M9 - Waterford motorway construction updates

Daysha

Can I just check I have this right...

Waterford-Knocktopher = Delayed until January
Knocktopher-Carlow = On schedule for summer 2010
Carlow-Kilcullen = Open within a few weeks

Is that basically how it stands right now?

slimjimmc

mfitzy wrote: »

Any news from the Kildare/Carlow guys here on the Kilcullen stretch? Haven't been over that way in a week or so and the Kilcullen tie was well on it's way.

The infill for the northbound tie-in looked nearly finished on Fri; it's about level with the southbound lane and looks like it'll be ready for surfacing very soon based on what I could glimpse while driving by.

yellow012

Hi Folks, here's a few before and after pics of the Athy-M9 link road. The "before" photo's were taken back in June.
First off is some pics of the road widening near Burtown.
Before


Taken today

yellow012

Cross country between Burtown and the M9
June

Today

June

Today

The M9-Athy Link road motorway junction
June

Today

Looking north on the M9 near the Athy junction.
June

Today

road_high

Cheers for those..bita work to be done on Athy link road; will hardly open with the mainline M9

yellow012

Some other pics I took today.
The new roundabout where the link road will come into Athy

On the new road where it crosses country between Athy and Burtown.

yellow012

mfitzy wrote: »

Cheers for those..bita work to be done on Athy link road; will hardly open with the mainline M9

Yeah it will be a while before its finished alright but they are throwing an awful amount of machinery and resources at it at the mo,so my guess would be April/May.

rameire

cheers for all those pics yellow.
i wasnt bothered with the athy link as it was progressing sooooooooooo slowly.
but the road has taken some rapid changes over the last month.

road_high

Pity really, it's a handy link. It looks a good quality road though, good and wide
I'm happy though to have the main M9 open soon, it will be fantastic for the south east.

toe_knee

Daysha wrote: »

Can I just check I have this right...

Waterford-Knocktopher = Delayed until January
Knocktopher-Carlow = On schedule for summer 2010
Carlow-Kilcullen = Open within a few weeks

Is that basically how it stands right now?

Can anyone confirm this. I am really especially interested about the Carlow - Kilcullen part as I use this on a daily basis and it would be great if it opened this side of Christmas

Star Spangler

mfitzy wrote: »

Any news from the Kildare/Carlow guys here on the Kilcullen stretch? Haven't been over that way in a week or so and the Kilcullen tie was well on it's way.

Surfacing of the last piece of the tie-in is due to start today (Monday).

trishw78

@Daysha - Why are you thinking the Waterford Knocktopher section is delayed till January. As far as I'm aware it's pre-Christmas.

fricatus

trishw78 wrote: »

@Daysha - Why are you thinking the Waterford Knocktopher section is delayed till January. As far as I'm aware it's pre-Christmas.

That's what the papers said, but I e-mailed the project office last week and got the following reply:

XXXXX, that was never likely—you can’t believe all you read in the papers. The likely opening date is the end of Jan 09 between Danesfort and Waterford. This is slightly weather dependant in so far as there is an allowance there for normal winter weather whatever that is.

Joe Gannon
Project Coordinator

cargo

fricatus wrote: »

That's what the papers said, but I e-mailed the project office last week and got the following reply:

Funny man Joe.......

Silverado

Presumably Joe Gannon meant January 2010.

fricatus

Silverado wrote: »

Presumably Joe Gannon meant January 2010.

Oh God, I didn't even notice that! I was wondering what cargo was on about!

Oh sure look, there's about another two months' worth of work left to be done and any delays at this stage can only add a matter of a couple of weeks to that date (or so one would expect!).

The countdown to the southern section opening is now well and truly on!

veryangryman

Furet wrote: »

Lads, you can pick up the debate on whether or not all the interurbans were necessary here on this good thread.

M9 updates only here.

But Furet, does this count as an inter-urban? Id argue no. Not after the Kilkenny turnoff anyway. Perhaps a thread on whether the non-urban motorways were needed?

Not saying the road from Paulstown to Waterford didnt need upgrading, but surely 2+2 from there on would be plenty

Amtmann

As the thread title suggests, this thread is for M9 updates. By all means raise the issue in a new thread, or bump the one I linked to. The discussion would be interesting. But THIS thread is for M9 updates.

Victor

yellow012 wrote: »

The M9-Athy Link road motorway junction
June

Today

I'm wondering if that median was redone. It looks like a bit of Friday evening work in the first shot.

Bards

following is a reply from the NRA with regard to updates on the M9
==================================================
Mr. xxxxxxx,

The expected completion dates for the schemes on the N9 are as follows:

- N9 Knocktopher to Waterford: End of 2009/early 2010
- Kilcullen to Carlow: Quarter 1, 2010
- Carlow to Knocktopher: Quarter 4, 2010

Unfortunately, I cannot be anymore specific at this stage as he exact
date for the openings have not yet been determined. There are no
further newsletters at the moment.

Regards,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

cargo

Bards wrote: »

following is a reply from the NRA with regard to updates on the M9
==================================================
Mr. xxxxxxx,

The expected completion dates for the schemes on the N9 are as follows:

- N9 Knocktopher to Waterford: End of 2009/early 2010
- Kilcullen to Carlow: Quarter 1, 2010
- Carlow to Knocktopher: Quarter 4, 2010

Unfortunately, I cannot be anymore specific at this stage as he exact
date for the openings have not yet been determined. There are no
further newsletters at the moment.

Regards,
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I presume the NRA are been very cautious and these are worst case dates.

- Kilcullen to Carlow: Quarter 1, 2010 ?? Surely not going by the progress pictures.

Silverado

Does this mean that delay penalties will have to be paid by the contractor on the Waterford-Knocktopher section which was supposed to be finished by Q3, 2009.

Mr Clonfadda

Silverado wrote: »

Does this mean that delay penalties will have to be paid by the contractor on the Waterford-Knocktopher section which was supposed to be finished by Q3, 2009.

The Various road signs say Spring 2009

Star Spangler

cargo wrote: »

- Kilcullen to Carlow: Quarter 1, 2010 ?? Surely not going by the progress pictures.

The motorway will be finished by December, but afaik, Roadbridge is still seeking some kind of early finishing bonus which the NRA haven't agreed to. Perhaps they think they'll have it resolved in a few months!

kwalshe

I saw this morning that they are starting to lay the base tarmac layer...

Star Spangler

kwalshe wrote: »

I saw this morning that they are starting to lay the base tarmac layer...

After that there are three more layers and it's done!!

placard

It's a small area, how long do you think it would take to finish?

Mr Clonfadda

hopefully in time for me to come home on it tommorrow
Can't wait

Star Spangler

placard wrote: »

It's a small area, how long do you think it would take to finish?

It seems small alright when you drive past but it takes 10 minutes to walk it believe it or not!

There is some landscaping, lighting and they're putting up a large sign there too though

Star Spangler

placard wrote: »

It's a small area, how long do you think it would take to finish?

I had a look at it last night. Assuming what they laid yesterday was an average days work, you should allow 5 - 8 working days to finish the complete surfacing. After that you have all the lining work. I noticed also that they haven't started putting up the new lighting yet either. The landscaping is practically all done though.