Cork traffic
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What city council si doing is an absolute disaster and they continue doing it.
One of many examples here is tightening the corner radius on Harbourview road. It's more difficult to manoeuvre a regular car here, let alone a lorry.
This isn't the driver's fault, this is obviously caused by the corner to be too tight. Non sense. Absolute non sense.
Any large vehicle just has to use the cycle lane to be able to continue.
Clearly city council has no idea what they are doing.
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same junction
cyclist almost got knocked down, not the driver's fault. Corner is way too tight. He was shaking his head, apparently had no idea it was better before and it wouldn't happen if the city council left it the way it was.
cars here at this stage had to stop and let the truck go. Strange really. But hey, that's the standard now at this ruined junction. Thanks cork city council, well done.
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Please explain in detail why.
Road should be suitable to all traffic. City council ruined this junction, I see it almost every day what's happening here. It was perfeclty fine before, but because they tightened the radius cars are all over the place. Not the people's fault the layout changed for the worse.
People never drove like this before, they only started after the changes. It's simply because... yes, tighter radius. More difficult manouvering, extra effort for no apparent reason.
whose fault it is that he has to use the cycle lane to make that turn huh? He slowed down significantly and I had to also before making it to the lights.
I think it's clear what's wrong here. But hey, maybe I am wrong, maybe it's the best junction in Cork city, county and the whole country.
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I don't know if you know this area but there's almost no pedestrians walking here, like ever. It's rare to see someone walking there really so I am asking this: what pedestrians?
Way more cars are driving through this junction, inconvenient for hundreds of people just for that one guy with his dog that crosses here once an hour definitely doesn't seem right. When you look at google street view and look at some of the older pictures you'll see the place is deserted, but you'll always see cars. It's pathetic the whole junction now. It doesn't make logical sense and it's making driving through here worse.
Also it's an inconvenience to be zig zaging so everyone just goes straight right here, like before. This new layout is crap and does nothing positive for pedestrians, it's a huge inconvenience for people in cars, that use this junction every day.
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so you do a sharp turn for no reason (trying not to hit the car in the turning lane in the process, Nissan driver leaving space as we can all see) then go straight for a bit, then go slightly right, then again left. It's annoying and in no way progressive. Sorry but this is absolute total garbage.
People will simply drive straight, because that's the normal way. Nobody is handing back a driving licence no I don't think so, this layout is trash. And will be trash until it's changed to what it was before. I see something like this every single time I drive through here.
It seems to me that pedestrians are this type of saints in traffic that need to be protected at all costs. Pedestrians are also idiots and there's plenty of them. So yeah, I am not a big fan of pedestrians. I am a pedestrian myself and I don't feel the need for more safety. It's not the junctions that need changing, people need to stop being dopes. Tigher corner radius does absolutely nothing.
I read somewhere wider footpaths will encourage walking. No, people will walk wherever they want no matter how wide the footpath is wide or how safe the junction is.
on the right, walking into moving trafiic like a total moron. Two lanes of cars. Clever girl.
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With the old layout the truck would have had more space without almost knocking down that cyclist. And being a professional driver of this huge vehicle he knows that he can't go fast with that whole thing so he'll slow down to appropriate speed.
If I was a cyclist here and would get knocked down by truck I would definitely make the city council responsible for it also. That junction is now more dangerous, it was better before in all aspects.
btw. if you go straight to Apple there's a turning lane facing you. I mean come on. Like if somebody isn's faimilar witht his area, and approaching this junction and out of nowhere there's a car that's head on. Never anywhere in Europe I saw something like this. Wtf is this, seriously.
zig zaging like idiots here everywhere, it's not right.
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Those vehicles are big and they don't fit here anymore. Speed was never an issue here what are you talking about? I drive through that junction almost every day for several years so I know what I am talking about.
Look at this Hyundai slowing and stopping to let that truck go. It really doesn't work. It's just not, no matter what you think about this, how good idea this is this new layout is stupid.
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