Bollards at Patrick St.

Sully

Not sure when the council decided to fit the bollards at Patrick St. but fair play to them for doing so. Parents/Guardians just parked all the way along the street when collecting their kids and didn't give two hoots about traffic.

Fair play.

madfcuker

Sully wrote: »

Not sure when the council decided to fit the bollards at Patrick St. but fair play to them for doing so. Parents/Guardians just parked all the way along the street when collecting their kids and didn't give two hoots about traffic.

Fair play.

They fitted the bollards last Tuesday. Delighted to see them up. Stops people causing havoc obstructing traffic. But I did see a delivery van just abandoned his van on the road to drop off a package.

Brick Session

madfcuker wrote: »

They fitted the bollards last Tuesday. Delighted to see them up. Stops people causing havoc obstructing traffic. But I did see a delivery van just abandoned his van on the road to drop off a package.

Only one loading bay on Patricks Street, but it normally has cars parked in it so it cant be easy for delivery people trying to do their job on this street.

Wanderer2010

I agree this is a great idea and stops the street being totally crammed with inconsiderate parents who park on double lines for ages around the start and end of school. I cant for the life of me understand why parents feel they have to drop their kids off right at the gate, why cant they just let them off up in Ballybricken, or in the case of the Mercy school, mid-traffic and leave them walk the rest, its not that far. All of these parents who feel they need to see their kids off practically at their desk are just being inconsiderate idiots with no common sense, no wonder so many kids are fat, they are driven everywhere :rolleyes:

CantGetNoSleep

And people say we get nothing from this government?

shockwave

They still just stop in the middle of the road to let their kids out, the precious little darlings are just not able to walk a few yards down the hill.

dazftw

This is probably why most of them park there..




But I'm happy they put them there as well those inconsiderate bastards

.Henry Sellers.

I'm delighted they are up, it used to bug the hell out of me when the whole place was full of cars parked on double yellow lines and only a few feet from a Garda barracks.

wendydoll

The Park side of Water St. should be next. It's a complete nightmare to pass once St. Declans lets out, especially with some silly mammy or daddy parks right on the corner. Sure stick the aul hazard lights on, that excuses your haphazard parking :rolleyes:

Flyin Irishman

wendydoll wrote: »

The Park side of Water St. should be next. It's a complete nightmare to pass once St. Declans lets out, especially with some silly mammy or daddy parks right on the corner. Sure stick the aul hazard lights on, that excuses your haphazard parking :rolleyes:

Hazard lights? I think you mean the

cococoady

madfcuker wrote: »

They fitted the bollards last Tuesday. Delighted to see them up. Stops people causing havoc obstructing traffic. But I did see a delivery van just abandoned his van on the road to drop off a package.

I take it you have never been a delivery guy before. If you were you would realise how tough a job it is and how every minute counts. Parking hundreds of yards away and walking up and down the road just isn't feasible.

cococoady

Sully wrote: »

Not sure when the council decided to fit the bollards at Patrick St. but fair play to them for doing so. Parents/Guardians just parked all the way along the street when collecting their kids and didn't give two hoots about traffic.

Fair play.

It is a great idea but I have heard from a few local businesses that people are now just stopping mid road to leave their kids jump out

Kracken

i am glad to see, so many time I have seen kids and parent getting out the wrong side into on-coming traffic...

All it take is for the teachers to come out to the kerb side and monitor the kids walking down to make sure they are safe and not wandering...

They should put bollards outside Johnny Walkers chipper in the evening. They would drive in the door if they could

thund3rbird_

I come down that way every morning, close enough to school time & it was a nightmare

my first 2 words when I saw them were "thank fcuk"

dazftw

Saw someone parked up next to the bollards today right outside the school entrance

Hoffmans

they are an ugly addition to patrick street cars will just park outside them now the sensible option would have to been making that section a one way street down from the barracks to spokes towards town and one way up batchelors walk onto mayors walk.

cococoady

Hoffmans wrote: »

they are an ugly addition to patrick street cars will just park outside them now the sensible option would have to been making that section a one way street down from the barracks to spokes towards town and one way up batchelors walk onto mayors walk.

Just so lazy arsed parents don't have to park in ballybricken and walk their kids a few hundred meter u want to inconvenience hundreds of people who pass up and down that road daily. It's a nightmare to get out at the top of batchelors walk at the best of times. How worse would it be if every car, bus, van and truck had to use it. Simple thing is to put the traffic warden in that general vicinity at certain hours of the day to deter the lazy cnuts

danjo-xx

it's ironic the illegal parking that went on there and the kop shop a few meter's away, never mind the safety issue and laziness of parents. :rolleyes: