N56 - Dungloe to Glenties

ernestcooke91 · 30-06-2020 10:25pm

spacetweek wrote: »

Is Phase 3 Kilkenny to Letterilly still ongoing?
I've no record of it finishing. If it finished when was this?

Looks finished to me.

I think the reduced speed limits have been removed AFAIK.

spacetweek · 01-07-2020 7:28pm

ernestcooke91 wrote: »

Looks finished to me.

I think the reduced speed limits have been removed AFAIK.

Thanks. Anyone any idea when this happened?

Donegal Storm · 07-07-2020 12:35am

Dungloe section is now fully U/C, stop go in place outside Dungloe with earthworks and topsoil stripping well underway. BAM also appear to have resurfaced a few km of the R252 (or at least their signs have been used for the roadworks)

Looks like the plan at the stop-go is to temporarily divert traffic back to the original alignment that was only replaced around 15 years ago!

Here..
https://goo.gl/maps/qDXZfzcQVBJtVCjK6

L1011 · 07-07-2020 9:06am

Think that was done by DCC direct labour and hence took about 15 years to be done!

spacetweek · 07-07-2020 5:52pm

Kilkenny-Letterilly

Just for the record, it looks like the scheme may have been completed in March then finishing works didn't happen until after the lockdown.

Does that sound right?

L1011 · 07-07-2020 7:15pm

spacetweek wrote: »

Kilkenny-Letterilly

Just for the record, it looks like the scheme may have been completed in March then finishing works didn't happen until after the lockdown.

Does that sound right?

The photo is of a small diversion done about fifteen years ago; not Kilkenny-Letterilly. I haven't been up recently to confirm if that's true about that scheme though.

Mushy · 07-07-2020 10:22pm

From where the upgrade works commenced closest to Glenties, are they doing from there to Glenties town? Was on road today/yesterday, the improvement between there and letter is huge. Seems to be some big work going on closer to Dungloe too

L1011 · 07-07-2020 10:23pm

The eventual scheme is going to be from south/west of Glenties all the way to Dungloe; excluding any upgrade to Glenties town.

Mushy · 07-07-2020 10:26pm

L1011 wrote: »

The eventual scheme is going to be from south/west of Glenties all the way to Dungloe; excluding any upgrade to Glenties town.

South/west as in the Ardara side of Glenties? Thatd be even better, was just hoping theyd extend the current road closer to the town, say to like the petrol station if was possible

Donegal Storm · 07-07-2020 11:27pm

They're doing up as far as the R252 turn off I think, hopefully they'll re-design the junction at the top of Glenties to give priority to the N56 as well

spacetweek wrote: »

Kilkenny-Letterilly

Just for the record, it looks like the scheme may have been completed in March then finishing works didn't happen until after the lockdown.

Does that sound right?

I haven't been along that section since before lockdown, from what I've heard its now fully open though seems odd there were no politicians out for brownie points with a proper opening

Penfailed · 28-07-2020 8:29pm

spacetweek wrote: »

Kilkenny-Letterilly

Just for the record, it looks like the scheme may have been completed in March then finishing works didn't happen until after the lockdown.

Does that sound right?

I think there were a few snagging issues to sort after the lockdown but it was otherwise completed before that.

Donegal Storm · 01-08-2020 2:36pm

A few pics from just outside Dungloe this morning

spacetweek · 27-09-2020 9:39pm

Any word on when Phase 4 Letterilly to Kilraine is starting? Was supposed to be August past.

marno21 · 17-10-2020 6:55pm

N56 Letterilly-Kilraine Phase 1 awarded to Wills Bros

https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/PublicPurchase/164041/0/1?returnUrl=ctm/Supplier/PublicTenders&b=ETENDERS_SIMPLE

spacetweek · 18-10-2020 9:37pm

marno21 wrote: »

N56 Letterilly-Kilraine Phase 1 awarded to Wills Bros

https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/PublicPurchase/164041/0/1?returnUrl=ctm/Supplier/PublicTenders&b=ETENDERS_SIMPLE

Phase 1? Has this tiny scheme been split into 2 phases?

Or did they mean to say Phase 4, as Letterilly-Kilraine is Phase 4 of Dungloe-Glenties?

I see the length in the tender is 4.1 km, but the official scheme length is 4.9. Perhaps Phase 2 is the other 800 metres.

L1011 · 18-10-2020 9:46pm

spacetweek wrote: »

Phase 1? Has this tiny scheme been split into 2 phases?

Or did they mean to say Phase 4, as Letterilly-Kilraine is Phase 4 of Dungloe-Glenties?

I see the length in the tender is 4.1 km, but the official scheme length is 4.9. Perhaps Phase 2 is the other 800 metres.

Its been split. The length given for it up-thread was 7.5km; which would make the second bundle 3.4km.

marno21 · 18-10-2020 10:52pm

L1011 wrote: »

Its been split. The length given for it up-thread was 7.5km; which would make the second bundle 3.4km.

You probably have better knowledge than me of this going by your posts to date in this thread, but it seems to my eye that Phase 1 is the northern side of Glenties and Phase 2 is the remainder of the N56 from Glenties to Kilraine (R262)?

