Clontarf Traffic School !

four18

Anyone go here on a school Trip ! Minature roads and traffic lights etc that you went around in pedal cars or bikes to learn the rules of the road ! Hilarious when I think of it now !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNO90cesLpo

Degsy

I remember it well...it was built on the site of an old dump so the stench of rotting garbage was overwhelming.

The gaurd we had the time i was there was a cranky of bollix,he obvioulsy hated children and would rather have been somewhere else.

bdr529

I used to live very near the school and spent a lot of time with friends chasing each other around it on bikes or bringing the dog to the dog pond, but I never had any lessons there.
the stench was due to the Dump being excavated for the building of the Alfie Byrne rd (East Link access) sometime in the early 80's.

L1011

We were meant to go back in Transition Year but it was upgraded to driving real cars veeerrrry slooowly around Goffs carpark instead. Possibly because it had closed down - anyone know when that was? I'm talking a decade ago at this stage.

pm1977x

Drove the wrong way around a roundabout and got yelled at like I'd murderd someone

Eggonyerface

I remember being put in three groups, and each group had turns of being either motorists, cyclists or pedestrians. The little cars were great fun, but being a pedestrian was a bit ****e

ger vallely

I'm pretty sure that was the place we went to with the Summer Project. It would've been in the late 70's?I thought it was amazing!(At the time of course!)

I went there once on a school trip in the early 90s, probably around 1991. When did it close? I know there's some sports pitches on the site now but it seems it was still intact until about 2-3 years ago.

HavingCrack

I remember being brought to it as a kid around 96/97 but it was definately gone by around 2000 I think. The site may well have remained but it wasn't open to the public.

r3nu4l

ger vallely wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that was the place we went to with the Summer Project. It would've been in the late 70's?I thought it was amazing!(At the time of course!)

Yeah I went with the summer project in the early 80s. It was the Esker summer project and I had a ball of a time.

BostonB

Wow thats some flashback. I was there as a kid but I can't remember who which school or the cubs or what.

Dave11

Can anyone tell me who ran this? Was it the Council?

beauf

This suggests the Dublin Corporation

http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/the-traffic-school-in-clontarf-a-little-piece-of-history/
https://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/clontarf-traffic-school-update/