M9 - Waterford motorway construction updates

Kellzer

I emailed the NRA here is what they said

Dear Mr. ...

The M9 Kilcullen to Carlow will open on Monday the 21st of December. That is official.

Regards
Olivia Morgan

Rabidlamb

mfitzy wrote: »

Jay, the M9 Carlow-Kilcullen section is started to have a bit of the Belin Wall feel to it, with people wanting to burst through the barriers

It's just sitting there like a big ripe apple waiting to be plucked.
Only old farmers gates keeping us off it.
Has to be Thursday, my mate Mick told me Thursday so that's good enough for me.
Don't care what the NRA say after that, Mick's never wrong.

Villain

Kellzer wrote: »

I emailed the NRA here is what they said

Dear Mr. ...

The M9 Kilcullen to Carlow will open on Monday the 21st of December. That is official.

Regards
Olivia Morgan

Great stuff not surprised they say different things

paulfitzg

According to the AA website (see traffic map) the M( opening ceremony will be at 2pm on the 21st December.

road_high

paulfitzg wrote: »

According to the AA website (see traffic map) the M( opening ceremony will be at 2pm on the 21st December.

Can't find that particular map on AA, ah I'm sure it's there somewhere!

paulfitzg

http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/map/map.asp or to navigate www.theaa.ie , click roadwatch Scroll down and click live traffic map for ireland. Zoom in to Kilcullen as icon is hidden behind the roadwors icon when zoomed out

Star Spangler

paulfitzg wrote: »

http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/map/map.asp or to navigate www.theaa.ie , click roadwatch Scroll down and click live traffic map for ireland. Zoom in to Kilcullen as icon is hidden behind the roadwors icon when zoomed out

That looks fairly official alright!

Kildare - On Mon 21st Dec, the M9 Kilcullen to Carlow motorway opening ceremony will take place at 2pm [URL="javascript:newWindow('../popmap/map.asp?x=277937&y=190232&id=99492&zoomlevel=3')"][/URL]Updated: 15/12/2009 13:21:43The road will be open to the public by 3pm. The new motorway links Kilcullen to the Carlow bypass and bypasses Castledermot.

rocks1981

Or http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/traffic/story.asp?id=99492

lukejr

At last, so long Castledermot!

Busy week for the NRA, the M7 Nenagh bypass opens on the 17th, M6 Galway on the 18th, and now the M9 Kilcullen to Carlow on the 21st.

Great to see some of the money from the boom benefiting people with these great motorways finally opening.

fuzzy dunlop

I'm wondering is it possible that the road opens to traffic before the official date.In other words the official date is only the date of the ceremony. It wouldn't be the first time this has happened.It was the case with the Waterford ORR and I'm sure some of the other Motorway projects as well.

Star Spangler

fuzzy dunlop wrote: »

I'm wondering is it possible that the road opens to traffic before the official date.In other words the official date is only the date of the ceremony. It wouldn't be the first time this has happened.It was the case with the Waterford ORR and I'm sure some of the other Motorway projects as well.

The announcement says that it will be open to the public from 3pm on 21st.

redalicat

Star Spangler wrote: »

Kildare - On Mon 21st Dec, the M9 Kilcullen to Carlow motorway opening ceremony will take place at 2pm Updated: 15/12/2009 13:21:43The road will be open to the public by 3pm. The new motorway links Kilcullen to the Carlow bypass and bypasses Castledermot.

WOO HOO! No more lorries and masses of cars zooming by my bedroom window!

kiwipower

Woo-Hoo!!Just in time to test my theory on Tuesday of getting to Gorey from Nenagh by going East on the M7 to Kildare Village then going West on the M7 and taking the M9 down to the N80! It took me 45min from the M9/N80 interchange to the M7 by going via Carlow and Stradbally. Hopefully I'll save 15min or So!!!!!!!

dougal

I see they were lining the M9 at the Danesfort Junction this morning. At least they are almost ready at that end, now just for the Waterford to Knocktopher to catch up.

L1011

mfitzy wrote: »

Jay, the M9 Carlow-Kilcullen section is started to have a bit of the Belin Wall feel to it, with people wanting to burst through the barriers

I'll arrange the washed up rockers for the gig if we want to recreate that

placard

Any updates/progress with the south KK section of the M9. Great to hear that they are lining the road at Danesfort now. It was mentioned previously on this thread that they're waiting to open both sections south of Carlow all at the same time.. surely this is unlikely. Besides the Blackwater bridge, the Mullinavat section - which must be finished at this stage - and lining the road I can't think of anything else they have to do.

sk8board

placard wrote: »

Any updates/progress with the south KK section of the M9. Great to hear that they are lining the road at Danesfort now. It was mentioned previously on this thread that they're waiting to open both sections south of Carlow all at the same time.. surely this is unlikely.

very likely I'd say. IF they open them one-by one the M9 will end outside knocktopher village, and have to travel through it into Thomastown and continue to carlow by-pass as usual. Not sure they'd inflict that on the small junction in knocktopher village, not even sure it'd take it!

placard

sk8board wrote: »

very likely I'd say. IF they open them one-by one the M9 will end outside knocktopher village, and have to travel through it into Thomastown and continue to carlow by-pass as usual. Not sure they'd inflict that on the small junction in knocktopher village, not even sure it'd take it!

