New layout at Red Cow?

Virtanen · 2015-11-04 19:04:33

Quick question, I don;t know if it's true or not but a friend mentioned that they had a new layout at Red Cow but didn't elaborate on it, or even whether it was the interchange or the roundabout just after. Is it true, and if it is would anyone happen to have details of it?

04-11-2015 08:04PM

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Quick question, I don;t know if it's true or not but a friend mentioned that they had a new layout at Red Cow but didn't elaborate on it, or even whether it was the interchange or the roundabout just after.

Is it true, and if it is would anyone happen to have details of it?

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#2 04-11-2015 09:59PM

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Dont think any changes lately, last change was the layout to M50NB and SB from the N7 inbound afaik.

Work is being done to replace the crash barriers at the moment but wouldn't call that a new layout

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#3 05-11-2015 05:34PM

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Could they mean the Newlands Cross Flyover?

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#4 06-11-2015 09:49AM

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no roundabout there and the Red Cow was done years ago now

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#5 07-11-2015 11:50AM

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I think that this is the change you're referring to.
(stolen from the M50 thread)

marno21 wrote: »

The line markings for the merges at the N3/M50 interchange for the N3/M50 north/southbound and the Airport interchange on the M1 southbound are being amended on a trial basis from:

to

edit:
crappy internet can't copy images follow this link http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=97638930&postcount=468
edit 2 fixed the images

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#6 07-11-2015 02:44PM

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What do people thing of these double merges? Do they work? Do traffic levels justify them? IM(H)O one much longer run in to the merge would be much better.

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#7 07-11-2015 04:06PM

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jwwb wrote: »

What do people thing of these double merges? Do they work? Do traffic levels justify them? IM(H)O one much longer run in to the merge would be much better.

The double merges (similar to the second image above) are in wide use in many countries and work quite well.
The type of merge in the first picture would have worked better if there had been a couple of hundred metres of extra lane to allow vehicles to merger properly, rather than "dive" into lane one like they do now.

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