the ring road

spinalsly

hey everyone, just wondering does anybody have any links to any information to the ring road thats going around limerick and the tunnel that will be going under the shannon. i find this stuff very intresting so if ye know anythng about it, please share and what do ye think of this ring road? the sooner its finished the better, less traffic in the city!

billy the squid

you could try the websites of Limerick and Clare county council . the links are in the Local limerick Links sticky at the top of the forum.

spinalsly

what do you think of the ringroad billy?

billy the squid

i havent read anything about it as i have been busy of late, i ususally follow developments going on in and around the city and around it but have had my eye off the ball for the past few weeks.

spinalsly

hey billy this is what i found! what u think of the tolls though?

1huge1

looks cool (you could of made the pic smaller lol) dont like the toll idea though

billy the squid

i think having a toll on a road which is meant to ease traffic going through the city defeats the purpose of the road. a toll free road would encourage people to use it.

The Lopper

Hope they don't make a repeat of the mess they made of the Tipperary Rd/N24 junction, which is a pileup waiting to happen

bazz26

The NRA might have something on their website about it. http://www.nra.ie

Toll roads seem to be the fashion with Bertie and Co. We are already paying through our teeth for inferior roads but that is another debate.

limerick_man

I´m happy with it!

Now that our EU funding is running out, I think toll roads are the best option... espically since they´re is another way out to Shannon Airport... its not like you most pay!

Money would only have to come from Medical and socale and other deptments which would mess up the country... this road is more of a luxuary than a nessesary part of life!

1huge1

whens the dicision being made about it?

theblackstuff

for your information the proposed tolls at the moment are

motor cycles 0.818
cars 1.568
buses 2.795
lorries 2.795 - 5.046 (depending on size)

these have to be rounded off yet and will obvisously increase before the project is completed..

bazz26

limerick_man wrote:

I´m happy with it!

Now that our EU funding is running out, I think toll roads are the best option... espically since they´re is another way out to Shannon Airport... its not like you most pay!

Money would only have to come from Medical and socale and other deptments which would mess up the country... this road is more of a luxuary than a nessesary part of life!

Well I thought that was where the billions of euros from VRT, annual motor taxation and tax on fuel were going already. The M50 toll bridge in Dublin is a perfect example, I think it took less than 10 years for the Government to make back the money on the cost of building it from the toll. Now a private company runs it and the daily cost of using it has increased expedentially over the last couple of years and this is a purly profit making exercise.

Plus the Jack Lynch tunnel in Cork is "toll free" so why not ours if we must have a tunnel? What I can see might happen is that only motors who ocasionally drive the route will use the new tunnel and others who commute on a daily basis will stick with the normal root hence defeating the purpose of the ring road. An increase of say €4 per day (say €2 each way) x 5 days a week may put alot of strain on motorists especially if the high price of petrol continues to spiral out of control.

This is probably a debate for the Motor Forum but it is my 2 cent worth anyway. Rant over.

zachler

Plenty of details here: http://www.midwestroads.ie/LSSR2/Lssr_Index.htm