When last did you walk across a working railway line or dual carriageway / motorway

5rtytry56

Where were you going?
Why did you take this shortcut?
I crossed the tracks at howth junction in June 1995 leaving fas baldoyle

xabi

Never

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

I walk across Luas track all the time.

I walked across the DART Tracks at Lansdowne Road the other week when I was heading to the stadium for a work thing.

I've never crossed a motorway, that's lunacy.

Shenshen

What? Why would you even.... seriously?

Hammer89

Raiden Drab Jib wrote: »

I've never crossed a motorway, that's lunacy.

And crossing a Luas track isn't!?

Mrs OBumble

Dual carriageway: the last working day before the 405 bus started going into the industrial estate i was working in.

It wasn't so bad by then, because they taken out thr roundabout and installed traffic lights.

Before that, it was a nightmare crossing which i had to do twice a day.

Why? Because it was the only way to get to work.

Glenster

Everyday.

The Dart.

Bogger Thread is silly.

AudreyHepburn

Never, I'm not that stupid or foolhardy.

Nor have I ever been that drunk and I don't do drugs so would never end up so off my head that it seemed like a good idea to do it.

Any time I'm in wexford I always walk along the tracks along the sea front and cross back and over all the time, as there is no other way to get from town to the path along by the sea.

erica74

I've walked across the luas tracks and train tracks at designated crossings. I can't recall ever walking across a dual carriageway or motorway (crossing a motorway is lunacy).

Gavinz

Hammer89 wrote: »

And crossing a Luas track isn't!?

Exactly. Crossing a Luas track isn't.

Birneybau

This place, hard to believe, is getting worse.

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

Hammer89 wrote: »

And crossing a Luas track isn't!?

what? if the trams were travelling at a constant 100kph and there were several of them at a time then yeah, but no, they go about 20kph on average and have that bell clanging when they are a hundred yards away, so yeah, very safe.

c_man

Shenshen wrote: »

What? Why would you even.... seriously?

To get to the other side.

lawred2

Hammer89 wrote: »

And crossing a Luas track isn't!?

seriously?

Compared to a motorway.

Why the stupid?

ArmaniJeanss

M50 at Blanchardstown during the last major big snow (Dec 2010??)
Had to walk home from town, couldn't find the entrance to the overhead pedestrian walkway, traffic at a complete standstill so said feck it.

josip

Usually cross 6 live lines once every few weeks with the kid to see how the road building on the other side is going.
Glad of the chance to teach him basic rail smarts and to experience the smell of the stones and creosote on a hot day.

Hammer89

Raiden Drab Jib wrote: »

what? if the trams were travelling at a constant 100kph and there were several of them at a time then yeah, but no, they go about 20kph on average and have that bell clanging when they are a hundred yards away, so yeah, very safe.

I was joking.

MRnotlob606

I went across a boreen on a tramps back

AidanadiA

My 24th birthday, stuck on the wrong side of the 10 lane motorway in Amsterdam at 12.30am.
We had gone to get food in this walk over service station but they close the shutter in the middle at midnight. We had three choices, 1) stay till morning. 2) get a taxi 40 mins in the opposite direction to comeback 40 mins in the right direction or 3) run across 10 lanes of traffic.

diomed

Walked across the Stillorgan dual carriageway on Tuesday on the way to a hospital appointment.
If i got hit and survived I was close to the repair shop.

El Weirdo

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Dual carriageway: the last working day before the 405 bus started going into the industrial estate i was working in.

It wasn't so bad by then, because they taken out thr roundabout and installed traffic lights.

Before that, it was a nightmare crossing which i had to do twice a day.

Why? Because it was the only way to get to work.

I think I used to work in that estate.

freshpopcorn

Crossing a stretch of the M50 would be hard but crossing a rural stretch of the M8 would be possible if you had to. I haven't done it tough.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I walk across the Dublin/Belfast railway line about once a year.

Irish Guitarist

About 28 years ago when I was 13 or 14. I was with a couple of friends and I was reluctant to cross. One of the friends said sarcastically "are you afraid you'll be hit by a train?" as if the possibility of a train appearing on the train tracks was the most far fetched thing he had ever heard.