Dublin Traffic Solutions!

Ernie Ball

You know, I was stuck in traffic this morning on the southside canals betweeen Harold's Cross bridge and Leeson Street and it occurred to me that the traffic on the canalside roads could be alleviated through some intelligent planning. As it stands now, there are cycle paths on both sides of the roads on the south side of the canals. Yet there is no reason why these cycle paths couldn't have been put on the other side of the canal where there are roadways that are hardly used. In fact, I often cycle to work (precisely to avoid these traffic jams) and I don't use the official cycle paths; I use the roads on the north side of the canals because there are fewer cars. If you put the cycle paths over there, then you would effectively have 3 lanes for vehicular traffic on the southside. You could then either use the middle lane as a turning lane (removing the bottleneck where people turn right into Rathmines/Ranelagh just after the Portobello light when heading East) or as a signal-controlled lane that can go in either direction.

So this is a thread in which to post your solutions to Dublin traffic bottlenecks.

Interceptor

I heard from a reliable source that the citizens of Dublin are soon to receive London-style congestion charging. That'll stop ye dropping Tarquin and Annabel to the creche in ye're big jeeps.

'c

prospect

Interceptor wrote:

I heard from a reliable source that the citizens of Dublin are soon to receive London-style congestion charging. That'll stop ye dropping Tarquin and Annabel to the creche in ye're big jeeps.

'c

I wish they would copy Londons public transport systems first, then worry about copying the revenue generating congestion charges.

Bluetonic

Interceptor wrote:

I heard from a reliable source that the citizens of Dublin are soon to receive London-style congestion charging.

It's no great secret - it was on the front page of the Motoring section of the Irish Times on Wedensday.

It's to be introduced sometime after the full implementation of the Dublin specific Transport 21 project, so sometime after 2015.

As I said in previous threads, don't put your car in the Buy And Sell just yet.

el tel

Yah, congestion charge is a great idea! Get the poor off those roads!

Little man, out of my way!