Ringaskiddy Motorway Project 2024
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Still just enabling works which includes the filling in of the Coolmore Quarry and what looks like fill stock piling , for the filling in of the ravine towards the top of Carrs hill.
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Thanks for update. Great to see the progress
Great update for us!! I can see it’s a fairly complex job over all 😬 and going to be a traffic nightmare during works too but same for many jobs maybe ???
great to see.
Looks good, I'm doing a trip around Ireland in June and will be staying in Cork one night so might have a drive down N28 to see it for myself. Will the motorway opening eventually see the ring road being redesignated to motorway as well, I understand there were plans to do that at one point.
Cool video...when is this project meant to be finished? 3/4 years??
Possibly , the contract to build it hasn't been awarded yet
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What is plan for the hill in front of the houses in Mount oval I have seeing them stripping away all the trees in the last few months
They strip and clear all old wild vegetation from the motorway route replanted and landscaped with suitable plants and trees.
I think they need to dig out some of the hill to road level and put in a retaining wall . There's a need for more room to put in a extra lane so that a motorway standard exit to mount oval can be put in.
Long way to go by the looks of it. Still, they're through the planning/consultation/red~tape phase - I hope(!) - and the NIMBY's have presumably NIM'med, now the brown envelopes just have to go 'round for the construction tendering× and we can get started for real on the thing.
Just a shame that they didn't give some thought to putting in a railway, since what's the use of a port without a railhead (there doesn't seem to be a whole lot happening at Marino Point) - or maybe the Port of Cork is OK with Foynes taking our lunch?
As for the Cork/Limerick motorway, well, maybe I'll just leave that for my grand~kids to comment on... There again, they're only the country's 2nd and 3rd ranked cities, and they're not even 60 miles apart, whatever that is in the new money, so maybe I'm being unnecessarily snarky...
×I only said that to inject a little humour, obviously; although personally, I never _did_ get that whole thing about politicians, developers, planners, builders etc, exchanging stationery products. Have they not heard of Easons?
Port of Cork are asleep at the wheel , dragging their feet moving out of tivoli and city quays and not developing Marino point . As for the motorway , can't see how that will work without the long promised north ring road , but like you , guess that a problem for my grandkids
@@dronehawk Yeah, that North Ring Road is a joke (and of course entirely non~existent for the N.W. part of the city, notwithstanding the not especially co~operative geography/geology of the area.)
I have to admit, I find it sad seeing the port activities moving downstream; I can't remember whether it was on your channel or elsewhere where I juxtaposed the sad state of the city quays as they are now with the bustling activity evident in the beautifully shot "Rory Gallagher Irish Tour 1974" film (specifically the ♪♪#Million Miles Away##♪ section, which I believe is readily enough found on YT.) Still, that's the way of it... "Ya can't argue with progress" ("That old bug that's going around", "Grand stretch in the evenings" etc. etc!) Same story with all the old great ports - London, NY×, 'Frisco, etc... (I do realize that Oakland, New Jersey etc, are still enormously busy, but you get what I'm saying. Indeed, this almost goes to illustrate my point.) If it's good enough for them, I guess it's good enough for "The Second Largest Natural Harbour in the World"... [sic]
I probably should say, I haven't actually _lived_ in Cork for over 30 years, and though I miss it terribly, I don't get down there very often. On the face of it, I would have to say that the Tivoli container terminal appears to be doing what the writing on the tin suggests it's supposed to be doing, (in fact, didn't they get two great big impressive new cranes in there a few years back?) but I guess you don't have to be a brainiac particularly to figure that the site, hemmed in by the "Low Road" and the steep hills behind, not to mention the width and depth of the channel at that point, are rather constraining. I just hope that if its days as a container terminal are numbered, that the P. o. C. does something productive with the site (my guess is that housing would be a bit of a no~no given the low~lying nature of the site, but 🤷♂️) and that it is not allowed to run to dereliction like the aforementioned Marino Point. While I haven't been to that city in some time either, I'm reminded of Galway who seem to have done a good job of developing what had been acres of waterfront waste ground west of Lough Atalia and Ceannt Station...)
Speaking of container facilities, you don't happen to know (off the top of your head) what became of the North Esk site? I believe CIE divested themselves of it some time back. Are Iarnród Éireann even still _in_ the container or bulk freight haulage business anymore, for that matter××? I know they knocked parcel shipping on the head some time ago, at a time when that is, if anything, a growth industry - but then again, I often think Irish Rail don't even realize they are meant to be running a railway, thinking instead that they are starring in "Brewster's Millions"! (I'm not necessarily expecting answers to these questions by the way, they are, at least in part, either rhetorical or just me grumbling away to myself...)
Anyway, that's probably enough out of me... For now! Have to say, I love the Cork content, and surely all would agree that your drone piloting and photography skills are second to none!
×To be fair, I know the Red Hook docks in Brooklyn are still active, but other than that "The Port of New York and New Jersey" is basically -- New Jersey. Put it this way, whatever his union woes, Marlon Brando, if he were looking for a gig on the waterfront these days, might be better off sticking to the boxing game!
××I suppose I answered my own question in my previous comment where I discussed the railway going into the Port of (Limerick and?) Foynes, though I'm guessing that that is to accommodate ore for Aughinish Alumina or Alcan or whatever it is they currently call themselves, and - maybe - coal for Moneypoint Power Station? (Is that Coal or Oil fired? Shoulda maybe Googled first!) Whatever the case, surmising here, but mostly local traffic? Then again, it just occurred to me that Limerick is (or used to be) home to a cement plant, so..?
Is there much happening on it?
Just enabling works , no money or contractor awarded yet
Who's doing the ground works?
Not 100% but I think it's Sorenson
Is this here in Ireland?
Yes, Cork
Yes here in ireland