Tramore Road (city end) to close for 6 months!!

mike65

Yikes

The main Tramore road out of Waterford is likely to be closed for about six months early next year while the roadway is “lifted” to provide some measure of protection against the flooding problem which has increasingly dogged commuters in recent years.

The €2 million plan, to be funded by the OPW, is currently in the public domain and City Hall has invited submissions from interested parties. But the expectation is that the City Council will proceed with a scheme lifting and narrowing the road linking the Inner and Outer Ring Roads, and beyond as far as Green Road.

Details were outlined to Tramore Town Council on Tuesday night by Senior City Council Engineer Frank Roche, who indicated that while the work was being done traffic would be diverted through other avenues in and out of the city, via the Outer Ring Road.

He said that even after the job was done flooding was expected to occur once a year on average, but providing complete protection against the problem, which would necessitate raising the road by about a meter and half, was a non-runner. Apart from the astronomical cost it would not be allowed from an environmental viewpoint because it would impinge on the local authority’s obligation to protect the Kilbarry bog as a national heritage park.

Town and County Councillor Lola O’Sullivan said she was shocked by what she was hearing and predicted that the scheme would be a disaster for Tramore from a traffic viewpoint. Also, she said, spending of the €2 million was going to be a waste of money because they would still be left with the flooding.

http://www.munster-express.ie/local-news/tramore-road-to-close-for-six-months/

Okay its not a total disaster as the ring road can spread the load into/out of town, but I tend to agree that a 2 million euro investment is unlikely to make much real difference. Lifting that section is a 10 million job to do properly.

Mike

Sully

If you think of it, the road will not only continue to be flooded (maybe less) but the surface will start great and then slowly go down hill and turn into the state its currently in. I can understand why they cant fix it properly, but this solution seems a bit of a waste of cash.

daftdave

the residents in cherrymount are sick of seeing the (ex)dump...... nice view and all !!!! lets raise the road so they cant see it !!!

fricatus

They should do it properly and make the road a dual carriageway while they're at it.

mike65

Mr. Roche insisted that the situation would be much improved. Flooding would occur a lot less frequently and it would clear faster. The plan allowed for a narrowing of the roadway also and the creation of crossings linking the bog on either side. That would have the effect, hopefully and importantly, of slowing down traffic.

Its a straight road with no entrances/exits in the 60 kp/h zone, how much slower does he want us all to go?

Mike

Sully

mike65 wrote: »

Its a straight road with no entrances/exits in the 60 kp/h zone, how much slower does he want us all to go?

Mike

Was wondering that myself. I assumed the road was that slow due to the flooding/poor road surface. Other then that, really cant see why it needs to be that speed or slower.

trishw78

While I agree with raising the road I get the impression this might be something that Mr. McCan't might object to.

rasper

Six months closed sounds like a right disaster altogether to end up with a road that still floods, how many days on average is that road inaccessible per annum , I'd thinking about 5 but maybe way off, but if it is about that then it'll be about 35years before we've made back those six months.

mike65

Hmm, when you put it like that.

Maybe a letter to the council!

Mike

Junior

Why in god's name are they narrowing it ?

robtri

Junior wrote: »

Why in god's name are they narrowing it ?

Cheaper to do, the narrower the road the less money spent..

tonc76

Junior wrote: »

Why in god's name are they narrowing it ?

They need to narrow the road to raise the finished surface level as they have stated that the cannot take land from Kilbarry Bog as there is a proposal for it to be made National Heritage Park. In order to raise the surface level they will require embankments at either side of the road. These will admittedly be minimal as the proposals are to raise the road between 100mm and 700mm along its length. They also state that they want to continue the footpath as far as the Outer Ring Road roundabout.

The City Council's "plan" to improve the road:

"Inner Relief Road to Kingfishers Leisure Club to be raised to the 10 year flood levels;
Kingfisher Leisure Club to the Outer Ring Road to be raised to the 1 year flood levels;
Outer Ring Road to Green Road to be raised to the 10 year flood levels"


is extremely shortsighted. The drainage software that is used in predicting the 1 year flood level will not have accounted for the downpours that we have had in the last 6 months. The result of this is that the "1 year flood level" is irrelevant which will see the road closed more than once a year.

This road should have been improved long before now. City Hall are taking a do minimum approach which will still not see the problem fixed once and for all. The budget tomorrow will see funding reduced for such improvements and the Old Tramore Road infrastructure will suffer as a result. This road will then need to "raised to 1 year flood levels" or some such sh!t.