2 problematic roundabouts in Galway

workaccount

The magic roundabout obviously (headford road one with the traffic lights)
The problem is coming onto it from the city centre. All the cars coming out of tesco etc. there use up your slot so it's extremely difficult to get onto.

What do you think could be done about this??

The other one is on the tuam road beside statoil (bohermore). It's bloody tiny and is full every evening with cars stuck on the roundabout.

Wishbone Ash

workaccount wrote:

What do you think could be done about this?

The usual procedure is to add traffic lights but this sort of defeats the purpose of the roundabout.

workaccount

Wishbone Ash wrote:

The usual procedure is to add traffic lights but this sort of defeats the purpose of the roundabout.

I've never seen one of these roundabouts anywhere else. Are there many in Dublin?

Theres no way they could put lights on the small Tuam road one anyway.

galwaytt

Wishbone Ash wrote:

The usual procedure is to add traffic lights but this sort of defeats the purpose of the roundabout.

It already has lights...........

Wishbone Ash

galwaytt wrote:

It already has lights...........

I'm not familiar with it but do the lights not restrict the otherwise constant flow into it?

workaccount

Wishbone Ash wrote:

I'm not familiar with it but do the lights not restrict the otherwise constant flow into it?

You would have to see it to believe this setup.

yop

Pure magic that roundabout, what I love is when you are coming down the road from bothermore on the roundabout, ur lights turn great but the apes from the headford side don' take any heed and sale towards u!!
Most people have issues with roundabouts, they don't even realise there is lights on it!!

workaccount

yop wrote:

Pure magic that roundabout, what I love is when you are coming down the road from bothermore on the roundabout, ur lights turn great but the apes from the headford side don' take any heed and sale towards u!!
Most people have issues with roundabouts, they don't even realise there is lights on it!!

I am finding it difficult to understand your thread but the one near statoil is the bohermore one and that isn't the magic roundabout.

The people that pull come out of tesco onto the magic roundabout are perfectly entitled to as they have no lights!

galwaytt

Wishbone Ash wrote:

I'm not familiar with it but do the lights not restrict the otherwise constant flow into it?

3 out of the 5, yes, the other 2, no. Oh, and there's 1 set actually on the roundabout as well.

Simple, see ? :rolleyes:

yop

workaccount wrote:

I am finding it difficult to understand your thread but the one near statoil is the bohermore one and that isn't the magic roundabout.

The people that pull come out of tesco onto the magic roundabout are perfectly entitled to as they have no lights!

Read it again

Coming down from CT electric side of town, towards roundabout, tesco on ur left, Dunnes on your right.
Light turns green for u to go ahead, people coming from ur right, whos light is red, don't even see the light and keep going

workaccount

yop wrote:

Read it again

Coming down from CT electric side of town, towards roundabout, tesco on ur left, Dunnes on your right.
Light turns green for u to go ahead, people coming from ur right, whos light is red, don't even see the light and keep going

Oh sorry yes that can happen very very easily but people don't run the light intentionally (apart from the odd arsehole of course)

workaccount

galwaytt wrote:

3 out of the 5, yes, the other 2, no. Oh, and there's 1 set actually on the roundabout as well.

Simple, see ? :rolleyes:

There's two sets on the roundabout I think.

galwaytt

workaccount wrote:

Oh sorry yes that can happen very very easily but people don't run the light intentionally (apart from the odd arsehole of course)

...as distinct from the ordinary, common-or-garden arsehole, that is

workaccount - actually, I've re-re thought about it.....are there not 3 sets on it ? :eek:

Fey!

Magic Roundabout: If only people paid attention to lanes!

Excuse the manky drawing; will try harder in the future.

B00MSTICK

I don't have any problem with them. Well apart from people changing lanes without warning on the magic one as mentioned.

Terrible drawing!

workaccount

B00MSTICK wrote:

I don't have any problem with them. Well apart from people changing lanes without warning on the magic one as mentioned.

Terrible drawing!

Try coming out from city centre on a Thursday or Friday or between 5:15 and 6:30 in the evening. Sometimes you really need to chance your arm (drivers side of car) just to get out. On one part of it there isn't feck all time and room to get into the right lane.

Not great drawing but it's not an art contest. It does the job. However there is one more set of lights on it. Just before the third exit after coming onto the roundabout from the city centre. It's this part that theres feck all time to get into the left lane if your coming round on the inside lane.

Rovi

Fey! wrote:

Magic Roundabout: If only people paid attention to lanes!

Is this the one?-
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.282285,-9.047874&spn=0.002377,0.005021&t=k&z=18&om=1

workaccount

Rovi wrote:

Is this the one?-
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.282285,-9.047874&spn=0.002377,0.005021&t=k&z=18&om=1

Yes it is, could not believe it for a second though. It looks so different from above. I had to trace the roads just to believe it. The road im talking about (coming from city centre) is facing south.

EDIT: That image has not been updated in a while. Look at eyre square, it's still in development!

leeroybrown

That's the one. It almost looks normal from above but the inconsistent light policy mentioned above coupled with the lane marking on it cause interesting problems.

The two bottom entrances to the roundabout on the map have incoming traffic from the main shopping centres with parking in town and have no light to stop them from pulling on while other entrances are supposed to be getting through.

As you pass between those two bottom exits the lane markings move (an exaggerated curve) so that the innermost moves to being the middle lane to exit on the left, the middle lane becomes the outer lane. This sounds fine in theory except that the bottom left exit lets cars jut out into the outer lane making drivers going for the left exit in two lanes contend for the same space. This is compounded as traffic backs up from the internal lights on the left blocking the outer lane of the exit to the left. And then you add in the generally shoddy lane discipline. This means you often have two marked lanes with half of each one blocked. People just drive where this some space.

During the Christmas shopping season the traffic exiting from the bottom right (no light) gets so heavy that it gets close to impossible to enter from the right entrance which has a light.

There are other niceties such as the extra filter lane going from the left entrance to the top exit that makes you exit blind into traffic at an angle where your mirrors don't work and you can't see over your shoulder properly due to your B-pillar.

In typical evening traffic the first thing you need to do when you get a green light is wait for the traffic jam on the roundabout (caused by the internal lights) to clear prior to pulling on.


The second problem roundabout mentioned is the one at the end of the road from the right exit on the map. It's just far too small and results in a strange kind of usage where everyone accelerates hard to get into a space then brakes hard to avoid hitting the vehicle in front.

Fey!

Sorry about missing the lights stopping traffic on the roundabout to let shopping centre traffic out.

Rovi; that picture really looks strange!