M8 motorway (general thread)

FullBeard · 06-08-2012 10:57pm

cml387 wrote: »

Just before the northbound exit at J9 is a mock-abandoned house which is an art "installation".

The house is at junction 10 Cahir. I'm talking about junction 9 Cashel.

cargo · 07-08-2012 10:26am

Anyone know what the solar panels on the mobile trailers between Urlingford and H&J are for? There's a few on units that look like mobile VMS without the sign part? They are parked up well into the verge and have been there for a while now.

I cant see any other instruments etc on them other than the solar panels. Are they just measuring solar exposure in some sort of survey?

brownej · 07-08-2012 10:38am

Stinicker wrote: »

I also witnessed some gobsh1te reversing back on the hard shoulder as he had missed the M7-M8 turn off and having made the turn off myself I was like jeez, he is some eejit!

In fairness now that exit is easy to miss.
It's not like the 2 giant archway signs telling you wahat lane to be in the elecronic sign and the huge road side signs from 4km away are very clearly marked:rolleyes:

cjmcork · 18-11-2012 11:00pm

what's the deal with the reduced speed limit before J11 - Cahir - and the sign saying to proceed with extreme caution in wet weather???

cml387 · 19-11-2012 9:09am

cjmcork wrote: »

what's the deal with the reduced speed limit before J11 - Cahir - and the sign saying to proceed with extreme caution in wet weather???

I think the clue is in the sign.

A work colleague hit standing water at this junction during the summer and careered into the concrete central reservation (luckily wrote off car only).

Jamie2k9 · 01-10-2013 11:32am

Topaz announced a new motorway services on M8 at Junction 3. Work expected to begin in January.

rameire · 01-10-2013 1:41pm

Planning application details ref: 11331 (Laois County Council)

linny · 08-10-2013 11:19pm

new m8 service station planned for urlingford http://planning.kilkennycity.ie/FileRefDetails.aspx?file_number=13445&LASiteID=0

road_high · 09-10-2013 9:30am

linny wrote: »

new m8 service station planned for urlingford http://planning.kilkennycity.ie/FileRefDetails.aspx?file_number=13445&LASiteID=0

There'll be one at every junction at this rate? One just up the road planned at the next junction in Co. Laois. Sounds like absolutely no joined up thinking between local authorities once again.

veryangryman · 09-10-2013 3:01pm

road_high wrote: »

There'll be one at every junction at this rate? One just up the road planned at the next junction in Co. Laois. Sounds like absolutely no joined up thinking between local authorities once again.

Demand certainly there, busiest 2 cities in Ireland linked here. Will make money

Chris_5339762 · 09-10-2013 5:12pm

AADT on that road far too low to accommodate all of these.

veryangryman · 09-10-2013 9:59pm

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

AADT on that road far too low to accommodate all of these.

Given the overall distance on the road, I think they will do ok if not pretty good. People cry out for stations online for years and now don't want them all. For the customer this will be brilliant. Competition is a great thing. If one or two fails then still grand as there's loads

Jamie2k9 · 10-10-2013 8:01pm

veryangryman wrote: »

Demand certainly there, busiest 2 cities in Ireland linked here. Will make money

That means nothing when the M8 carriers the same amount of traffic as other motorways. To many of them being planned.

SpaceTime · 11-10-2013 12:02pm

cml387 wrote: »

I think the clue is in the sign.

A work colleague hit standing water at this junction during the summer and careered into the concrete central reservation (luckily wrote off car only).

Are they going to resolve that ?! Seems pretty lethal if the case.

68thedriver · 21-01-2014 3:42pm

Hello Chris,
Do you ever be on the M8 and just pass the entry ramp at junction 8 heading southbound there's a sign up on the embankment with three straight arrows indicating a lane gain. Do you know anyone that could get me a close up image of the sign as I'm doing a project on Motorways I'm Living up in the Northwest, so cant get there myself. Regards.

xabi · 14-03-2014 5:05pm

Looks like they are closing some of the lay-bys around Cashel, always thought they were a bit dangerous anyway.

cml387 · 14-03-2014 7:23pm

xabi wrote: »

Looks like they are closing some of the lay-bys around Cashel, always thought they were a bit dangerous anyway.

Just to instal wastebins.

SpaceTime · 14-03-2014 7:45pm

I can exactly remember where but there's a large dip in the road somewhere just near-ish to Cashel from Cork like as if it's dramatically sunken !

SpaceTime · 14-03-2014 7:47pm

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

That means nothing when the M8 carriers the same amount of traffic as other motorways. To many of them being planned.

At the end of the day, it's competition. They'll have to out-do each other to survive. That's always how it's been with road-side service on the old N-road system too.

The most innovative will survive.

