Mass traffic survey in progress

Curious Geroge

Galway CoCo seem to be doing a city wide survey on traffic. The 2 black lines / tubes across the road seem to be laid across the city (they are used for traffic flow calculations), hopefully trying to sort out the city jams that are developing across the city these days..

Doom

They normally do this to survey the number of cars etc in the city, info goes into ntr so they can set future tolls like the one that will be on the Gort to Tuam motorway

BrokenArrows

Curious Geroge wrote: »

Galway CoCo seem to be doing a city wide survey on traffic. The 2 black lines / tubes across the road seem to be laid across the city (they are used for traffic flow calculations), hopefully trying to sort out the city jams that are developing across the city these days..

chances are they will come to the conclusion "Traffic is bad", and that is all that will come of it.

testicle

Doom wrote: »

They normally do this to survey the number of cars etc in the city, info goes into ntr so they can set future tolls like the one that will be ob Gort to Tuam motorway

Don't be stupid.

swe_fi

Curious Geroge wrote: »

Galway CoCo seem to be doing a city wide survey on traffic. The 2 black lines / tubes across the road seem to be laid across the city (they are used for traffic flow calculations), hopefully trying to sort out the city jams that are developing across the city these days..

I love your optimism, Man. I have seen these as well and it is a good idea by someone to do this exercise to get the raw data but trust me, when this data is to be interpreted by the human beings (I'd say most of them are) in charge of formalizing this in to practical changes...well.

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galwayrush

Doom wrote: »

They normally do this to survey the number of cars etc in the city, info goes into ntr so they can set future tolls like the one that will be on the Gort to Tuam motorway

The M 17 is too far away to make much difference to morning / evening traffic in Galway.:rolleyes:

jkforde

GCC install some traffic monitoring equipment and people jump that it's NTR or the incompetence of the council behind this nefarious activity. what are ye on? it might just be possible that they're monitoring traffic usage and density. then again, Area51 must have something to do with it!

paulhannon

Curious Geroge wrote: »

hopefully trying to sort out the city jams that are developing across the city these days..

These days?

snubbleste

Are these barometers able to measure cyclists as well?
Less weight, two wheels but still leave an impact on the tubes

magicianz

Being done all over the country! Cork on the main road into the city and I'm sure I saw them somewhere around Dublin during the week.

Caliden

The data will most likely be used to determine how often road maintenance will need to be done.

Curious Geroge

paulhannon wrote: »

These days?

true its always been bad but its getting worse with the slightest road work causing mayhem. lights at cookes cross went out last wk and the headford rd backed up !!