Worst Traffic In Ireland

Wazdakka

Once again with the kids back at school the traffic around our little emerald isle has reverted to its former goliath levels.

For those of us who travel in dublin during rushour there is the slight help and sanity boost of DCAL fm.

Just curious as to where you lot think the worst and most consistant traffic in the country is??

And what the various "powers that be" have/havn't done to help the situation.

layke

#1 the toll bridge.

I think that's going to be your number one answer.

skibum

layke wrote:

#1 the toll bridge.

I think that's going to be your number one answer.

I second that

Lord Nikon

The N4 inbound up to the M50, from about 6:30am.

Wazdakka

Eastlink? Id agree for the biggest volume of traffic but not the longest delays..
Unless to quote annother thread you get the muppets who find themselves somehow in the Eazypass lane without a pass :mad:

Speaks volumes for the celtic tiger economy tho..
The biggest clogging of cars in a part of the country that already has serious traffic issues caused by a private company that makes at least €1.80 for every car :rolleyes:

mobby

1. M50 Toll Bridge
   
2. Waterford - New Ross N25

prospect

Now that the 3 lane N7 is open, Newlands cross. 40 odd miles of motorway, then it goes up to 3 lanes, but the speed limit reduces, all the dicks stay in the centre lane rathe than moving to the left, and afte a few miles of that you have TRAFFIC LIGHTS!!??!!??!!

So the whole project serverd to deliver the traffic to the lights quicker...

bbability

M1 inbound just at the junction for the M50/N32. A nightmare:mad:

They started putting an extra lane on the road for the Port Funnel.. I mean tunnel... Its finished ove a month now and they still haven't removed the cones. All the traffic is messed up all because of 200m of cones moving 2 lanes of traffic into 1 and then back into 2 again.. Come on..someonr has to be responsible for this... its september guys:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

loyatemu

worst bottleneck:

Gorey
(I hate that place)

MargeS

Traffic was backed up from Oranmore to Merlin Pk on Wednesday evening.
Now that the schools have reopened the traffic will be backed up from Oranmore to Derrydonnell (Athenry turnoff) every morning. Oh joy!!!

mloc123

neuromancer wrote:

The N4 inbound up to the M50, from about 6:30am.

Up untill about 10am

Fey!

Claregalway, all year round!

NeMiSiS

Haha at Gorey, so true. Toll bridge also. Chrst the amount of Mammy and child traffic I saw today was unbelievable.. all driving out of the same estate.. all going to the same school..

TK

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Wazdakka wrote:

Just curious as to where you lot think the worst and most consistant traffic in the country is??

any road out of dublin....:D

Wazdakka

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

any road out of dublin....:D

Any cheap shot at Dublin....
Must be from Cork

LegacyUser

Iv heard the N3 inbound is fairly nasty in the mornings.N4 is fairly busy but at least moves.N7 is just a total basket case along with ballymount.Chaplelizod bypass outbound is just annoying

Im a taxi driver and the street I hate more than any is Aungier Street/Georges Street. Drive up or down it at any time day or night and your just stuck.....so frustrating. Junction of Wexford Street and Aungier Street is a nightmare.

overdriver

At Eddie Rocket's in Terenure. There are two sets fo lights but the farthest one goes red, as the nearest one goes green. A single car enters the junction, all the traffic comes the other way, and from the road parallell, and it fills up. Then the near ones go red, and the far ones green for a minute.
Nonsense. i am going to KILL whomever came up with this sequence.

Seth Brundle

kaiser1 wrote:

Iv heard the N3 inbound is fairly nasty in the mornings.N4 is fairly busy but at least moves.N7 is just a total basket case along with ballymount.Chaplelizod bypass outbound is just annoying

I would say that the N4 is the worst dual carriageway that intersects with the M50.
In the mornings it can take over an hour to get from the Newcastle cross to the M50. I have resoprted to heading down to the N7 via Newcastle and it takes about 30-35 minutes for me to get onto the M50.

Max_Damage

loyatemu wrote:

worst bottleneck:

Gorey
(I hate that place)

I second that.

