N25/N30 - New Ross Bypass [open to traffic]

sdanseo · 09-11-2019 1:37pm

Why didn't they just dig at the base of it and let it fall rather than picking away at it for weeks? Surely much easier to disassemble on the ground.
Seems a bit of an awkward method.

L1011 · 09-11-2019 1:40pm

sdanseo wrote: »

Why didn't they just dig at the base of it and let it fall rather than picking away at it for weeks? Surely much easier to disassemble on the ground.
Seems a bit of an awkward method.

Crush risk for starters

Sam Russell · 09-11-2019 1:41pm

sdanseo wrote: »

Why didn't they just dig at the base of it and let it fall rather than picking away at it for weeks? Surely much easier to disassemble on the ground.
Seems a bit of an awkward method.

Why did they not make the temporary structures of steel, so they could be disassembled and reused?

If they just let them fall, they still have a large lump of reinforced concrete to move.

allthedoyles · 09-11-2019 1:42pm

Some locals are worried about crumbling concrete , with some asking will it be safe to cross . Also a report that one of the cable stays snapped .

CoBo55 · 09-11-2019 1:53pm

allthedoyles wrote: »

Some locals are worried about crumbling concrete , with some asking will it be safe to cross . Also a report that one of the cable stays snapped .

I don't care, it can a bloody rope bridge from deadliest roads but I'm all over it, plunging into the murky depths of the Barrow has to be better than crawling behind yet another Aygo!!!!

josip · 09-11-2019 3:16pm

allthedoyles wrote: »

Some locals are worried about crumbling concrete , with some asking will it be safe to cross . Also a report that one of the cable stays snapped .

I think that says more about the locals than the concrete.
And there wouldn't be many more localler than me

JohnC. · 09-11-2019 4:46pm

There's been massive cranes on it weighing god knows how many tonnes. Before the sides were even joined. I'm sure the local's Corollas and Qashqais will be fine.

spacetweek · 09-11-2019 6:17pm

sdanseo wrote: »

Why didn't they just dig at the base of it and let it fall rather than picking away at it for weeks? Surely much easier to disassemble on the ground.
Seems a bit of an awkward method.

Might fall the wrong way.

m17 · 10-11-2019 2:03pm

The barrow crossing 10/11/19 (pics fb)

The second temporary piller coming down on the stokestown side

Hibernicis · 11-11-2019 12:38am

m17 wrote: »

The barrow crossing 04/11/19 (pic fb)

Quoting this and including the truly awesome picture for the record. Really amazing picture. We are so fortunate to live in an age when photos like this are possible. M17 thanks as ever for gathering and posting these images and bringing this amazing project to life.

m17 · 11-11-2019 8:43am

The barrow crossing 10/11/19 (pics fb )

insta_mavic · 11-11-2019 9:46pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0sdej_q37c

Relhcstirt · 13-11-2019 12:30am

Are we still looking at an opening date of 20th December?

veryangryman · 14-11-2019 10:56am

Jingle Bells traffic smells, bypass all the way!

14-11-2019 11:14am

This bridge will be very ugly when the concrete turns rusted brown as concrete is wont to do.
Are they planning on painting it?

dougal · 14-11-2019 5:57pm

Relhcstirt wrote: »

Are we still looking at an opening date of 20th December?

If December 20th bridge opening goes ahead are the connecting roads ready to feed and distribute the traffic?

Relhcstirt · 15-11-2019 2:08pm

dougal wrote: »

If December 20th bridge opening goes ahead are the connecting roads ready to feed and distribute the traffic?

Ready since March. Sure there's a snag list to finish off, nothing major.

m17 · 15-11-2019 7:59pm

The two temporary will be gone next week

Chris_5339762 · 15-11-2019 9:49pm

All blue on there, the temp piers are not touching the bridge, open it tomorrow

SeanW · 16-11-2019 7:18am

insta_mavic wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0sdej_q37c

Are you the same insta_mavic as the poster on youtube?

If so, can you tell us what music you used in the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azjxNc7-yAs
(the one about the retention pond).

