Waterford - Tramore Road re-opened

brendansmith

michellie wrote: »

oh thank god, it looked bad!

Yes, he was very lucky. He will be in my prayers tonight, that much I promise you.

kensutz

michellie wrote: »

Did anyone see the car at the roundabout yesterday morning? It had plowed through the fence and was lying on its side in a dip in the side of the road. Looked bad!

Taxi driver hit the roundabout and they ended up side on. If the ditch wasn't there, they were smashing into the wall. One of the lads was the passenger

dermo909

Wow bad crash. Someone once said to me that you have to drive according to the road conditions....

Cabaal

Curious what speed he was doing as mentioned above as you really need to be driving according to the road conditions....I doubt he was given the amount of people that don't end up like this

kensutz

Well given how bad the rainfall was at the time, it's no surprise he could barely see out the window.

Sully

Cabaal wrote: »

Curious what speed he was doing as mentioned above as you really need to be driving according to the road conditions....I doubt he was given the amount of people that don't end up like this

I was the first person at the crash, and the weather was atrocious. The lights were out for the past few days leading up to the crash so you were blind enough and then add the very very bad rain and wind along with very very bad road conditions. It was an awful night and a bad crash.

Guramoogah

The potholes on the 'unfinished' section of the Tramore Road are getting worse. The road is now in a dangerous condition. There's no hard shoulder so if someone gets a puncture or a blow-out due to the potholes, it's gonna cause chaos. The City Council or the contractor should be compelled to finish the surfacing of the road now, before the dark evenings really close in.

Sully

No need to bump two topics with your point.

Topic Merged & Extra Post Removed

Psychedelic

The road will be closed for 2 weeks:

Notice is hereby given that in accordance with Section 75 of the Roads Act 1993, the following public road will be temporarily closed from 9.30a.m. on Monday 18th October 2010 until 5.00pm on Sunday 31st October 2010 to facilitate works on the Tramore Road.

http://www.waterfordcity.ie/documents/notices/RCN%20Tramore%20Rd.doc

Guramoogah

Psychedelic wrote: »

The road will be closed for 2 weeks:

Notice is hereby given that in accordance with Section 75 of the Roads Act 1993, the following public road will be temporarily closed from 9.30a.m. on Monday 18th October 2010 until 5.00pm on Sunday 31st October 2010 to facilitate works on the Tramore Road.

http://www.waterfordcity.ie/documents/notices/RCN%20Tramore%20Rd.doc

Thank you for the update.

Sully

Guess they decided not to bother, as its open still!

Sully

Checked with council. The road is now being closed November 1st at half 9 for 7 days for resurfacing work.

Psychedelic

Delay was due to the contractor being delayed on another job, according to this article, which also states that work was originally due to start at the end of August:

Councillors ‘like lambs to slaughter’ over Old Tramore Road works

Another meeting of Waterford City Council has passed and another series of questions about when the long-awaited works on the Old Tramore Road will commence have been fielded. And, as this report is penned, the diggers have yet to move in.

But Councillors Cha O’Neill, Seamus Ryan, David Cullinane and John Cummins have been assured by City Council Transportation Director Fergus Galvin that the contractor will be on site before the end of this week.

“We’re like lambs to the slaughter over this,” said an exasperated Cllr O’Neill at Monday’s meeting of Waterford City Council.

“We’re three years hearing about something being done on the road and it’s gone beyond embarrassing at this stage. Councillors are getting it in the neck over this and we’re sick of it at this stage.”

Mr Galvin said that contracts for the project had been signed last week but due to the contractor being “delayed slightly doing a job in Wexford,” the Old Tramore Road works had yet to commence.

“The eighth of August was the first date we were given (in terms of work commencing) and now we’re being told that the contractor had a job to do in Wexford?” stated a bemused Cllr O’Neill. “Residents don’t want to be hearing that.”

According to Cllr Seamus Ryan: “Residents, as well as those working in the area deserve a start date for these works.”

http://www.munster-express.ie/local-news/councillors-%e2%80%98like-lambs-to-slaughter%e2%80%99-over-old-tramore-road-works/

Typhoon.

thats the Old Tramore Road section.... from green fields to the couse bridge roundabout

was due to start last thursday.... guess what... still hasn't started

Sully

Yeah different road alright, aware of the problems on the other road. Never ending!

Guramoogah

Ever since the foundation of the state, there's been "problems" with the roads connecting Waterford City with the town of Tramore. I think the root of the problem lies in the fact that Tramore is located in County Waterford and the City Council or Corporation has always been reluctant to maintain the stretch of roadway that lays within the City boundary but connects with a County town. There's Parliamentery debates in the Government archives relating to the Tramore road dating back to at least 1960, when the Waterford-Tramore railway was abolished, and FIFTY YEARS ON there's still a massive reluctance by the narrow-minded and penny-pinching City to provide an adequate road network.

Predictor

Typhoon. wrote: »

thats the Old Tramore Road section.... from green fields to the couse bridge roundabout

was due to start last thursday.... guess what... still hasn't started

Contractor was on site last Friday and continued yesterday and today setting up compound. I passed today on the way home and they had a digger clearing the site and there were containers etc on the site, so looks like work has begun, thankfully!

Main Tramore road to close at start of November.

Psychedelic

Notice is hereby given that in accordance with Section 75 of the Roads Act 1993, the following public road will be temporarily closed from 9.30a.m. on Monday 1st November 2010 until 5.00pm on Sunday 7th November 2010 to facilitate works on the Tramore Road.

R675 Tramore Road.
From the entrance to the Kingfisher Leisure Centre to the Ballindud Roundabout on the Outer Ring Road.
Alternative Routes:
Northbound
Ballindud Roundabout – R 710 Outer Ring Road – Six Cross Roads Roundabout – L 5021 Kilbarry Road – R680 Cork Road – Cork Road Roundabout – R709 Inner Ring Road.
Southbound
R709 Inner Ring Road – Cork Road Roundabout – R680 Cork Road – L 5021 Kilbarry Road – Six Cross Roads Roundabout – R 710 Outer Ring Road – Ballindud Roundabout.
Local access will be maintained and diversion signs will be in place.

http://www.waterfordcity.ie/documents/notices/RCNTramore%20RoadWkEnd.doc

puppetmaster

Finally, Hopefully it starts now, I saw earlier in thread that a councillor said that the road will have a hard shoulder when the final surface is added?? how is that going to miraculously appear. It will be tougher as they were Concreting down all the crooked Uprights that hold up the crash barrier during the week. So thats not moving.