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A TAXI PASSENGER was killed and a driver injured following an early morning collision in Dublin city.
The incident occurred around 1.40am at the junction between the North Circular Road and Portland Row. It is understood the taxi collided with a car.
It left the passenger, in his 30s or 40s, dead and the driver with minor injuries. Both were taken to the Mater Hospital. The driver of the other car was uninjured.
The road at the scene has re-opened following an examination of the crash site by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Mountjoy Garda Station on 01-666 8600 or the Garda Confidential Line 1800 666 111 or any garda station.
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Good news ,
But €150m for 15km of road upgrade.
You’d buy the whole of Sligo for €150m
@BaaB: If the Children’s Hospital is anything to go by, it’ll end up costing €218m
@BaaB: Or alternatively, the toilet for a hospital room in Dublin.
@BaaB: Really Baab? You should visit sometime. You might be surprised.
Anything to make a road safer is a good thing,but 10 million per km?seems a bit steep…
@Trish Ryan: I’m sure at one point in the past it was around 1 million per kilometre of motorway. 10 mill per km of single carriage seems crazy alright
@Trish Ryan:
It’s going to be a world-class upgrade
@Shane Fleming: When I was in college, 10m a mile for motorway was a rough figure. That’s 25 years ago, so it doesnt seem crazy. Junctions and bridges are a significant amount of the cost- if a motorway was from city to city with no exits, it would probably be half the “normal” price.
Please don’t tell us that BAM are getting this contract too, if so, it will probably cost more than Trumps wall by the time they work in all the extras
@Pixie McMullen: and a couple of tolls too to keep things exciting
@Pixie McMullen: Roadbridge. This means that the project will come in ahead of time and within budget.
10 million per kilometre? Seems a tad excessive. Will this road be gold plated?
Badly needed and not before time. That just leaves the one serious bottleneck. When will Carrick on Shannon be bypassed?
Are BAM doing it,150 mil for 15km? Bit much eh.
Great news, a huge boost for Sligo and the surrounding areas.
Any few bob down the back of the couch for the M20 motorway from Cork to Limerick? The N20 is one of the biggest death traps in the country.
@Cork Truck Driver: It still beggars belief how there hasn’t been even plans to make a motorway between Cork and Limerick
Someone is getting a big brown envelope..
At 150m to do 19km road is crazy money and then there will be a toll put on it…
@Robert O Brien: Off you go and do it cheaper. First, get the extra land needed at agricultural rather than zoned cost. Good luck with that…
@George Salter: George, my friend , please be aware that if development land around major population centres is called development land, then the land needed to connect them must be also rated as “development land”
We have heard this announcement every couple of years for 12 years now … and it has never happened. Hard to take this one seriously either.
At that price I’d be expecting them to be able to take those roads in when it’s too wet!
Great news for Sligo.
Does anybody know if Dublin city council has a budget to repair/resurface the roads in their area?
DLRD roads are in excellent condition compared to DCC, some of which are in a deplorable state of neglect. North Frederick Street is a disgrace as is the roundabout at the East link and George’s street is a total mess. Year in, year out and nothing done with them. That’s just an example of 3 road’s. Hundreds need to be resurfaced around the city.
@gerard carey: yeah George’s street, Nth. Fredrick street and Aungier street are in horrific condition. possibly the worst in the country
@gerard carey: donnybrook village heading north. Shite surface. I could be asleep pin the bus and as soon as it hits this place, boom. You’re in donnybrook.
@gerard carey: Feck off ya big jackeen
@Richie Kennedy: Full comment. Feck off ya big jackeen! Seriously though you have a point. There are some massive potholes on the middle of our capital city!
That’s great.now if they can upgrade the rest of the smaller country roads in ireland and at least put a white line down the middle of it as it’s very hard to judge the distance between traffic coming against you and the ditches.
@dick dastardly: the N4 isn’t a small country Road – it’s a national route..
@dick dastardly: it’s the main route to Sligo. Maybe drive it and see all the white crosses along the road for all the people who died on it. It’s about time and is essential.
@dick dastardly: What in the name of God are you doing driving if you can’t judge the distance between oncoming traffic and the ditches, lines or no lines? Get off the road.
On the N24 between Mooncoin and Carrick on Suir, there has been at least 10 fatal accidents and numerous serious injuries since it opened 15 years ago.
It’s a shockingly badly designed road. 3 lanes with alternate passing sections for each lane of traffic. And the dreaded steel rope divider median.
