Oddities of Irish Infrastructure

Carawaystick

the nice lady at the nra wrote:

The opening of this slip road is a matter for Laois County Council as
the road authority for the area. I have, however, made enquiries into
the matter and I understand that following the opening of the N7
Portlaoise Bypass, Laois County Council failed to reach an acceptable
agreement with the adjacent landowner and the slip road has not been
opened as it impacts on the access to the landowners property.

THis is what I was told.
There;s a gateway that could only be entered by crossing the slip on the N8

Trick of the Tail

And the gateway wasn't noticed before / couldn't be moved?

How long has that slip been built and lain unused?

A.

L1011

Since the motorway - 13 years this year I think.

Trick of the Tail

Why does Phoenix Park, situated north of the Liffey, have an even-numbered Dublin area - Dublin 8?

All other even numbers are south of the river, and odd numbers are north of it.

How can parts of Dublin 8 be southside and parts be northside?

A.

L1011

Official reason - its served by a southside sorting office
The rumour - so the president can have a southside postcode

oddiot

alinton wrote: »

Why does Phoenix Park, situated north of the Liffey, have an even-numbered Dublin area - Dublin 8?

All other even numbers are south of the river, and odd numbers are north of it.

How can parts of Dublin 8 be southside and parts be northside?

A.

Parts of D20 are also north of the river.

richardjjd

alinton wrote: »

Why does Phoenix Park, situated north of the Liffey, have an even-numbered Dublin area - Dublin 8?



All other even numbers are south of the river, and odd numbers are north of it.



How can parts of Dublin 8 be southside and parts be northside?



A.

Chapelizod and Mount Sackville school are also D20 post coded...

unit 1

Anyone seen this http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsinchujohn/3585734914/

L1011

unit 1 wrote: »

Anyone seen this http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsinchujohn/3585734914/

..and the effective cart-track that leads up to it from one side, yes.

Victor

unit 1 wrote: »

Anyone seen this http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsinchujohn/3585734914/

Alternative photos http://www.geograph.ie/gridref/C1538

http://www.donegalcoco.ie/services/roadstransport/majorprojects/mulroybaybridge.htm

Lifelike

MYOB wrote: »

Since the motorway - 13 years this year I think.

But I remember being on it a few years back.

Tech3

unit 1 wrote: »

Anyone seen this http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsinchujohn/3585734914/

Where did the funding from this bridge come from? Could have spent 20 million more wisely but I could say that about a dozen things FF have done during the noughties.

Lifelike

tech2 wrote: »

Where did the funding from this bridge come from? Could have spent 20 million more wisely but I could say that about a dozen things FF have done during the noughties.

Don't forget the state-of-the-art electronic voting machines :rolleyes:

Roryhy

Dublin bus numbers follow the system used in the days of the horse-drawn tram, which ran from the city centre outwards in a clockwise direction from south to north.

Mountjoy Square is the only real square in Dublin, measuring 600 feet in length and width

Dublin's oldest traffic lights are situated beside the Renault garage in Clontarf. The lights, which are still in full working order, were installed in 1893 outside the home of Fergus Mitchell, who was the owner of the first car in Ireland.

Henry Moore, Earl of Drogheda lived in Dublin in the eighteenth century. His job was naming streets. He called several after himself - Henry Street, Moore Street, Earl Street and Drogheda Street, which later became Sackville Street and is now O'Connell Street.

Irish and Proud

tech2 wrote: »

Where did the funding from this bridge come from? Could have spent 20 million more wisely but I could say that about a dozen things FF have done during the noughties.

...not to mention that this bridge @ 340m in length was not exactly highlighted in media or government circles!!!

Wonder why? :rolleyes:

Must say it's a nice bridge though!

charlemont

m8 northbound at junction 13 signs for tipperary and limerick 51km thats correct for limerick but not tipp its 31km. old n8 r636 at new cork mart cork 38km wrong.. m8 junction 10 southbound 88km to cork wrong again.. too many chefs as they say:p

Trick of the Tail

Waterford: The newly-reopened road between New Rath (the old and for the moment still the Dublin Road) to Grannagh.

...passes under the new N25 with a headroom of only 2.8 metres!

Yikes!

At the moment they've got a very functional arrangement consisting of a couple of oil drums, two lengths of red conduit and some string and bits of red tape before it to indicate to taller vehicles of the impending doom, but this obviously (I hope) isn't permanent.

