N5 - Westport to Turlough [open to traffic]

On the job · 21-01-2020 7:30pm

Is there a hold up on the road construction at the minute or is that only a rumour going round be grate to see it going and getting done.

irishgeo · 21-01-2020 9:28pm

On the job wrote: »

Is there a hold up on the road construction at the minute or is that only a rumour going round be grate to see it going and getting done.

The ground is soaking wet. Big machines and mud don't work together.

On the job · 21-01-2020 10:01pm

irishgeo wrote: »

The ground is soaking wet. Big machines and mud don't work together.

I understand that part but there was rumours going round about there was a problem between the council and the contractors doing the road

24-01-2020 12:50am

They have already started, number of machines already digging.

Westernyelp · 24-01-2020 12:55am

Deleted User wrote:

They have already started, number of machines already digging.

Where is that?

24-01-2020 1:06am

Westernyelp wrote: »

Where is that?

Just outside Turlough id expect. Didn't see it but was talking to two of the digger drivers.
The compound near the breaffy road is also active the past few days.

irishgeo · 24-01-2020 8:02am

Seen a couple of wills Van's around.

Thou · 24-01-2020 8:58am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Just outside Turlough id expect. Didn't see it but was talking to two of the digger drivers.
The compound near the breaffy road is also active the past few days.

Seen them just off the N5 opposite side to turn off for townland of Ballyneggin, looks like this is where the Dual Carriageway begins coming off the original N5.

DumbBrunette · 24-01-2020 3:01pm

Any chance of a pic or two from anyone passing by?

Thou wrote: »

Seen them just off the N5 opposite side to turn off for townland of Ballyneggin, looks like this is where the Dual Carriageway begins coming off the original N5.

spacetweek · 24-01-2020 3:21pm

DumbBrunette wrote: »

Any chance of a pic or two from anyone passing by?

Sounds like this has started but no official announcement from the construction company?

Kevtherev1 · 24-01-2020 3:24pm

spacetweek wrote: »

Sounds like this has started but no official announcement from the construction company?

The greens wont be happy, wanted to block this, new roads being built etc

Reuben1210 · 24-01-2020 3:45pm

spacetweek wrote: »

Sounds like this has started but no official announcement from the construction company?

Yes and no project website I can see yet - Isn't that a requirement these days?

Staying with N5 upgrades, it was tweeted today by CIS that the Ballaghdereen-Scramogue upgrade is out to tender!

https://twitter.com/CISireland/status/1220667679851393024?s=20

Does that bode well for this scheme starting this year maybe Q3?

marno21 · 24-01-2020 4:00pm

Reuben1210 wrote: »

Yes and no project website I can see yet - Isn't that a requirement these days?

Staying with N5 upgrades, it was tweeted today by CIS that the Ballaghdereen-Scramogue upgrade is out to tender!

https://twitter.com/CISireland/status/1220667679851393024?s=20
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Does that bode well for this scheme starting this year maybe Q3?

Early next year. More info in the relevant thread as it progresses

spacetweek · 24-01-2020 4:38pm

I've looked at current journey times including town congestion using Gmaps on the N5, end to end from Longford to Westport.
I've compared to what we can expect when the new roads are open (assume 100km/h can be sustained with little or no interruption.)

Journey times
Around 2000, before C'town, B'derreen, Longford N5 bypasses: 2 hours
After those: 1h 42min
By 2024 when new roads are complete: 1h 19min.

That's a 23 minute saving in time! Very worthwhile and will be a game changer from the far west.

Westernyelp · 24-01-2020 4:55pm

spacetweek wrote:

Sounds like this has started but no official announcement from the construction company?

