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M9 - Waterford motorway construction updates

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    #1322
    tomtraubert
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭tomtraubert


    Yes StarSpangler is correct as I told you all along, I'll admit i did wobble a bit, but not opening. Fact.


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    #1323
    Star Spangler
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭Star Spangler


    tomtraubert wrote: »
    Yes StarSpangler is correct as I told you all along, I'll admit i did wobble a bit, but not opening. Fact.

    Fair dues to your knowledge there Tom, as it was only this morning that the plan was changed!


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    #1324
    duffman13
    Registered Users Posts: 8,952 ✭✭✭duffman13


    tomtraubert wrote: »
    Yes StarSpangler is correct as I told you all along, I'll admit i did wobble a bit, but not opening. Fact.

    Well done RAFA, these threads always need an i told ya so quote!!!


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    #1325
    tomtraubert
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭tomtraubert


    Star Spangler wrote: »
    Fair dues to your knowledge there Tom, as it was only this morning that the plan was changed!

    Well if anyone ever bothered to ring KCC they would have told them that it was going to open next year, not this year, that was the official line then and still is now.


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    #1326
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    Star Spangler wrote: »
    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.

    Why did he make that request?


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    #1327
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Furet wrote: »
    Why did he make that request?

    He has to open a creche in Ballivor on Monday and then he has to turn the lights on in the Old Peoples home in Stamullen and will finish at Navan Racecourse where an important announcement is expected of him.

    The whole of Kildare Kilkenny Carlow and Waterford can feck off till well after christmas :p


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    #1328
    Bards
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭Bards


    ....but,but but

    it was in the Irish Times , the Paper of Record, it must be open on MOnday


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    #1329
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Dempsey is too busy , the motorway can wait until friday the 8th of January 2010 at 2pm.


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    #1330
    kildareman007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭kildareman007


    who confirmed this postponment????? the nra were giving nxt Monday as their date..... who the hell said January. Are you sure........but...but.....its not fair


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    #1331
    Silverado
    Registered Users Posts: 229 ✭✭Silverado


    The news is a little better on the Waterford-Danesfort leg. They have just lined the bit around the Dunkitt overpass and the Blackwater Bridge is also done along with it. Presumably this means that the Blackwater Bridge is now finished and usable.

    Up at the Mullinavat Junction a lot of road washing is being done on one side (see photo) and it appears to be getting prepped for the tarmac topcoats. Is it possible that we could we see one side complete before the Christmas break? If so then the other side shouldn’t take too long and early February trafficking could be on the cards.


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    #1332
    NedNew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭NedNew


    If the motorway opening is indeed held up on account of one pathetic figurehead then that highlights clearly all that is wrong in this country. Glory for one is more important than a nice christmas present for the common citizen (who of course has paid for all this).


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    #1333
    kwinabeeste
    Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭kwinabeeste


    NedNew wrote: »
    If the motorway opening is indeed held up on account of one pathetic figurehead then that highlights clearly all that is wrong in this country. Glory for one is more important than a nice christmas present for the common citizen (who of course has paid for all this).

    i just email sent to pressoffice@transport.ie and info@transport.ie with those sentiments!

    Castledermot over the last few days shows this and on 22-24 dec it will only be worse!


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    #1334
    mysterious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭mysterious


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    Dempsey is too busy , the motorway can wait until friday the 8th of January 2010 at 2pm.

    Nobody cares about Noel or his busy life, If hes busy, hes needs to get busier!

    Like a REAL person.


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    #1335
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,780 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    They HAVE to mean the "official" opening rather than the real opening, surely? Jesus christ, I despair for this country....


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    #1336
    Daysha
    Registered Users Posts: 4,908 ✭✭✭Daysha


    C'mon lads, it's not April 1st just yet.


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    #1337
    Villain
    Registered Users Posts: 15,944 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    If this is true we should start a campaign against Dempsey.


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    #1338
    dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 607 ✭✭✭dougal


    Villain wrote: »
    If this is true we should start a campaign against Dempsey.

    Joe Duffy should be called - we have a safe dual carriageway ready to open and with all the rubbish they talk about road safety especially over the christmas period with more people on the roads!


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    #1339
    arcus
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭arcus


    Cant believe that the Irish Times would be wrong on this link below;

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1216/1224260761179.html

    The M9 Kilcullen to Carlow has to open this side of Christmas - new signage going up by the hour around Kilcullen junctions all day today.................