If ever a road needed upgrading, it’s this one.
@Ciaran Maher: those steel dividers have been banned in some euro countries 20 years ago due to safety concerns. I remember checking when they installed them on the Cork to mallow Road. They are cheap though so makes sense our lot starting to use something others have deemed unfit for purpose. To show consistency in all departments. In schools here they changed maths to a syllabus abandoned about 4 years earlier in U.K. as it was proved useless.
@Tadhg Lehane: But the accident rate on that section has gone down 10-fold. Just saying…
@Tadhg Lehane: A Garda was nearly killed when he collided with the ‘cheese wire’ on his motorbike in that spot in recent years. Deadly dangerous.
@Tadhg Lehane: known as ‘cheese wires’ in the biking community -with good reason too !
€100k per metre? Jesus wept.
@Mick Whistler: Is it? Jesus wept is right. I could do a metre for 10K easily. I’m not even joking.
Good to see something north of the midway line getting a proper budget, now if it weren’t for generations of apathy from government, how many less crosses would there be by roadsides in the north west? When a county the size of Kilkenny is historically getting more than Donegal that kind of gives a truer perspective. Shocking roads in Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon as well. How much more could they do with the overspend in The National Children’s hospital? Which should NEVER EVER have been shoehorned into the Mater site.
What county?
@Chris Byrne: Sligo
Good way to get this contract is put in a tender for 50 million . Then …..boom sorry it’s 150 million. Simples
@Padraic O Sullivan: BAM! Right in the kisser
Great news for us in West but the cost its unbelievable 10m per km what is projected a 6 lane motorway!!!
Must be the same contractors who are building the Childrens Hospital.
Hopefully this happens, disgraceful excuse for a road and upgrade is badly needed.
N14 Donegal, it’s the main artery route into the county and it’s a donkey cart road
So is it still only a single carriageway after the works ?
@Grant Masterson: No, the upgrade will be to a dual carriageway. According to Sligo CoCo website, the project includes:
14.71km of Type 2 Dual Carriageway;
New side roads (including in some cases parallel links) and upgrading of existing roads;
One at-grade roundabout junction on the mainline;
One Compact Grade Separated Junction on the mainline;
Three at-grade roundabout junctions on side-roads;
Four road overbridges;
Six road underbridges;
Two river bridges;
Culverts and associated diversions of existing minor watercourses and drainage ditches;
All the necessary drainage works associated with the proposed road development;
The diversion of services and utilities;
Earthworks operations including the management of spoil generated by the proposed road development;
Environmental mitigation works;
The current road is narrow, no verges, peoples houses front directly onto it, hidden dips, sharp bends, uneven surface, basically a death trap. You cannot let your concentration lapse for a second or you’ll be in the ditch as some have sadly found out. This road is long overdue and construction starts next month.
In regards to the cost, I can see why it costs so much with all the above being needed as well as all the land acquisition costs along the route. As a Sligo native I can’t wait for this to be done.
The worst road in Ireland is the Waterford limerick. The N24 is one of the most dangerous to travel on. The forgotten road is crying out to be upgraded. Shame on those politicians who never facilitated this.
@James Fox: N20 is the worst followed by the N24 in my opinion. I think there is a plan for a High Quality Dual Carriageway (HQDC) in the long term. However let us not forget our comrades in the North west of Ireland whose road network is even more neglected.
Any chance of a Motorway towards the northwest anytime soon either lads?
Did you forget the N59?
My dad was coroner in Sligo for a long time. He was interviewed in the Sligo Champion on the day he retired and he said that strech of road was the cause for a lot of unnecessary deaths. It is good to see the problem is finally being addressed.
Hahahahaha muppets running the country, I’d get a bunch of civil engineers together and do it for a tenth of that price.
And we wonder why we can’t pay our nurses.
As the saying goes too many chiefs and not enough indians.
A few humps come cheaper
I have see many white cross N4 where kill past years ago was quite dangerous road to Sligo
@Brian Flavin: Those white crosses are symbolic.
Why spend €150m? Just put in ramps and lower speed limit. Changing from 80kph to 50kph for 15km loses you at most 7 minutes (less when you account for less overtaking etc). 7 minutes of your life? And the rest of the country has to subsidise this?
Yes please upgrade the 15 mile stretch of the road but how in God name could it cost 150 milion whose pockets are being filled and who will pay the piper the the taxpayer.
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