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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:23 pm Post subject: Ireland Motorways

http://www.ideasforcheapstuff.com/inex/roads/Misc/index.html
has a list of all the openings through 2015 (because 6-year schedules always work out).

Things to keep an eye out for in 2009:

Code:

Aug.:
M6 J13-14 Athlone-Ballinasloe

Oct.:
M7 J24-28 Nenagh-Limerick

Dec.:
M3 Clonee/North of Kells
M9 J2-4 Kilcullen-Carlow

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Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:22 am Post subject:

Ireland is promoting a bunch of completed freeways to motorway status in late August. http://www.transport.ie/viewitem.asp?id=10193&lang=ENG&loc=2270 This must have been somewhat like the US in the 1960s - giant leaps in completed freeway mileage and Interstate designations.

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Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:56 am Post subject:

M9 J2-4 Kilcullen-Carlow is opening on Monday, Dec. 21. http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/popmap/map.asp?x=277937&y=190232&id=99492&zoomlevel=3

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Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject:

M9 J2-4 opened: http://nra.ie/News/PressReleases/htmltext,16962,en.html I couldn't figure out precisely where J3 of M9 is, but I think I have it close. M6 opened as planned: http://nra.ie/News/PressReleases/htmltext,16960,en.html http://www.galwaynews.ie/10276-opening-motorway-cut-fatalities-says-nra A thread in the SABRE forum suggested that a piece of N7 was also opening this past weekend, but I haven't confirmed it yet.

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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject:

Next 6 months:

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2010-02 M9 Jct 10-12 Kilkenny-Waterford
2010-03 M7 Nenagh-Limerick (Nenagh-Limerick J26-28)
2010-06 M3 Clonee/North of Kells (Part 1)
2010-06 M3 Clonee/North of Kells (Part 2)

Taken from
http://www.ideasforcheapstuff.com/inex/roads/Misc/index.html

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Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:50 am Post subject:

M9 Jct 10-12 Kilkenny-Waterford
Opened on 3/22, added.

M7 Nenagh-Limerick (Nenagh-Limerick J26-27)
To open in a couple days.

M7 Nenagh-Limerick (Nenagh-Limerick J27-28)
To open in May or June.

From boards.ie:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055681234&page=5

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2010 Openings

now open...
M50/M1 - Jan 16th
M50/J14 - Feb 8th
M9 Waterford-Knocktopher - Mar 22nd

estimated openings..
M7 Nenagh-Birdhill - March 25th (???)
M3 Clonee-Kells - May (???)
M7 Birdhill-Limerick - May/June (???)
M7/M8 Portloaise/Cullahill/Castletown - June (???)
N7/N18 Shannon Tunnel - Jun (???)
M18 Gort-Crusheen - June (???)
M9 Carlow-Knocktopher - Aug (???)
N21 Castleisland - Sep/Oct (???)
M50 Upgrade (J5) - Sept/Oct (???)
M50 Upgrade (J6)- Sept/Oct (???)
M7 Castletown-Nenagh - Oct (???)

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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:01 pm Post subject:

NRA: New section on the M7 Limerick to Nenagh from Birdhill to Limerick (15.5km) will open by the end of next week That's the info I learned from my first-ever look at Twitter. I had been so good at ignoring that site for so long.

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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 1:20 am Post subject:

Two new motorway sections are going to open soon:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055681234&page=7

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Confirmed Openings...
M7/M8 Portlaoise/Cullahill/Castletown - May 28th
M3 Clonee-Kells - June 4th

si404

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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:54 am Post subject:

The M9 opens today - bizzarely it's already on OSM as open, when the last few schemes opened at 4pm IST.

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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:40 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the notice. Finally all the M9 pieces in the HB can be a single "M9".

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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:16 pm Post subject:

"finally"? - The southern bit did open that long ago. Everything south of junction 1 has opened in the last 12 months!

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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 1:59 pm Post subject:

http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25903 M7 Birdhill-Limerick is open now (delayed due to subsidence in the marsh). This means that two of the M7 routes will merge together - I'll keep the Limerick section. There's now only two sections of motorway in Ireland under construction now - M7 between J21 and J25 and M18 Ennis-Gort - this must be the lowest for some time. However, the M17/M18 Gort-Tuam scheme has been approved, and the M20 is on it's way to approval, so Europe's fastest growing motorway network isn't stopping expansion yet, just slowing down a bit.

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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:57 pm Post subject:

Outlook for the two schemes under construction: M18 Crusheen - Gort 7 Nov M7 Castletown - Nenagh 15 Nov

ChrisZwolle

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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 4:48 pm Post subject:

The final section of M7 opened to traffic today! http://www.nra.ie/News/PressReleases/htmltext,17732,en.html

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