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    #1340
    jd
    Registered Users Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭jd


    That is a disgrace, if true. It is presumably being delayed so that Dempsey can get his face on the evening news.


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    #1341
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,410 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Please tell me this is a bad dream or something..it would be an absolute outrage for us to have to wait another 2 or 3 weeks for that tool to officially open it. I pray to God common sense will prevail and as stated will open next Mon afternoon.


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    #1342
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Get every radio station in the south east on the case if you lot want a safe road for christmas.


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    #1343
    rameire
    Registered Users Posts: 4,152 ✭✭✭rameire


    people lets start spamming.
    noel.dempsey@oireachtas.ie

    just emailed him myself.
    not happy about this.

    🌞 3.8kwp, 🌞 Split 2.28S, 1.52E. 🌞 Clonee, Dub.🌞



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    #1344
    kildareman007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭kildareman007


    if the opening is postponed past next monday.... kildare co council could have blood on their hands. Every day and I mean every day there is a serious car crash between Kilcullen and Castledermot. Every day this week near Castledermot there has been a bad crash. I witnessed one yesterday wheer a toyota starlet rear-ended a BMW 3 series with 6 occupants in total. All very badly shook.....lucky there were no life threatening injuries....but there will be one soon if they keep messing up Castledermot.
    Come on lads.......we need publictity on this monumental disaster...... open this road before christmas as planned or some poor families will suffer the consequences........


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    #1345
    murphaph
    Registered Users Posts: 19,020 ✭✭✭✭murphaph


    It would be interesting to see what would happen if there was a fatal accident on the N9 between Kilcullen and Carlow and a FOI request revealed that that tool Dempsey had instructed them to hold off for the photo op. Surely he'd have to resign (not).

    I was hoping to use the M9 on the 26th, fingers crossed it'll be open.


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    #1346
    kildareman007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭kildareman007


    well if they postpone the opening they are shower of gobs$%£es!!! god almighty the damn thing is ready..... if its true...dempsey should be drove-over on it first!!! i'll start the massey and flatten him!!! (only joking garda) i have emailed the NRA, Dempsey, Cowen, and Mahatma Ghandai!!! (he a very nice man.....)


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    #1347
    kwinabeeste
    Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭kwinabeeste


    http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/traffic/story.asp?id=106694
    Kildare - Traffic is down to one lane on the M9 Dublin/Carlow Rd for 3km’s at Kilcullen until Thurs 24th Dec approx
    Updated: 16/12/2009 14:03:41
    This is part of the ongoing roadworks and the traffic layout has been changed recently. All traffic was using the southbound carriageway and will now use the northbound carriageway. Motorists should approach this new layout with caution


    http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/traffic/story.asp?id=99492
    Kildare - The M9 Kilcullen to Carlow motorway opening ceremony will take place at 2pm
    Updated: 16/12/2009 15:10:56
    The road will be open to the public by 3pm. The new motorway links Kilcullen to the Carlow bypass and bypasses Castledermot.


    Looks like it won't be open this side of Christmas :mad: the date is removed that had a date yesterday


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    #1348
    emfifty
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭emfifty


    rameire wrote: »
    people lets start spamming.
    noel.dempsey@oireachtas.ie

    just emailed him myself.
    not happy about this.



    Have left a message with Mr. Dempsey's office in Navan.

    Strength in numbers so feel free to contact via email or telephone directly.

    http://www.noeldempsey.ie/


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    #1349
    W.B. Yeats
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭W.B. Yeats


    I've emailed the minister, the press office and info @ transport
    It will be interesting to see if I get a response
    This would be a shambolic decision if true


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    #1350
    kildareman007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭kildareman007


    the real reason the road wont be opened next Monday is because the Ministers are on Christmas holidays from this Friday..... so thats it!!!
    well done Minister - put your own personal comfort before ordinary working peoples lives..... we wouldnt expect any different. :mad:


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    #1351
    kwalshe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 959 ✭✭✭kwalshe


    This road has to opened if it is ready. If 1 person even gets injured never die on the old road there will be hell.
    Everyone has to do their bit on this. Email local papers, radio, ministers, local ministers and failing that lets either 1 blockade the old road or 2 break on to the new.
    This is beyond belief if it is true, I really thought that this country had started to turn the corner on this type of Banana Republic politics.
    I'm speechless......


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