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M7/M9 merge - Monday mornings!

  • 16-11-2015 7:47pm
    #1
    Already exists
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭


    Drive the M7 every morning and suffer the carpark that is the M9 merge, especially on Monday mornings. I've started giving myself an extra half an hour to get to work on Mondays as it's always the same. There's very rarely an accident causing the delays but I'd say it's inevitable the way some people drive. Guaranteed to see at least 4 or 5 cars using the hard shoulder as their own personal extra lane. What irks me even more are the selfish drivers who merge from the M7 onto the M9 in order to undertake the traffic. What goes through their heads? Are they in a bigger rush than the rest of us?! It's an accident waiting to happen. Apologies for the rant but sometimes you just need to get things off your chest!


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  • #2
    trellheim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,046 ✭✭✭trellheim


    how does M7 to M9 help thats only a few yards surely


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    trellheim wrote: »
    how does M7 to M9 help thats only a few yards surely

    There are two lanes coming off the M9, the left one is very long as they (are supposed to) merge after the people in the right lane.


  • #4
    Already exists
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭Already exists


    It's a completely senseless move but yet it still happens every Monday morning. The M9 is moving faster than the M7 for those few hundred yards and people think it'll get them a few cars ahead. It's ridiculous because it will cause an accident as cars merge left while the majority are trying to merge right. I think I've only see a garda car once at that merge.


  • #5
    screamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,185 ✭✭✭screamer


    Wait till the road upgrade starts I've heard it'll be down to one lane either side for the duration. Not sure how true it is but I left Dublin after 12 years if commuting as the world and it's dog is going to work in Dublin these days. Traffic doubled when they removed New lands cross so the net effect is a longer commute. Couldn't take it anymore.


  • #6
    FionnK86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭FionnK86


    I've been using this road every day at rush hour since June last year, but since this September with the return of the colleges it has been dire. The M9/M7 merge is really bad from 7:15 to 8:15 but seems to clear after, but you get stuck again at Rathcoole. Also, keep an eye out for a Silver Micra cutting up the hard shoulder. He's been doing it every day since last week and if I get his reg. he'll be getting a call from the guards.


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