TempestSabre

Dublin & M50

Darragh29

M50 northbound in between Firhouse exit & Westlink tollbridge seems to be a permanent car park these days. Could anyone explain why every single day, a crash occurs either at this part of the M50 or on the other side of the road??? I can't remember the last time I wasn't sitting in traffic for at least 45 minutes because someone crashed???

Töpher

Wazdakka wrote:

For those of us who travel in dublin during rushour there is the slight help and sanity boost of DCAL fm.

Found that for the first time the other day, excellent service!

fifth

I'd have to agree with Gorey!

ninty9er

loyatemu wrote:

worst bottleneck:

Gorey
(I hate that place)

Have you been in Clarecastle lately

cregser

The Ballymount area is the worst I know of. There's 3 main ways out: the M50 car park, the redcow roundabout car park, or the walkinstown roundabout car park. Take your pick! It's worse now that they changed the red cow light sequence over the summer, and started M50 roadworks. You spend the best part of an hour getting out just so you can join the other traffic jams around.

I live between the N3 and N4 and generally avoid them at all costs in the morning. I'd rather take the long way around through 4 counties if I had to. But the new N4/M50 spaghetti junction might help thing when it's finished (in 2050).

Capt'n Midnight

kbannon wrote:

I would say that the N4 is the worst dual carriageway that intersects with the M50.
In the mornings it can take over an hour to get from the Newcastle cross to the M50. I have resoprted to heading down to the N7 via Newcastle and it takes about 30-35 minutes for me to get onto the M50.

You ain't seen nothing yet, Adamstown means 10,000 more homes, mamy with more than one car/car journey each morning, especially when it rains.

John R

funkyflea wrote:

I'd have to agree with Gorey!

At least there are ways to avoid the jams in Gorey.

Lord Nikon

Here's a tip...
If your early enough (6:45am), and the N4 inbound is backing up to the speed camera, take a shortcut through Lucan village instead. You can use the buslanes all the way up the the traffic lights just before Woodies DIY centre. Infact, Lucan village is quicker than the Lucan Bypass at this time, regardless of the Buslanes.

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Neuro

chasm

Wazdakka wrote:

Once again with the kids back at school the traffic around our little emerald isle has reverted to its former goliath levels.

For those of us who travel in dublin during rushour there is the slight help and sanity boost of DCAL fm.

Just curious as to where you lot think the worst and most consistant traffic in the country is??

And what the various "powers that be" have/havn't done to help the situation.

Carrick on Shannon has to be the worst for me. There are 5 roundabouts from the sligo side of the town to the dublin side(on the N4, a distance of about a mile), it would be ok if people knew how to use them! pure madness ALL day!! And the town itself is just a joke to try and drive through , there is paid parking in force but you always get the ones who think they can park anywhere cause they are just popping in the bank, or the shop for a coupla things, never mind that the Rse-end of there car is sticking out in the road blocking the traffic the whole way up the town and around the by-pass!!(this just adds to the chaos on the roundabouts!)
Really annoys me that does!!!

Kashkai

The N4 outbound getting stopped by the lights at the Newcastle road junction.

Traffic is usually backed up to the Foxhunter by these stupid lights (and back to Liffey Valley on a Friday) - if they were removed (and I know plans are afoot) traffic would have an unimpeded freeflow (west of the M50) out of Dublin in the evenings.

The Chapelizod bypass is also a pain, some days its empty and you can get a clear run to Palmerstown, other days (for no obvious reason) its backed up to the Ballyfermot turn off (which you only see once you've passed the turn off for Ballyrfermot!!!)

Who cares about the trip into Dublin, I'm never in a hurry to get into work. Its the trip home in the evening where I want a clear run.;)

fletch

neuromancer wrote:

Here's a tip...
If your early enough (6:45am), and the N4 inbound is backing up to the speed camera, take a shortcut through Lucan village instead. You can use the buslanes all the way up the the traffic lights just before Woodies DIY centre.

I use this bus lane all the time, the pleasure I get out of using it when all those other idiots just sit in the traffic tutting (I'm sure) when I go past them.
Last week I was driving through Lucan and the traffic was at a complete standstill in both directions. I started telling people heading inbound that they could use the bus lane (even pointed to the sign stating 07:00-09:30) and not one person dared use it....

crosstownk

cregser wrote:

The Ballymount area is the worst I know of.

