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Blanchardstown Roundabout

  • 27-07-2009 3:37pm
    #1
    Murt10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone else feel a sense of loss at no longer being able to see the huge fir trees that used to occupy the roundabout on the N3. :mad:

    If replacement trees are planted on the new, much smaller by the look of it, roundabout, it will be many many years before they come near the size and maturity of the ones they are replacing.

    Probably easier to just concrete the whole thing over.

    Murt


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  • #2
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    It was a shock to see it gone, and then to see the balls they have currently made of that junction and having to sit at/on the roundabout looking at where the tree had been for 30 mins in grinding traffic.


  • #3
    Gaspode
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    Murt10 wrote: »
    Does anyone else feel a sense of loss at no longer being able to see the huge fir trees that used to occupy the roundabout on the N3. :mad:
    Murt

    A little, but I like being able to see whats coming around the roundabout now!
    Same story at Auburn Avenue.

    Still, I remember the trees going in and it really doesnt feel like it took very long for them to get to a good height.


  • #4
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,085 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    They'll be replacing the roundabouts with signal controlled traffic junctions so they had to cut down the trees.


  • #5
    Random
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    What Stark said .. there's a whole thread about it here too which might interest you
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055395842


  • #6
    Pat Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,015 ✭✭✭Pat Dunne


    The new N3 /M50 interchange should sort some of the difficulties with in bound traffic in the morning times.

    But why oh why are the spoiling the whole arrangement by putting a set of traffic lights at Aurburn Ave? Wouldn't the logical thing have been to extingush the Auburn Ave junction.

    A simple solution would have been for City bound motorists from Auburn Ave, to exit left from Auburn Ave and continue to the M50 round about and to access the City bound lanes of the N3 that way.

    For motorists from the the Blanchardstown or the New River Road (Little Chef) direction accessing Auburn Ave, to drive to the Phoenix Park Train Station Fly-Over and to access the Auburn Ave side of the N3 by using the Fly-Over.

    I believe this idea would work and it would also elimates a serious bottleneck that occurs each afternoon and evening.


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  • #7
    Gaspode
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    Pat Dunne wrote: »
    The new N3 /M50 interchange should sort some of the difficulties with in bound traffic in the morning times.

    But why oh why are the spoiling the whole arrangement by putting a set of traffic lights at Aurburn Ave? Wouldn't the logical thing have been to extingush the Auburn Ave junction.

    A simple solution would have been for City bound motorists from Auburn Ave, would have been to exit left from Auburn Ave and continue to the M50 round about and to access the City bound lanes of the N3 that way.

    For motorists from the the Blanchardstown or the New River Road (Little Chef) direction accessing Auburn Ave, to drive to the Phoenix Park Train Station Fly-Over and to access the Auburn Ave side of the N3 by using the Fly-Over.

    I believe this idea would work and it would also elimates a serious bottleneck that occurs each afternoon and evening.

    The lights at the auburn ave junction will indeed be a nightmare for those of us exiting River Road to get to Auburn Avenue (school run) and back.
    dont fancy the trip down to the railway station and back either, that would be worse I reckon.
    Think we'll just have to send the 10yr old to school on the train on her own!!


  • #8
    Pat Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,015 ✭✭✭Pat Dunne


    Gaspode wrote: »
    The lights at the auburn ave junction will indeed be a nightmare for those of us exiting River Road to get to Auburn Avenue (school run) and back.
    dont fancy the trip down to the railway station and back either, that would be worse I reckon.
    Think we'll just have to send the 10yr old to school on the train on her own!!

    Think of the bigger picture Gaspode.:(

    How long do you wait for the lights to turn in your favour let alone the time you spend in the que just to get to the light in the first place. Then how long does it take you to clear the Roundabout which is regularly grid locked and usually only lets only a few cars through at a time. In comparasion to driving less than one extra Km which would be completely free flowing?


  • #9
    Gaspode
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    Pat Dunne wrote: »
    In comparasion to driving less than one extra Km which would be completely free flowing?

    That's the bit I just dont believe!! :D


  • #10
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,085 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    There'll still be a crossroads junction there from what I can see of the designs. Freeflow traffic from Blanchardstown will head over the M50 roundabout on a slip road and then merge back with the N3 towards town south of the Auburn Avenue junction. If anything it will make crossing from River Road to Auburn Avenue faster as there'll be less traffic heading along the N3 to give priority to.

    Actually looking more closely at the design, there could even be an underpass heading from River Road to Auburn Avenue: https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/138697/49882.jpg


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