Important traffic problem - City of Limerick

wotswattage · 12-02-2015 6:09pm

There are 3 full lanes at the pedestrian crossing after the junction, the footpath is only blocking the bus parking outside Dunnes.

wotswattage · 12-02-2015 6:13pm

And people do the exact same thing on O'Connell Street going straight on across William Street. People in the right lane moving into the left lane, I don't know where they think the person driving alongside them is going to fit?!?

EDIT: Here where the google car would drift into the black cars lane if both were going straight ahead. https://www.google.ie/maps/@52.663974,-8.6266,3a,75y,212.82h,56.18t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sKHtePCkm2gNlnI5nqZYNWw!2e0?hl=en

Alltherage · 12-02-2015 6:46pm

Beer Baron wrote: »

Did you also know that both lanes on wickham street can turn right onto Parnell street? Nobody tries to turn right from the left but by god if they did theyd be blown out of it.
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I'm assuming you mean the right hand turn onto William St. I take the left hand lane for the turn onto the left hand lane on William. It's another one of those situations where you have two lanes that can turn right onto a two lane road.

I always assumed the folk going around the inside and cutting into the left lane were trying to avoid being stuck behind traffic going onto High St which can sometimes get held up.

Jofspring · 12-02-2015 7:21pm

Alltherage wrote: »

I'm assuming you mean the right hand turn onto William St. I take the left hand lane for the turn onto the left hand lane on William. It's another one of those situations where you have two lanes that can turn right onto a two lane road.

I always assumed the folk going around the inside and cutting into the left lane were trying to avoid being stuck behind traffic going onto High St which can sometimes get held up.

The left lane on Wickham Street used to be straight on only and its only in the last year that they added the arrow for right turn in the left lane. I drive it everyday for the last 10 years. Thats why a lot of people get pissed off. They don't realise that people can now turn right as well in the lane beside me.

pigtown · 12-02-2015 8:59pm

Beer Baron wrote: »

Shortsightedness of Limerick Council to place traffic lights(sur' they love em) at the junction of the Dublin road and Annacotty Ind Estate/Murroe meaning a large tailback every weekday on the Newport Roundabout.

All they needed was to build a roundabout set back from the road as the land is certainly there.

Well speaking as someone who uses these lights everyday they are brilliant. Before they were installed, trying to merge onto the main road was very difficult and sometimes dangerous. A roundabout wouldn't be as effective because most of the traffic is going in one direction.

Beer Baron wrote: »

Did you also know that both lanes on wickham street can turn right onto Parnell street? Nobody tries to turn right from the left but by god if they did theyd be blown out of it.

Realised this last year and it makes things so much easier. I always expect people to complain but amazingly they haven't (at least not loudly anyway).

It always annoys me when people park on one lane of Anne Street, but especially at the corner with Thomas Street. It means that you have to drive blind around the corner in the wrong lane. I wish we had more traffic wardens.

mgbgt1978 · 12-02-2015 9:41pm

Poxyshamrock wrote: »

The two lanes at the end of sexton street do my head in as well. Left lane is ONLY for Parnell Street. Right lane for Roches and Wickham Street.

Not the case. The left lane is for Parnell St. and left-hand lane of Roche's St., the right lane is for right-hand lane of Roche's St and also straight ahead onto Wickham St.
That's the way it was designed....and almost the way it was intended to be marked

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Iranoutofideas · 12-02-2015 9:47pm

He's the traffic guard Limerick deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Llde0i3rk

(No doubt the councilors will want an all expenses paid junket to the Philippines to do some research on this fella

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phog · 12-02-2015 11:14pm

Beer Baron wrote: »

Did you also know that both lanes on wickham street can turn right onto Parnell street? Nobody tries to turn right from the left but by god if they did theyd be blown out of it.
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Do you mean William Street?

I use Wickham street at least once a day and regularly use the left lane to turn onto William St and have never been blown out of it. In fact, I'm often in a queue of 2 or 3 cars turning right from the left lane.

Vanquished · 12-02-2015 11:16pm

Jofspring wrote: »

The left lane on Wickham Street used to be straight on only and its only in the last year that they added the arrow for right turn in the left lane. I drive it everyday for the last 10 years. Thats why a lot of people get pissed off. They don't realise that people can now turn right as well in the lane beside me.

Both the width and condition of the footpaths on Wickham Street are an absolute joke and a disgrace. So much so that two people can barely pass each other! It's actually quite dangerous and all too easy to step off the footpath and on to the road.

The street has plenty of potential but is a bit of a shambles as things stand. Reconstruct much wider footpaths, reduce the road to one lane if needs be, underground the cabling and get rid of those prehistoric ESB poles! Wickham Street falls under the scope of the Parnell Street upgrade project so hopefully we'll see some action this year.

The gimps who park up and block the right hand lane on William Street infuriate me too! I just cannot understand how this situation is allowed to continue!

thesimpsons · 12-02-2015 11:47pm

pigtown wrote: »

I wish we had more traffic wardens.

or if the wardens we do have were more effective instead of patrolling way up places like Wolfe tone street, Edward Street, up top of Mulgrave Street (but leaving the cars parked outside Leonards Garage alone) and handing out tickets for people 10 minutes over time. its a joke that William Street isn't properly properly patrolled.

Comhrá · 13-02-2015 12:36am

thesimpsons wrote: »

or if the wardens we do have were more effective instead of patrolling way up places like Wolfe tone street, Edward Street, up top of Mulgrave Street (but leaving the cars parked outside Leonards Garage alone) and handing out tickets for people 10 minutes over time. its a joke that William Street isn't properly properly patrolled.