So what measures, I wonder, will preclude the (surely) inevitable collisions, and the hilarity that will result?

Andy.

Colmgogan

Here's one!

Spending 2-5 (Nobody really knows) Billion euro on a tunnel to join
Connolly and Heuston station when there is already a perfectly good existing tunnel doing exactly the same thing for free!!! Then IE's blatant avoiding of the question....
Mind Boggling...

murphaph

Colmgogan wrote: »

Here's one!

Spending 2-5 (Nobody really knows) Billion euro on a tunnel to join
Connolly and Heuston station when there is already a perfectly good existing tunnel doing exactly the same thing for free!!! Then IE's blatant avoiding of the question....
Mind Boggling...

The purpose of the Interconnector is not "to join Connolly and Heuston Stations" though. In fact, it doesn't do that as the portals to the tunnel are some distance from both stations. HTH.

crushproof

Please please please can a Mod stop the above arguement before it gets out of hand?? God knows how many times it's been covered on other threads!!

Heartbreak Hank

Newport Co. Tipperary is nowhere near a navigable waterway never mind its lack of a port.

Part of its East-West running mainstreet is called "Cork Road" even though you have to travel on a number of other roads before you get to a straightforward link to Cork.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Newport+Tipperary,+Ireland&sll=52.474876,-8.157204&sspn=0.026192,0.077162&gl=ca&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Newport,+County+North+Tipperary,+Ireland&z=14

Zebra3

Tara St stn is not on Tara St.

Phoenix Park stn is not in (or near with the intention of serving) the Phoenix Park.

And my favourite. Grand Canal Dock stn which is close to Lansdown Road stadium has to close on matchdays. What a joke. :mad:

Victor

Heartbreak Hank wrote: »

Newport Co. Tipperary is nowhere near a navigable waterway never mind its lack of a port.

Part of its East-West running mainstreet is called "Cork Road" even though you have to travel on a number of other roads before you get to a straightforward link to Cork.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Newport+Tipperary,+Ireland&sll=52.474876,-8.157204&sspn=0.026192,0.077162&gl=ca&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Newport,+County+North+Tipperary,+Ireland&z=14

Newport is An Port Nua. Port can also mean embankment, e.g. Port Laoise

http://www.englishirishdictionary.com/dictionary

"Tara Street" was "Tara Street and Georges Quay", but thats rather long and contains the name of an English king.

Heartbreak Hank

Victor wrote: »

Newport is An Port Nua. Port can also mean embankment, e.g. Port Laoise

The port nua thing came after Newport as far as I know. The town name was Tulach Sheasta fado fado.

Didn't know that about the embankment thing.

salonfire

The N13 in Donegal...its the only National Primary route that has to stop/give way to a Regional road.

L1011

salonfire wrote: »

The N13 in Donegal...its the only National Primary route that has to stop/give way to a Regional road.

The N17 still gives way to the former N5 which is now a regional in Charlestown main street, doesn't it?

murphaph

MYOB wrote: »

The N17 still gives way to the former N5 which is now a regional in Charlestown main street, doesn't it?

Does the N11 still give way to that R road in Ferns on the bad bend heading out of the town southbound, or was that replaced with a mini roundabout? I highly doubt only one N road gives way to an R road tbh.

L1011

murphaph wrote: »

Does the N11 still give way to that R road in Ferns on the bad bend heading out of the town southbound, or was that replaced with a mini roundabout? I highly doubt only one N road gives way to an R road tbh.

Biggest roundabout they could squash in there; not quite a mini but it ain't full size either.

Loads of N-secondaries give way to R roads.

L1011

The N5 yields to Ballaghdeereen main street, come to think of it...

mysterious

Fintan Lawlor Avenue in Portlaoise meant to be an inner bypass in the 80s. What a mess of planning that was. The N7, had to turn right, then left and then swing around back onto the Dublin road with such messy junctions.

Actually despite a proper decent bypass of the town, this inner relief road still causes most of the traffic problems in the town today. And those f****ing ramps. It's actually insane the amount of ramps on it"

Now retail developments sprang up either side. Makes Portlaois look like a mini LA style town. Horrible planning.:(

The oddest part of all this they slapped up a pedestrian crossing beside the walk over bridge...