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

"also the fact hgv's "shouldn't" be in the right lane"

AFAIK, that rule only applies if there are three or more lanes, and HGV's must confine themselves to lanes 1 & 2

You must be a truck driver who ignores the law then, there are a lot of them about and as usual the Gardaí do nothing. However, the law does not apply for areas of 80Kmh or less, which may well mean that they do not apply at this junction.

The actual rules of the road that apply in this country are easily found on rsa.ie. So far, nobody has been correct...

Agreed. What kills me is that they are getting it right with some of the signs and very wrong with others - there is no consistency at all. The sign in the location you’re referring to should be of a *similar* design to the one below (heavily zoomed so bad quality). It should have Waterford N25 across the full width of two lanes at the top and then Dublin M8 across only the width of the right hand st the bottom.

When the Dunkettle interchange is moved to Lisburn, the rules of the road that apply in Northern Ireland will become relevant.

If you read on, you'll see a bit about "... except when obstructed", which would apply to your example.

So, as said, it's a nonsensical regulation, it could be argued that an HGV traveling at 90km/h coming upon another vehicle traveling at 85 km/h is being obstructed by the slower vehicle and may overtake same.

Well, yes and no. Back in the day the M8 south HAD to end where the old Glanmire slip came in. Northbound it started at the old Dunkettle Interchange Roundabout.

The guys on Openstreetmap are big nerds - they have it labelled correctly. Maybe not whats correct legally, but what should be correct given routes that are inescapable etc and therefore HAVE to be motorway.

Anyone any idea when all the n25 westbound lanes will be open?

The last few times I used it two lanes were being squeezed into one for no obvious reason. It looks like all that's missing is road markings.

Just spent 10 minutes watching the feed again this afternoon.

During the ten minutes, I saw six or seven cars making a last-minute dive across from the left lane to access the M8. One nearly cut the nose off a car in the right lane which was heading straight on for the N25 and another actually came to a stop in the left lane, holding up following traffic, while waiting for a safe gap in the traffic in the right lane to make the maneuver.

Having driven eastbound on the N40 I can well understand the confusion arising from the aforementioned signage.

Probably taking their cue from the stupid signs or from a stupid person submitting the wrong info to Google, Garmin, TomTom, etc.

Would be in their latest newsletter. I was actually going to ask about ithe last week, had thought they were due earlier. But at least its nearly there now, final links by year end hopefully (and it's main one I'd be using)

I'll wear the big nerd badge with great pride, thanks for that! Also relevant here (though it would take me too long to find a link to this) is the rules in the Traffic Signs Manual about the placement of the start and end of motorway signs. From memory, it goes along the following lines:

Start of restrictions sign: to be placed at the point beyond which a driver would be committed to entering the motorway. There is specific mention of the fact that this may mean placing the sign at a point that is before the point of commencement of the motorway order. I'll note that a lot of the on-ramps on the network do not apply this placement correctly, placing the sign either half way or occasionally all the way down the ramp.

End of restrictions sign: to be placed at the point beyond which motorway restrictions cease to apply. The wording here didn't reiterate the distinction between this and the extent of the motorway order, but it was framed in terms of how you want traffic to behave, not in terms of legal classification.

A lot of work to do yet for the 3 lanes as far as the flyover to be fully opened by the end of the week.

I drove that stretch today and there's no real barrier between the road and the sloped hill. I was expecting some sort of pavement or fencing or something.