M17/M18 - Gort to Tuam [open to traffic]

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The 5th flyover over the m18 will open at owenbristy on the 14/11/16

Middle Man

Robert Lally has posted another video on the beam lift at the Ballygaddy Road Flyover...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzM7oV4Xq1U

Great aerial footage towards the end...

Middle Man

...and there's this video he has just posted a few minutes ago - time lapse of the entire beam lift operation at the Ballygaddy Road flyover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skdypyxx248

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The last bridge on the m18 at gorta 1.5kms south of rathmorrisy 24/10/16

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Major earthworks now completed on motorwayhttp://galwaybayfm.ie/major-progress-on-gort-to-tuam-motorway-as-earthworks-completed/

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The m17 rathmorissy to castlelambert the first 2kms 24/10/1623456789101112

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The 4th flyover over the m18 is open at turloughtrassa 25/10/16top of flyoverlooking towards rathmorissylooking towards gort

Vilnian

Thanks M17, is Turloughtrassa flyover the R347? (Ardrahan to Kinvarra road)

wintear

No it's the road on the gort side of kilcolgan heading towards craughwell

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M18 junction17 kilternan looking towards gort on the left hand side langans have started work on the slip road 25/10/16looking towards rathmorissy

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The m18 at rinn looking towards rathmorissy 26/10/16looking towards gort in the background langans are doing the beam lift on the accommodation flyover

CrowdedHouse

Why is the bridge at Coldwood not finished and open?

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CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Why is the bridge at Coldwood not finished and open?

Don't ask it's a joke at this stage, was to open last march and it's been delayed for about 10 times at this stage,there waiting on eircom who are laying cables in the area

CrowdedHouse

Hard to believe they're waiting for eircom that long! I travel that bit of road regularly, it's annoying me looking at it for so long seemingly 90% done and nothing more happening.

When I'm passing there doesn't seem to be much work in the immediate area anyway, so maybe it's not a priority?

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The two slip roads coming off the galway side of the m6 at rathmorissy the nearst one is for m18 to Limerick and the far one is the m17 to tuam

red bull

m17 wrote: »

Don't ask it's a joke at this stage, was to open last march and it's been delayed for about 10 times at this stage,there waiting on eircom who are laying cables in the area

Rumour mill around Oranmore suggests that the bridge was built too low. Hard to imagine that could be possible

Middle Man

red bull wrote: »

Rumour mill around Oranmore suggests that the bridge was built too low. Hard to imagine that could be possible

We had such a rumour relating to a bridge just south of J7 (Gormanston) on the M1 around 1997 - one that I drive over many a day and on passing under, no apparent bridge hits!

Middle Man

m17 wrote: »

The two slip roads coming off the galway side of the m6 at rathmorissy the nearst one is for m18 to Limerick and the far one is the m17 to tuam

This junction has to be a serious contender for the national record regarding the interchange with the longest combined ramp length - the Blanchardstown M50 Interchange would be a very tough competitor I guess.

One record it will have for definite will be the only interchange on the island through which two full motorways will pass through - I think England's first such interchange was at Almondsbury (near Bristol) where the M4 and M5 intersect through a 4 level stack - it apparently opened in 1966 - fifty years ago! :eek:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.5509/-2.5561

Very interestingly, it could have been argued that Scotland had, until very recently, the only interchange on these islands where 3 freeflow mainlines passed through - known as the Baillieston Interchange on the eastern outskirts of Glasgow, the Junction is effectively a twin stack spaghetti junction with 4 levels where the M8 (Glasgow to Edinburgh) and M73 (Western Bypass) intersect and 3 levels where the M8 and A89 (Glasgow to Coatbridge) cross each other. Here's an aerial of this mighty junction (completed in the early 1980's):

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4598852
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/55.8536/-4.0894

The current reconfiguration works will place two roundabouts on the Coatbridge Road to allow for non motorway traffic movements in connection with the M8 completion project East of Baillieston. The Rathmorrissy Interchange will nevertheless look very respectable anywhere on these islands.

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The m17/m18 flyover at rathmorissy 26/10/16

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The m17 1km form rathmorrisythe m18 1km form rathmorrisyand there still saying no to phased openings,the should take there head out of the sand and follow this forum

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The m17 at ballinphuil corofin 30/10/162

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The m18 at gort looking towards Limericklooking towards rathmorissy

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The bat bridge on the m18 between Coole park and kiltartan 31/10/162

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The flyover at Coole park the first on the m18top of flyoverlooking towards rathmorissylooking towards gort

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I've put together a few pics of the m18 rathmorrisy to gort on YouTubehttps://youtu.be/ea-Rpxx0vBY

spacetweek

That Coole Park flyover is getting a nice dressed stone treatment unlike the basic metal fence the rest have.

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The m17 at brockagh corofin 01/11/16the lay-bys

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When you pass the lay-bys the gardas are waitingthe flyover

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The flyover at ballinphuil corofin 02/11/1502/11/16

medoc

If they still insist in putting lay-bys on Motorways they at least should have them seperated from the main line by a concrete barrier of the same standard as the central barrier. And also proper length entry and exit slips. The ones on the M6 from Kinnegad to Kilbeggan are very very poor.