It was discussed on the thread ages ago that the plan was to open it as far as Danesfort and the work being done on the Danesfort section would signal that this is correct. This would split the traffic giving people the option of going through KK ring road or Thomastown. Given the road to Kilkenny from Danesfort is good including hard shoulder I'm guessing most people would go this way, it adds ten mins to the journey according to google maps but I think it would be even less then that during off peak hours.

sk8board

placard wrote: »

This would split the traffic giving people the option of going through KK ring road or Thomastown.

would that still require all traffic to come into the village of knocktopher from the Kilmaganny side though?

perhaps I'm confused, is that section ending at Knocktopher or Danesfort?

Bards

sk8board wrote: »

would that still require all traffic to come into the village of knocktopher from the Kilmaganny side though?

perhaps I'm confused, is that section ending at Knocktopher or Danesfort?

http://www.nra.ie/RoadSchemeActivity/KilkennyCountyCouncil/N9N10WaterfordKnocktopherKilcullenW/Map,16508,en.pdf

The plan is to open the Knocktopher to Danesford section - Junction 9 - Junction 10 (Part of the Knocktopher to Carlow Project being built by Roadbridge Sisk JV) when opening the Waterford to Knocktopher Project: Junction 10 - Junction 12 (Built by BAM) thus allowing traffic from Waterford to get to Kilkenny without having to go through any villages such as Mullinavat, Ballyhale, Knocktopher etc.

so instead of getting off at Knocktopher (If they were only to open that section ) en route to Dublin/Carlow you would go via the Kilkenny Ring Road instead of Thomastown

Daysha

Anyone want to harbour a guess at the time it'll take to do Waterford-Dublin when this opens? I'm averaging at around 2 hours 15 minutes from the Quay to O'Connell St, any chance it could be done in less than 2 hours now?

placard

Daysha wrote: »

Anyone want to harbour a guess at the time it'll take to do Waterford-Dublin when this opens? I'm averaging at around 2 hours 15 minutes from the Quay to O'Connell St, any chance it could be done in less than 2 hours now?

roughly 1:15mins not taking into account traffic in Dublin city center.

Paul_D

placard wrote: »

roughly 1:15mins not taking into account traffic in Dublin city center.

When the entire motorway opens there is no way it can be done that quick.
Provided there is no traffic the fastest possible time would be 1:36 min

Quay -> M9 = 5 min
M9 = 58 min
M7 = 6min
N7 -> M50 = 12 min
M50-> city center = 15 min

When Kilcullen to Carlow section opens it will save a MINIMUM of 4.5 minutes in off-peak and 15-20+ min in a rush hour

MisterCrown

Paul_D wrote: »

When the entire motorway opens there is no way it can be done that quick.
Provided there is no traffic the fastest possible time would be 1:36 min

Quay -> M9 = 5 min
M9 = 58 min
M7 = 6min
N7 -> M50 = 12 min
M50-> city center = 15 min

When Kilcullen to Carlow section opens it will save a MINIMUM of 4.5 minutes in off-peak and 15-20+ min in a rush hour

Anyone know how long Danesfort to Granny would take ?

Bards

MisterCrown wrote: »

Anyone know how long Danesfort to Granny would take ?

I estimate about 20 mins

Star Spangler

From today's Irish Times

Kilcullen to Carlow motorway to open
The €300 million motorway from Kilcullen, Co Kildare, to Carlow is to open next Monday, some nine months ahead of schedule.
The 27km stretch of motorway will provide a bypass of Castledermot and a new national secondary road to Athy town via the junction at Mullamast in Co Kildare.
The motorway forms part of the M9 Dublin to Waterford route which is due to be completed in 2010.

Is the Athy link road from Mullamast opening on Monday also? I didn't think it was near ready.

redalicat

Star Spangler wrote: »

From today's Irish Times
Kilcullen to Carlow motorway to open
The €300 million motorway from Kilcullen, Co Kildare, to Carlow is to open next Monday, some nine months ahead of schedule.
The 27km stretch of motorway will provide a bypass of Castledermot and a new national secondary road to Athy town via the junction at Mullamast in Co Kildare.
The motorway forms part of the M9 Dublin to Waterford route which is due to be completed in 2010.

My husband's birthday is Monday, this is a great gift!

yellow012

Star Spangler wrote: »

From today's Irish Times



Is the Athy link road from Mullamast opening on Monday also? I didn't think it was near ready.

I reckon there's at least another 2 or 3 months work left before the link road is completed.

biffoman

redalicat wrote: »

My husband's birthday is Monday, this is a great gift!

motorways are for life,and not just birthdays.:P

Star Spangler

redalicat wrote: »

My husband's birthday is Monday, this is a great gift!

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Ive been informed that the opening of the Kilcullen-Carlow link has been deferred until January by request of the Transport Minister.