Quincentary bridge and University Rd roadworks

Chicken1

Avoid the new bridge its chaos there both ways due to roadworks, I never saw anything in the papers about the new bridge works only University Road, who in the Council would sanction two main roads to the West being worked on at the same time. University road is also a no go area. :mad:

biko

Just to clarify, you mean the big bridge between Newcastle and Terryland or bridge by Cathedral?

Title change from "New bridge traffic chaos" to "Quincentary bridge and University Rd roadworks" to point to the affected areas.

Chicken1

Its the Quincentary bridge over the Corrib, the one at the Cathedral is chaos as well due roadworks on University road

doctorchick

I can confirm (by looking out my office window) that the Quincentenary bridge traffic coming from Terryland towards the University has been very heavy all morning with stationary traffic starting about 200-300 metres before you even get to the river.

cranky bollix

ive been stuck in it the last 45 mins, just changed my plans so i dont have to go near it for the rest of the day.it'll be a disaster area come 4.30 - 5 oclock

Storm 10

I phoned City Hall and was told they are re-aligning the footpath ffs why do they need to cause such traffic jams when University road is also being worked on, I just travelled from the Westside to the Eastside and the traffic is bumper to bumper from Newcastle Petrol station all the way up the dual carraigeway to the Tuam road, its a disgrace surely this could be done in the evening or night

biko

Drove over the bridge from Newcastle to Terryland and it was backed up in the other direction, just one lane past Topaz.

University Rd is really bad.

Storm 10

Biko can you or anyone on the board recall hearing about roadworks on the bridge ,I cant I only heard about University road

This isn't really the result of roadworks per se....

It's the result of the ever increasing number of cars on the road coupled with the fact there aren't enough River Crossings

We might not get the by pass but even another crossing out by the major industries on the east side over the River out towards the Moycullen road and cutting across to Knocknacarra would go a long way to solving it.

It wouldn't have to anywhere near the scale of the by pass, it's only going to get worse every month and year.

galwaycyclist

Storm 10 wrote: »

Biko can you or anyone on the board recall hearing about roadworks on the bridge ,I cant I only heard about University road

No. It came as a surprise to the cyclists anyway and we're supposed to be meeting city engineers on the Rahoon Rd and Tuam Rd (Font roundabout) and N6 (Morris roundabout). To my knowledge there was no prior consultation on this and nobody outside the council knows what they are planning to do.

seriouslysweet

On bridge now. We left Briarhill Dunnes at twenty past one...

KittyeeTrix

seriouslysweet wrote: »

On bridge now. We left Briarhill Dunnes at twenty past one...

No way!!! That's mental:eek::eek:

seriouslysweet

fluffyorganic1 wrote: »

seriouslysweet wrote: »

On bridge now. We left Briarhill Dunnes at twenty past one...

No way!!! That's mental:eek::eek:

We would be far quicker walking!

Arnold Layne

How is the Docks, is traffic suffering trust side as a result

dilallio

I drove from Ballybane -> Knocknacarra about 2 hrs ago via the docks.
Traffic was busy but moving. It slowed down after the railway bridge on Lough Atalia Rd.

celty

There are four bridges across the Corrib

1. Quincentenary Bridge, disrupted for the next eight weeks seeminly because the CITY COUNCIL have decided to carry out roadworks.
2. Salmon Weir Bridge, disrupted for the next week or so because the CITY COUNCIL have decided to carry out roadworks at University Road at the exact same time as the ones above.
3. O'Brien's Bridge. Now more or less cut off from cars going from east to west of the city since the introduction of pedestrianisation.
4. Wolfe Tone Bridge. The CITY COUNCIL have said that this bridge is unable to cope with 11,000 cars a day as things stand. Add in the long tailbacks at Lough Atalia and the 'missing lane' due to the Art House cinema (who got a free site from the CITY COUNCIL) and this area is already chaotic for people driving across town in the evenings.

There's a common thread here folks.

Do the people at City Hall ever think out their actions in advance? Or think that it might be a good idea to tell the poor motorists / taxpayers what they intend doing?

Piss-up, brewery, couldn't ... come to mind.

Oh, and the schools are back on Friday. Lovely timing folks.

