N30 road (Ireland)

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N30 road
Route information
Length 33.17 km (20.61 mi)
Location
Primary
destinations
Road network

The N30 road is a national primary road in Ireland. It connects the N25 and N11 roads, providing a link running east-northeast through County Wexford, between New Ross and Enniscorthy. This provides for a more direct national route between the two towns, as the N25 and N11 both run to Wexford town, eastwards from New Ross and southwards from Enniscorthy respectively.

Route

The route connects to the N25 Wexford Road at Kent's Cross Roundabout, southeast of New Ross in County Wexford, and follows north along the New Ross Relief Road, through a traffic light controlled crossroads in the Irishtown, before cornering west to a junction with the R700 on Craywell Road in Mount Elliott. It then heads north for approximately 550 metres before it corners eastwards for a distance of about 250 metres in Mountgarret, passing the junction with the R700 at the southern approach to Mountgarret Bridge which leads to Kilkenny, and it then heads east for approimately 800 metres, passes a junction with the R729 which leads to Borris, and then heads east-northeast towards Clonroche. The road later passes through Clonroche, continuing east for about two kilometres, and then passes by three junctions; one with the R735, which heads southwest to Gusserane via Adamstown and Newbawn; and two with the R730, one which heads southeast to Wexford and the other which heads northwest to Kiltealy. The road then continues northeast towards Enniscorthy, bending southwest before heading east-northeast again outside the town, and then heads north over St. John's Bridge. It then corners east and then corners north again, and then becomes the Mill Park Road. It then meets the R702 at a roundabout in Abbey Square, and the N11 at a slip road junction, on Abbey Quay.[1][2]

History

In the old Trunk Road and Link Road classification system or Main Road classification system, which was introduced in 1925, the route that is now the N30 formed a part of the T7 trunk road, the main Dublin–Waterford route. Wexford County Council started using the Trunk Road designations, internally at least, by June 1925.[3][4][5]

When the national roads system was introduced in 1977, the N30 route was originally designated as the N79 national secondary road, and the N9 national primary road became the main Dublin–Waterford road. The former sections of the T7 trunk road running from Dublin to Enniscorthy and from Waterford to New Ross became part of the N11 Dublin–Wexford road, and the N25 Cork–Rosslare Harbour road.[6]

The route had its first major improvement in 1986, when a new road that was constructed from Ballyanne to Scarke opened. The road was constructed on the embankment of the former Macmine Junction to New Ross branch railway line, which had closed in 1963. The railway had then subsequently been dismantled, and most of the land had been sold to adjacent landowners by CIÉ, but some of the land on the route was sold to Wexford County Council in late 1960s for the purpose of future road realignment.[7][8][9][10]

In 1991, a new traffic management plan was implemented in Enniscorthy after the completion of the Seamus Rafter Bridge, and all northbound traffic on the N11 began to flow through the new bridge and Abbey Quay. The N79 route's northeastern terminus was moved from the junction of Slaney Place, the northern end of Abbey Quay, and the western side of Enniscorthy Bridge to its current location at the southern end of Abbey Quay. The route no longer ran along Slaney Place.[11]

In 1994 the route's southwestern terminus was moved from the eastern approach to O'Hanrahan Bridge on the Quay in New Ross to Kent's Cross on the N25, the route being changed to follow the New Ross Relief Road (the former R732 regional road)[12], and the route was legally redesignated as the N30 national primary road.[11]

In 2006, the N30 Moneytucker to Jamestown scheme opened, in which 5.3 km of new improved single carriageway road with hard shoulders, better junctions, and overbridges and underbridges, was constructed south of the existing road.[13]

N30 east of Clonroche, looking east

Current developments

There are a 5 km segment of dual carriageway, roundabouts, and a 1.2 km single carriageway currently under construction since 2016 as part of the N25 New Ross Bypass PPP Scheme, which will form part of the N30 when the scheme is opened in April 2019.[14] This will replace the current N30 road between Corcoran's Cross and its current terminus with the N25, and the road's segments will thus be redesignated as either wholly or partly as regional roads or local roads after the opening of the scheme.

There is currently an 8 km single carriageway road under construction since late 2015 as part of the M11 Gorey to Enniscorthy PPP Scheme that will bypass Enniscorthy to the north that will form part of the N30 road when it opens in 2019. It will begin at a roundabout in Jamestown, pass through a roundabout in Milehouse, and it will terminate at a roundabout to be constructed just south of the existing Scarawalsh Roundabout on the N11, where the southeastern terminus of the N80 national secondary road is. This road will connect to the M11 motorway via a southeastern extension of the N80 road crossing the River Slaney that is also currently under construction as part of the scheme.

Route marker

Future developments

There are suspended plans for the future N30 Moneytucker to New Ross, a proposed 14.4 km road improvement that is to realign most of the current road and to provide a southern bypass of Clonroche, to be constructed between the currently under construction New Ross Bypass at Corcoran's Cross and the western end of the N30 Moneytucker to Jamestown Scheme.[15]

Silver Oak on the N30

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) Order 2006". Department of Transport. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. ↑ "S.I. No. 53/2012 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) Order 2012". electronic Irish Statute Book. 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  3. ↑ "A meeting of the Wexford County Council, and which was specially summoned to strike rates for financial year ending 31st March, 1926, was held on the 25th May, 1925" (PDF). Wexford County Council. 1925-06-16. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  4. ↑ "A Special Meeting of the Wexford County Council was held in County Council Chamber, Forthview, Wexford on 16th June 1925" (PDF). Wexford County Council. 1925-06-16. p. 16. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  5. ↑ "A Meeting of the Wexford County Council was held in the County Council Chamber, Fairview Wexford on 10th August 1925" (PDF). Wexford County Council. 1925-08-10. p. 87. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  6. ↑ "S.I. No. 164/1977 - Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act, 1974 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 1977". electronic Irish Statute Book. 1977-06-01. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  7. ↑ "Report of General Purposes Committee Meeting Held on 7th July, 1986 - 3.30 p.m. In Council Chamber, County Hall, Wexford" (PDF). Wexford County Council. 1986-07-07. p. 4. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  8. ↑ "Report of Meeting of General Purposes Committee Held on Monday, 6th October, 1986 - 2.30 p.m. In Council Chamber, County Hall, Wexford" (PDF). Wexford County Council. 1986-10-21. p. 5. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  9. ↑ "Minutes of New Ross District Committee Meeting held on Friday the 9th February, 1968 at 3 p.m. in the Engineers Office, New Ross" (PDF). Wexford County Council. 1968-02-09. p. 3. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  10. ↑ "Minutes of Meeting of Wexford County Council Held on Monday, 13th January, 1992 - 2.30 p.m. In the Council Chamber, County Hall, Wexford" (PDF). Wexford County Council. 1992-02-11. pp. 2, 3. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  11. 1 2 "S.I. No. 209/1994 - Roads Act, 1993 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 1994". electronic Irish Statute Book. 1994-07-14. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  12. ↑ "R732 (New Ross) - Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki". The Roader's Digest - the SABRE Wiki. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  13. ↑ "N30 Clonroche (Templescoby) to New Ross". National Roads Authority. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
  14. ↑ Looby, David (2017-12-09). "Officials shown impressive N25 bridge progress - Independent.ie". New Ross Standard. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  15. ↑ "N30 Moneytucker to New Ross Project | Wexford County Council". Wexford County Council. Retrieved 2018-03-30.

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