Port Tunnel to open soon

**paul_oshea** · 23/11/2006, 11:03 AM

Hackney - high water table underground

hmm, i often wondered why this was the case, i just thought it was a hole and the ballymun of london where all the bad yokes get sent too.....and no transport means harder for them to get back out of there.....reverse that round and you have a bohspartisan-esque logic to it, which could be the reason it is the way it is.......

Having said that the tube goes underground in one of the widest areas ( it goes down an extra 100ft there alone ).....london bridge to bank....so I am not so sure that hackney would have the same "high water table underground" ( even though i dont really know what that is....) can you explain more?

**BohsPartisan** · 23/11/2006, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

reverse that round and you have a bohspartisan-esque logic to it, which could be the reason it is the way it is.......

Wow I love having a type of logic named after me! Cheers!

**pete** · 23/11/2006, 11:21 AM

You can tell an election around the corner as the government releasing all those lovely maps with different coloured lines in attmept to lure the votes in with projections of all those future transport plans.

I remain dubious of the effectiveness of the Tunnel. Where exactly is the entry/exit at the docks? Is it inside the docks or outside? Unless trucks are forced to use the tunnel there is no chance traffic from the West & South will use it.

**onceahoop** · 23/11/2006, 11:05 PM

Originally Posted by pete

You can tell an election around the corner as the government releasing all those lovely maps with different coloured lines in attmept to lure the votes in with projections of all those future transport plans.

I remain dubious of the effectiveness of the Tunnel. Where exactly is the entry/exit at the docks? Is it inside the docks or outside? Unless trucks are forced to use the tunnel there is no chance traffic from the West & South will use it.

The city will be parlalysed if it all comes to pass. It took me over 30minutes to get of the M50 onto the Mad Cow roundabout to-day.

The Tunnell comes out somewhere near where the old Tolka Quay was. This might help.

http://www.dublinporttunnel.ie/route...nnel_entrance/

**pete** · 23/11/2006, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by onceahoop

The Tunnell comes out somewhere near where the old Tolka Quay was. This might help.

http://www.dublinporttunnel.ie/route...nnel_entrance/

Cheers. That looks ok as seems to have direct route into the Port so not adding that much extra traffic congestion.

I like the safety notice on website.

Remove sunglasses and turn on headlights (dipped) before entering the Tunnel. Also check that you have sufficient fuel for the 5.6 km journey and tune into FM radio to hear any instructions the Operator may issue while you are within the Tunnel.

**onceahoop** · 24/11/2006, 9:42 PM

This is what bothers me though. http://www.dublinporttunnel.ie/route...nnel_entrance/

The map doesn't show the traffic coming off the M50 and having to cross three lanes of the M1 in under a kilometre to access the tunnel. It's hard\to explain if you don't know the area but believe me I can see chaos.

**Dr.Nightdub** · 25/11/2006, 12:49 PM

The sensible thing would've been to have the tunnel extrance to the left of the inside lane of the M1, not to the right of the outside lane. Of course, that being the sensible thing is probably the reason they didn't do it.

**pete** · 25/11/2006, 8:00 PM

Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub

The sensible thing would've been to have the tunnel extrance to the left of the inside lane of the M1, not to the right of the outside lane. Of course, that being the sensible thing is probably the reason they didn't do it.

Its surprising how many ordinary non-experts can come with this but the experts did not think of or choose not to design like that.

**Superhoops** · 26/11/2006, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub

The sensible thing would've been to have the tunnel extrance to the left of the inside lane of the M1, not to the right of the outside lane. Of course, that being the sensible thing is probably the reason they didn't do it.

If the tunnel entrance was to the left of the inside lane of the M1, where would the tunnel exit to the M1 northbound be situated? I'm no engineer, but if the entrance was to the left of the M1, would this not have meant tunnel traffic would have to go under the M1 to join the main tunnel?

**pete** · 27/11/2006, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Superhoops

If the tunnel entrance was to the left of the inside lane of the M1, where would the tunnel exit to the M1 northbound be situated?

Traffic would join the M1 on the inside lane as normal. Traffic north biund from the city could join the M1 on the right of the north bound tunnel & to the left of the south bound opening. There are effectively 2 tunnels at the opening section.

**pete** · 10/01/2007, 5:23 PM

Anyone used this yet?

Did anyone hear if this was closed for a while in December?

**Student Mullet** · 10/01/2007, 5:25 PM

Originally Posted by pete

Anyone used this yet?

I've ran through it.

**Limeref** · 10/01/2007, 8:24 PM

Just on a quick point.

For a HGV to use the port tunnel, they must use the outside lane on the motorway to enter it?

Driving a HGV or bus on the outside lane on a motorway incurs 1 penalty point (or 3 penalty points on conviction) fact courtsey www.penaltypoints.ie

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