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

BonnieSituation · 17-11-2020 3:34pm

Lightscribe wrote: »

There's a programme on More 4 right now about the construction of this bridge.

New:Building Giants:Record Breaking Mega Bridge

Cheers for that.

17-11-2020 6:42pm

It's absolutely class. I've only driven it a couple of times due to lockdown, but it's on my list of places to go once I'm released! On to the lovely Hook Head then with the flask and sambos. Roll on 2021

Bards · 01-12-2020 2:46pm

Leo Demidov wrote: »

Well worth a watch, great insight. Few "engineers" on here thought it was a dramatised work of fiction but I enjoyed it.

It was weird how the narrator kept interchanging miles and kilometers

Leo Demidov · 01-12-2020 7:12pm

Bards wrote:

It was weird how the narrator kept interchanging miles and kilometers

I think the engineers on the job interchanged imperial and metric!

Sam Russell · 01-12-2020 8:49pm

Leo Demidov wrote: »

I think the engineers on the job interchanged imperial and metric!

Maybe that is why there is a kink in the middle.

I cannot wait till I can go and inspect it - later this month - if we all keep our distance, wash our hands, and mask up.

Azatadine · 01-12-2020 9:41pm

Sam Russell wrote: »

Maybe that is why there is a kink in the middle.

I cannot wait till I can go and inspect it - later this month - if we all keep our distance, wash our hands, and mask up.

I may be a bit OCD or whatever but I really do hate that kink.....

geminiman63 · 01-12-2020 9:44pm

Azatadine wrote: »

I may be a bit OCD or whatever but I really do hate that kink.....

I do too, its not great ......

josip · 01-12-2020 10:04pm

Not OCD in the slightest.
My understanding, and I'm open to correction, is that whoever is responsible for it, will be remembered for it for the rest of their careers.

Apparently the engineer responsible for the stretch of N30 along the old railway line from Ballyanne to the turn off for Watties back around 1990, found it very hard to get work again.
People might remember how the road was uneven at both old railway bridge crossings.
That was his legacy for almost 40 years until they eventually sorted it out recently.

[Ed] Corrected N81 to N30

Leo Demidov · 01-12-2020 10:51pm

Cookiemunster wrote:

No, it was the standard solution to an engineering problem seen all over the world.

The hump was all part of plan.

Cookiemunster · 01-12-2020 11:25pm

Leo Demidov wrote: »

The hump was all part of plan.

Did you seriously go back 9 months to find that post to quote? That's a bit sad.

Anyways the two sides of the deck being out of alignment and then being adjusted and brought in is, as I said at the time, quite normal. As was using the two giant girders to join them before the final pour.

But if you want to be a smartass, then work away.

Leo Demidov · 02-12-2020 12:03am

Cookiemunster wrote:

Did you seriously go back 9 months to find that post to quote? That's a bit sad.

I was sad at the time that you thought the gammy hump was acceptable. It still makes me sad to see that hump.

Victor · 02-12-2020 6:12am

josip wrote: »

Apparently the engineer responsible for the stretch of N81 along the old railway line from Ballyanne to the turn off for Watties back around 1990, found it very hard to get work again.
People might remember how the road was uneven at both old railway bridge crossings.
That was his legacy for almost 40 years until they eventually sorted it out recently.

Where is this?

NewbridgeIR · 02-12-2020 8:40am

Victor wrote: »

Where is this?

About 3 or 4 miles outside New Ross. Towards Enniscorthy. I used to play handball in Ballyanne and regularly cycled under those railway bridges. Similar ones on the old road to Waterford.

Picked plenty strawberries in Watties too.

Victor · 02-12-2020 8:56am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

About 3 or 4 miles outside New Ross. Towards Enniscorthy. I used to play handball in Ballyanne and regularly cycled under those railway bridges. Similar ones on the old road to Waterford.

Picked plenty strawberries in Watties too.

You mean the old N79 / N30, not the N81 then.

jd · 02-12-2020 8:57am

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

About 3 or 4 miles outside New Ross. Towards Enniscorthy. I used to play handball in Ballyanne and regularly cycled under those railway bridges. Similar ones on the old road to Waterford.

Picked plenty strawberries in Watties too.

Ah, you mean the N30, rather than the N81.

JohnC. · 19-06-2021 8:47am

The bridge won an award. I have no idea of these industry bodies or how much this one means. It’s the second in this page

https://iabse.org/About/Awards/OSTRA2021

Winner in ‘Bridge or Other Infrastructures’ category

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clU_383pzAM

Gael23 · 25-08-2021 10:13am

Is the Enniscorthy bypass only single carriageway?

Bahanaman · 25-08-2021 10:19am

I'm new to this thread and a complete luddite when it comes to what was involved in the construction of this bridge, but having diven over it I can't get my head around why there's a bit of a wave or kink in the flow of the bridge. Just seems off to me. Was there a specific structural of engineering reason for this?