N71 Killarney Relief Road

marno21

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/link-road-plan-may-solve-killarney-traffic-gridlock-421441.html

This was originally to be progressed as part of the proposed N22 Farranfore/Killarney scheme but due to a) the former not being realistically progressed anytime soon and b) the complete and utter mess that is traffic on the N71 approach to Killarney, this is now being examined as a standalone scheme.

skywanderer

Bypass Adare and Macroom first, bring connectivity into Kerry first.

yayamark

skywanderer wrote: »

Bypass Adare and Macroom first, bring connectivity into Kerry first.

so in the mean time let the people of Kerry suffer?

just bring in more people faster and we will solve the problem then?

great logic

skywanderer

yayamark wrote: »

so in the mean time let the people of Kerry suffer?

just bring in more people faster and we will solve the problem then?

great logic

Killarney is a tourist caused seasonal problem which effects a tiny amount of people compared to the Adare and Macroom problems which are every day of the year. There needs to Motorway spec road from the ballincollig bypass to bottom of the county bounds in ballyvourney and a bypass of Adare, Newcastlewest and Abbeyfeale brining motorway to Kerry also for Connectivity to Dublin and Cork via both routes.

marno21

skywanderer wrote: »

Killarney is a tourist caused seasonal problem which effects a tiny amount of people compared to the Adare and Macroom problems which are every day of the year. There needs to Motorway spec road from the ballincollig bypass to bottom of the county bounds in ballyvourney and a bypass of Adare, Newcastlewest and Abbeyfeale brining motorway to Kerry also for Connectivity to Dublin and Cork via both routes.

I would agree that the N21 and N22 need major improvements, but once they are done, there also needs to be a way of seperating through traffic for Killarney and local traffic. The current situation on both Killarney relief roads is ridiculous. More traffic uses the Killarney 'bypass' than goes through Adare.

Todd Toddington III

yayamark wrote: »

so in the mean time let the people of Kerry suffer?

just bring in more people faster and we will solve the problem then?

great logic

Sure just ring the healy-rae boys, they'll get your road built. Parish politics at its finest. Drive the limerick to tralee road, there's a noticeable difference in the quality of the roads when you cross the country border

marno21

Todd Toddington III wrote: »

Sure just ring the healy-rae boys, they'll get your road built. Parish politics at its finest. Drive the limerick to tralee road, there's a noticeable difference in the quality of the roads when you cross the country border

The N21 is different when you cross the border simply because the part in Limerick was done by Limerick county council and the part in Kerry was done by the NRA.

The Limerick parts, between Abbeyfeale and Barnagh, Newcastlewest to Reens Pike were done by Limerick County Council in the 1980s and early 90s. The Rathkeale/Croagh bypass was opened in 1990.

Since the 1990s, the only improvements on the N21 in Co. Limerick were the realignments at Barnagh, and the traffic calming in Croagh.

The wide road between north of Castleisland and the county bounds opened in 2006. Bar the realigned sections at Barnagh, it is by far the newest part of the N21, and is designed to modern WS2 offline standards. The road which this section replaced was an absolute joke of a national primary road with 2 extremely dangerous bridges and several tight bends. It has probably paid off since opening with the road deaths and accidents it has prevented. Several other stretches are still in existance (N20 Ballybeg bends, N22 Ballyvourney-Macroom, most of the N16, N17 around Milltown and Ballindine, N4 Collooney-Castlebaldwin etc.)

The N71 Killarney Relief Road is needed because it relieves two extremely congested stretches of road, the N71 Killarney southern approach and the N22 approaches. Not because of parish pump politics.