Hibernicis · 16-11-2019 9:56am

SeanW wrote: »

Are you the same insta_mavic as the poster on youtube?

If so, can you tell us what music you used in the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azjxNc7-yAs
(the one about the retention pond).

Shazam reporting it as “I am a man who will fight for your honor” by Chris Zabriskie from an album of the same name released in 2009.

Beautiful piece.

SeanW · 17-11-2019 4:50am

Hibernicis wrote: »

Shazam reporting it as “I am a man who will fight for your honor” by Chris Zabriskie from an album of the same name released in 2009.

Beautiful piece.

That's it indeed. Thanks

Silent Running · 20-11-2019 8:08pm

This is a brilliant documentary about the bridge...

https://www.facebook.com/1773540396250217/posts/2441973342740249/

skodacb · 20-11-2019 9:57pm

https://youtu.be/q1ITfCGS1Rg

There's a YouTube link in case anyone wants it.

It's fascinating the challenges they've had to overcome building such a piece of infrastructure.

josip · 20-11-2019 11:40pm

I'm 1 minute into watching it and am already feeling a bit nauseous with the hyperbole:

"incredible half mile river crossing"
"mere 44 months" (that's almost 4 years lads)
"battle massive loads"
"unpredictable weather" (eh, Ireland)
"precarious heights"
"new engineering wonder"

The cinematography is lovely though.

fricatus · 21-11-2019 11:59am

Despite the breathless hyperbole, I really enjoyed it - real high-quality stuff!

I had to giggle at yer man's pronunciation of Kilmacow (where the Roadstone facility is). He said Kil-muh-COE, rather than Kil-muh-COW (the animal). Still, it wasn't the worst I've heard - once I was listening to an audiobook where the (English) narrator pronounced Thurles to rhyme with "girls" and Athy to rhyme with "batty" (well, more "bathy", but you get the idea).

pajoguy · 21-11-2019 1:06pm

skodacb wrote: »

https://youtu.be/q1ITfCGS1Rg

There's a YouTube link in case anyone wants it.

It's fascinating the challenges they've had to overcome building such a piece of infrastructure.

This is great. Thanks.

Andrew33 · 21-11-2019 5:23pm

josip wrote: »

I'm 1 minute into watching it and am already feeling a bit nauseous with the hyperbole:

"incredible half mile river crossing"
"mere 44 months" (that's almost 4 years lads)
"battle massive loads"
"unpredictable weather" (eh, Ireland)
"precarious heights"
"new engineering wonder"

The cinematography is lovely though.

Yup, that narrators accent and delivery nearly turned me off it straight away.
Good to watch it though.
Interesting fact though, the longest bridge of its type in the world.

Silent Running · 21-11-2019 5:28pm

Andrew33 wrote: »

Yup, that narrators accent and delivery nearly turned me off it straight away.
Good to watch it though.
Interesting fact though, the longest bridge of its type in the world.

It's the US Discovery Channel. All of their stuff is like that. I think they need to keep the drama up to keep the attention of 'murican TV viewers. It's not enough to just be interesting. :rolleyes:

allthedoyles · 21-11-2019 8:28pm

https://kilkennynow.ie/watch-irelands-longest-bridge-linking-kilkenny-to-wexford-to-open-before-end-of-year/

Great news. Today's press release from KK now.

prunudo · 21-11-2019 9:21pm

Silent Running wrote: »

It's the US Discovery Channel. All of their stuff is like that. I think they need to keep the drama up to keep the attention of 'murican TV viewers. It's not enough to just be interesting. :rolleyes:

I often have to laugh at these style of programmes, making even the slightest hiccup out to be a life and death situation and detrimental to the whole project. They could make any of our jobs look interesting with a 45 min programme.

spacetweek · 21-11-2019 10:31pm

Watched it all there. Very good.

So now we know why the join between the segments wasn't finished off for a while. The two sides of the gap didn't meet at the same level!

insta_mavic · 22-11-2019 10:56pm

Check out the newset video I made of the RFK bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0DFH4xj-i0

blindsider · 23-11-2019 12:49am

Great video Insta mavic - really impressed with your work!

