember how many sets of traffic lights there were on the Naas dual carriageway at its worst?

Where were they located?

Well coming from the mad cow roundabout heading towards naas there use to be lights at the monastery road junction for traffic turning right to clondalkin. Then there was the newlands cross, after that it was the boot road junction. The next set of lights use to be at the saggart junction (just after where the citywest bridge is now) where roadstone is, then there were lights at rathcoole. I think that was it until naas.

Forgot to mention kill as well.

Chris_5339762

BuzzFish wrote: »

About 6500 Daytime images taken from the traffic cam at Newlands over the construction period to date. A fair amount of work done...

This video has now found its way onto the RTE website.

http://www.rte.ie/news/special-reports/2014/1119/660774-timelapse-of-construction-of-newlands-cross-flyover/

Roadtoad

So goodbye yellow brick road, and all that. Thanks Bluntguy for starting the thread.
I've been commuting through for 23 years, and before that I used hitch from there in the 1970's and 80s.
Got the motorbike when thinks went mad on that road about 10 years ago. Can I now sell it? Not just yet, let us see. Sorry if I clipped a few wing mirrors over the years!

Anyway, look out for the cyclists at all the slip roads, they need drivers to be their friends.

NedNew2

Does anyone remember how many sets of traffic lights there were on the Naas dual carriageway at its worst?

Where were they located?

pad199207

The scene from the film was shot on the Naas - Newbridge Dual Carriageway at the Red House

D Trent

It's still not clear though

ItHurtsWhenIP

L1011 wrote: »

It was near Newlands, there is/was (it was meant to be moved) a memorial garden at the Boot Road entrance

There used to be a set of lights at the Boot Road junction. It was here that she was shot. I passed the scene some hours after the killing.

L1011

NEDDURC wrote: »

I think it looks well but I don't think the bridge needs a name. It all can still be referred to as Newlands Cross.

For some reason I thought Veronica Guerin was shot at the lights at Kill but could be wrong on that one.

It was near Newlands, there is/was (it was meant to be moved) a memorial garden at the Boot Road entrance

AstraMonti

Redd4 wrote: »

did you see the drone footage of it on youtube?

Do you have a link for that?

janedoe75

NEDDURC wrote: »

For some reason I thought Veronica Guerin was shot at the lights at Kill but could be wrong on that one.

I thought that too??

spacetweek

mackerski wrote: »

Poor reporting in the paper of record. It removes the last non-freeflow junction between Dunkettle and Hillsborough.

Also the RTE video refers to it as a junction on the M7 instead of N7.

NEDDURC

I think it looks well but I don't think the bridge needs a name. It all can still be referred to as Newlands Cross.

For some reason I thought Veronica Guerin was shot at the lights at Kill but could be wrong on that one.

CharlieZeroOne

i dont think so myself

Go Harvey Go

Redd4 wrote: »

i think the flyover is elegant.

i actually dont understand how you could think it ugly. did you see the drone footage of it on youtube?

I don't think it's ugly either.

But that's beside the point. The point is, is it really necessary to name the flyover after Veronica Guerin, simply because it's at the spot where she was murdered - or after anyone at all, for that matter?

CharlieZeroOne

i think the flyover is elegant.

i actually dont understand how you could think it ugly. did you see the drone footage of it on youtube?

Go Harvey Go

Larbre34 wrote: »

Can I mention that the proposal to name the flyover after Veronica Guerin is a dreadful one.

I have no objection to naming roads and structures after people so long as its appropriate, where you have a graceful bridge or iconic building, but the bargain basement ugly build that is the Newlands flyover which now entombs the spot where she was murdered at, is just not appropriate.

She is remembered through a journalistic scholarship in her name, which reflects her work, and that is how it should be.

And with the very greatest of respect to the family and friends of Veronica, it's not as if the flyover absolutely has to be named after anyone in the first place.

Larbre34

Can I mention that the proposal to name the flyover after Veronica Guerin is a dreadful one.

I have no objection to naming roads and structures after people so long as its appropriate, where you have a graceful bridge or iconic building, but the bargain basement ugly build that is the Newlands flyover which now entombs the spot where she was murdered at, is just not appropriate.

She is remembered through a journalistic scholarship in her name, which reflects her work, and that is how it should be.

spacetweek

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

They all continue driving in the 2 right most lanes as before.

Its so nice of the government to provide a lovely strip of empty tarmac on the left for the tourists to look at.

Behave!