L1011 · 19-10-2020 9:58am

I haven't been home in a shockingly long time so don't rely on me for local info but yes, I think that's the case.

Was about to head up for a week when the first local lockdown stopped me.

spacetweek · 19-10-2020 10:42pm

Do we have any idea when Phase 2 will start?

marno21 · 20-10-2020 4:19pm

None from what I can see. The PIN for the entire Letterilly-Kilraine (7.5km) was put out in December 2018, and then the actual tender notice for the first 4.1km of same was put out in March. According to the media the entire 7.5km was to go out to tender in 2019, and was budgeted for. It's not clear why it was shortened, perhaps the budget wouldn't cover the entire 7.5km

I'd imagine the remaining 3.4km will go ahead in 2021. Can't be dragging this out for too much longer and there will be lots of capital funding available considering a) the cycling component of this and b) there is only one major project that can feasibly go ahead in the next three years (N5)

Donegal Storm · 20-10-2020 8:04pm

marno21 wrote: »

N56 Letterilly-Kilraine Phase 1 awarded to Wills Bros

https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/PublicPurchase/164041/0/1?returnUrl=ctm/Supplier/PublicTenders&b=ETENDERS_SIMPLE

Does tender award mean they can get started right away?

They're making good progress with the Dungloe - Leitermacaward section, as well as the big works underway near Dungloe there's another mostly offline section U/C south of the R252 with noticeable progress every time I've passed. With lockdown v2 though I doubt I'll be out that way this side of Christmas again now

marno21 · 20-10-2020 8:40pm

Donegal Storm wrote: »

Does tender award mean they can get started right away?

They're making good progress with the Dungloe - Leitermacaward section, as well as the big works underway near Dungloe there's another mostly offline section U/C south of the R252 with noticeable progress every time I've passed. With lockdown v2 though I doubt I'll be out that way this side of Christmas again now

They should be underway in Q1 2021

marno21 · 15-01-2021 1:21am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W9Hq67KTwU

Fantastic drone footage of the 7.1km Dungloe to Cloghbolie scheme. Quite a lot of traffic management along this stretch, quite irritating for locals.

roadmaster · 15-01-2021 11:25am

marno21 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W9Hq67KTwU

Fantastic drone footage of the 7.1km Dungloe to Cloghbolie scheme. Quite a lot of traffic management along this stretch, quite irritating for locals.

Jesus I didn't know if I was looking at a quarry operation or road construction there!

ernestcooke91 · 03-02-2021 11:28am

From Donegal County Council Facebook & Twitter accounts on 29 January in relation to the Letterily to Kilraine section:

N56 Letterilly Kilraine Phase 1 Road Project

Site Clearance works on the N56 Letterilly section of road from Glenties to Dungloe for approx. 3 weeks. Rolling Stop & Go in operation from today, Mon 01/02/21, minor delays are to be expected so allow extra time for travel and any fallen debris on road”

spacetweek · 03-02-2021 10:46pm

ernestcooke91 wrote: »

From Donegal County Council Facebook & Twitter accounts on 29 January in relation to the Letterily to Kilraine section:

N56 Letterilly Kilraine Phase 1 Road Project

Site Clearance works on the N56 Letterilly section of road from Glenties to Dungloe for approx. 3 weeks. Rolling Stop & Go in operation from today, Mon 01/02/21, minor delays are to be expected so allow extra time for travel and any fallen debris on road”

Great, we can consider this to be under construction now.

ernestcooke91 · 06-04-2021 11:00pm

Works are continuing on Phase 1 of the Letterilly - Kilraine Road Project.

Out of curiosity has there been any update on Phase 2 of this project or will this be started after phase 1 is completed?

Donegal Storm · 07-04-2021 1:14pm

Is Letterilly - Kilraine the section just outside Glenties on the Dungloe side? I'm not familiar with the townland names

ernestcooke91 · 07-04-2021 2:51pm

Donegal Storm wrote: »

Is Letterilly - Kilraine the section just outside Glenties on the Dungloe side? I'm not familiar with the townland names

Letterilly is the townland on the Dungloe side of Glenties near Maas. The current phase 1 works go from here to Glenties.

Kilraine is the townland on the other side of Glenties, at the junction with the R262 Frosses road.
The proposed phase 2 works go from Glenties to this junction

yannakis · 09-05-2021 12:29am

N56 progress Dashcam footage from the ground - I only drove the section R252 to Dungloe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlDalgcIQ6g

yannakis · 16-05-2021 11:10am

Longer version from yesterday (15 May) - this time all the way from Dungloe to Cloghbolie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qXTIvW3Yo

Donegal Storm · 16-05-2021 11:40am

I see you have the same experience I do in always getting stuck for ages at all the lights. I must have been through there 10+ times over the past couple of months and never once get a green light

yannakis · 17-05-2021 12:12am

Donegal Storm wrote: »

I see you have the same experience I do in always getting stuck for ages at all the lights. I must have been through there 10+ times over the past couple of months and never once get a green light

Absolutely awful timing these lights.. I was visiting the area but I can imagine 10km of stop/go for a couple of years will drive locals crazy..!

ernestcooke91 · 20-05-2021 11:55am

New Temporary Road & traffic lights came into operation on the Letterilly section of this road (just outside Glenties) last week

L1011 · 25-06-2021 8:09pm

The stop-go systems here - both schemes currently underway but particularly on Dungloe to Cloghbolie - are absolutely horrendous.

