Snugborough Interchange Upgrade

Have to say, the plans for this Junction really annoys me.
All this work and tax payers money spent, without a freeflow movement in sight.
May be some improvements in traffic flow due to more space to que cars, however we're definitely not going to get value for money in this upgrade.

spacetweek wrote: »

What??
It's a junction right in the middle of residential areas. It needs to cater for traffic increase (with the extra lanes) but also walking and cycling. Freeflows impede pedestrians and cyclists.

Yeah and I think the proposed "upgrade" for the N3 to three lanes will also do nothing to improve the situation, it will only reduce air quality in the area and have a negative long term impact on Blanchardstown village

mr potato head wrote: »

Yeah and I think the proposed "upgrade" for the N3 to three lanes will also do nothing to improve the situation, it will only reduce air quality in the area and have a negative long term impact on Blanchardstown village

As we head towards the demise of new combustion engined vehicles at the end of the decade, and probably sooner the way manufacturers are going, air quality affected by road traffic will become less and less an issue.

daymobrew wrote: »

Such things can be horrible for pedestrians - look at https://goo.gl/maps/oYeXVery4f8eojAF9 - 4 pedestrian crossing lights to go from left to right! That probably takes ages.

And wasting millions of euros in upgrading a junction that will probably need to be upgraded again in 20 years time is horrible for tax payers.

That study, or probably just the reporting of it, falls over immediately on astoundingly basic maths problems.

The headline of 5.8g a kilometre of tyre particulate would indicate that a set of tyres that does 20,000k will have lost 116 kilos of material over that time, 29kg a tyre

My cars tyres weigh about 9kg each. One tyre cannot possibly emit 29kg of tyre particulate in its lifetime - it has probably lost in the range of a few hundred grams of weight by the time it reaches end of life, considering much of the weight is the steel internal structure.

If they mean 5.8g including all forms of particulate - brakes (only a few hundred grams of brake pad to wear down over tens of thousands of km), road surface wear etc - I'd still think its massively overstated.

Going back to the actual subject of the thread, it's now June and there's no sign of the actual works beginning, electronic signs say May? They really haven't told those of us living on/just off the road what to expect in terms of disruption.

It's a dreadful junction and hopefully these works will make a great improvement.

What I'm most annoyed with is that there was only one public consultation. They changed the plans after that but never circulated them to residents and didn't send any communication re works starting and impact on us. Still no closer to understanding the direct impact of two bridges

https://twitter.com/Fingalcoco/status/1481189228272881667?t=E_zsaRkcAFLFHAAkbRYeGg&s=19

Why would there be?

Its only some working space that being used at the moment. The final arrangement will return that house to its cul-de-sac status with new tree planting and what not. Absolutely no need to have purchased it to be consumed by the scheme.

https://twitter.com/Fingalcoco/status/1494194912283316234?t=XaSBITZP2tENYF-21_xCyQ&s=19

That's because they don't know what they are yet.

There's an intensive works programme under way, and they seem to be flying, but there's no way they could tell you what every rearrangement of traffic between now and May is going to be, because a dozen different factors could delay work. If people just generally avoid the area and follow the signs day-to-day if they must go that way, it'll be grand.

That would be awesome!! I'm constantly having to go to town (work) via cappagh at the moment because getting on to the n3 has been so difficult. When we bought in Waterville the hospital was open which made such a difference.

Not sure it would be in the same way it used to be when the road through to the village was open.

Sometimes. My point was that the lights at the village were a bigger bottleneck.

Queue now at Junction 6. Thats with the road not open.

New bridge beams over the N3 going up over the course of this week with night time road closures per advice attached.

They've been doing a lot of night works lately with lane closures and significant delays around 10.30pm

This was around the roundabout at the bottom of the Waterville side. Stop go halfway across the bridge which had the queue for the slip off the n3 back towards the village exit and the other queues were long too. Got stuck for a good 20 minutes one of the nights.

They can't open until that roundabout is sorted. It feels like that is a while off yet.

Is the old cottage beside Ebay/Intreo being demolished? Are they widening that corner as part of the current upgrades or are they separate works altogether?

Due for completion Q3 2023 according to an update I received from an elected rep. So at least another 6 months of these works

6 more months to finish this FFS ! I'd have knitted a bridge quicker. Over 1.5yrs -an absolute joke.

Will be a while I'd imagine, one of the last things I'd guess.