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

1. Go to this site: https://trafficdata.tii.ie/
2. Click on the monitoring station you're interested in and a little window will pop out.
3. Click on the 'Site Dashboard' button.

I was thinking there'd be an update email about it earlier in the week but evidently not. Must end up running late, assume weather still caused some issues

It says they'll remove some of the restrictions tonight, then virtually all by end of next week. Based on the picture it looks like it'll go past the flyover though

Ah yes, I always thought they only meant for going towards the city, not towards the tunnel that they'd be opening up. As you say, people may go to roundabout and come back, but would imagine the roundabout would get blocked up fairly quickly if a good few did that.

I've just spent 10 minutes watching the N40 NORTH OF TUNNEL feed and in that time at least half a dozen vehicles made the last-minute dive across from the left lane (lane1) of the N40 to the M8. The significant amount heading to the M8 suggests visitors heading home after the long weekend.

While the locals seem to, by and large, have come to terms with the misleading signs on the N40 for the M8 they do seem to be catching out a lot of the visitors.

I don't know if I agree that it's counterintuitive. In hierarchical terms, the motorway is the 'main road,' so anything 'leaving' it should exit to the left. The M8 is only an exit because it's only one lane in a cramped space; otherwise it'd likely be more of a fork as where the M9 or M8 leave the M7. Staying right to join the motorway ultimately shouldn't be cause for confusion, but that will depend in no small part on the signs being sorted out.

That's because the visitors are "keeping left" as we're supposed to do and following the stupid and dangerous signage that tells them that both lanes are for the M8, only to discover at the last second that that is not the case.

Out of interest, when heading from the M8 southbound to Tivoli where exactly does the M8 change to the N8? I assume the N8 changes to the M8 on Link U. And, when deading east/west where does the N25 change to the N8 and vice versa.

Work again seems to be focusing on finishing the embankment south of the old roundabout.

Are they seriously planning on merging 3 lanes in 1 on link K (Westbound N25 to tunnel) . I join Link K on my daily commute via link M (from the southern dumbell roundabout) where they merge two lanes in one even before joining link K , so effectively , in under a quarter mile they'll be merging 5 lanes into one . That route is gridlocked every rush hour as is . Having cars merging into a single lane on link K from both left and right is going to cause carnage IMO.

Just on this. The team have completed landscaping where the south portion of the old roundabout used to be. Assume planting grass in that area.

Not a huge amount extra to do to bring the embankment up to its final level.

It’s also weird that they haven’t fully tidied up the exit from the N25E to the loop to the N40W. It’s been in an almost complete state for months. Get Exit Done! Sorry…

The merge shall be interesting but a little respect should see it work hopefully.

Single white line the entire way to the tunnel should help to move things along; I only saw 2 drivers break the single white line this weekend, unfortunately I was only travelling through it the once so may need some enforcement.

With this can they now remove the roadworks signs on the Mahon side of the tunnel? Should have people more willing to make progress and resolves some of the traffic issues.

Single white line through the tunnel is great, that should have been done from day 1.

I can't understand why they have the N25 - N40 slip as two lanes, which then reduces to 1. That will never work and will constantly jam - it would flow better if it was one lane throughout, I reckon. A three into one will be a disaster not just because of the merging but because we simply can't merge in Ireland.

I'm afraid that new continuous white line is making fcuk-all difference. I've just now watched it for exactly 60 seconds and during this time three cars and one fuel tanker (you couldn't make it up!) coming from the M8 crossed the white line to move to the left hand lane. One car coming from the N25 also crossed over the line to move to the right hand lane. There needs to by physical separation. It can be removable polls in case access to the emergency exit is required.