D-C has some sections that are basically done albeit probably need a wearing course - road is on new alignment, old alignment or new cycle track is set up - but other sections where it looks like they're still blasting and lots of heavy stone works ongoing.

L-K is nowhere near as advanced yet obviously. A lot of the stop-go systems have you driivng on the future cycle track I think.

dollylama · 25-06-2021 10:14pm

L1011 wrote: »

The stop-go systems here - both schemes currently underway but particularly on Dungloe to Cloghbolie - are absolutely horrendous.

D-C has some sections that are basically done albeit probably need a wearing course - road is on new alignment, old alignment or new cycle track is set up - but other sections where it looks like they're still blasting and lots of heavy stone works ongoing.

L-K is nowhere near as advanced yet obviously. A lot of the stop-go systems have you driivng on the future cycle track I think.

I counted near 20 minutes of lights on the dungloe section the last weekend I was up there... 20 minutes each way! I heard it's causing headache for the guys hauling material to the Glenties job as they are coming from out past Crolly, through the lights on the Dungloe job every time

Donegal Storm · 26-06-2021 12:45am

L1011 wrote: »

The stop-go systems here - both schemes currently underway but particularly on Dungloe to Cloghbolie - are absolutely horrendous.

D-C has some sections that are basically done albeit probably need a wearing course - road is on new alignment, old alignment or new cycle track is set up - but other sections where it looks like they're still blasting and lots of heavy stone works ongoing.

L-K is nowhere near as advanced yet obviously. A lot of the stop-go systems have you driivng on the future cycle track I think.

Its been horrendous for the best part of a decade now, I think people are just beat into submission at this stage.

As I've said before, great to see these updates happen but the creeping 'few km at a time' method of upgrading the road has meant never ending roadworks and no time savings. In a few years we'll hopefully finally see the benefits but this method of incrementally digging up the same stretch of road means massive disruption for far too long

spacetweek · 26-06-2021 5:27pm

Yea if they ever do another section such as Inver to Glenties I wouldn’t recommend they do it this way. Far too slow and disruptive. Just build a new offline route.

L1011 · 27-06-2021 8:25pm

I think CPO cost minimisation was picked over any other practicality here.

On D-C there's only one offline section of any note really. The total pavement reconstruction, widening and minor alignment changes will all be a huge help but not to the extent that a new offline route would have been.

L-K has a lot of beside-the-line works which I suspect will also lead to huge one way systems later on.

ernestcooke91 · 03-12-2021 1:25pm

Been a while since there's been a post here.

The Dungloe to Cloghbolie section of this scheme is coming along very well recently.

About 3km (out of 7km) of this is now completed with final surfacing and lines.

The longest traffic light on this section at the Doochary junction has now been removed. 3 temporary traffic lights remain on this.

The remaining parts look like they are coming along well too

L1011 · 03-12-2021 1:29pm

I've to head up in a week or so, and got badly caught for time last time by those lights, so that's handy

Anyone know how bad the section between Glenties and Maas is these days?

ernestcooke91 · 13-12-2021 2:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118262556#Comment_118262556

Sorry for the slow reply.

Currently, the section between Glenties and Maas is at a much earlier stage of construction so driving through it can be slow.

L1011 · 13-12-2021 5:06pm

Trips on Thursday. I'll give myself plenty of time

One bad dark red traffic patch showing on Google Maps right now; and another at the lake outside Dungloe.

spacetweek · 13-12-2021 7:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118314641#Comment_118314641

Bit frustrating how incredibly long the whole Dungloe-Glenties project will take. Considering that many other parts of the N56 need the same treatment.

We'd be decades doing it all at this rate.

ernestcooke91 · 14-12-2021 3:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118315839#Comment_118315839

Yes, so the red traffic patch just outside Dungloe town is the slowest part on that section of roadworks at the moment, there is 4 roads there with traffic lights (2 on the main road and both minor roads) there at the moment

L1011 · 18-12-2021 6:14pm

So, on Dungloe to Cloghbolie on Thursday - from pretty much everything except one offline section is done or near done. Section at the lake had absolutely nobody working on it but still unfinished / stop-go in place.

Between Glenties and Maas is still hugely disrupted and its hard to see what's been done in five months!

spacetweek · 18-12-2021 10:18pm

Do we have any idea when Letterilly to Kilraine (Phase 2) will start?

L1011 · 18-12-2021 10:26pm

Wills site office signs up on that side of Glenties but absolutely no obvious works.

dollylama · 19-12-2021 12:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118344556#Comment_118344556

I don't believe Phase 2 ever went out to tender?

ernestcooke91 · 23-12-2021 3:51pm

Some good news to report.

The last section of the Dungloe to Cloghbolie scheme has been opened to traffic earlier today.

All traffic lights for these roadworks have been removed for the Christmas holiday period.

N56 - Dungloe to Glenties

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