Yes. A lot of BAM. Site offices/cabins being installed on the Ballonrobe road. Along with those hight guide things on the route.
We are close to calling this under construction I would say

djam17 · 24-01-2020 7:04pm

One would have thought Ring would have used this as a perfect camera opportunity/turning of the sod pre-election. A few weeks to go yet i suppose

Westernyelp · 31-01-2020 5:56pm

Prep work going on at the junction with the present N5 at Pheasanthill now.
Also Lennon's have planning in for a temporary quarry operation at Ballymacrah to service the project

road_high · 31-01-2020 7:57pm

Yep the last ****e bits of the N5 are getting upgraded and it’s very welcome. Same attention now needs to turn to the remaining awful sections of N Primary routes

DumbBrunette · 04-02-2020 9:49pm

Machine in action at N60 junction today

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157141796503262&id=187794613261

Hopefully they'll build the whole road this quickly

seligehgit · 04-02-2020 9:57pm

DumbBrunette wrote: »

Machine in action at N60 junction today

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157141796503262&id=187794613261

Hopefully they'll build the whole road this quickly

Cheers where's that exactly on the Breaffy road?

Can't picture it!

DumbBrunette · 04-02-2020 10:11pm

Where the new road crosses the N60, about 400 metres east of Kilkenny cross roundabout.

seligehgit wrote: »

Cheers where's that exactly on the Breaffy road?

Can't picture it!

MayoSalmon · 04-02-2020 10:12pm

djam17 wrote: »

One would have thought Ring would have used this as a perfect camera opportunity/turning of the sod pre-election. A few weeks to go yet i suppose

Hes guaranteed for re-election regardless

Westernyelp · 04-02-2020 10:18pm

https://imgur.com/a/RJNIkAU

more to come

UsBus · 04-02-2020 10:25pm

DumbBrunette wrote: »

Machine in action at N60 junction today

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157141796503262&id=187794613261

Hopefully they'll build the whole road this quickly

He should have been a surgeon...ðŸ€

Cosmo Kramer · 06-02-2020 8:56pm

DumbBrunette wrote: »

Machine in action at N60 junction today

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157141796503262&id=187794613261

Hopefully they'll build the whole road this quickly

Are they squeezing the dual carriageway in between those two houses - or are they taking a few houses down? Looks an incredibly tight space for four lanes of road and possibly hard shoulders.

Edit - I see this has been answered over in the Mayo forum, three houses to come down at the new junction.

The Nutty M · 13-02-2020 1:10am

Only hedgerow clearance yet before the 1st of March ban. It'll be a little while more before the main work starts on construction.

irishgeo · 13-02-2020 11:04am

The Nutty M wrote: »

Only hedgerow clearance yet before the 1st of March ban. It'll be a little while more before the main work starts on construction.

Judging by the amount of water on the land. If they start digging it will be mud bath.

yop · 16-02-2020 11:08pm

The Nutty M wrote: »

Only hedgerow clearance yet before the 1st of March ban. It'll be a little while more before the main work starts on construction.

I thought I saw they have started clearing down the road at the back of Islandeady. Then again its probably just a mud bath!

runawaybishop · 16-02-2020 11:18pm

The Nutty M wrote: »

Only hedgerow clearance yet before the 1st of March ban. It'll be a little while more before the main work starts on construction.

They can get exemptions on the hedgerow clearance if they need to.

DumbBrunette · 21-02-2020 10:56pm

Project update: https://www.advertiser.ie/mayo/article/113228/number-of-months-before-people-see-significant-work-on-westport-to-turlough-project

spacetweek · 25-02-2020 10:10pm

CIS newsletter confirming main works will start in March and take 36 months to complete.

DumbBrunette · 16-03-2020 5:05pm

Not too much action yet on this project, this pic is at junction with existing N5 coming in to Westport.

From what I can see in and around W'port, all trees have been cut along the route, and all live power lines have been marked with red and white banners. Several site accesses have also been opened up.

The site is a complete mudbath, so it might be a while before the real digging starts.

seligehgit · 16-03-2020 7:48pm

DumbBrunette wrote: »

Not too much action yet on this project, this pic is at junction with existing N5 coming in to Westport.