Gal44

i have to take the university road route home at 5 oclock.. is it very bad?

Storm 10

Celty where did you see that the bridge would take eight weeks, that would be crazy to live with this traffic over eight weeks

Took this from City Council website has to be a joke

Roads and Traffic

A properly managed road network is essential for the balanced movement of pedestrians, wheelchair users, cyclists, public transport and goods.

The Roads Section work in partnership with public transport providers and other agencies in developing integrated and sustainable transportation policies.

Transportation and Infrastructure - Strategic Policy Commitee

http://www.galwaycity.ie/GeneralNews/180811_01.html

Galway City Council - Phase 1 of N6 Improvement Scheme

18 August 2011
Works begin on Monday in Newcastle Area
Galway City Council’s Transportation Unit has appointed John Madden and Sons Ltd. to undertake Phase 1 of the Bothar na dTreabh (N6) Multi-Modal Corridor Improvement Scheme.
This phase consists of the refurbishment of the N6/N59 (Newcastle Road) junction to improve pedestrian and cycle facilities. This phase will also involve replacing the current traffic lights at the Newcastle end of the Quincentenary Bridge in order to integrate them with the Urban Traffic Management Centre (UTMC).
Sections of the footways and cycle-ways along the N6 between the Browne (UHG) and Font Roundabouts (Tuam Road) will also be resurfaced.
Works will commence at the Newcastle Road junction on Monday, August 22nd and will last for approximately 8 weeks. Some delays may be experienced by motorists over the period of the works.
Galway City Council wishes to apologise for any delays that may be encountered and greatly appreciates your understanding.

The Salmon Weir works are unfortunately timed but perhaps they couldn't wait until the other work is finished as the schools will be back.

Zzippy

Thank f*ck I'm working out of town for most of this week!

Sponge Bob

celty wrote: »

4. Wolfe Tone Bridge. The CITY COUNCIL have said that this bridge is unable to cope with 11,000 cars a day as things stand.

Ehhh, the Wolfe Tone ??? thats more like 25000 a day normally.

The traffic counter data was removed in the last year (at the Corpos instigation I'll wager ) but not before the data was posted on Boards Here

If you think it is bad in Newcastle now just wait till the NUIG students are back slap in the middle of the roadworks. Why the corpo cannot do 24 hour working on a key junction like Newcastle Road/Quincentery Bridge I will never know.

They do but they don't care do they!!

KittyeeTrix

A bit off topic but has anyone noticed that the red traffic lights at the Briarhill junction heading from the airport into town are in the shape of love hearts????

What's the story with these??:D

extraice

OMG 3 hours go across town and back , Who in Galway City Council is the head GOBSH!TE up there that has the city to stand still , we get the name on the Traffic Chaos raodwork every where , Westside , Bothar le Chéile Restriction
Old Seamus Quirke Road out side NUIG Nunsisland and by the docks
....

Coup the F*-k on please , this is one biggest joke i seen , this would not happen any outher city in the EU but Galway

celty

Storm 10 wrote: »

Celty where did you see that the bridge would take eight weeks, that would be crazy to live with this traffic over eight weeks

Took this from City Council website has to be a joke

Roads and Traffic

A properly managed road network is essential for the balanced movement of pedestrians, wheelchair users, cyclists, public transport and goods.

The Roads Section work in partnership with public transport providers and other agencies in developing integrated and sustainable transportation policies.

Transportation and Infrastructure - Strategic Policy Commitee

Storm 10,

I heard from a Council staffer today that the works will take eight weeks. That is from Newcastle to Briarhill and not just at the crossroads in Newcastle. I heard of someone who took 90 minutes to get across town at 3.30pm today so God knows what it was like at 5ish.

snubbleste

I cycled on my pedal push bike earlier through the scourge of exhaust fumes.
Motor traffic backed up on the N6 from Ballybane roundabout west to Newcastle road and other associated feeder routes and guess what, I estimated 8 out of 10 of the non-commercial vehicles were single occupancy.

