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Newmarket-on-Fergus Bypass

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  • 11-06-2002 2:07pm
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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,399 ✭✭✭✭


    I understand the Newmarket-on-Fergus Bypass (N-18 & N-19) will open shortly.


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    Rebel18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Rebel18


    Its a pity there isnt one for Ennis, thats clare county council for ya.


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    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Aye, it's been fun on those new bypass roundabouts lately (they seem to have signs on most of them now - not before time)


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    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    News on the long-awaited by-pass (from today's Sunday Times)

    It's been held up a bit due to re-routing.

    Why?

    There's a bush there that Eddie Lenihan swears blind was a meeting place for Munster and Connaught fairies on their way to Kerry. He wants it to be a tourist attraction.

    (no, I'm not making this up, but I think Eddie is)


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    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    About time it was bypassed.

    The number of hours I wasted crawling through it last summer!


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    conZ
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    onlu part of it will be open soon, the ennis bypass has been halted for a while i think, the one that'll bring yo out onto the galway road...
    the newmarket bypass should be finished alright, haevtn been up there in a while.
    yay, 200 posts.


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    Nero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭Nero


    Part of the bypass is now open. It's a little bit messy getting on and off it but at least you don't have to go in through the village any more. I believe the rest of it will open when the rest of the improvements in Shannon finish.

    As for the Ennis bypass ... it's been completely halted due to lack of funding. Let's hope James Breen can do something about it !!


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    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    As long as you don't have to drive through the vilage any more ...

    Most racing tracks would be proud of that chicane let along smal villages with two waybus and truck traffic!


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    matthiku
    Registered Users Posts: 139 ✭✭matthiku


    I know, this is an old thread. But nevertheless, since this bypass opened, I was always annoyed by the stupid way in which the new road leads on to the old road near the Clare Inn Hotel. It's so stupidly designed, that every work day, between 5 pm and 7pm, there is a huge tailback on the dual carrriage way (sometimes even more then 2 kilometers) because all traffic leaving the dual carriage way has to wait at the roundabout whith the traffic from the bypassed town (Newmarket on Fergus). That caused many drivers to bypass the bypass and go through Newmarket again or, even worse, go thru the backroad to avoid the traffic. But no matter which alternative you use, all traffic ends up in this single roundabout which in turn cloggs up the road.

    And all this just because the junction wasn't properly finished and some people in charge decided to leave it that way for years until the Ennis bypass will be finished hopefully in 2007!


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