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

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    #2822
    m17
    Registered Users Posts: 4,321 ✭✭✭m17


    serfboard wrote: »
    Two possibilities here - either he knows nothing can be done about it now and he's just saying it for the sake of saying it - i.e. Being cynical. Or
    He doesn't know that nothing can be done about it now; he never bothered his arse to do even a cursory check of the design and is therefore now making a fool of himself.

    I suspect it's the former since he must know that Tom McHugh called for this a couple of years ago and got nowhere with it.

    Looking for votes for next year's election


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    #2823
    ratracer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,262 ✭✭✭ratracer


    Two large dumpers and two large diggers landed at Lagans near the railway line at Labane yesterday.


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    #2824
    Ascii
    Registered Users Posts: 387 ✭✭Ascii


    serfboard wrote: »
    Two possibilities here - either he knows nothing can be done about it now and he's just saying it for the sake of saying it - i.e. Being cynical. Or
    He doesn't know that nothing can be done about it now; he never bothered his arse to do even a cursory check of the design and is therefore now making a fool of himself.

    I suspect it's the former since he must know that Tom McHugh called for this a couple of years ago and got nowhere with it.

    A wise man once said "..tis better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt..."
    A quick phone call on the QT to Galway NRDO would have set him straight before he started throwing sound bites around the place. Don't get me wrong, I like Sean....but in the event of an upcoming election in 18 months this really appears to be "vote getting" with all this "I am fighting for the people and business of tuam" nonsense.


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    #2825
    m17
    Registered Users Posts: 4,321 ✭✭✭m17


    Roadbrige where putting up signs around corofin


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    #2826
    m17
    Registered Users Posts: 4,321 ✭✭✭m17


    Sisk have rock blasting notice near there carthymore yard


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    #2827
    glineli
    Registered Users Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭glineli


    Great activity around Kiltiernan. How deep do they have to dig? Also on back roads between Labane and Gort a lot of rock breaking going on.


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    #2828
    m17
    Registered Users Posts: 4,321 ✭✭✭m17


    Rock blasting starting in carthymore next Friday 01/05/15 at 12.30


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    #2829
    Ascii
    Registered Users Posts: 387 ✭✭Ascii


    I will do the northern end at the weekend and get some snaps if someone can get a few of the middle or the southern end.


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    #2830
    Schadenfreudia
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    Any of you folk equipped to add the M17/M18 (under construction) to Openstreetmap?

    (as has been done for the M11 Rathnew - Arklow)


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    #2831
    mackerski
    Registered Users Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭mackerski


    Schadenfreudia wrote: »
    Any of you folk equipped to add the M17/M18 (under construction) to Openstreetmap?

    (as has been done for the M11 Rathnew - Arklow)

    Yes, but we will need survey information. How about some GPS waypoints for the points where the mainline can be identified from crossing roads? Or indeed, if anybody can walk parts of the alignment that'd be mighty too.

    I've already mapped the M6 junction (with a lot of poetic licence for now).


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    #2832
    Schadenfreudia
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Schadenfreudia


    mackerski wrote: »
    Or indeed, if anybody can walk parts of the alignment that'd be mighty too.

    It's a long long way from Clare to here :)

    I see the junctions - good work. There must be loads of GPS-walkers in Galway?


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    #2833
    [Deleted User]
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    There's a few :)


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    #2834
    Taytomal
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭Taytomal


    Does anyone know if - at the section between Coldwood and Mother Hubbards - the motorway will be going over the old N6, or if the old road will go over the motorway? Thx.


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    #2835
    flazio
    Registered Users Posts: 13,108 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Taytomal wrote: »
    Does anyone know if - at the section between Coldwood and Mother Hubbards - the motorway will be going over the old N6, or if the old road will go over the motorway? Thx.
    The temporary re alignment opens on Monday, that would suggest to me that they are building a bridge over the motorway for the old rod


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    #2836
    m17
    Registered Users Posts: 4,321 ✭✭✭m17


    Czhornet wrote: »
    I passed a Komatsu 800 (80 tonne) digger on route to the motorway this morning. Some beast of a machine, a few more of these on site and they wont be long moving muck to where its supposed to be!!

