N15 - Roadworks

I wonder will the benefits of this work be worth the hassle and costs involved?

Mullinabreena wrote: »

I wonder will the benefits of this work be worth the hassle and costs involved?

I seriously don’t think it will have much, if any, benefit to the general traffic flow in the town. Looking at the overall drawing I struggle to see the real advantages of this work.

This work was supposed to be completed in Q.4 2020 but I doubt it will be completed in Q.2 or even Q.3 this year.

The only part they’ve completed thus far is planting trees in the middle section of the road. Kind of says it all really.

Would never normally turn my nose up at any road projects in Sligo as they are generally long overdue (current N4 project & hopefully N17 in time) but N15 roadworks has been a mess from the beginning.

An absolute mess this morning. Usual morning hit summerhill roundabout 7.50, heading North, pass Henderson's garage before or during 8am news.
This morning Summerhill 7.50am, Henderson's 8.30am news!
No plan in place.
Old Bundoran Road heading South an hour ago a car park!

It remains to be seen if the new traffic signaling system that is being installed with help the overall flow of traffic through the town but as it stands the "upgraded" infrastructure just seems to be worse when you compare it to what existed.

You now have no free flowing traffic out at the Rosses Point junction as the slipway is replaced with a left turn at the lights.

The same bottleneck still exists at the Rosses Point junction heading North. Where two lanes have to merge into one if they want to continue on North past this junction.

The lights at the N16 junction coming from North -> South turn red when the traffic coming from Rosses Point get their green light. This only gives space for about 5 cars to get out without blocking the huge Yellow box at that junction, causing large tailbacks from the Rosses Point side

There's no longer a yield turn on green from the N4 down the N16 from South -> North so you now have to wait for the filter arrow to turn right only. It will be interesting to see how this works on busy mornings when College starts back.

The amount of traffic lights between junctions and pedestriation crossings down at the N4/N15/N16 junction is lit up like a Christmas tree. I've never seen so many. There must be nearly 30 there! I sometimes wonder if the whole junction could have been simplified with a pedestrian overpass

Also not sure of the purpose of the big wide island down the middle of the N4 past the bridge.

It was frustrating having to cross the bridge over the bank holiday weekend. I just hope it will all be forgotten quickly when it finally opens (and works out?)

So it looks like there is only going to be one dedicated north bound lane on the bridge and traffic has to merge just past tds

londonred wrote: »

So it looks like there is only going to be one dedicated north bound lane on the bridge and traffic has to merge just past tds

It's all the same what they do / did on the bridge.

There's only the width of one vehicle allowed through at Circle K.

A bottleneck. And it always will be.

Gipo3 wrote: »

Do you mean permanently? If so that is incorrect. The bridge was extended with extra lane but was not used until this phase of work. So there will be two lanes northbound and a lane for turning right onto Markievicz Rd. 3 lanes each side

Looks like it big traffic light island there going to be very tight and that's not including cycle lanes.

Gipo3 wrote: »

The long term plan is for dual carriageway from this point. Anyway soon enough we will find out who is right. The road designers or the experts on boards.

if it was a bottle neck before this and they haven't done anything to address it then its eh still going to be a bottle neck.