Road Works - Ballymun Road

Diamondmaker

Any one else have to put up with this mess?!
I contacted Fingal who bounced me to DCC who bounced me to Ballymun regen Ltd , who were all finished for the w/e at 2pm because "the office is being reorg'd"...I await any answer.

The signage on the approach indicates that the 2 outer lanes are clsoed ahead, causing traffic to attempt to merge to the bus lane. After this happens a bus often will stop blocking the whole bus lane. Only traffic in the middle lane that did not attempt to merge can now pass through the samll gap left in front of the bus. All the vehicles obeying the signage are left stuck causing tailbacks and aggravation.

2. At the point above in the road works, when a bus stops, all traffic must try and squeeze through the small gap ( sometimes not big enogh for larger vehicles ) left between the front of the stopped bus and the excavation fencing at this point.

3. The danger to cars and the bus alike not to mention the chronic disruption to flow above could greatly be alleviated by the relocation of the bus stop. I reckon if moved to where the full 3 lanes open out only 50 m from where it is would give ample and safe opportunity for cars to make progress and allow the bus driver pull in and out in a "normal" bus lane without traffic cutting across.

Is this too simple to thin of. I havbe put this top both parties and await some drivel blaming each other or the propsed location is not safe cos blah blah blah...This excavation has top be per sq foot the worst affecting road works ever. Its so small the area under works but the effects are huge!!

Easy Rider

yeah, I agree, I live close by in Nortwood Park...went down that way last Sunday and the traffic was terrible, could not figure out what the issue was until I got to the road works.....it was Sunday and nobody was working on them, I could not believe it! Thought to myself, 'what about the traffic during rush hour next week, during week days if it is that bad on a Sunday?'

I sometimes head that way into work, but most time go down Santry Avenue and head towards the malahide road.....of course everyone else decided that they were not going to use the ballymun road either so the traffic was so bad last week, even on Friday it took me 25 minutes to only get to Northside shopping centre.....Friday there is hardly any traffic...got to Malahide Road, no traffic, got to Clontarf Road, no traffic, so the issue has to be the Ballymun Road...!

Why are they not working on Sunday to get this done??? What the hell is it they are doing, it is only small areas of the road???