If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Hi all! We have been experiencing an issue on site where threads have been missing the latest postings. The platform host Vanilla are working on this issue. A workaround that has been used by some is to navigate back from 1 to 10+ pages to re-sync the thread and this will then show the latest posts. Thanks, Mike.

Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Which interurban will win?

Chris_533976 · 2007-07-04 16:02:01

Of the four major builds going on (Dublin - Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford), which do you think will be finished first?? Pointless poll, but it'll be interesting to see what people think.

Comments

#102 23-07-2008 9:30pm

Chris_533976

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2000

Posts: 2908

N7: Dublin - Limerick
Croom bypass may suffer the same fate. So might bits of the Youghal bypass.

In other countries thats because the original bypasses filled up, in Ireland its because of idiotic planning.

0
#103 23-07-2008 9:39pm

AugustusMaximus

Closed Accounts Posts: 1,044 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2008

Posts: 928

N9: Dublin - Waterford

MYOB wrote: »

Mitchelstown too, or is the motorway stopping short of it? Will be in the end anyway

edit: checked nra.ie, motorway stops short - but it eventually will have a bypass to both sides!

You can't really call the relief road a bypass.

Its just that its acting as a bypass until the full motorway one opens. Its design is primarily to take traffic out of the town heading on one of the regional roads going west and north out of the town.

On the other hand, the old Cahir bypass was just that, a bypass.

Whats the story about the youghal bypass ? Surely there's plenty of room to upgrade to 2+2 or even dual carriageway if needs be.

0
#104 23-07-2008 9:52pm

Chris_533976

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2000

Posts: 2908

N7: Dublin - Limerick
No idea, all that I know is that the Midleton - Youghal scheme will end at the Waterford side of the bypass. No idea if they'll upgrade or replace or what.

0
#105 23-07-2008 10:36pm

Lennoxschips

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2001

Posts: 1707

surely they don't need a dualler between midleton and youghal? a decent road/upgrade yeah, but dualler?

the youghal bypass is one of the finest bits of road in ireland, only built five years ago, if that is to be made obsolete... well, the mind boggles.

the mitchelstown relief road is a property development racket

0
#106 19-12-2009 2:40pm

D'Peoples Voice

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2005

Posts: 1668

I'm refusing to accept defeat here:D,
Galway has not built the outer bypass, so really the motorway to Galway city is not complete!:D

0
#107 19-12-2009 3:31pm

Chris_533976

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2000

Posts: 2908

N7: Dublin - Limerick
Admit it, you got it wrong

0
#108 19-12-2009 3:39pm

Lollymcd

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 802 ✭✭✭

Join Date: June 2009

Posts: 760

N7: Dublin - Limerick
Does anyone drive the new M6 on a regular basis and how do you stay awake? Very monotonous piece of motorway, I now understand the term "highway hypnosis"

0
#109 19-12-2009 4:35pm

DWCommuter

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,032 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2007

Posts: 2936

DerekP11 wrote: »

I fancy the N6 to Galway/Dublin (depending on where you live of course).

Only one section on a go slow. Thats between Ballinasloe and Athlone. Every other section is on the move.

Well Im claiming victory anyway.:D

0
#110 19-12-2009 6:16pm

Victor

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,494 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2000

Posts: 68857

N7: Dublin - Limerick
.I was looking for this thread during the week.

So how many people voted for Galway since the thread was bumped?

0
#111 20-12-2009 11:15am

Chris_533976

Closed Accounts Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2000

Posts: 2908

N7: Dublin - Limerick
close the poll close the poll close the poll close the poll close the poll close the poll close the poll close the poll close the poll close the poll close the poll close the poll close the poll

I saw it straight after it was bumped and it hasnt been raped too much

0
Advertisement
#112 20-12-2009 2:10pm

Carawaystick

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2007

Posts: 8508

Lollymcd wrote: »

Does anyone drive the new M6 on a regular basis and how do you stay awake? Very monotonous piece of motorway, I now understand the term "highway hypnosis"

The more recent stretches of road are intentionally bendy to keep some amount of driver involvement. the original M4 has only 5* bends from Kilcock to the Dublin end. This is far worse for driver fatigue.

* well I dunno how many, but the road has several dead straight stretches and a bend followed by another long straight.

0
#113 29-01-2010 1:11am

spacetweek

Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,151 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2004

Posts: 5121

Took me a while to find this thread

It was clear to me back in 2007 that the M6 would be finished first.

If you consider the Galway Bypass to be part of it, which I don't, then I reckon the M8 might be the first to finish. The M9 will be the very end of the year before it finishes, and the M7 seems to be mired in a bog.

0
#114 29-01-2010 1:31am

Roryhy

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 368 ✭✭

Join Date: August 2009

Posts: 357

N7: Dublin - Limerick
summer for the m9 methinks

0
#115 29-01-2010 1:54am

Carawaystick

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2007

Posts: 8508

spacetweek wrote: »

Took me a while to find this thread

It was clear to me back in 2007 that the M6 would be finished first.

If you consider the Galway Bypass to be part of it, which I don't, then I reckon the M8 might be the first to finish. The M9 will be the very end of the year before it finishes, and the M7 seems to be mired in a bog.

I don't know for sure if the new N6DC ending at the rab in Douiskea is in Galway city or not but the Galway clinic rab is in Galway city, so there is definitely hqdc to Galway city so the road is finished.

0
#116 05-02-2010 1:16pm

spacetweek

Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,151 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2004

Posts: 5121

Carawaystick wrote: »

I don't know for sure if the new N6DC ending at the rab in Douiskea is in Galway city or not but the Galway clinic rab is in Galway city, so there is definitely hqdc to Galway city so the road is finished.

Sorry, I wasn't clear above.

Of course the M6 is complete. I meant to say the M8 will be the next to finish, not the first.

0
#117 05-02-2010 2:20pm

dubhthach

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2002

Posts: 3234

Carawaystick wrote: »

I don't know for sure if the new N6DC ending at the rab in Douiskea is in Galway city or not but the Galway clinic rab is in Galway city, so there is definitely hqdc to Galway city so the road is finished.

RAB is well within the city boundary, here's the map from the proposed 2011-2017 development plan:
http://www.galwaycity.ie/AllServices/Planning/Publications/DraftDevelopmentPlan2011-2017Publications/FileEnglish,6483,en.pdf

0