N7 - Newlands Cross upgrade

rameire

spacetweek wrote: »

Has construction started on the ground yet?

Just looked at dcc cameras. And nothing happening from the view down the naas road towards the mad cow

tonc76

rameire wrote: »

Just looked at dcc cameras. And nothing happening from the view down the naas road towards the mad cow

I doubt they'd start on the Friday of a bank holiday weekend :cool:

Deedsie

What's the story behind the green plywood wall on the Belgard road side of the junction? It has the look of a site that hasn't seen activity in a while?

JupiterKid

They've been talking about putting in a GSJ at Newlands Cross for over 40 years - now let's hope construction starts in the coming weeks.

Chris_5339762

Deedsie wrote: »

What's the story behind the green plywood wall on the Belgard road side of the junction? It has the look of a site that hasn't seen activity in a while?

Its empty space behind that, and where the temporary traffic diversion lanes will be while the bridge is built.

Deedsie

Any sign of activity? I was hoping they would prioritise this over the M11 part.

BuzzFish

If you want to keep an eye, the first bit of activity will be to the right of this (live) image. This is where prep will start for the temporary lanes and where I'd imagine a site will be assigned for plant and equipment.

antoobrien

Deedsie wrote: »

Any sign of activity? I was hoping they would prioritise this over the M11 part.

Realistically speaking it will take 3-4 weeks before we see boots on the ground. Even then work/progress might not be immediately noticeable depending on where they start the works e.g. behind the hoarding. I can see them leaving up as much of the hoarding as possible until they have to take it down to either create access for machinery or actually start creating temporary lanes, so I'm not expecting much to be visible here for until July.

Deedsie

BuzzFish wrote: »

If you want to keep an eye, the first bit of activity will be to the right of this (live) image. This is where prep will start for the temporary lanes and where I'd imagine a site will be assigned for plant and equipment.

antoobrien wrote: »

Realistically speaking it will take 3-4 weeks before we see boots on the ground. Even then work/progress might not be immediately noticeable depending on where they start the works e.g. behind the hoarding. I can see them leaving up as much of the hoarding as possible until they have to take it down to either create access for machinery or actually start creating temporary lanes, so I'm not expecting much to be visible here for until July.

Thanks for the reply, bit disappointing though... I was hoping they would try take advantage of the kids being off school time. Wishful thinking I suppose

antoobrien

Deedsie wrote: »

Thanks for the reply, bit disappointing though... I was hoping they would try take advantage of the kids being off school time. Wishful thinking I suppose

They will, I'd expect to see a lot of, if not all, the work on the diversion lanes done by september. Once those are in place (hopefully) traffic impact will be minimal.

Just remember that the bridge will take about a year to be put in place, so both this simmer and next summer will come into play.

Davy

First track machine moved in this morning, working all day across from Joels

spacetweek

Davy wrote: »

First track machine moved in this morning, working all day across from Joels

Good - is that behind the camera in the shots above? Can't see it.

rameire

its right opposite joels, hidden behind a tree.

L1011

Work to both sides on the south now. Seems to be new catch netting for the golf club too, a practical consideration that

MYOB

MYOB wrote: »

Work to both sides on the south now. Seems to be new catch netting for the golf club too, a practical consideration that

Would the golfer not get a bonus point for using a JCB's bucket to shoot the ball back! :pac:

BuzzFish

I could see plant in behind the hoarding this morning working away. Just about visible at the back of the camera pic.

... found a bigger camera pic too :-)



It will also be interesting to see how these change over the construction time:

Deedsie

Well, what is happening out by newlands cross now? I presume it will e a good while before there is much of a change?

rameire

There is a gate opposite joels hotel.
behind there they have cleared some space and put in their lovely Green bam containers/porta cabins.

spacetweek

rameire wrote: »

There is a gate opposite joels hotel.
behind there they have cleared some space and put in their lovely Green bam containers/porta cabins.

Yea, had dinner in Joel's yesterday, the gate across the road was open and you could see in.

Deedsie

Not much good to anyone but I took a quick shot of the site as I passed today.

mydiscworld

RTE reporting work has now begun

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0606/454839-n7-n11-upgrade/

rameire

I believe there was to be a sod turning exercise on the n11 today.

Colm R

It may have been answered already, but any idea why Kildare County Council is managing the Newlands Cross build, according to the NRA website.

http://www.nra.ie/RoadSchemeActivity/KildareCountyCouncil/N7NewlandsCrossJunctionImprovementScheme/SchemeName,16446,en.html

L1011

Kildare RDO design road schemes for a wide area. Quite a bit of experience at this stage. Not every county has a RDO

Quickelles

And they generally do a very good job.

L1011

BAM signs on all the fencing, and also the NRA scheme sign is up - and significantly off line, suspect its so it doesn't have to be moved again.

spacetweek

Indeed with the first phase of construction being those temporary lanes inside the hoarding, we won't see much from the road for some time I'd say.

Chris_5339762

Ladies and gentlemen I can officially announce that we have our first digger onsite!

Davy

Chris_5339762 wrote: »

Ladies and gentlemen I can officially announce that we have our first digger onsite!

About a month too late im afraid :P

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=84611879&postcount=552

Chris_5339762

ha!

There is some nice visible digging on the camera now.