Shannon Tunnel "is" Started!

Poxyshamrock

The Work on the Shannon Tunnel has begun, some people were having doubts about it but it says on The Post that construction has begun. I always thought that the area on the roundabout close to the old Roxboro Swimming Pool.

hobie

Whats the roundabout called just down from Elm Motors on the way into the new bridge? ...

well anyway, every $$$$$ time I go that way I need to hose my $$$$$ car down for 1/2 an hour to get rid of all the mud from the road ...

but I don't mind .... :rolleyes:

it's only going to be like that for 5 years ....

1huge1

did anyone read the limeirck independent (i think it was that one) and on the front page it had a farmer trying to tell us how a bridge would of been such a better idea
money and timewise
but a tunnel is so much cooler haha

Poxyshamrock

Nope, that was the Leader, some farmer designed a little model bridge, nice looking bridge too. One weird feature though was a....wait for it....wait for it...a tree, in the middle of a bridge! What the f**k is that about? A Tree? lol

In my opinion a tunnel is the better option, I think the Bridge will date and become another traffic blackspot.

MarkR

hobie wrote:

Whats the roundabout called just down from Elm Motors on the way into the new bridge? ...

well anyway, every $$$$$ time I go that way I need to hose my $$$$$ car down for 1/2 an hour to get rid of all the mud from the road ...

but I don't mind .... :rolleyes:

it's only going to be like that for 5 years ....

Clonmacken roundabout I think.

1huge1

that and tunnels are cooler

Evo9

NRA= Overbridge: St Nessans Rd (R526)

Does this mean thad the current road is going to be a flyover like the one on Roxbrough Rd just past Southill, our is it like thad little tunnel on the old Ballysimon rd where the carriageway runs over the road

Linkhttp://nra.ie/PublicPrivatePartnership/SchemeInformationBrochuresforTenderers/file,1196,en.PDF#search=%22shannon%20tunnel%22

galwayrush

is it going to be Tolled?:eek:

bazz26

They have already started the work on the approach road at the Irish Cement Factory roundabout on the Dock road.

bazz26

galwayrush wrote:

is it going to be Tolled?:eek:

Yes, nice little money earner for the Government.

Raiser

Evo9 wrote:

Does this mean thad the current road is going to be a flyover like the one on Roxbrough Rd just past Southill, our is it like thad little tunnel on the old Ballysimon rd where the carriageway runs over the road

Linkhttp://nra.ie/PublicPrivatePartnership/SchemeInformationBrochuresforTenderers/file,1196,en.PDF#search=%22shannon%20tunnel%22

Yah - I was wondering too - seems strange to have that volume of traffic passing over St. Nessans raod as it heads for town ? Anyone know for sure ?

galwayrush

bazz26 wrote:

Yes, nice little money earner for the Government.

amazing, never been as much money in the country and we can't afford to build a few roads and tunnels without a toll. 2 cents onto a litre of fuel would bring in way more than all the proposed tolls in the country put together.not forgetting how many 2 cent increases the goverment has squezzed out of us over the past few years.:mad:

ninty9er

galwayrush wrote:

is it going to be Tolled?:eek:

I have no problem with tolling as long as it's used to upgrade and maintain the tunnel.

limerick_man

Yes, its public/private partnership.. meaning really its a private road that the gov makes sure they keep upgrading it! Should be spotless!!

Pure Mule

Toll the Nenagh bypass, then the Ennis Rd & a few more. If our ancestor's had thought of it we'd have had no siege of Limerick

limerick_man

They only toll a road if there is another road doing the same journey

galwayrush

limerick_man wrote:

They only toll a road if there is another road doing the same journey

excellent,two tunnels,:D

1huge1

limerick_man wrote:

They only toll a road if there is another road doing the same journey

interesting never knew that and it makes sense for most situations but not this
theres no other tunnel like (just like the jack lynch tunnel which wasnt tolled...)

cyberspi

does anyone know the costs of the nenagh road and the tunnel and where the financing is coming from? - doing a project on roads

bullets

bazz26 wrote:

They have already started the work on the approach road at the Irish Cement Factory roundabout on the Dock road.

Is that what all the noise was!! All day yestarday and all through most of
the night I heard the sounds of heavy machinery. I thought it would stop
come evening by All bloody night this constant sound like a Kango hammer.


~B

BobTheBeat

900 metres of a tunnel, the document reads:- in real terms, the length of the dock road from the cement factory roundabout, to the roches feeds roundabout.Class!

billy the squid

Martin Cullen will be turning the sod on the site today. Its finally going ahead after all the waiting.

galwayrush

billy the squid wrote:

Martin Cullen will be turning the sod on the site today. Its finally going ahead after all the waiting.

with his track record, will it leak,be finished on time and be on budget?:rolleyes: