N25/N30 - New Ross Bypass [open to traffic]

hans aus dtschl

Just semantics, but work being ahead of schedule doesn't always mean delivery ahead of schedule.
Work can be completed ahead of schedule without following phases being brought forward.
It really just means "no delays so far".

VR6

True, but doesn't change the fact that the completion date has been put back from Q1 2019 to June 2019....

hans aus dtschl

Fair call.

m17

VR6 wrote: »

Agree completely. My comment was prompted by the article in the Munster Express highlighted by M17 in a post that appeared briefly yesterday and then disappeared (??)
"Work on the €230 million N25 New Ross Bypass is ahead of schedule, with the new road and bridge due to be fully open by June of next year."

I'm all about the pics and not newspaper waffle

Chris_5339762

Huge bridges take time, not like building a 'regular' motorway with a few river crossings like we're used to. A delay is reasonable in this instance.

m17

The barrow crossing 13/09/18

vicwatson

Great picture m17

m17

The barrow crossing August 18 pics form the N25 newross website

m17

Bridge construction to the end of August 2018

Donegal Storm

m17 wrote: »

Bridge construction to the end of August 2018

Essentially no visible progress compared to a month earlier

delaido

Heard from a reliable source that there is some problem with the bridge which will lead to serious delay

Azatadine

I heard something about a concrete problem last weekend too. Only heard it from a local though, not a reliable source.

josip

I had hoped to get over earlier but the evenings are getting short.

m17

Class pics josip brilliant work

serfboard

delaido wrote: »

Heard from a reliable source that there is some problem with the bridge which will lead to serious delay

There are rumours like this about nearly every bridge that's ever built - and they are almost always untrue.

m17

The barrow crossing

m17

Construction September 2018

m17

The barrow crossing 01/10/18

m17

New name for the barrow crossing

The rose Fitzgerald Kennedy bridge

Harry Palmr

Dear God, no will call it that.

MayoSalmon

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Dear God, no will call it that.

Exactly...I'll stick with the Barrow bridge thanks

pad199207

Kennedy Bridge sounds grand

rekdtangle

delaido wrote: »

Heard from a reliable source that there is some problem with the bridge which will lead to serious delay

There were issues approx a year ago with the concrete but haven't heard of anything new.

serfboard

pad199207 wrote: »

Kennedy Bridge sounds grand

Yeah, I don't get this (new?) idea of putting the whole name on structures e.g. the James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Rosie Hackett bridges. Surnames are fine and useful, anything else is too long-winded. If anyone wants to know who it's called after they can always look it up.

vicwatson

serfboard wrote: »

Yeah, I don't get this (new?) idea of putting the whole name on structures e.g. the James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Rosie Hackett bridges. Surnames are fine and useful, anything else is too long-winded. If anyone wants to know who it's called after they can always look it up.

Councilors trying to justify themselves in a chamber

vicwatson

MayoSalmon wrote: »

Exactly...I'll stick with the Barrow bridge thanks

New Ross bridge for me

pad199207

‘The Rose F Kennedy Bridge’

That sounds alright

josip

For those of us living nearby, it's 'the bridge' or if we're feeling particularly verbose, 'the new bridge'.

JPA

MayoSalmon wrote: »

Exactly...I'll stick with the Barrow bridge thanks

Well, there already is a Barrow bridge, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow_Bridge

m17

The RFK bridge