1970s Dublin one-way travel patterns: North Strand

CIE

Anyone remember how things were? Inbound, traffic was direct via North Strand Road and Amiens Street, but there were two one-way sections; outbound traffic had two unusual diversions, the first being via Lower Buckingham Street (bear left at the railway bridge) and a right turn onto Kildare Street, and the second being bearing left on Annesley Place (after another railway bridge, funny enough) and an even harder right turn (60 degree angle) onto Poplar Row before making a hard left onto Annesley Bridge Road. When did this start? because I recall when it was replaced with two-way travel on the whole corridor. There are still remnants of this traffic pattern (e.g. having to use Annesley Place to turn left onto East Wall Road going northbound).

Victor

CIE wrote: »

right turn onto Kildare Street

Killarney Street?

Do you mean it was like this? http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Amiens+St&daddr=53.3536369,-6.2494463+to:53.3600281,-6.2405711+to:Annesley+Bridge,+Dublin,+County+Dublin,+Ireland&hl=en&geocode=FR0MLgMdX5mg_w%3BFaQcLgMdGqSg_ykVqKtjiQ5nSDExqaD7pscAEw%3BFZw1LgMdxcag_ymPoJiuXw5nSDFQIqH7pscAEw%3BFdA4LgMd1c2g_ylFyZ_oXg5nSDHebxiKkZlz7Q&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=2&sz=15&via=1,2&dirflg=w&sll=53.359644,-6.238346&sspn=0.007376,0.034332&ie=UTF8&ll=53.355367,-6.244097&spn=0.014754,0.068665&z=14

It sounds a bit mad, was it due to road works or something?

CIE

Yes, exactly like that. It was configured as a permanent arrangement; no road works were present, save those to convert the one-way segments of Amiens Street and North Strand Road to two-way traffic flow. And even when I was a youngster, I thought it was unnecessarily convoluted.

Edit: Yes, Killarney Street, sorry.

Victor

Photo here: http://garaiste.yuku.com/topic/9557 in post #8.

spurious

Fantastic photo - thanks.

CIE

I add my thanks also. That photo does take me back. I wonder what happened to the photo in the first post though? The text indicates that the photos were taken most likely from the railway bridge near Annesley Place.

The Swordsman

CIE wrote: »

Yes, exactly like that. It was configured as a permanent arrangement; no road works were present, save those to convert the one-way segments of Amiens Street and North Strand Road to two-way traffic flow. And even when I was a youngster, I thought it was unnecessarily convoluted.

I remember it and IIRC it was like that for many years.