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N5 - Westport to Turlough [open to traffic]

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    #212
    Kevtherev1
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭Kevtherev1


    • spacetweek wrote: »
      Sounds like this has started but no official announcement from the construction company?
    The greens wont be happy, wanted to block this, new roads being built etc


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    #213
    Reuben1210
    Registered Users Posts: 375 ✭✭Reuben1210


    spacetweek wrote: »
    Sounds like this has started but no official announcement from the construction company?

    Yes and no project website I can see yet - Isn't that a requirement these days?

    Staying with N5 upgrades, it was tweeted today by CIS that the Ballaghdereen-Scramogue upgrade is out to tender!

    https://twitter.com/CISireland/status/1220667679851393024?s=20

    Does that bode well for this scheme starting this year maybe Q3?


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    #214
    marno21
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,410 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    Reuben1210 wrote: »
    Yes and no project website I can see yet - Isn't that a requirement these days?

    Staying with N5 upgrades, it was tweeted today by CIS that the Ballaghdereen-Scramogue upgrade is out to tender!

    https://twitter.com/CISireland/status/1220667679851393024?s=20
    M

    Does that bode well for this scheme starting this year maybe Q3?

    Early next year. More info in the relevant thread as it progresses


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    #215
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,061 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    I've looked at current journey times including town congestion using Gmaps on the N5, end to end from Longford to Westport.
    I've compared to what we can expect when the new roads are open (assume 100km/h can be sustained with little or no interruption.)

    Journey times
    Around 2000, before C'town, B'derreen, Longford N5 bypasses: 2 hours
    After those: 1h 42min
    By 2024 when new roads are complete: 1h 19min.

    That's a 23 minute saving in time! Very worthwhile and will be a game changer from the far west.


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    #216
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    spacetweek wrote:
    Sounds like this has started but no official announcement from the construction company?


    Yes. A lot of BAM. Site offices/cabins being installed on the Ballonrobe road. Along with those hight guide things on the route.
    We are close to calling this under construction I would say


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    #217
    djam17
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭djam17


    One would have thought Ring would have used this as a perfect camera opportunity/turning of the sod pre-election. A few weeks to go yet i suppose


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    #218
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    Prep work going on at the junction with the present N5 at Pheasanthill now.
    Also Lennon's have planning in for a temporary quarry operation at Ballymacrah to service the project


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    #219
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,414 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Yep the last ****e bits of the N5 are getting upgraded and it’s very welcome. Same attention now needs to turn to the remaining awful sections of N Primary routes


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    #220
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users Posts: 810 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Machine in action at N60 junction today

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157141796503262&id=187794613261

    Hopefully they'll build the whole road this quickly :)


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    #221
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    DumbBrunette wrote: »
    Machine in action at N60 junction today

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157141796503262&id=187794613261

    Hopefully they'll build the whole road this quickly :)

    Cheers where's that exactly on the Breaffy road?

    Can't picture it!


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    #222
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users Posts: 810 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Where the new road crosses the N60, about 400 metres east of Kilkenny cross roundabout.
    seligehgit wrote: »
    Cheers where's that exactly on the Breaffy road?

    Can't picture it!


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    #223
    MayoSalmon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    djam17 wrote: »
    One would have thought Ring would have used this as a perfect camera opportunity/turning of the sod pre-election. A few weeks to go yet i suppose

    Hes guaranteed for re-election regardless


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    #224
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    https://imgur.com/a/RJNIkAU

    more to come


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    #225
    UsBus
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    DumbBrunette wrote: »
    Machine in action at N60 junction today

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157141796503262&id=187794613261

    Hopefully they'll build the whole road this quickly :)

    He should have been a surgeon...🀭


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    #226
    Cosmo Kramer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,036 ✭✭✭Cosmo Kramer


    DumbBrunette wrote: »
    Machine in action at N60 junction today

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157141796503262&id=187794613261

    Hopefully they'll build the whole road this quickly :)

    Are they squeezing the dual carriageway in between those two houses - or are they taking a few houses down? Looks an incredibly tight space for four lanes of road and possibly hard shoulders.

