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COMMUTERS AND COMMERCIAL drivers who regularly use Newlands Cross in Dublin will be breathing a sigh of relief this afternoon, following confirmation of the new fly-over’s opening by the National Roads Authority.
Major roadworks have been taking place at the busy N7 junction since January of this year — and in the intervening months, motorists have had to put up with the usual sort of frustrations that go along with an infrastructure project of such a scale: regular lane layout changes, temporary traffic-lights, long tail-backs, etc. etc.
That all changes from next Thursday however.
According to the NRA’s Sean O’Neill…
If all goes well with the installation of a motorway gantry sign on the flyover this coming Monday the contractor (BAM) will allow traffic on the road Thursday morning next.
As well as cutting journey times for N7 users, the project’s completion will also ease local traffic on the Belgard and Fonthill roads.
Look at that lovely clean road! (NRA)
The flyover also means it will now be possible to drive from the border to Dunkettle in Cork without having to stop at a lights-controlled junctions (mind-you, you’ll still have to stop at tolling booths).
Some 90,000 vehicles a day use the N7, which is the country’s second-busiest road after the M50.
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So the bollards were removed in Nov 2023 by some amadan.
Reported in January by a concerned resident, and the council couldn’t complete the complicated task of replacing the bollards, mitigating the risk at the dangerous junction 4 months after reporting , 6 months after it occurred.
Poor woman. Such needless loss of life on Irish roads. We all need to take collective responsibility and cop on.
Seriously what use are plastic bollards to protect vulnerable cyclists, poor young woman
@Terry Molloy: Drivers see the bollards and should take heed and slow down for cyclists or pedestrians but in this case some headcase removed them resulting needlessly in a young womans death
@barry williams: The article suggests the bollards were ‘dug up’, which requires a lot of effort, and equipment, far more than simple removal.
And time.
There seems to be more to this than meets the eye.
@Jimmy Wallace: If those bollards were in place then the vehicle would have had to strike them – possibly causing damage to the vehicle – to also collide with the cyclist.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: If they are like the ones I’m thinking of, they are flexible when hit and spring back upright afterwards causing no damage to any vehicle. They unfortunately can be screwed out of the ground easily and this used to happen in my local area where young lads would be messing with them at night. They are better than nothing, but no substitute for proper segregated off road cycle lanes which actually protect cyclists and encourage cycling in any countries which have them.
@Terry Molloy: Sad reality is that some drivers are more concerned to avoid scraping their paintwork off a fixed object than to avoid a cyclist. Studies show them slowing down more for bollards than pedestrians/ cyclists
@Longlin: Thanks Longlin.
@Terry Molloy: read what Barry said Terry – they work just understand that..far far better to have them at junctions like that than not…
Large trucks have to drive over these plastic bollards on some roads when turning.
No accountability yet again for our “public servants” who will, yet again, skip off without answering any hard questions.
These cycle lanes are a nightmare where Safety has not been prioritised
Please let the person who removed them get the Karma deserved
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