I'll second that. And that road that crosses the M50 from Ballymount to the Belgard Road is usually a car park all day long.

The traffic in the morning heading from the Mill Pub in Tallaght to the Knocklyon M50 junction is chaotic too.

fletch

chasm wrote:

Carrick on Shannon has to be the worst for me.

You obviously have no idea what traffic is!

franksm

I have used the Lucan buslane legitimately too, and it is class - although in some cases I have seen some nutters continue on up the 24-hour-bus-only section and even through a red traffic light.

Something I think is odd is the light sequencing on the roundabout at the N4 over the M50 - lots of empty time sitting at a red light with nothing coming, and then get over onto the other side of the roundabout to another redlight, and finding traffic from the M50 slip onto the roundabout is backed up and blocking the yellow-box there. I wonder are those lights not measuring traffic flow, but are just on a "dumb" timer...

fletch

franksm wrote:

Something I think is odd is the light sequencing on the roundabout at the N4 over the M50 - lots of empty time sitting at a red light with nothing coming, and then get over onto the other side of the roundabout to another redlight, and finding traffic from the M50 slip onto the roundabout is backed up and blocking the yellow-box there. I wonder are those lights not measuring traffic flow, but are just on a "dumb" timer.

I find if you are first away from the lights, if you crawl around the roundabout in second gear, the lights on to the M50 are just turning green as you get around.

Seth Brundle

fletch wrote:

You obviously have no idea what traffic is!

I passed my test in Carrick.
Then there was a roundabout but no traffic lights or anything too technical IIRC.

fletch

kbannon wrote:

I passed my test in Carrick.
Then there was a roundabout but no traffic lights or anything too technical IIRC.

They do now have pedestrian lights on the bypass (first set in Leitrim if I remember correctly) but my sister works in the village and I do be there a lot during the Summer and believe me, Carrick has never experienced "traffic"

chasm

fletch wrote:

You obviously have no idea what traffic is!

Its the worst for me as i have to drive through it a number of times every day.
I dont recall the OP stating it had to be in dublin!!

chasm

fletch wrote:

They do now have pedestrian lights on the bypass (first set in Leitrim if I remember correctly) but my sister works in the village and I do be there a lot during the Summer and believe me, Carrick has never experienced "traffic"

Believe me as someone who passes through it everyday, it does have "traffic", maybe not to the same extent as other towns but it is still hectic all the same.

RustySpoon

Fermoy

fletch

chasm wrote:

Believe me as someone who passes through it everyday, it does have "traffic", maybe not to the same extent as other towns but it is still hectic all the same.

I's all relative I suppose

spanner

Id like to see any of those places beat gorey on Friday evening of
The august bank holiday, 3 miles on the northside

mloc123

Prosperous Dave wrote:

The Chapelizod bypass is also a pain, some days its empty and you can get a clear run to Palmerstown, other days (for no obvious reason) its backed up to the Ballyfermot turn off (which you only see once you've passed the turn off for Ballyrfermot!!!)

It's is one of lifes mysteries, I'm on it every evening usually between 5-7 and there is no logic to the hold ups at all.

Silvera

spanner wrote:

Id like to see any of those places beat gorey on Friday evening of
The august bank holiday, 3 miles on the northside

I wonder was that the day the truck driver transporting a new wind turbine got stuck under the Arklow Road bridge ? (and caused a two hour delay!)

But Gorey does have dire traffic jams alright!

Luckily a new by-pass will be opening in the coming months!

zuutroy

A few of my personal favourites:

The lights at Snugborough Rd/Westend Retail Park just off the N3 that stay red for a full 5 mins at a time in each direction.

Anywhere they've taken out a proper roundabout and put in a mini one that creates huge jams e.g. Artane Castle

Oscar Traynor Rd at Malahide Rd.

Castleknock Village

East Wall Rd

Wexford St.

Seth Brundle

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

You ain't seen nothing yet, Adamstown means 10,000 more homes, mamy with more than one car/car journey each morning, especially when it rains.

I know but lets pretend that the councils have planned for it!