Naas Road / Red Cow this week

artful_codger · 13-03-2009 8:40pm #1

hi, why was the Naas road so quiet this week from Nangor road to Red Cow ? Also the M50 was pretty quiet by recent standards i.e not backed up from blanchardstown to finglas.

L1011 · 13-03-2009 9:06pm

Recession. Traffic volumes are down significantly (today, being a BH weekend, nonwithstanding) everywhere, every day of late.

DWCommuter · 13-03-2009 9:21pm

I must admit, with the exception of accidents, Ive noticed a reduction in congestion city wide over the last 6 months. I'd say job losses are the reason.

sk8board · 13-03-2009 9:26pm

I've been asking this same question lately too. Traffic volume is definitely down. This morning a 55min commute took 35min exactly, M1 - M50 - rathgar. Fair enough its a bank hol friday.

as someone said above the queue starts at finglas now, but I wonder is that because people are now used to the 3rd lane from Blanch > Finglas. Roll on the upgrade. Its due to be completed sometime in in 2010 yes?

L1011 · 13-03-2009 9:28pm

My inbound took a close to record 20 minutes today (I've done it in 16. On Christmas Eve.)

Outbound was disasterous due to the N7/N4 BH traffic though...

mysterious · 13-03-2009 11:40pm

The polish population was at a peak last year of 100,000 in the city. I'd say its half that now. So this would have a huge impact too.

artful_codger · 14-03-2009 10:45am

nah this is something other than unemployment affecting traffic levels. two weeks ago i'd be inching up the naas road at 6pm along with everyone else, but last week the road was clear - 60kph all the way to the M50 northbound turn off. I presumed some drastic bottleneck has been resolved further up at newlands cross, or everyone is over at Cheltanham trying to make some money

Victor · 15-03-2009 1:37am

artful_codger wrote: »

nah this is something other than unemployment affecting traffic levels.

People are also spending less and making fewer discretionary journeys.

sk8board · 15-03-2009 9:42pm

timing is everything:

from todays Trib:
http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2009/mar/15/traffic-levels-fall-by-almost-3-in-dublin/

If dublin traffic is down 3% over 12months, then its surely down even more over 3 months, and likely to fall further.

D'Peoples Voice · 16-03-2009 1:01pm

Transport21 must be delivering as promised:rolleyes:

I've said it several times here on this website over the past 5 years, but can't find it in my google searches:mad:, that to solve our traffic problems we only ever needed to revert to the policies of Garret Fitzgerald's time when we put 20% of the population on the dole and most people couldn't afford a car.

But no,all people in this country wanted was progress - well look where that got us - we're all in debt!

Naas Road / Red Cow this week

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