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Road infrastructure discussion

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    #122
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,369 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    Some equipment being unloaded at breaffy road crossing point this morning.


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    #123
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Drone pics of the new N5 from Jack Walsh drone photography:

    https://m.facebook.com/2224058757921503/photos/pcb.2626749557652419/2626749517652423/?type=3&source=49&__tn__=EH-R


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    #124
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,369 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    Good job the n5 is too far gone to be stopped by the greens.


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    #125
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,369 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    Looks like traffic lights be installed on the N5 at the firestation junction. Lets hope they are sensor based not timed.

    also looks they want to put in a puffin crossing at hanleys hows that going to work so close to another set of traffic lights.

    then another one at Monaghans.

    the sooner the bypass is finished the better.

    https://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/publicpurchase_docs.asp?PID=160629&LID=179514&AllowPrint=1


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    #126
    Coillte_Bhoy
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    irishgeo wrote: »
    Looks like traffic lights be installed on the N5 at the firestation junction. Lets hope they are sensor based not timed.

    also looks they want to put in a puffin crossing at hanleys hows that going to work so close to another set of traffic lights.

    then another one at Monaghans.

    the sooner the bypass is finished the better.

    https://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/publicpurchase_docs.asp?PID=160629&LID=179514&AllowPrint=1

    :pac::pac:


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    #127
    UsBus
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    irishgeo wrote: »
    Looks like traffic lights be installed on the N5 at the firestation junction. Lets hope they are sensor based not timed.


    https://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/publicpurchase_docs.asp?PID=160629&LID=179514&AllowPrint=1

    Was on the N5 passing the firestation & proposed lights this morning. The road surface of this stretch between roundabouts has been taken up for re-surfacing removing all the paint lines for the traffic light junction. Was this not resurfaced in the last 6 months already...????


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    #128
    irishgeo
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    UsBus wrote: »
    Was on the N5 passing the firestation & proposed lights this morning. The road surface of this stretch between roundabouts has been taken up for re-surfacing removing all the paint lines for the traffic light junction. Was this not resurfaced in the last 6 months already...????

    Yes. Shocking bit of road before that.


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    #129
    Westernyelp
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    irishgeo wrote:
    Yes. Shocking bit of road before that.


    Why do it again? Shocking piece of planning more like


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    #130
    DuckSlice
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    are they doing the whole stretch or just where the new traffic lights will be?


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    #131
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,369 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    etxp wrote: »
    are they doing the whole stretch or just where the new traffic lights will be?

    Roundabout to roundabout


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    #132
    Leonidas BL
    Registered Users Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Leonidas BL


    I drove from Castlebar to Ballina a while ago. From Ballyvary to Ballina there was as far as I could see with traffic and never got past 70kph. Is there anything ever gonna be done with that rubbish piece of road? Maybe a ringroad for Foxford and Ballina??


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    #133
    Cosmo Kramer
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    There is a long term plan to link the Ballina to the N5 somewhere around Bohola. Bohola and Ballyvary would also be (re)bypassed as well as Foxford. It's a long way down the priority queue though, I don't see it happening in the next 10 years anyway, maybe even 20.


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    #134
    relax carry on
    Registered Users Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭relax carry on


    Westernyelp wrote: »
    Why do it again? Shocking piece of planning more like

    Just drove on that stretch today. Utterly baffling waste of money.


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    #135
    Mickeroo
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    relax carry on wrote: »
    Just drove on that stretch today. Utterly baffling waste of money.

    Brand new basically flawless road surface dug up only months after it was put down. Crazy stuff.


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    #136
    DuckSlice
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    Sounds like MayoCoCo getting rid of some money before year end....


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    #137
    Dudda
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    Wonder was there an issue with the specification or tarmac that was laid? It could be the case it didn't comply or failed some quality or durability checks and has to be redone. I'm involved in a project that's getting re-plastered externally as the external render didn't meed a certain quality. It's a year later it's getting fixed. Not the same size but similar principle.
    Also I thought national roads including the N5 road are under the control at national level and Mayo County Council wouldn't have any input into it's maintenance. They're responsible for local roads. I know the standards and quality required for national roads are much higher than secondary roads.

    The other option is they're upgrading the road before it's downgraded. Will that road still be an N5 road when the new outer bypass is finished? Could be getting it's final upgrade before its downgraded and handed over to Mayo County Council to maintain.


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    #138
    marno21
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    Dudda wrote: »
    The other option is they're upgrading the road before it's downgraded. Will that road still be an N5 road when the new outer bypass is finished? Could be getting it's final upgrade before its downgraded and handed over to Mayo County Council to maintain.

    Unless the nonsense in Galway is repeated, the existing N5 between Westport and Castlebar East will become a regional road. The N60 and N84 will also end at their junctions with the N5.


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    #139
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    A TII rep is on the record confirming this will be the case.
    marno21 wrote: »
    Unless the nonsense in Galway is repeated, the existing N5 between Westport and Castlebar East will become a regional road. The N60 and N84 will also end at their junctions with the N5.


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    #140
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,369 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    Dudda wrote: »
    Wonder was there an issue with the specification or tarmac that was laid? It could be the case it didn't comply or failed some quality or durability checks and has to be redone. I'm involved in a project that's getting re-plastered externally as the external render didn't meed a certain quality. It's a year later it's getting fixed. Not the same size but similar principle.
    Also I thought national roads including the N5 road are under the control at national level and Mayo County Council wouldn't have any input into it's maintenance. They're responsible for local roads. I know the standards and quality required for national roads are much higher than secondary roads.

    The other option is they're upgrading the road before it's downgraded. Will that road still be an N5 road when the new outer bypass is finished? Could be getting it's final upgrade before its downgraded and handed over to Mayo County Council to maintain.

    Correct any N road is in the control of TII and they decide what's to be done.


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