At 1:50 - (run for 15 secs) in the video there's a section of road - just off the eastern section(?) that looks like it will not be ready in 1 month - am I wrong on this?

insta_mavic · 23-11-2019 1:15am

blindsider wrote: »

Great video Insta mavic - really impressed with your work!

At 1:50 - (run for 15 secs) in the video there's a section of road - just off the eastern section(?) that looks like it will not be ready in 1 month - am I wrong on this?

Thank you. Is that is the run up to the bridge you are talking about? Or another road off that? I know the run up to the bridge is almost ready to go, just a small bit before it to finish. After that I'm not sure to be honest.

Bards · 23-11-2019 9:21am

insta_mavic wrote: »

Thank you. Is that is the run up to the bridge you are talking about? Or another road off that? I know the run up to the bridge is almost ready to go, just a small bit before it to finish. After that I'm not sure to be honest.

Look at Google maps satellite image and you will see the whole road is finished, it's just the bridge and the ramps to the bridge need to be finished which should not be a hard job to do

Tileman · 23-11-2019 11:00am

skodacb wrote: »

https://youtu.be/q1ITfCGS1Rg

There's a YouTube link in case anyone wants it.

It's fascinating the challenges they've had to overcome building such a piece of infrastructure.

Thanks for sharing. Very enjoyable

blindsider · 23-11-2019 4:00pm

@Insta mavic
@Bards

Thanks guys - good info!

Dunmoreroader · 25-11-2019 1:56pm

https://kilkennynow.ie/more-delays-to-irelands-longest-bridge-linking-kilkenny-and-wexford-after-worker-seriously-injured/

Dunmoreroader · 25-11-2019 2:00pm

Just realised thats old news posted by Kilkenny Now yesterday. They should change their name to 'Kilkenny Last Week'.

prunudo · 25-11-2019 2:02pm

What an awful headline, a person has been injured and any thoughts of concern should be his/her safe recovery, not whether the road will be opened on time or not.

josip · 25-11-2019 2:22pm

Is that the first serious accident during construction?

CoBo55 · 26-11-2019 9:24am

josip wrote: »

Is that the first serious accident during construction?

A worker was killed, he was one of the tar laying crews I think he was on the traffic management end of it.

josip · 26-11-2019 10:43am

CoBo55 wrote: »

A worker was killed, he was one of the tar laying crews I think he was on the traffic management end of it.

I think that was at Gaulstown which although nearby, wouldn't have been part of the bypass project.

CoBo55 · 26-11-2019 1:48pm

josip wrote: »

I think that was at Gaulstown which although nearby, wouldn't have been part of the bypass project.

I thought it was on the approach road to the bridge, nevertheless it was a terrible thing to happen. Things have sure moved on from years ago when it was almost expected that some lives would be lost on such a major project.

munchkin_utd · 29-11-2019 3:13pm

**(Updated 28th November 2019)
Opening Day of the N25 Bypass Bridge
In the last couple of weeks, photos were released showing the temporary support piers getting demolished. This is in preparation for the opening of the N25 Bypass Bridge. The opening is set for the 20th of December this year.

https://visitnewross.ie/community/22523/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-ross-bypass-bridge/

Silent Running · 29-11-2019 3:16pm

Is there any talk of the public being allowed to "walk" the bridge before it opens to traffic?

I would love to give that a go.

gman2k · 29-11-2019 4:02pm

Response on Twitter from Wexford COCO from someone asking when it will be open:

"It's possibly just before Christmas.......but more likely just after......."

jelutong · 29-11-2019 5:06pm

Any news on who’s going to perform the official opening? Brian Cody or Davy Fitz perhaps.

CoBo55 · 29-11-2019 5:30pm

jelutong wrote: »

Any news on who’s going to perform the official opening? Brian Cody or Davy Fitz perhaps.

Paul Galvin:D

N25/N30 - New Ross Bypass [open to traffic]

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