    It's in ballybanagher corofin


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    #2837
    gally74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,997 ✭✭✭gally74


    m17 wrote: »
    It's in ballybanagher corofin

    Gold rush


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    #2838
    busyatwork
    Registered Users Posts: 130 ✭✭busyatwork


    m17 wrote: »
    It's in ballybanagher corofin

    They must know somthing the rest of us dont know ,ya dont invest in such machinery for maximum 2 years muck shiften


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    #2839
    m17
    Registered Users Posts: 4,321 ✭✭✭m17


    I taken a few snaps around corofin the first two pics where taken on the first week of the project on the 22/01/15 and the others on the 25/04/15


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    #2840
    mackerski
    Registered Users Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭mackerski


    m17 wrote: »
    I taken a few snaps around corofin the first two pics where taken on the first week of the project on the 22/01/15 and the others on the 25/04/15

    If those are smartphone shots, did you geotag them with GPS position? If so, could you post the co-ordinates? That will help us update OpenStreetMap.


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    #2841
    Geogregor
    Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭Geogregor


    m17 wrote: »
    It's in ballybanagher corofin

    Wow, that is a beast.
    m17 wrote: »
    I taken a few snaps around corofin the first two pics where taken on the first week of the project on the 22/01/15 and the others on the 25/04/15

    Good to finally see some progress on pictures.

    Any sign of works on the future junction with the M6? That will be complex and interesting site to watch.


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    #2842
    antoobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭antoobrien


    Some progress visible on southern side of Rathmorrisy at the weekend, but wasn't able to get any pics.


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    #2843
    glineli
    Registered Users Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭glineli


    A lot more machinery at Kilteirnan this morning, will try to get pic on way home. Great to see activity.

    The newsletter section on the directroute project website is being updated so will be interesting to see planned work for next few months


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    #2844
    m17
    Registered Users Posts: 4,321 ✭✭✭m17


    Geogregor wrote: »
    Wow, that is a beast.



    Good to finally see some progress on pictures.

    Any sign of works on the future junction with the M6? That will be complex and interesting site to watch.

    I was told it is going to be Ireland's biggest roundabout


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    #2845
    mackerski
    Registered Users Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭mackerski


    m17 wrote: »
    I was told it is going to be Ireland's biggest roundabout

    I'd expect it to be rivalled by this one.


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    #2846
    Chris_5339762
    Registered Users Posts: 5,900 ✭✭✭Chris_5339762


    haha this place is getting like the SABRE forums. Irelands biggest roundabout thread ahoy :D

    We can only dream about having our own Hanger Lane. https://goo.gl/maps/XgWVN


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    #2847
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Just be grateful it isn't like this! :D

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.5629249,-1.7712928,149m/data=!3m1!1e3


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    #2848
    glineli
    Registered Users Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭glineli


    Not the best picture in the world this morning at Kiltiernan


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    #2849
    Irish_rat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,555 ✭✭✭Irish_rat


    Great photos M17, construction works look to be coming along well.


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    #2850
    boosabum
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭boosabum


    slightly off topic, but did anyone see BBC4 last night and a documentary about the Brititsh motorway system.
    The M1 has 55 miles of motorway (110 of road in total) and 200 bridges. It was constructed in just 19 months back in the late 1950's.
    Amazing to think that some 60 years later these projects cannot be completed as efficently.


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    #2851
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,569 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    boosabum wrote: »
    slightly off topic, but did anyone see BBC4 last night and a documentary about the Brititsh motorway system.
    The M1 has 55 miles of motorway (110 of road in total) and 200 bridges. It was constructed in just 19 months back in the late 1950's.
    Amazing to think that some 60 years later these projects cannot be completed as efficently.

    Probably a shedload more resources available for that particular road. Serving an estimated 20 million people, would probably get more attention than a road that probably serves 500,000 at a push.


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