From what I can see in and around W'port, all trees have been cut along the route, and all live power lines have been marked with red and white banners. Several site accesses have also been opened up.

The site is a complete mudbath, so it might be a while before the real digging starts.

I'd imagine the COVID 19 public health crisis will impede progress significantly.

Cosmo Kramer · 17-03-2020 9:50am

I wonder whether we have actually passed the point of no return, where this road project will have to happen in terms of contracts being signed etc. or whether the Greater need to invest in health services in the next year and to rebuild the economy afterwards might result in this being canned.

irishgeo · 17-03-2020 10:59am

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

I wonder whether we have actually passed the point of no return, where this road project will have to happen in terms of contracts being signed etc. or whether the Greater need to invest in health services in the next year and to rebuild the economy afterwards might result in this being canned.

It's too far down the road. BAM will sue if it doest start. So your going to lose the money anyways.

Westernyelp · 17-03-2020 2:01pm

Hard to know. I would have thought sitting in a digger or dumper in the open air would be some of the safest places to be. With minor precautions taken. There is a lot of work that could continue. But who knows.

DumbBrunette · 17-03-2020 7:30pm

View today of BAM compound at future N5/N84 junction in Castlebar. No activity but it is St Patrick's Day after all.

DumbBrunette · 17-03-2020 10:15pm

Diggers on site this afternoon at Islandeady

They were being delivered today despite the bank holiday, a third one was brought in on a low loader as I was leaving.

Hyland17 · 19-03-2020 11:42pm

That crew are ya putting in silt traps. All the silt fencing along the job they are doing it. Theres another crew and they are concreteing the roads where the dump trucks are crossing. There is still a little bit more work for doing before the main works begin.

csd · 26-03-2020 5:37pm

Map of the scheme - route based on the EIS maps.

N5 Turlough - Westport on Flickr

irishgeo · 26-03-2020 5:58pm

What sort of fancy junction is on the ballirobe road?

afatbollix · 26-03-2020 6:32pm

No roundabout on the Newport road is a bit weird.

irishgeo · 26-03-2020 7:52pm

afatbollix wrote: »

No roundabout on the Newport road is a bit weird.

in castlebar or westport side.

Mickeroo · 26-03-2020 10:40pm

irishgeo wrote: »

What sort of fancy junction is on the ballirobe road?

Looks like a standard on/off ramp set for a flyover I think?

DumbBrunette · 27-03-2020 7:17am

irishgeo wrote: »

What sort of fancy junction is on the ballirobe road?

Here's a more detailed pic of N84 junction:

spacetweek · 27-03-2020 1:18pm

Not sure when this thread was renamed to "under construction", but I think it's clear that it is underway now, though I don't think there was any announcement.

Is there an official site?

DumbBrunette · 27-03-2020 9:17pm

Good point, there should be a website - the N22 and N4 projects both have one.

spacetweek wrote: »

Not sure when this thread was renamed to "under construction", but I think it's clear that it is underway now, though I don't think there was any announcement.

Is there an official site?

Westernyelp · 28-03-2020 7:11pm

Essential workers: Construction. repair/construction of critical road and utility infrastructure

Hopefully this project can continue in an safe and appropriate way. Keep some economic activity and jobs going in the region.

hondar · 28-03-2020 7:52pm

Westernyelp wrote: »

Essential workers: Construction. repair/construction of critical road and utility infrastructure

Hopefully this project can continue in an safe and appropriate way. Keep some economic activity and jobs going in the region.

It's shut down. construction workers will only be permitted to continue at work if they are building something that is essential to the pandemic.

Westernyelp · 28-03-2020 8:08pm

hondar wrote:

It's shut down. construction workers will only be permitted to continue at work if they are building something that is essential to the pandemic.

Really. I would have thought there was a lot of work that could safely continue on projects like this. But that's were we are I suppose.

N5 - Westport to Turlough [open to traffic]

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