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

m17

The barrow crossing 10/11/19 (pics fb )

insta_mavic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0sdej_q37c

Relhcstirt

Are we still looking at an opening date of 20th December?

veryangryman

Jingle Bells traffic smells, bypass all the way!

This bridge will be very ugly when the concrete turns rusted brown as concrete is wont to do.
Are they planning on painting it?

dougal

Relhcstirt wrote: »

Are we still looking at an opening date of 20th December?

If December 20th bridge opening goes ahead are the connecting roads ready to feed and distribute the traffic?

Relhcstirt

dougal wrote: »

If December 20th bridge opening goes ahead are the connecting roads ready to feed and distribute the traffic?

Ready since March. Sure there's a snag list to finish off, nothing major.

m17

The two temporary will be gone next week

Chris_5339762

All blue on there, the temp piers are not touching the bridge, open it tomorrow

SeanW

insta_mavic wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0sdej_q37c

Are you the same insta_mavic as the poster on youtube?

If so, can you tell us what music you used in the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azjxNc7-yAs
(the one about the retention pond).

Hibernicis

SeanW wrote: »

Are you the same insta_mavic as the poster on youtube?

If so, can you tell us what music you used in the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azjxNc7-yAs
(the one about the retention pond).

Shazam reporting it as “I am a man who will fight for your honor” by Chris Zabriskie from an album of the same name released in 2009.

Beautiful piece.

SeanW

Hibernicis wrote: »

Shazam reporting it as “I am a man who will fight for your honor” by Chris Zabriskie from an album of the same name released in 2009.

Beautiful piece.

That's it indeed. Thanks

Silent Running

This is a brilliant documentary about the bridge...


https://www.facebook.com/1773540396250217/posts/2441973342740249/

skodacb

https://youtu.be/q1ITfCGS1Rg

There's a YouTube link in case anyone wants it.


It's fascinating the challenges they've had to overcome building such a piece of infrastructure.

josip

I'm 1 minute into watching it and am already feeling a bit nauseous with the hyperbole:

"incredible half mile river crossing"
"mere 44 months" (that's almost 4 years lads)
"battle massive loads"
"unpredictable weather" (eh, Ireland)
"precarious heights"
"new engineering wonder"

The cinematography is lovely though.

fricatus

Despite the breathless hyperbole, I really enjoyed it - real high-quality stuff!

I had to giggle at yer man's pronunciation of Kilmacow (where the Roadstone facility is). He said Kil-muh-COE, rather than Kil-muh-COW (the animal). Still, it wasn't the worst I've heard - once I was listening to an audiobook where the (English) narrator pronounced Thurles to rhyme with "girls" and Athy to rhyme with "batty" (well, more "bathy", but you get the idea).

pajoguy

skodacb wrote: »

https://youtu.be/q1ITfCGS1Rg

There's a YouTube link in case anyone wants it.


It's fascinating the challenges they've had to overcome building such a piece of infrastructure.

This is great. Thanks.

Andrew33

josip wrote: »

I'm 1 minute into watching it and am already feeling a bit nauseous with the hyperbole:

"incredible half mile river crossing"
"mere 44 months" (that's almost 4 years lads)
"battle massive loads"
"unpredictable weather" (eh, Ireland)
"precarious heights"
"new engineering wonder"

The cinematography is lovely though.

Yup, that narrators accent and delivery nearly turned me off it straight away.
Good to watch it though.
Interesting fact though, the longest bridge of its type in the world.

Silent Running

Andrew33 wrote: »

Yup, that narrators accent and delivery nearly turned me off it straight away.
Good to watch it though.
Interesting fact though, the longest bridge of its type in the world.

It's the US Discovery Channel. All of their stuff is like that. I think they need to keep the drama up to keep the attention of 'murican TV viewers. It's not enough to just be interesting. :rolleyes:

allthedoyles

https://kilkennynow.ie/watch-irelands-longest-bridge-linking-kilkenny-to-wexford-to-open-before-end-of-year/

Great news. Today's press release from KK now.

prunudo

Silent Running wrote: »

It's the US Discovery Channel. All of their stuff is like that. I think they need to keep the drama up to keep the attention of 'murican TV viewers. It's not enough to just be interesting. :rolleyes:

I often have to laugh at these style of programmes, making even the slightest hiccup out to be a life and death situation and detrimental to the whole project. They could make any of our jobs look interesting with a 45 min programme.

spacetweek

Watched it all there. Very good.

So now we know why the join between the segments wasn't finished off for a while. The two sides of the gap didn't meet at the same level!

insta_mavic

Check out the newset video I made of the RFK bridge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0DFH4xj-i0

blindsider

Great video Insta mavic - really impressed with your work!

At 1:50 - (run for 15 secs) in the video there's a section of road - just off the eastern section(?) that looks like it will not be ready in 1 month - am I wrong on this?

insta_mavic

blindsider wrote: »

Great video Insta mavic - really impressed with your work!

At 1:50 - (run for 15 secs) in the video there's a section of road - just off the eastern section(?) that looks like it will not be ready in 1 month - am I wrong on this?

Thank you. Is that is the run up to the bridge you are talking about? Or another road off that? I know the run up to the bridge is almost ready to go, just a small bit before it to finish. After that I'm not sure to be honest.

Bards

insta_mavic wrote: »

Thank you. Is that is the run up to the bridge you are talking about? Or another road off that? I know the run up to the bridge is almost ready to go, just a small bit before it to finish. After that I'm not sure to be honest.

Look at Google maps satellite image and you will see the whole road is finished, it's just the bridge and the ramps to the bridge need to be finished which should not be a hard job to do

Tileman

skodacb wrote: »

https://youtu.be/q1ITfCGS1Rg

There's a YouTube link in case anyone wants it.


It's fascinating the challenges they've had to overcome building such a piece of infrastructure.

Thanks for sharing. Very enjoyable

blindsider

@Insta mavic
@Bards

Thanks guys - good info!

Dunmoreroader

https://kilkennynow.ie/more-delays-to-irelands-longest-bridge-linking-kilkenny-and-wexford-after-worker-seriously-injured/

Dunmoreroader

Just realised thats old news posted by Kilkenny Now yesterday. They should change their name to 'Kilkenny Last Week'.