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Seamus Quirke roadworks merge

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    #1082
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Road resurfacing again on Old Seamus Quirke from Newcastle to Corrib Park, That bit has been resurfaced a number of times in the last few years yet always ends up lumpy, dug up and with drainage problems..
    What's going on?


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    #1083
    KevR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,110 ✭✭✭KevR


    I guess the drainage problems stem from the fact that fallen leaves from the line of trees along that stretch aren't cleared promptly enough and end up turning into mush which blocks the drains.


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    #1084
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Very smooth surface now - perfect for rollerblading.


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    #1085
    irisheddie85
    Registered Users Posts: 762 ✭✭✭irisheddie85


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Very smooth surface now - perfect for rollerblading.

    Wait till it rains and see will it survive this time


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    #1086
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    what_traffic wrote: »
    Looks like there will be disruption!
    http://www.galwaynews.ie/26444-lanes-stilts-keep-bridge-open-during-works
    Lanes on stilts to keep bridge open during works
    June 22, 2012 - 7:15am
    Temporary traffic plan may be in operation for six months
    Road users have been assured that a planned NUI Galway project to build a €1 million-plus underpass of the Quincentenary Bridge will not result in lane closures along the N6 route during the construction phase.
    When is this due to start?


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    #1087
    what_traffic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭what_traffic


    snubbleste wrote: »
    When is this due to start?

    No idea. Not sure it is even going ahead at this point? Perhaps NUIG Buildings Dept would be best place in finding this out?


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    #1088
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Galway City Council is to carry out an urgent safety audit at the junction of Circular Road and Bishop O’Donnell Road at Corrach Buí.
    Cllr Cubbard says pedestrians and motorists are taking risks, and an accident will happen if changes are not made. http://connachttribune.ie/council-to-carry-out-safety-audit-at-westside-junction/
    Eh, what's he on about? What are changes that need to be made?


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    #1089
    topcat77
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    I hope they are on about the Rahoon Road turning. I still can't believe they let the plans go ahead for a turning onto Rahoon road (across 2 lanes of traffic). and off the road (merging onto road just before a set of lights).


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    #1090
    galwaycyclist
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭galwaycyclist


    topcat77 wrote: »
    I hope they are on about the Rahoon Road turning. I still can't believe they let the plans go ahead for a turning onto Rahoon road (across 2 lanes of traffic). and off the road (merging onto road just before a set of lights).

    That was the original plan, or the second last original plan anyway, Rahoon Road and Circular road were supposed to line up as a crossroads.


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    #1091
    what_traffic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭what_traffic


    galwaycyclist wrote: »
    That was the original plan, or the second last original plan anyway, Rahoon Road and Circular road were supposed to line up as a crossroads.
    That is true. Attached was a plan for that proposal.


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    #1092
    Jack_Plumber
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭Jack_Plumber


    what_traffic wrote: »
    That is true. Attached was a plan for that proposal.

    Sorry if it is a dumb question...
    but why was the old Rahoon Road (near the ESB substation) not realigned as set out in the plans?


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    #1093
    GDSGR8
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭GDSGR8


    Jack_Plumber wrote: »
    Sorry if it is a dumb question...
    but why was the old Rahoon Road (near the ESB substation) not realigned as set out in the plans?

    Probably due to the impact on the recreational lands. With the proximity of the junction into Gleanndara there's no magic bullet solution at that location.


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    #1094
    what_traffic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭what_traffic


    GDSGR8 wrote: »
    Probably due to the impact on the recreational lands. With the proximity of the junction into Gleanndara there's no magic bullet solution at that location.
    Ya agree no magic bullet solution. Don't believe GlenDara was the only issue here. Private residence at the junction as well. Which maybe the answer to Jack_Plumber query about the realignment of the Shantalla Road?
    One of the plans had a new entrance into GlenDara behind the Glenoaks - so that they could use the lights junction at the Glenoaks.


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    #1095
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Trees planted on SQR continue to die.
    All 70 trees planted, worth ~€20k are to replaced.
    The costs will be covered by Coffey Construction.
    http://connachttribune.ie/council-commits-to-replace-dead-trees-on-quirke-road-070/


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    #1096
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Still dead are they?

