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Dunkettle - most inconsistent roundabout in Ireland?

  • 10-11-2016 10:02am
    #1
    tails_naf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭


    What is the deal with the dunkettle?
    I pass through it every day at the same time. Regularly I see huge tailbacks that are not due to accidents. Looking on Google maps it also shows more often than not 3 of the 4 entrances free with one tailing back. Is it a signalling issue - lack of coordination between sets of light, experiments with the patterns, or something else?


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  • #2
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    I presume its cos you've a motorway* coming to a stop at traffic lights, no matter which way traffic on that motorway wants to go, vs the east west traffic can fly over.


  • #3
    marno21
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    Four dual carraigeways, one of them a motorway that's been freeflowing for over 200km, one of them a main city access route, one of them a massively busy commuter dual carraigeway and one of them a ring road for a very car dependent city = mayhem.

    It's nothing to do with signalling, layout, or anything like that. It's just a vastly underpowered junction for the volume of traffic that uses it. No amount of rearranging bar a complete freeflow solution will fix it.

    However, on the brighter side of life, it looks like construction on freeflowing it will commence in 2018. It will take a few years though due to the fact that it will be a fully online build on a very busy junction.


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