    Edit - I see this has been answered over in the Mayo forum, three houses to come down at the new junction.


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    #227
    The Nutty M
    Registered Users Posts: 913 ✭✭✭The Nutty M


    Only hedgerow clearance yet before the 1st of March ban. It'll be a little while more before the main work starts on construction.


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    #228
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    The Nutty M wrote: »
    Only hedgerow clearance yet before the 1st of March ban. It'll be a little while more before the main work starts on construction.

    Judging by the amount of water on the land. If they start digging it will be mud bath.


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    #229
    yop
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 16,724 Mod ✭✭✭✭yop


    The Nutty M wrote: »
    Only hedgerow clearance yet before the 1st of March ban. It'll be a little while more before the main work starts on construction.

    I thought I saw they have started clearing down the road at the back of Islandeady. Then again its probably just a mud bath! :)


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    #230
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,504 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    The Nutty M wrote: »
    Only hedgerow clearance yet before the 1st of March ban. It'll be a little while more before the main work starts on construction.

    They can get exemptions on the hedgerow clearance if they need to.


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    #231
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users Posts: 810 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Project update: https://www.advertiser.ie/mayo/article/113228/number-of-months-before-people-see-significant-work-on-westport-to-turlough-project


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    #232
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,061 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    CIS newsletter confirming main works will start in March and take 36 months to complete.


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    #233
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users Posts: 810 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Not too much action yet on this project, this pic is at junction with existing N5 coming in to Westport.

    From what I can see in and around W'port, all trees have been cut along the route, and all live power lines have been marked with red and white banners. Several site accesses have also been opened up.

    The site is a complete mudbath, so it might be a while before the real digging starts.


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    #234
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    DumbBrunette wrote: »
    Not too much action yet on this project, this pic is at junction with existing N5 coming in to Westport.

    From what I can see in and around W'port, all trees have been cut along the route, and all live power lines have been marked with red and white banners. Several site accesses have also been opened up.

    The site is a complete mudbath, so it might be a while before the real digging starts.

    I'd imagine the COVID 19 public health crisis will impede progress significantly.


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    #235
    Cosmo Kramer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,036 ✭✭✭Cosmo Kramer


    I wonder whether we have actually passed the point of no return, where this road project will have to happen in terms of contracts being signed etc. or whether the Greater need to invest in health services in the next year and to rebuild the economy afterwards might result in this being canned.


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    #236
    irishgeo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,495 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    Cosmo Kramer wrote: »
    I wonder whether we have actually passed the point of no return, where this road project will have to happen in terms of contracts being signed etc. or whether the Greater need to invest in health services in the next year and to rebuild the economy afterwards might result in this being canned.

    It's too far down the road. BAM will sue if it doest start. So your going to lose the money anyways.


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    #237
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    Hard to know. I would have thought sitting in a digger or dumper in the open air would be some of the safest places to be. With minor precautions taken. There is a lot of work that could continue. But who knows.


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    #238
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users Posts: 810 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    View today of BAM compound at future N5/N84 junction in Castlebar. No activity but it is St Patrick's Day after all.


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    #239
    DumbBrunette
    Registered Users Posts: 810 ✭✭✭DumbBrunette


    Diggers on site this afternoon at Islandeady :)

    They were being delivered today despite the bank holiday, a third one was brought in on a low loader as I was leaving.


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    #240
    Hyland17
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Hyland17


    That crew are ya putting in silt traps. All the silt fencing along the job they are doing it. Theres another crew and they are concreteing the roads where the dump trucks are crossing. There is still a little bit more work for doing before the main works begin.


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    #241
    csd
    Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭csd


    Map of the scheme - route based on the EIS maps.

    49700757888_c659afb3db_b.jpg
    N5 Turlough - Westport on Flickr


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