Traffic from Ballincollig to Cork City in the Morning

angeline

Hi. Looking for advice from any 9 to 5ers who work in the city and must drive from Ballincollig to be at work for 9am. I'll be going by the bypass and in the South Link Rd. Obviously traffic will be v busy at that time so wondering what time I'd need to leave to be safely there in time. Thanks in advance.

pa990

angeline wrote: »

Hi. Looking for advice from any 9 to 5ers who work in the city and must drive from Ballincollig to be at work for 9am. I'll be going by the bypass and in the South Link Rd. Obviously traffic will be v busy at that time so wondering what time I'd need to leave to be safely there in time. Thanks in advance.

All depends on where you'll be parking.
Whether or not the schools are on /off

Best to do a trial run some morning.

angeline

pa990 wrote: »

All depends on where you'll be parking.
Whether or not the schools are on /off

Best to do a trial run some morning.

I have parking where I will be working. I'm asking on the basis that schools are on, and only what the traffic will be like to the Kinsale Rd Roundabout and then the South Link Rd if anyone has experience of these roads between 8am and 9am. Thanks.

Sephiroth_dude

I would leave 10-15 minutes early than 8, always busy in my experience , you can judge it then yourself when you've done a few mornings .

Ubbquittious

Tiger's back lads

angeline

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Tiger's back lads

Sorry but what are you referring to??

Reputable Rog

angeline wrote: »

Hi. Looking for advice from any 9 to 5ers who work in the city and must drive from Ballincollig to be at work for 9am. I'll be going by the bypass and in the South Link Rd. Obviously traffic will be v busy at that time so wondering what time I'd need to leave to be safely there in time. Thanks in advance.

Where are you going to? When I lived in Bishopstown I either left about 7:45 to be at work for 8, 2 km away, otherwise I used to leave after 9 for a 5 minute trip.
Leaving between 8 and 9 was pointless.

Ubbquittious

angeline wrote: »

Sorry but what are you referring to??

Celtic tiger. That's the cause of the traffic having gone as bad as it is.

angeline

Reputable Rog wrote: »

Where are you going to? When I lived in Bishopstown I either left about 7:45 to be at work for 8, 2 km away, otherwise I used to leave after 9 for a 5 minute trip.
Leaving between 8 and 9 was pointless.

Near the South Mall. Considering going in the Straight Road and up the Mardyke as it might be better than South Link Rd.

Reputable Rog

angeline wrote: »

Near the South Mall. Considering going in the Straight Road and up the Mardyke as it might be better than South Link Rd.

Fastest way, down Curraheen Road before 8, up to Wilton, onto Glasheen Road, down Bandon Road, right onto Green st, left and left again, right onto Evergreen Road and next left down onto George's Quay, est Viola !

angeline

Jaysus never realised it would be over an hour. Sounds like leaving at 5 past 9 would be a better plan if I could start at half 9 instead!!!!

Roger Hassenforder

traffic moves along ok on Carrigrohane road>western road> Mardyke.
Avoid MFR, the schools (catherines and mt mercy) can be a mare

angeline

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

traffic moves along ok on Carrigrohane road>western road> Mardyke.
Avoid MFR, the schools (catherines and mt mercy) can be a mare

Excuse my ignorance, not from Cork!! But where is MFR. Cheers. So u reckon I'd move handy enough from Carrigrohane to South Mall. Might do a trial run.

angeline

angeline wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance, not from Cork!! But where is MFR. Cheers. So u reckon I'd move handy enough from Carrigrohane to South Mall. Might do a trial run.

Ahhh!!! The Model Farm Road!!! No won't be going that way at all. Thanks very much.

Sephiroth_dude

angeline wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance, not from Cork!! But where is MFR. Cheers. So u reckon I'd move handy enough from Carrigrohane to South Mall. Might do a trial run.

Once you get past the traffic in the village (if you'll be driving through the village that is) and get past the roundabout you'd be ok I'd say.

Reputable Rog

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Once you get past the traffic in the village (if you'll be driving through the village that is) and get past the roundabout you'd be ok I'd say.

The Straight is choked every morning inbound between 8 and 9.

angeline

Reputable Rog wrote: »

The Straight is choked every morning inbound between 8 and 9.

