N5 - Westport to Turlough [open to traffic]

Roughan o Donovan are recruiting a project supervisor.

Wills/ BAM have won this subject to the alcatel period

The Nutty M wrote: »

irishgeo wrote: »

From what I heard it's a Q1 2020 start before the digging begins.

Is it?

The display boards are showing roadworks starting on the 26th of September on the Westport/Castlebar road. Is this related?

You don't go digging in the middle of winter. I doubt it. We haven't even turned the official sod.

DumbBrunette wrote: »

No mention of N5 on Leo's visit to castlebar yesterday unfortunately.

Where are these display boards that say works starting on 26th September? I'd like to think it's related to the project, given what was said above about Wills/BAM winning the tender.

I doubt it. We haven't seen a compound setup yet.

discodaveirl wrote: »

Wills HQ about 7/10 miles from the turlough end of the road, cant see there being a massive compound, also hadnt they a compound in Doogary when fencing?

Westport is a bit far away from turlough. I doubt they will driving the gear home every evening.

Is there a problem with this project? no update and hearing rumours

marno21 wrote: »

Should be awarded very shortly now budget is done

Specifically named (along with the N22) in today’s Budget for finding next year

It's already been awarded from what I heard and starting march/April.

irishgeo wrote: »

Probably waiting for Brexit to be sorted.

If we wait for Brexit to be sorted there won't be a new infrastructure project started in the country for the next ten years.

The Michael Ring Road.

Panrich wrote: »

I wonder if they’ll have enough money left over to put cul de sac symbols on all signage for the N26? The North of Mayo is being left to wither and die.

If Michelle didn't spend so much time on the phone to her friend. Maybe she might have got something for north mayo.

yew_tree wrote: »

They talk about spreading jobs around the country and relieving congestion in Dublin...well you gotta put in the infrastructure to do that.

Also I know for a fact the American multinationals in Mayo have complained and put pressure on regarding the Mayo roads down the years....the county would collapse overnight if these well paying companies left.

Allergen have to add extra packing on their products because product was being damaged on bad roads.

marno21 wrote: »

More importantly, has he forgot his party's stonewalling of the 2 biggest sustainable transport projects (if built) in the history of the state?

I'm conscious of derailing this with politics but their 2 most common spokespeople of Ryan and Cuffe believe in a utopia land where everyone and everything will and should be transported by bike and walking. They either choose to ignore the reality or have no understanding of how people, businesses and life in general operate outside of Dublin. I wouldn't even call it not understanding rural areas, its even the smaller urban areas outside the capital they don't get.
If their opinion is representative of the rest of the green party the so called green wave will be very short lived.

Great to hear that this is progressing. Has a completion date been mentioned yet? Any potential for phased opening of certain sections? (need to stop thinking about the Green Party and their idiotic opinions before I smash my head off the wall)

I'm not from Mayo and have no idea of the benifits of this project but I have the common sense not to pass my opinion on it.
Transport Infrastructure Ireland amongst other departments have obviously put a lot of work and time into getting this project to this stage and prioritised it for a reason.
It really annoys me that people who also have no idea about a project and also no expertise in that area, publicly critise something as if they actually know something about it.

Great to see the N5 developed further. It’s a very important link to the west of Ireland with much of the existing route having a poor safety record. Look forward to this section and the section though Roscommon getting underway.
Ciaran Cuffe this morning is exactly why I never vote Green. Condescending, deluded and Marie Antoinette like in their eco babble. A few extra co councillors and they think they’re on course to talk down to the rest of us

marno21 wrote: »

Michael Ring isn’t from any of the places you mention. It really is that simple.

A few points.

It's the N5, a primary route into the West region and should be looked at in context of the full route connecting to M4 to Dublin along with recent Charlestown, Ballaghaderreen - and upcoming Strokestown Roscommon section upgrades.

Bypassing a major town Castlebar who's inner relief road becomes congested daily at peak times preventing flow through and around the town.

Bypassing north Westport to join N59 schemes which are improving access to North/West Mayo tourism routes and previously very poor quality dangerous roads (given scale of project it's a shame the N59 southern bypass isn't included in the plan).

Replacing 20+KM of poor quality single lane road mostly on the busiest Castlebar-Westport section with segregated type 2 carriageway.

Castlebar to Turlough section is an on-line upgrade and scaled back from original plan to link all the way to Bohola/BallinaN26 interchange.

I spoke to engineers at one of the hearings and they were very clear the data supported type 2 dual carriageway and on-line was not possible for much of the route.

It has been in planning since the early 90s due to traffic levels and accident rates.

It's been through several road designs and revisions responding to growth.

So whatever about local political sway of having a minister, a lot of work has gone into this for 20 years before this announcement, and if it was just down to who's in office I'd imagine a former Taoiseach would have happily signed it off several years ago.