Major Road works N10/77 Aug/Sept

Our man in Havana

Major Road works N10/77 Aug/Sept there is a flashing sign on the way into the city saying this. Anyone know what is going on?

mike65

Its the ring road being extended from the Carlow rd to the Castlecomer rd.

Mike.

Our man in Havana

mike65 wrote:

Its the ring road being extended from the Carlow rd to the Castlecomer rd.

Mike.

oooh!! sounds good! Any plans online? I will be able to avoid the city at last!

mike65

pdf file

Mike.

Munurty

It also might be out the carlow rd cause about a month ago they dug a large trench along the road and haven't done anything since and where the new mart is being built there is a half a round-about maybe they are going to complete it.

Stephen

I assume they are going to connect the comer road to the carlow road at the carlow rd roundabout. They're turning my road into a flyover over the new extended ring road, its going to be ****ed for months

Our man in Havana

Whats going on out by the railway station towards the carlow road?

Stephen

Not sure exactly, but it may be something to do with the ring road extension again, as they have to reroute over 1km of railway track to accommodate the road, as well as having to build a new railway bridge. I think there's a hotel being built out there somewhere too.

brettmirl

There are talks yet again of the train station being moved out to Dunbell and passangers being bussed into the city.

Big mistake if they do that in my opinion.

Our man in Havana

mick_irl wrote:

There are talks yet again of the train station being moved out to Dunbell and passangers being bussed into the city.

Big mistake if they do that in my opinion.

Where is Dunbell?

brettmirl

It's out the Sion Road.
There have been talks of IE doing this for ages to stop the 'dead end' stop in Kilkenny for ages.

Our man in Havana

Is that out past the Lavistown loop?

Stephen

That would suck, considering they only rebuilt the train station a few years ago.

Lump

And people would have to pay for a train ticket.... and then get on a bus. Only in Ireland. That's one draw for Kilkenny I think... The Train station is slap bang near John Street/Hotels/pubs etc.

John

dawballz

Yeah, Kilkenny needs the train station there.
Even if it does bring the dirty accented slappery dubs to us every friday evening for their hen party in the Kilford.

Our man in Havana

But the whole track layout there is silly. Making Kilkenny a cul de sac station was madness as it unnessasarily increases journey times.

I take it the move would be temp until the ring road is completed?

Stephen

Well it wasn't originally a cul de sac, it only became that when they closed the line to Portlaoise years ago.

Lump

No, it'd be full time, Why wouldn't they link the kilkenny track to waterford, by going through kilkenny, instead of going back on it's self. It'd cost a lot, but Pffff, it makes sense, Like so: http://members.boards.ie/lump/Train.JPG

John

Stephen

haha, impressive.

Lump

I have TEH SKILLZOROSOSOROSOSZZZ

John

jenna_

Bond-007 wrote:

Whats going on out by the railway station towards the carlow road?

They're putting in a business complex, may also be a shopping complex included-the ring road's being extended up bast hebron ind estate linking that, the housing estates and johnswell road from the carlow roundabout to the Castlecomer road it's part of a longterm plan to have a dub,in-waterford motorway

daithi

John, next time you try draw a map, at least try and put waterford on the right side of kilkenny, what you have there is a mirror image of the actual track layout.