Talk:N7 road

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zoney, J1 may be standard for most routes but the N7 will expire at the Red Cow junction to become the R110.

Otherwise why would they have just erected a whole signage system which implies that Newlands Cross is Junction 1?

My guess is that the actual Red Cow itself will be part of the R110 where the Naas Road crosses the M50. (Sarah777 22:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC))

The Red Cow interchange is where the N7, M50 and R110 meet. When the freeflow arrangement is built, the connections will be more explicit (it is presumably a matter of debate as to whether the roundabout itself is N7, R110 or even M50). However, the N7 begins at the point where it meets this junction, and this has no chance of changing (elseways the N7 and M50 would not be connected by national primary road).

Newlands Cross is not the only unnumbered junction according to the new NRA numbering scheme; those junctions (esp. turn-in/turn-outs) have pretty much been ignored and only the grade separated junctions numbered.

In any case, I have an official NRA map that marks the Red Cow as junction 1 on the N7. Besides, anything else would be absurd (as the start of any route with numbered junctions in any country, including this one, begins with Junction 1). By contrast, having no number for Newlands Cross, although improper, is fairly typical for the actions of authorities here (i.e. keep things simple and worry later about anomalies).

My guess is that when Newlands Cross gets a GSJ it will be numbered J1A or such.

zoney ♣ talk 20:57, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, maybe!! But look at the M50. It starts at a junction off East Wall Road; goes through the toll, into the tunnel and emerges 3 miles on at Junction 1 !! (Sarah777 22:22, 2 December 2006 (UTC))

No, that's incorrect. Prior to the Port Tunnel addition the M50 commenced at the junction with the M1 and N32; this junction was numbered Junction 3. Now that the Port Tunnel is open, the M50 commences in East Wall at Junction 1 (which isn't strange), emerges from the Port Tunnel to join the N1/M1 at M50 Junction 2 and then recommences at M50 Junction 3. The N1/M1 has not been properly renumbered yet as far as I am aware - J2 and J3 on the M50 will likely be J1 and J2 of the M1 when this occurs.

It isn't odd either that the M50 has a "missing" section between where it joins and leaves the M1. Many roads in Ireland, including some national roads, join another route for a distance. An example is the N14 in Donegal, which has a section of N13 (the dual carriageway bit of road) inbetween its two route sections.

zoney ♣ talk 20:03, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Miles and Furlongs

Somebody (annonymous) has gone through nearly all the Irish "road" articles and added (miles) after the distance in kilometers. He gave the lenght of Limerick N7 tunnel in furlongs. This is cluttering up the text, is pointless, adds nothing and my POV is this nonsense should be deleted. The Mile is longer a legal measurement unit on Irish roads.

Zoney - your views please?? (Sarah777 21:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC))

I think it's unnecessary, but there are other articles where unit conversions are provided (sometimes controversially - e.g. providing metric on US articles). I didn't even know that tunnels were measured in furlongs in non-metric systems. zoney ♣ talk 20:03, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] It says on the signs...

Zoney, I hate to be argumentative! But. Junction 3 is at the intersection of the M50/N32/M1. Junction 2 is at the old Coolock interchange. And Junction 1 is clearly signposted; it is north of the tunnel, after the Coolock exit, where the old N1/M1 joins/leaves the traffic exiting/entering the Port Tunnel.

The junction in the photo is Junction 1.

East Wall is Junction Zero!!(Sarah777 00:41, 13 December 2006 (UTC))