Backed up traffic on the UCD slip road going into town

Monkey face

Has anyone noticed the crazy traffic on the UCD slip road going towards the city centre in the mornings?

I know the kids have gone back to school and students back to college but I don't ever remember it being this bad.

It generally starts just afetr the stop before UCD.I have been waiting on average around 10 minutes pretty much every day this week for what is normally a 15 second journey.

Is there something happening at the moment?

Looks like it's the early bus for me!!!

Cuddlesworth

Extensive Road works on that section.

Cookie_Monster

yep, roadworks. one lane of slip and bridge is closed, so only one lane active all around. stopping buses back up road much more than usual

Monkey face

Cool thanks. I have seen traffic going accross teh bridge though????

Any idea when it will be finished?

Sulmac

Monkey face wrote: »

Cool thanks. I have seen traffic going accross teh bridge though????

Any idea when it will be finished?

According to AA Roadwatch, they'll be finished by Friday next week (17 September).

Does anyone know exactly what they're doing? New traffic lights and upgrading the footpaths or something like that?

Alan_P

Sulmac wrote: »

According to AA Roadwatch, they'll be finished by Friday next week (17 September).

Does anyone know exactly what they're doing? New traffic lights and upgrading the footpaths or something like that?

They're relaying the surface on the bridge deck. They're doing one side at at a time, so the other side is available.

Naturally the college,slip road and bridge have been empty and deserted since June, and the road works are supposed to take about 3 weeks, so obviously they start the works just before the college reopens to cause maximum disruption.

Monkey face

It is silly that they are doing it now. unless it all of a asudden bacame urgent then they could leave it until after 9am on a adaily basis to let the traffic flow.

It is very frustrating sitting on a abus like that so this morning I just asked the driver to let me off and I ran to the UCD stop and just about got another bus. Bit of a pain in the ass but anyway. As long as we don't have to put up with it for too much longer it will be fine.

Rock of Gibraltar

I've been one of the people nailed by this over the past few days. The closed lane on the slip road is closed so the builders can house their rolling machine. There are no road works on the slip road.
I'm not an engineer or anything but surely they could just move it out of the way for the couple of hours in the morning when it causes the traffic jam.
This has to be the most idiotic road closure in the city.

Slippers 2

Monkey face wrote: »

Has anyone noticed the crazy traffic on the UCD slip road going towards the city centre in the mornings?

I know the kids have gone back to school and students back to college but I don't ever remember it being this bad.

UCD isn't back till Monday. It's only first-years this week.

xper

Alan_P wrote: »

Naturally the college,slip road and bridge have been empty and deserted since June, and the road works are supposed to take about 3 weeks, so obviously they start the works just before the college reopens to cause maximum disruption.

Yep, cycled past this mess today. Seems a bit more than just the regular laying down of some fresh tarmac. They've stripped a good metre of material off the bridge's north carriageway and there were guys in full biohazard suits spraying some pretty noxious stuff on the exposed bridge deck .. while lots of young wans were standing around a few metres downwind fishing for new student accounts for the banks. I'd say they're all sterile by now!

There appeared to be a lot of excavation going on just inside the college gates as well.

I wouldn't be surprised if the person responsible for scheduling the bridge works for this week did engineering in UCD back in the day when college started in October! :rolleyes:

AlekSmart

As could be predicted..today see`s the arrival of some half-proper Traffic Management regieme....Friday.....talk about bolting the stable door...

HJowever,as usual,the responsible authority will carry on as normal.

At the very least the Civil Engineer in-charge needs to be hauled before a PUBLIC forum....Joe Duffy...Pat Kenny...Vincent Browne....Bosco...I really don`t care.

The principle,in my mind would be that the happily anonymous "Executive" would be subject to questioning as to why he/she failed totally to appreciate the nature and extent of disruption to a National Primary route when one excavates a constituent part of that route....

I cannot see any real progress being made in how this country works until we all get familiar with the principle of accountability....hitherto the preserve of them oul Foreigners....:eek:

stop

A lot of the traffic jams are caused by motorists latching on to the end of the traffic crossing the bridge from UCD, and thus blocking buses trying to enter UCD, which blocks the entire bridge. Garda Traffic Corp should have been put on duty on both sides at peak times.

Cookie_Monster

Why are the buses simply not by-passing the stop altogether given the disruption being experienced?

stop

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Why are the buses simply not by-passing the stop altogether given the disruption being experienced?

Fear of asking people to walk to the next stop from UCD, and fear that folk from UCD would try to walk across the N11 to get to the previous from city centre stop I'd imagine...