M50 Southbound... be carefull!

spank_inferno

Just want to put a reminder out there for those heading south bound on the m50.
After the dunlaoghaire/cherrywood off-ramp & the M11 Merge the road curves forward, like going over the crest of a hill.
This means that traffic ahead can be hard to see.

Twice this week there have been accidents in this area, the one on tuesday seemed to be quite serious. Because of the previously mentioned lack of visibility the traffic bottleneck at the N11 merge can come up all of a sudden not leaving much breaking time.

I understand wicklow & wexford are way better than dublin so I know peoples haste at trying to get out of the place but I just want to remind people to prepare to decelerate & be carefull.

Perhaps some strategicaly placed "queues ahead" warning signs are in order.

stovelid

spank_inferno wrote: »

Twice this week there have been accidents in this area, the one on tuesday seemed to be quite serious. .

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I passed it (going northbound) and there were lots of emergency at the scene alright.

AlekSmart

Drink and Speed ! ...absolutely nothing to do with dodgy road design....:eek:

dereko1969

i was on the m50 near ballymount (i think) yesterday and the camber of the road seemed to drag you into the outside lane where two previously separated lanes joined up, the car ahead of me just filtered seemingly accidentally into the outside lane and was very lucky not to have been crashed into by a jeep.

Stark

Is the limit 60 or 50 in that section? They put 50kph limits in some places like that where the road surface was especially dodgy.

dereko1969

not sure, but the traffic flow was slow enough that i doubt any of us were over 50kph, i'm fairly sure there wasn't a specific warning about the 'danger' of the road at that point

A Dub in Glasgo

dereko1969 wrote: »

i was on the m50 near ballymount (i think) yesterday and the camber of the road seemed to drag you into the outside lane where two previously separated lanes joined up, the car ahead of me just filtered seemingly accidentally into the outside lane and was very lucky not to have been crashed into by a jeep.

Same thing happened to me at the weekend except it was me in the outside lane with the inside lane car drifting over to the outside

I must say the general signage and reflective lighting on the M50 in the road work sections are absolutely appalling. I could not believe anybody would actually implement such a mess. First time I have driven it for 10 months!

ardmacha

Many rural roads have an adverse camber, but you can drive on them at 50kmh, if people are drifting it is as much bad driving as anything else.

However in general the road works are a bit of a mess. In particular I feel they should show more haste with commissioning the street lights. Turning on the street lights always seems to be last thing, when they are more needed during the roadworks. The perimiter should have been established at a early stage, the new street lights erected and then they could have used to light the works.