In some European countries the franchising arrangement ends up with very expensive, bad quality service stations that have near monopolies.

vince · 05-11-2014 4:07pm

Whats happeing northbound between mitchelstown and cahire that they need to close the motorway.

cml387 · 05-11-2014 5:17pm

vince wrote: »

Whats happeing northbound between mitchelstown and cahire that they need to close the motorway.

Work to eliminate problem of excessive water that gathers on the carriageway and won't run off.

Geogregor · 05-11-2014 6:25pm

cml387 wrote: »

Work to eliminate problem of excessive water that gathers on the carriageway and won't run off.

It seems to be common recently in Ireland. M8, M18 - drainage issues, M9 some other problems.
All necessitating closures of motorways no more than a few years old.

brownej · 06-11-2014 1:32pm

Geogregor wrote: »

It seems to be common recently in Ireland. M8, M18 - drainage issues, M9 some other problems.
All necessitating closures of motorways no more than a few years old.

It looks like its remedial work thats being perfomred on alot of the motorway network.
Over the last few months various sections of the M7 have been closed/reduced to 1 lane to dig a channel on the side. I think at this stage they must have the full length of it done.
I have observed this on the M20 and the M4 also.
As you drive along the motorway take note of a stip of stones on the side about 75cm in width.

Chris_5339762 · 08-02-2015 9:21pm

There was a car transporter fire northbound on the M8 on the 4th Feb (last Wednesday). Got it on dashcam coming the other way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=V6WXN2KeSIc#t=73
HD is better.

They had closed the motorway at J16, and of course there were plenty of cars stacked up behind the fire beyond that. Those vehicles were allowed turn (if they could) and drive the wrong way down the motorway back to J16. That was bizarre to watch. They were also letting people through the toll northbound free of charge, I think, as they were being directed off at J16 straight away.

niloc1951 · 09-02-2015 2:02pm

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

There was a car transporter fire northbound on the M8 on the 4th Feb (last Wednesday). Got it on dashcam coming the other way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=V6WXN2KeSIc#t=73
HD is better.

They had closed the motorway at J16, and of course there were plenty of cars stacked up behind the fire beyond that. Those vehicles were allowed turn (if they could) and drive the wrong way down the motorway back to J16. That was bizarre to watch. They were also letting people through the toll northbound free of charge, I think, as they were being directed off at J16 straight away.

Drove southbound at about 7.45pm, over two hours after the incident started and the queue was still back to within a few hundred metres the toll plaza.

I wondered was traffic allowed to rejoin the M8 at jct 15 free of charge, to relieve the pressure on Fermoy town, though I didn't notice any particular volume of traffic coming up the entrance ramp.

SpaceTime · 09-02-2015 2:05pm

I think sometimes they underestimate just how wet Ireland is in some of the specs for things that are done to some broader European spec.

You need a LOT of drainage here as rain can be heavy and very sustained.

_Kaiser_ · 10-02-2015 12:44pm

[QUOTE=Chris_5339762;94205026]Those vehicles were allowed turn (if they could) and drive the wrong way down the motorway back to J16. [/QUOTE]

That's lethal IMO considering the amount of trucks and cars that can't stay in lane normally!

Better solution would be to have removable/openable sections in the centre divide and then just filter traffic through to the correct lanes using cones and traffic management

L1011 · 10-02-2015 2:31pm

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

That's lethal IMO considering the amount of trucks and cars that can't stay in lane normally!

There was no oncoming traffic as the motorway was closed at the previous junction. This is fairly normal internationally when a DC is blocked.

marno21 · 28-03-2015 9:20pm

Still no sign(!) of DirectRoute updating the signage on the old M8 Fermoy Bypass, no 2km ADS, no Driver Location signs amongst others. Very inconsistant and sticks out now that the whole of the M8

The Megaphone · 30-03-2015 9:35am

marno21 wrote: »

Still no sign(!) of DirectRoute updating the signage on the old M8 Fermoy Bypass, no 2km ADS, no Driver Location signs amongst others. Very inconsistant and sticks out now that the whole of the M8

DirectRoute only maintain that section of the motorway, the installation of new signs would have to be instructed (and paid for) by the NRA.

marno21 · 22-06-2015 1:40am

The Megaphone wrote: »

DirectRoute only maintain that section of the motorway, the installation of new signs would have to be instructed (and paid for) by the NRA.

These signs have now been added to the M8 Fermoy Bypass (J14-J17). Diffferent design to the rest of the network but at least they're there (also added to the other DirectRoute scheme, the N18 Limerick SRR Phase II)

vector · 06-07-2015 11:58pm

I've recently started travelling the Cork > Dublin motorway twice a week (got a temp contract in Dublin)...

Is it just me or:

Has anyone else noticed how the proper motorway filling stations are NOT marked by signage...