Oh no, really? I was counting on that moving along at a reasonable pace. No easy way so it seems! Thanks anyway for the info.

Roger Hassenforder

Reputable Rog wrote: »

The Straight is choked every morning inbound between 8 and 9.

Ah it moves, woudnt call it choked! (try living in Douglas!)
Slow from Poulavone roundabout as far as the lights under the castle (does that cross road have a name?)

angeline

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Ah it moves, woudnt call it choked! (try living in Douglas!)
Slow from Poulavone roundabout as far as the lights under the castle (does that cross road have a name?)

Don't know the lights at the Castle. So you reckon I'd be ok going via the Straight Rd to near South Mall. I'll make sure to avoid all of the lights in Ballincollig. I feel this would be a better bet than the Bypass, Kinsale Rd Roundabout and in South Link Rd. Would imagine there would be huge tailbacks there bt 8 and 9.

Roger Hassenforder

not sure where about in Ballincollig you are
Another option is via the Ballincollig link road to old clash road onto MFR and down Inchigaggin onto straight road ( be tricky turning right here though)

you could always buy a bike!

angeline

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

not sure where about in Ballincollig you are
Another option is via the Ballincollig link road to old clash road onto MFR and down Inchigaggin onto straight road ( be tricky turning right here though)

you could always buy a bike!

I'm thinking a helicopter might be helpful!

Sephiroth_dude

Reputable Rog wrote: »

The Straight is choked every morning inbound between 8 and 9.

Once you get past the lights its grand.

Reputable Rog

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Ah it moves, woudnt call it choked! (try living in Douglas!)
Slow from Poulavone roundabout as far as the lights under the castle (does that cross road have a name?)

It has got a lot worse of late and can pretty slow. Problem with that part of town is 3 major employers in close proximity.
The Straight in the morning is largely used by people trying to get up the north side or to UCC.
UCC and PBC cause huge snarl ups for people heading in along Western Road.

Roger Hassenforder

Reputable Rog wrote: »

It has got a lot worse of late and can pretty slow. Problem with that part of town is 3 major employers in close proximity.
Straight in the morning is largely used by people trying to get up the north side or to UCC.
UCC and PBC cause huge snarl ups for people heading in along Western Road.

Sure has. The works in Sundayswell arent helping going into town.

its even worse by UCC heading East! For some reason. Traffic heading up Wilton road from Victoria/Dennehys has ground to a halt.

but didnt you hear, the boom is back, we're all back eating breakfast rolls and driving huge 4x4s!

Reputable Rog

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

but didnt you hear, the boom is back, we're all back eating breakfast rolls and driving huge 4x4s!

All courtesy of PCP of course, the next sub prime nightmare about to hit this country.

11214

Reputable Rog wrote: »

All courtesy of PCP of course, the next sub prime nightmare about to hit this country.

PCB, MFR and PBC. Calm down ffs.

OP, time for some test runs, personally I'd prefer the straight road, simple as.

Roger Hassenforder

11214 wrote: »

PCB, MFR and PBC. Calm down ffs.

OP, time for some test runs, personally I'd prefer the straight road, simple as.

"FFS"?
Jaysis, cool your jets fiend/beor!
the grown ups are having a chat

FrStone

Reputable Rog wrote: »

All courtesy of PCP of course, the next sub prime nightmare about to hit this country.

And what did we learn from the last crisis? Take on as much debt as you possibly can and stop paying it back when the **** hits the fan...

Only those who make an effort to pay their debt back will suffer.

Reputable Rog

Reputable Rog wrote: »

All courtesy of PCP of course, the next sub prime nightmare about to hit this country.

There is absolutely no comparison between PCP and subprime. Absolute worst case scenario with PCP is you hand the car back and walk away. It's not in any way compatible with subprime and is actually a very good way to finance a car.

Reputable Rog

We shall see.

Pitcairn

Look at Google Maps tomorrow morning and turn on love traffic and you should be able to see the areas that are gridlocked.

Reputable Rog

Pitcairn wrote: »

Look at Google Maps tomorrow morning and turn on love traffic and you should be able to see the areas that are gridlocked.

Hate Traffic on Apple Maps.