We should add the Headford Rd roundabout to the list of things tourists need to see. When conquering it earlier, in the space of 90 seconds I saw 3 motorists bumping into each other and not in the gentle manner either. It was like a dodgem car circus.

oh and there is zero accountability in City Hall.

snubbleste

Oh and the Council or their contracters have seen fit to erect big temporary signage on footpaths to warn motorists (exclusively) of roadworks ahead.
No advance notice given of closed footpaths or any safe diversion provided.
Appalling.

celty

snubbleste wrote: »

I cycled on my pedal push bike earlier through the scourge of exhaust fumes.
Motor traffic backed up on the N6 from Ballybane roundabout west to Newcastle road and other associated feeder routes and guess what, I estimated 8 out of 10 of the non-commercial vehicles were single occupancy.

We should add the Headford Rd roundabout to the list of things tourists need to see. When conquering it earlier, in the space of 90 seconds I saw 3 motorists bumping into each other and not in the gentle manner either. It was like a dodgem car circus.

oh and there is zero accountability in City Hall.

Exactly. Good point. Maybe someone should start a thread about all the worst things in Galway they don't put in the tourist guidebooks!

And wouldn't it be great to have a job at the top in City Hall. You can do what you want, seemingly, when you want, without any regard for the public and give them zero advance information or warning.

Amazing, really.

It wouldn't take a genius or a planner to tell them it would cause chaos to have three forms of roadworks going on in the same area to the west of the city centre at the same time.

But they never seem to think, now do they?

Mrs OBumble

celty wrote: »

It wouldn't take a genius or a planner to tell them it would cause chaos to have three forms of roadworks going on in the same area to the west of the city centre at the same time.

But they never seem to think, now do they?

I'm no more amused than the rest of ye - even coming down Wellpark at 5:45 today was reminiscent of 2007.

But in fairness, we don't know what caused them to be doing three sets of r/w at the same time. Has anyone actually asked the council to explain, instead of just doing the keyboard warrior thing?

GalwayNews did put the notice referred to on their website on the 18th. We don't know if they also submitted it to the Advertiser or Indo (I just checked, neither of them printed it, doesn't mean it wasn't submitted .. it's not the sort of news that would sell advertising space).

emptybladder

JustMary wrote: »

But in fairness, we don't know what caused them to be doing three sets of r/w at the same time. Has anyone actually asked the council to explain, instead of just doing the keyboard warrior thing?

1. Seamus Quirke Road: Coffeys are months behind schedule. The Council did not include penalty clauses or an ultimate completion date in contract.

2. Quincentenary Bridge: Part of the scheme to remove the roundabouts. Presumably the money needs to be spent in the current financial year.

3. University Road: Same as above???

The Council said for years roadworks have to be done in good weather. They also said they could not be done at night. Yet a few years ago, they managed to do part of the Headford Road at night.

As Celty pointed out above, it's just bad management.

And JustMary, how does one ask the Council to explain? They won't answer questions from councillors at meetings, what makes you think they feel accountable to the public?!!

ArraMusha

this comes to mind.....




So I'll be taking the rotar tomorrow...wednesday wet, so it'll be mayhem...falling down

celty

Musha,

I thought of that film today myself

Michael Douglas stuck in traffic, before going ballistic. Hopefully there's nobody like that on Quincentenary Bridge this week

StonedRaider

on my zippy scoot from knocknacarra to renmore in 10mins..and back again in 12mins
same as previously mentioned..seen many cars single occupancy

buzz11

Get pro-active and let them know the mess they are creating;

- Phone and complain to City Council roads dept

-Bombard the facebook page "Galway Traffic Forum" with messages

-Call the city councillors, pester them when you're stuck in traffic


Unless we all complain then the council officials will think "nobody is complaining so there is no problem doing this"

Storm 10

Guy from Council on Galway Bay FM and he says the traffic is like this every year at this time, the road works did not cause all the problems yesterday, just shows they are living on a different planet.

KittyeeTrix

Storm 10 wrote: »

Guy from Council on Galway Bay FM and he says the traffic is like this every year at this time, the road works did not cause all the problems yesterday, just shows they are living on a different planet.

What a crock of BS!!!:mad:

carmex21

Hi,
Is it as bad today / now? I have to head to the M6 from Westside...hmmmm!
Thanks

death1234567

snubbleste wrote: »

oh and there is zero accountability in City Hall.

Are you surprised? Its the same throughout the Civil service.