Theres the Manor Stone one, the Mayfield Texaco, and that Topaz with a McDonalds near a halting site that was designed badly (not enough parking... no truck parking at all)...

well its hard to actually find each of those, should they not be allowed to have signage of some form on motorway.. even those semi-legal trailers parked in fields

cml387 · 07-07-2015 7:55am

They're not proper motorway filling stations, they're just privately funded service areas which are built near junctions. As such there is no compulsion on the NRA to signpost them any more than they should signpost Woodies or Ryan's butcher's shop.

hi5 · 07-07-2015 9:22am

And in general on the motorway network, I wish they would get rid of those trailer adverts in the fields adjacent to the motorway network, they look cheap, tacky and desperate.
And I'm surprised that companies like McDonalds and Burger king use them.:mad:

vector · 07-07-2015 9:42am

There are loads of field signs: Cork's Atlantic flight training academy, Pierce Kavanagh Bus with Diesel advert (not a third of the sign has blown off)... Diesel prices for some filling stations in fields....

The only advert that is actually not an advert is GERMINAL SEEDS (as their building happens to be next to the motorway)...

road_high · 07-07-2015 12:47pm

hi5 wrote: »

And in general on the motorway network, I wish they would get rid of those trailer adverts in the fields adjacent to the motorway network, they look cheap, tacky and desperate.
And I'm surprised that companies like McDonalds and Burger king use them.:mad:

Ah I don't mind them. Though agree, sometimes they are poorly maintained/weather damaged and prob do more harm than good to the brand they're advertising!

niloc1951 · 07-07-2015 2:37pm

hi5 wrote: »

And in general on the motorway network, I wish they would get rid of those trailer adverts in the fields adjacent to the motorway network, they look cheap, tacky and desperate.
And I'm surprised that companies like McDonalds and Burger king use them.:mad:

The reason these signs have proliferated and are now used by 'major' brands including The Jameson heritage centre (on N25 near Midleton) is because there was a court challenge a few years ago against them which was lost.

neiljung · 20-02-2017 7:00pm

Some pretty significant duct installation works on the verge of the north bound carriage of the M8 around the Cashel/N24 junction. Looks like a rigid purple colour duct that's going in. An ideas what is?

Surprisingly there's no speed reductions despite a full lane closure with only traffic cones for a barrier.

stock> · 20-02-2017 7:30pm

neiljung wrote: »

Some pretty significant duct installation works on the verge of the north bound carriage of the M8 around the Cashel/N24 junction. Looks like a rigid purple colour duct that's going in. An ideas what is?

Surprisingly there's no speed reductions despite a full lane closure with only traffic cones for a barrier.

Vodafone ESB JV to supply hi speed broadband..............
Probably subbies at the coal face...........

neiljung · 20-02-2017 9:16pm

stock> wrote: »

Vodafone ESB JV to supply hi speed broadband..............
Probably subbies at the coal face...........

Are you sure?

Would defeat the purpose of running fibre over power lines if you have to pay for expensive duct installs along a motorway.

L1011 · 21-02-2017 10:11am

Probably TII themselves - they have a ducting network, which has a massive gap on the M8

http://www.tii.ie/tii-library/Network_Management/Submission_of_Consent_Applications/Indicative-Location-of-Ducting.pdf

marno21 · 04-05-2018 8:46pm

Councillor looking for Junction 5 on the M8 (Twomileborris/Thurles/N75) to be made into a full junction. It currently only has north facing slip roads

https://www.tipperarystar.ie/news/home/311555/survey-needed-to-count-thurles-traffic.html

stock> · 04-05-2018 10:37pm

the Horse and jockey was set up to take the southern bound traffic for Thurlus and the Twomileborris for the north bound traffic and I can't see that being changed.................

Dunmhkl · 15-11-2019 8:25pm

Why is there no Junction 2 on the M8?

Chris_5339762 · 15-11-2019 9:46pm

Originally supposed to be built, but Bord Planeala removed it (and the equivalent on the M7) just in case they ever want to make the M8/M7 junction freeflow.

Dunmhkl · 15-11-2019 9:52pm

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

Originally supposed to be built, but Bord Planeala removed it (and the equivalent on the M7) just in case they ever want to make the M8/M7 junction freeflow.

Will it be built and when?

BelfastVanMan · 15-11-2019 10:25pm

Dunmhkl wrote: »

Will it be built and when?

Good question..
but no mention of it.

Dunmhkl · 15-11-2019 10:34pm

Junction 20 on the M7 was supposed to be for Coolfin near Aghaboe but this was cancelled to make way for that future interchange.

Where was Junction 2 on the M8 for before it was scrapped?

Chris_5339762 · 15-11-2019 10:45pm

https://goo.gl/maps/ZFECaToLoGdiEdcw5

Here I think

And nah, it won't be built for a very long time, if ever.

Dunmhkl · 15-11-2019 10:50pm

Why is there a need for a new M7/M8 interchange anyway?

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