Bypass the bypass in Clonmel??

bobsxx

Hi!!
Has anyone ever been on the Clonmel bypass from 4-6ish in the evening especially Fridays...its gridlock...It takes ages to get from the cashel roundabout to the Fethard roundabout! We need an outter relief bypass!! anyone have any thoughts or hear any plans about this?????:D

waxer1986

bobsxx wrote: »

Hi!!
Has anyone ever been on the Clonmel bypass from 4-6ish in the evening especially Fridays...its gridlock...It takes ages to get from the cashel roundabout to the Fethard roundabout! We need an outter relief bypass!! anyone have any thoughts or hear any plans about this?????:D

yes i agree we do need a outter bypass..
because its crazie around there on peak times

charlemont

heres a link to the planned outer ring road for clonmel on the N24 thread,
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055442694&page=6

PhatPiggins

bobsxx wrote: »

Hi!!
Has anyone ever been on the Clonmel bypass from 4-6ish in the evening especially Fridays...its gridlock...It takes ages to get from the cashel roundabout to the Fethard roundabout! We need an outter relief bypass!! anyone have any thoughts or hear any plans about this?????:D

It won't matter if there is a second bypass because the same dipsh1ts who granted planning permission for all the construction along the first bypass will do so again for any subsequent ones once the economy bounces back.

Fionn

it's terrible on the fethard road roundabout from about 4 pm on, on another note - coming up past the railway station, and some clever clogs decides to zip up the left almost on the footpath and dag through the service station and continue over the bridge, that and the short green light at the end of Prior Park hill, it usually allows about 4 cars(if they're quick) to get through!

ok Rant over

pooch90

Even trying to get onto the roadabouts from the side roads is a nightmare. Ever try to come down the Cashel Road when shifts end in Abbott and Boston? Disaster. God knows why they were allowed to build so many estates up there with the existing volumes of traffic using the road for commercial use.

Amtmann

The problem with the current bypass is two-fold. Firstly, it isn't a bypass - it's a relief road. Big difference. Secondly, as other posters have said, it has been ruined with developments that generate thousands of micro-journeys each day thus cluttering up the road.

The proposed route of what will eventually be the real N24 Clonmel Bypass is attached. Don't expect it to be built before 2018.

Loughc

2018?? FML :eek:

Amtmann

At the earliest.

1) I think we'll see the M17/M18 through Galway come first, and, concurrently, the M11 Arklow-Rathnew scheme and the N7 Newlands Cross upgrade.

2) Then the M11/N25 Enniscorthy and New Ross Bypass.

3) Next the Cork-Limerick M20 motorway

These three packaged schemes are the national priorities, and they should all be complete by, say, 2017 if the public finances don't deteriorate further and if construction of 1) goes ahead in early 2011 as currently planned. Also, they are all PPPs.

While these are all major schemes, lots of minor non-PPP schemes are also ready to start in 2011, subject to funding. These are:

N22 Tralee Bypass
N25 Flyovers on the Cork South Ring Road
N5 Longford Bypass
N3 Belturbet Bypass

The NRA hopes to start these in 2011, but the way things are now, we'd be lucky if even the 3km Longford Bypass made it through. My preference would be for the Cork South Ring flyovers, since these are relatively cheap to do (c. €60 million) and deal with well over 50,000 cars per day.

After these three major PPP schemes are completed (plus all the minor ones listed above) then we might see movement on the N24 between Pallasgreen and Cahir, which will be a substantial scheme at 40km of dual carriageway, sometime post-2015/16/17. But! The N24 Pallasgreen to Cahir scheme will compete for funding with other schemes such as the N21 Abbeyfeale to Adare and the N22 Macroom Bypass, not to mention various improvements to the N25 between Waterford and Cork.

This is just a small amount of the schemes that are ahead of the Clonmel Bypass I'm afraid. Others, such as the N28 project (Ringaskiddy to Cork) and the N8/N25 Dunkettle Interchange Improvement Scheme, are also likely to come in ahead of the Clonmel Bypass. If the economy improves and more money becomes available for capital spending, then this could all be delivered prior to 2020

I personally think that the N24 in general from Waterford to Limerick should be moved up the priority scale owing to its national strategic importance, but in fairness, plenty of other routes are absolutely crucial too. We will be unbelievably lucky if we see diggers on site for the Clonmel Bypass prior to 2020. Pray for an upturn!

ItsAWindUp

It isn't actually even a bypass at this stage, seeing as they built stuff onto it, so people are actually on it for a different reason then just avoiding the town centre.