1. Seamus Quirke Road: Coffeys are months behind schedule. The Council did not include penalty clauses or an ultimate completion date in contract.

That just says it all. Public service incompetence at its best, yet they all have a guaranteed job for life and a massive undeserved unearned pension. No wonder the country's f&*£$d.

Robbo

emptybladder wrote: »

1. Seamus Quirke Road: Coffeys are months behind schedule. The Council did not include penalty clauses or an ultimate completion date in contract.

Did we get a confirmation on this before? It seems like the mother of all oversights and I remember someone coming on before to say that all standard CIF contracts will have this in them.

Malice

I moved back to Galway at Christmas and my main requirement was to find a job on the same side of the city that I live on. Having commuted from Barna to Parkmore and Oranmore there was no way I was going to put myself through that again. When I read about roadworks on the bridge or the mess that the cross-town traffic is every evening I thank my lucky stars I don't have to deal with it any more.

Sadly the powers-that-be couldn't sort out the river crossings when there was money available. Now that we're broke I can't see the situation changing .

celty

Malice wrote: »

I moved back to Galway at Christmas and my main requirement was to find a job on the same side of the city that I live on. Having commuted from Barna to Parkmore and Oranmore there was no way I was going to put myself through that again. When I read about roadworks on the bridge or the mess that the cross-town traffic is every evening I thank my lucky stars I don't have to deal with it any more.

Sadly the powers-that-be couldn't sort out the river crossings when there was money available. Now that we're broke I can't see the situation changing .

Malice, not only do the City Council 'not sort it out', they make a bad situation ten times worse by putting on three seperate roadworks within minutes of each other ... all in areas crucial to people trying to get home to the Westside / Knocknacarra in the evenings.

It's ridiculous how the people who make such dreadful decisions have jobs for life.

Storm 10

The bridge is totally at a standstill again with traffic backed up to the Tuam road again, this is beyond a joke at this stage and someone has to take responsibilty for this mess, the amount of cars turning around from the jam is just an accident waiting to happen.

zarquon

Storm 10 wrote: »

The bridge is totally at a standstill again with traffic backed up to the Tuam road again, this is beyond a joke at this stage and someone has to take responsibilty for this mess, the amount of cars turning around from the jam is just an accident waiting to happen.

Agreed, some eejit doing a u-turn on the ring road almost crashed into me :mad::mad::mad:

lucianot

death1234567 wrote: »

Are you surprised? Its the same throughout the Civil service.

That just says it all. Public service incompetence at its best, yet they all have a guaranteed job for life and a massive undeserved unearned pension. No wonder the country's f&*£$d.

Is this true?

sealgaire

lucianot wrote: »

Is this true?

Are you seriously asking if this is true?:D

YES

lucianot

sealgaire wrote: »

Are you seriously asking if this is true?:D

YES

Yes, sorry. I wanted to confirm my worst fear, that the same thing that happened at the Moneenageisha cross happened again here.

buzz11

45 mins to get from Topaz Bohermore to Topaz Newcastle this afternoon.

zarquon

buzz11 wrote: »

45 mins to get from Topaz Bohermore to Topaz Newcastle this afternoon.

:eek:, that's less than a 15 minute walk.

liabhroidi

all those roadworks were flagged on the Advertiser Facebook page last Thursday. big discussion on it.

goalscoringhero

lucianot wrote: »

Yes, sorry. I wanted to confirm my worst fear, that the same thing that happened at the Moneenageisha cross happened again here.

I cannot see the parallels to Moneenageisha to be honest. Would you care to explain?
However, I do sympathize with the motorists, having these roadworks carried out at the same time is bad planning to put it mildly.

Time to get on your bikes, folks. If ye can't change the world, change yourself!

ger vallely

I don't fancy cycling in from Corrandulla with my 2 kids on my back ,come Friday for school.Any clue as to when this will be finished? It will be chaos once the schools are back.

Mrs OBumble

ger vallely wrote: »

I don't fancy cycling in from Corrandulla with my 2 kids on my back ,come Friday for school.Any clue as to when this will be finished? It will be chaos once the schools are back.

Are you really telling us there are no schools in Corrandulla, or between there and Galway city?