M6 - Athlone to Ballinasloe

Carawaystick

Michelin maps usually have a dashed line for proposed major roads and a completion date printed on the maps. So, here they'd have dashed lines for the Mitchelstown bypass, the Athlone-B'Sloe road, Waterford bypass, etc.

I'd imagine it'd be in the interests of paper mapmakers to update their maps regularly in a country with lots of main roads coming onstream like here.
Maybe noone buys paper maps anymore, and if it's not on the gps it doesn't exist....

serfboard

Carawaystick wrote: »

Michelin maps usually have a dashed line for proposed major roads and a completion date printed on the maps. So, here they'd have dashed lines for the Mitchelstown bypass, the Athlone-B'Sloe road, Waterford bypass, etc.

I use viamichelin a lot myself ... and actually if you zoom in on some of the schemes the detail actually does show the roads as open (Ath->Bsloe for example). Their bigger scale maps don't, but do show the dashed lines as you say.

billbond4

I see the numbnuts have part of the westbound bypass down to one lane AGAIN after the Coosan exit.
I dont know why they call it a dual-carraiageway, its a single lane carriageway most of the time

billbond4

billbond4 wrote: »

I see the numbnuts have part of the westbound bypass down to one lane AGAIN after the Coosan exit.
I dont know why they call it a dual-carraiageway, its a single lane carriageway most of the time

What are they doing?

Are they removing the old green Tuam Rd exit sign ??

billbond4

I dont know, I only spotted it this morning when I joined the bypass from the Roscommon exit going eastbound.
Hopefully its just to take down the sign.

giveth

They've re-numbered (just patching) the exits 8-13 on the athlone bypass to link in with the M6. I guess this is why there was lane restrictions.

Obvously getting impatient with the redesignation decision (New green or Blue signs!), could be many months away, in the meantime the current numbering must be confusing visitors!

billbond4

visitors had plenty of time to look at numbers this evening, as the muppets left all the cones on the road, sure why would you take cones off a road when your finished?? that's something they do in those foreign countries

KevR

Was on this section for the first time under darkness on Friday night when on the bus to Dublin Airport. The studs, cat's eyes and reflectors on the armco are amazing; possibly the best I have ever seen! Really and truly like a runway.

KevR

KevR wrote: »

Was on this section for the first time under darkness on Friday night when on the bus to Dublin Airport. The studs, cat's eyes and reflectors on the armco are amazing; possibly the best I have ever seen! Really and truly like a runway.

The Athlone - Kilbeggan section was like that when it first opened as well.

KevR

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The Athlone - Kilbeggan section was like that when it first opened as well.

I think Athlone-Kilbeggan has the same stick on studs along the emergency lane and median rather than cat's eyes.

Sponge Bob

http://www.galwaynews.ie/8718-blockade-n6-underway-cappataggle-residents

A blockade of the N6 is underway at Cappataggle.
Local residents are preventing trucks and lorries from exiting onto the main Kilconnell - Cappataggle Road from the N6 Relief Road near Cappataggle.
They're claiming the N6 Construction company has damaged roads near a local school.

The consortium has been quite remiss in fixing the local/access roads up . They were supposed to have completed repairs by May 2009 , but did not .

Delta Kilo

Is it the N6 that was blocked or the Kilconnell/Cappataggle road?

Amtmann

Closed to preserve for posterity!

Final task on this section.
Fascinating to see the original structure hidden inside the bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVOyJ0GliOY

flazio

For those of you who aren't sure where this is, it's the bridge that used to take the N6 across the rail line when it veered left at the end of the bypass. Kinda sad they couldn't have found a way to retain it, even as an end of a Cul de sac.

Whatever happened to those drainage works that were supposed to close the motorway before Christmas?

wow, I've a whole new respect for siac after watching that, very well managed

Zubeneschamali

You can see the bridge (and railway) appear on the osi's historic maps here:

http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,600984,740676,7,9

by clicking between the historic 6" and 25" maps.

6 inch mapping series (1:10,560) greyscale 1837-1842
25 inch mapping series (1:2,500) greyscale 1888-1913

The railway reached Athlone in 1851.

billbond4

Yeah thats a great job, its a pity they could keep the old springwell road open and not have the bridge cut it off.
There is an old closed bridge still on the olde tuam road underneath the esso petrol station

Sponge Bob

This should be in the Galway Ballinasloe thread of course. What was this about???

Page 2 http://www.audgen.gov.ie/documents/annualreports/2011/report/en/Chapter6.pdf

Project Cost Increase
6.6 Following a dispute between the NRA and a PPP company relating to the completion of works on
the N6 Galway – Ballinasloe PPP scheme, a mediator was appointed in July 2011. A settlement
agreement was reached in August 2011, under which the PPP company undertook to complete
specified works, and the NRA agreed to pay an additional €16 million, most of which was paid in
2011.2 The overall impact of the settlement is that total payments to the PPP company are
projected to be €376.5 million (a 4.4% increase).