    I wonder whether the City Council and Coffey Construction will finally cop on and learn how to plant trees properly. It's not rocket science, as the hackneyed phrase has it. They could plant better trees at a fraction of the price, if they knew what they were doing. Still, it's only rate/tax payers money, so who cares?


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    #1097
    Storm 10
    Registered Users Posts: 5,920 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Do we need trees there at all we could do without those bloody stones covering the trees, why not another lane the central reservation is crazy wide.


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    #1098
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,224 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Trees planted on SQR continue to die.
    All 70 trees planted, worth ~€20k are to replaced.
    The costs will be covered by Coffey Construction.
    http://connachttribune.ie/council-commits-to-replace-dead-trees-on-quirke-road-070/

    Why do Coffey have to cover the costs?


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    #1099
    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    bobbyss wrote: »
    Why do Coffey have to cover the costs?

    Probably because they included the landscaping in their original tender, and because they f*cked it up, it's down to them to make it right, instead of the City Council/taxpayer having to take on the cost of their mistake.


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    #1100
    bobbyss
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    Eeden wrote: »
    Probably because they included the landscaping in their original tender, and because they f*cked it up, it's down to them to make it right, instead of the City Council/taxpayer having to take on the cost of their mistake.

    I have not paid much attention to those trees at all so I don't know how many were planted, when they were planted or when they died or how many have died etc. But what evidence is there that it was Coffey that dekcuf up?


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    #1101
    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    I haven't paid any attention to it either, but you can be sure that Coffey Construction won't pay for it unless it's got something to do with them.


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    #1102
    dilallio
    Registered Users Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    Local area councillor Padraig Conneely – an outspoken critic of the €16.5 million Seamus Quirke Road scheme and its massive cost over-runs – said a report needs to come before the Council on why so many trees failed.

    “This probably cost in the region of €20,000 and you’d have to wonder why so many of the trees died so quickly,” he said.

    Sounds like a job for the ....






    Special Branch :p


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    #1103
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    I sawed what you did there.


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    #1104
    buzz11
    Registered Users Posts: 751 ✭✭✭buzz11


    Coffey Construction, the gift that keeps giving...

    http://connachttribune.ie/plan-to-get-contractor-to-replace-dead-trees-201/


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    #1105
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,397 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    dilallio wrote: »
    Sounds like a job for the ....






    Special Branch :p


    They wood be the right crew to sort it provided there was no shady evidence planted

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    #1106
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    I still don't see the trees in the central reservation


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    #1107
    Worn Out
    Registered Users Posts: 150 ✭✭Worn Out


    snubbleste wrote: »
    I still don't see the trees in the central reservation

    They never removed the 26 redundant signpost poles from the Siobhan Mckenna road either once the Traffic calming measures ended. Clueless.


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    #1108
    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    (I've probably posted this before here, a year or two or more ago, but...)

    I've still got a roadworks sign on the ESB pole outside my house since the SQR roadworks - not complaining, it's very handy for taxis!


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    #1109
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Can anyone recall the permission for the hospital access road to the roundabout?
    If I recall correctly, the Council only allowed access on business days until about 10pm, when the gates had to be shut. I can't find the correct application on the Council website

    I've noticed that the gates are open on Saturdays, and some nights during the summer, they never closed.


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    #1110
    ?Cee?view
    Registered Users Posts: 2,848 ✭✭✭?Cee?view


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Can anyone recall the permission for the hospital access road to the roundabout?
    If I recall correctly, the Council only allowed access on business days until about 10pm, when the gates had to be shut. I can't find the correct application on the Council website

    I've noticed that the gates are open on Saturdays, and some nights during the summer, they never closed.

    Well hopefully they will leave it as it is. Easy access and egress to and from the hospital are surely good things. Better to have ambulances and people in distress not getting stuck in Newcastle traffic if possible.


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    #1111
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,224 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    ?Cee?view wrote: »
    Well hopefully they will leave it as it is. Easy access and egress to and from the hospital are surely good things. Better to have ambulances and people in distress not getting stuck in Newcastle traffic if possible.

    Dangerous for pedestrians to cross there. You take your life in your hands in doing do. At least you are close to the A&E.


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