...and as for the 'car park' outside Pier One Hotel on Sarsfield Street - what's the story with parking there? It's marked as a loading area but a certain few cars are always parked there throughout the day. Have they some sort of diplomatic immunity from the traffic wardens or something?

Vanquished · 13-02-2015 12:57am

The parking that is permitted on Bedford Row, Lower Thomas Street and Little Catherine Street particularly on Sundays is a complete joke too. What is the point spending millions on upgrading and pedestrianising streets only to allow them become a parking free for all once more?!

Berty · 13-02-2015 8:05am

Yeah the Leonard's Garage one really annoys me. I saw them one morning put their own cars bumper to bumper with a car who had the audacity to park there overnight in the legal spaces. Ive seen the new traffic wardens walk passed those cars without even checking them. No way they have permits for those spaces.

There is a lady driving around in a council van with a radio who tells the guys were the offenders are as well. I saw a car the other day on Clancy strand with a ticket so they get around alright. Shame they can't do anything about the offenders who sit in their cars blocking traffic because they'll just go around the block if challenged.

Mainly, irish school parents on thomas street, taxis and anybody on william street in the right lane.

Berty · 13-02-2015 9:40am

Had another look on sexton street for road markings and the signage.

No advance signage and no road markings. Only sign directing you in what lane to choose is vague. I guess different people will see different things from the sign attached.

You could say there should be three lanes in existence but there's only two. I'm in the right lane so is it saying I should be going onto wickham street?

Is the left lane the middle lane and where's the left lane or is it telling us that when we get onto the junction, where there are 3 lanes, that we should then be following the sign? Well if that was be case then the right lane shouldn't say local traffic because it's the same as the Middle lane going down Roches street.

Personally I choose the right lane on sexton street for both roches street and wickham street.

phog · 13-02-2015 12:56pm

tippman1 wrote: »

...and as for the 'car park' outside Pier One Hotel on Sarsfield Street - what's the story with parking there? It's marked as a loading area but a certain few cars are always parked there throughout the day. Have they some sort of diplomatic immunity from the traffic wardens or something?

One guy used to park his Golf on the footpath :eek:

Jofspring · 13-02-2015 1:50pm

Ya that sign at the end of sexton street is really only telling you what the next three lanes are for. There is nothing to tell you what lane you should be in in sexton street. The left lane should just be for Parnell street to avoid confusion. Mark it as so. There have been two crashes already, caused by people in both the right and left lanes going down roches street. The angles of one road onto the other actually make it awkward to go from the right hand lane on sexton street, to the right hand lane on Gerard Griffin street/Parnell street lights and then to swing around onto roches street without veering slightly towards the cars on the left.

Berty · 13-02-2015 2:22pm

I've seen people in the right lane of sexton street, heading for Roches street, hold their car into the middle lane on the junction to block those in the left lane trying to get onto Roches street. A fine mess the junction is.

Poxyshamrock · 13-02-2015 2:30pm

Sometimes lanes are tricky.

Supposing you're not from Limerick, to turn left onto Sarsfield Street and over the bridge, you really need to be in the right lane on Sexton Street to be in the left lane on Roches Street! How are you supposed to know that if you've never driven that route before? :pac:

That's why I hate driving in unfamiliar places!

his_dudeness · 13-02-2015 3:26pm

Is the consistent thing on this thread not that people are not as familiar with the rules of the road as they should be, and/or aren't paying enough attention to the signs and road markings that are there.

people should have to renew at least the theory test (personally I'd rather they repeat the whole thing) every couple of years.

If we all followed the rules, it'll all go much easier for us!

Jofspring · 13-02-2015 3:32pm

Bit of a combination of both. Some roads are marking badly and there is nothing to suggest who has right of way in certain places and also some people just like to blatantly ignore the rules of the road and how to use lanes.

Comhrá · 13-02-2015 6:47pm

tippman1 wrote: »

...and as for the 'car park' outside Pier One Hotel on Sarsfield Street - what's the story with parking there? It's marked as a loading area but a certain few cars are always parked there throughout the day. Have they some sort of diplomatic immunity from the traffic wardens or something?

I walked past Pier I this evening around 4pm and up William St.
Took these pics on my phone. Typical parking scenario, I'd say.

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chicorytip · 14-02-2015 12:22am

The "most important traffic problem" in Limerick City has to be the prevalence of
jaywalkers that inhabit the Lr. O'Connell Street region.The council would urgently need to implement a programme of "cullling" in the hope of eradicating this ever-growing and uncontrollable species.

phill106 · 14-02-2015 12:27am

chicorytip wrote: »

The "most important traffic problem" in Limerick City has to be the prevalence of
jaywalkers that inhabit the Lr. O'Connell Street region.The council would urgently need to implement a programme of "cullling" in the hope of eradicating this ever-growing and uncontrollable species.

Are they all on holidays from america?

marno21 · 14-02-2015 6:16am

* Childers Road from Tipp Roundabout to the Parkway Roundabout is one of the worst
* Dublin Road approaching the Groody Roundabout in at peak times is bad too (I can't imagine what it would be like if the N7 Parkway scheme hadn't been completed and it was still single carriageway from the Parkway to the Groody R/A)
* Dublin Road gets blocked at the staggered junction of the Milford Road and the Golf Links Road a lot too. The lights there could do with a bit of reprogramming to make things smoother. For example, when the lights for the mainline are green and the lights are about to go red (coming from the Groody side) to allow someone out of, for example, the Golf Links Road, the lights will go red and a filter light will go green to allow traffic from the Groody side turning right onto the Golf Links road, before all traffic on the mainline is stopped to allow traffic out of the Golfs Link Road. Surely the lights for traffic going straight on (towards the Kilmurry Lodge R/A) could stay green while the filter light is on as it's not impeding traffic going right?

Important traffic problem - City of Limerick

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