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N8/N25/N40 - Dunkettle Interchange [open to traffic]

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    #3002
    Shedite27
    Registered Users Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813411#Comment_120813411

    No change of route for you, straight through the tunnel and onto the N8, you'll just have no lights to worry about



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    #3003
    hans aus dtschl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,166 ✭✭✭hans aus dtschl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813411#Comment_120813411

    No change other than it'll have less traffic lights!



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    #3004
    Shedite27
    Registered Users Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Shedite27


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813327#Comment_120813327

    Yeah I've seen you repeating it from the start.

    Getting from N8 to Tunnel is going to be faster, given it's free flow. That route has gained the time to stop at 2 sets of lights on the roundabout.

    Getting from N8 to Silversprings is going to be the same time before and after IMO. You've an extra 800m of driving, go through 2 small roundabouts that will have minimal traffic, rather than going through 3 sets of lights that used to exist via the roundabout.


    The only reason the N8 is less attractive is because they've sped up the Tunnel route. Nothing wrong with that



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    #3005
    sylvanb
    Registered Users Posts: 110 ✭✭sylvanb


    For traffic going on from N40 to either N25/M8, the only change is the lights will be removed - it's described at the end of the Drone Hawk video posted earlier.



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    #3006
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Seemingly one set of lights will remain. They are where the tunnel traffic currently goes under the N25.

    The lights there will remain off during peak hours and will only go red in off peak hours to facilitate worker access to site areas.

    Very minimal disruption I would think.



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    #3007
    hans aus dtschl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,166 ✭✭✭hans aus dtschl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813485#Comment_120813485

    Yep, we will be able to check it quite easily in a few months via Google Maps. Anyway it doesn't really matter because the alternative construction at Dunkettle interchange would be hideously expensive. I just reckon they need more traffic calming on R639, R615 and R616 that's all. I reckon they need it right now.



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    #3008
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users Posts: 7,216 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    I've watched all of the latest videos and I reckon the most confused are going to be the people who haven't been keeping up to date and who try and travel from the N25 to the M8. A lot of them are going to ignore all of the signage and aim for the soon to be ex-roundabout and find themselves going through the tunnel.

    Anyone know how long that temporary route via the Tivoli roundabout will be in place for for that traffic? The email yesterday said October 2024 but surely that was a typo.



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    #3009
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813643#Comment_120813643

    End of 2023. They need to complete the embankment south of the present roundabout and complete the last bridge over the rail line north of the roundabout.


    100% agree with you by the way. People will vent their anger on Facebook claiming they were informed if the N25 to M8 north diversion.



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    #3010
    Scooby Reggie do
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭Scooby Reggie do


    I was wondering why those lights were staying



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    #3011
    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,381 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813643#Comment_120813643

    And it'll get no less funny for each time we see someone giving out about it.

    Feel sorry for the workers with this weather to be starting 24 hour working, absolutely miserable.



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    #3012
    Brussels Sprout
    Registered Users Posts: 7,216 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120813643#Comment_120813643


    Also traffic coming from the M8 looking to go to the N8 who are unaware and don't look at the signs will also find themselves going through the tunnel. So basically from 8pm tonight lots of people are going to be enjoying trips through the tunnel that they hadn't penciled in!

    Tomorrow morning should be especially fun. There'll be some amount of people on the Mahon flyover looking to reverse course.



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    #3013
    cantalach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭cantalach


    OpenStreetMap blows my mind. It's less than an hour since those two links were permanently closed this evening, and the map is already updated!

    Screenshot from 2023-07-06 20-50-54.png




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    #3014
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Never mind.



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    #3015
    KrisW1001
    Registered Users Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭KrisW1001


    M8-South to City has always been shorter via Glanmire, but that only translates to quicker if you drive at extremely quiet times. This new junction layout will add 1.0 km to the "M8-N8" option, but in exchange, there will be no traffic lights. At a 60 km/h speed limit, I imagine the average minute saved by not waiting at lights cancels out the extra 1 km you have to drive.

    But: the biggest delay to City-bound traffic at Dunkettle was from having to queue up at traffic lights with the larger volume of cars that were going to take the tunnel. The new junction layout should dramatically reduce those queues simply by streaming Tunnel and City traffic onto their own free-flowing lanes. Overall, I suspect that the time from the M8 Glanmire Junction (J18) to N8 at Tivoli will reduce, in spite of the extra 1 km added to the journey.

    Glanmire will still be a shorter distance, but I think the time advantage will be with Dunkettle. So, the new junction is unlikely to tempt anyone to go via Glanmire instead, and it might even persuade a few morning and evening rat-runners to stay on M8.



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    #3016
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Team are starting to surface Link B. First work on this link in months outside of some landscaping work a few weeks ago.



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    #3017
    hans aus dtschl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,166 ✭✭✭hans aus dtschl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120821809#Comment_120821809

    I hope you're right and that I'm wrong, that the rat running will become less attractive: that would be the best for everyone!



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    #3018
    jhegarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    Complete chaos today due to a fire on the mahon side of the tunnel (heading south).



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    #3019
    p_haugh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭p_haugh


    Another post by dronehawk, people really can be stupid sometimes!

    https://youtu.be/Yu-0JiDiZEY




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    #3020
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120823021#Comment_120823021

    Hopefully the car which moved the cones gets reported to the Gardai.



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    #3021
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,280 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120823021#Comment_120823021

    I’m flabbergasted!! WTH is wrong with people??!!



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    #3022
    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,381 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Wish the digger unloaded a pile of earth behind them and trapped them in. Also, no doubt if they did get hurt, a large compo claim would have gone in. Hopefully a hefty fine and some points on the licence will give them thought again



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    #3023
    niloc1951
    Registered Users Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭niloc1951


    THICK IDIOTS 🙄😂🤣



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    #3024
    hans aus dtschl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,166 ✭✭✭hans aus dtschl


    "I can go anywhere I want in my car"

    Honestly, these antics don't shock me at all. We genuinely have a car culture problem. I'm surprised they didn't deliberately crash through the barriers at the end and make their way onto the unfinished piece of road tbh.



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    #3025
    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,381 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    It's been so long this must be what it's like waiting for santa....only took 101 pages. Didn't feel like it'd get here when it went to re-tender.



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    #3026
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,280 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Can see cars driving the new loop into tunnel from city now - exciting lol



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    #3027
    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,381 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120824366#Comment_120824366

    Ah I'd been looking around that time but didn't see any cars that way. Can't see if the dumbell/n25w way is open



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    #3028
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Looks like it is N25 traffic taking the left lane and M8 and loop traffic taking the right lane entering the tunnel?



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    #3029
    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,280 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    IMG_8758.jpeg

    All open! :-)



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    #3030
    Mushy
    Registered Users Posts: 21,381 ✭✭✭✭Mushy


    Time to go.for a drive I think



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    #3031
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Hope that additional webcams will be put up. I think 2 additional cameras will be needed around the dumbbell at a minimum.

    Weird to think the roundabout is now gone.



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