JMT2016 wrote: » I like the idea of the footbridge over to the clock tower but that's not much help if you have do the shopping in town!
Mulbert wrote: » You must have come down dock rd, along the quay, up the mall, Parnell st and manor st at about 9 o'clock in the morning. I live in ferrybank for over 12yrs and it has never taken 50mins to get to any where in town bar an accident or event happening in town.
Cabaal wrote: » Works for people in Amsterdam though, get a cargo bike
JMT2016 wrote: » It takes so long now to get from ferrybank into the city it's not funny!! Almost 50 minutes to get to Poleberry it took me during the week - I'd have been parked up in Kilkenny City by the time I got into town!
marlin vs wrote: » Why not just go to Kilkenny where there is no expanse of a fine river.
Mulbert wrote: » Don't go down The Quay, it's like saying that it took 4 hours to get to Dublin but I went through Kilkenny Town, Carlow, Kilcullen and Naas. Why would anyone who knows the town use the quay to get to poleberry from ferrybank?
JMT2016 wrote: » It takes so long now to get from ferrybank into the city it's not funny!! Almost 50 minutes to get to Poleberry it took me during the week - I'd have been parked up in Kilkenny City by the time I got into town. Madness. This isn't a rant about the quays - I like what they are trying to do - but really there has to be something done here - people shouldn't have to be going over the toll bridge miles out of the way just to get a few bits in town in a reasonable time. Would they ever think of putting in a bridge like somewhere connecting Ross Abbey with Ardkeen? It would help ferrybank folk getting to the hospital as well. I like the idea of the footbridge over to the clock tower but that's not much help if you have do the shopping in town!
Harry Palmr wrote: » There is literally nowhere to put the link road on the Waterford side of the river. The other issue is that even if there were the ORR at Ardkeen is a pathetic two lane road and already overloaded with traffic movement.
Harry Palmr wrote: » The only remotely sensible thing to do would be to put another link from the N25 down to near Bellview cross the river at Faithlegge and run a road along the riverside at Kings Channel and then join the Dunmore road at Ballymaclode and then run a new Outer Outer Ring road link across to the ORR at the Airport road roundabout. This would kill two birds as the Dunmore road traffic would have a quicker more direct route to the industrial west of the City Something like this! (anyone got 100m euro?!)
BBM77 wrote: » They are looking at building a new bridge, very early stages admittedly.
Harry Palmr wrote: » As I say though that just empties more traffic into a fit to burst road system - anyone who commutes in and out of the City along the Dunmore Road knows what it's like every work day, esp if there are an roadworks
Jamie2k9 wrote: » They could always go underground if there is no suitable overground route....its about time they gave use a tunnel like Dublin/Cork/Limerick :rolleyes:
BBM77 wrote: » JMT2016 wrote: » It takes so long now to get from ferrybank into the city it's not funny!! Almost 50 minutes to get to Poleberry it took me during the week - I'd have been parked up in Kilkenny City by the time I got into town. Madness. This isn't a rant about the quays - I like what they are trying to do - but really there has to be something done here - people shouldn't have to be going over the toll bridge miles out of the way just to get a few bits in town in a reasonable time. Would they ever think of putting in a bridge like somewhere connecting Ross Abbey with Ardkeen? It would help ferrybank folk getting to the hospital as well. I like the idea of the footbridge over to the clock tower but that's not much help if you have do the shopping in town! They are looking at building a new bridge, very early stages admittedly.http://www.munster-express.ie/front-page-news/general-stories/new-bridge-mooted-near-maypark-lane/
beauf wrote: » I suppose they never considered people would prefer to sit in traffic for 50mins than pay 2
Jamie2k9 wrote: » The long detour that bypass would take make it worth sitting in traffic. I dont see the toll been the problem. 50 mns in this case is not normal even if the quay is that bad.
Dunmoreroader wrote: » Think I saw the proposed route for the bridge mooted for Maypark Lane coming right through the entrance to the nursing home; Its doable and a lot of the traffic that Harry Palmr refers to is not just going into the city but also includes lots going north across Rice bridge which would divert across a Maypark-Christendom alternative e.g Dunmore holidaymakers, UHW hospital visitors/patients from Wex/KK/Carlow etc. Dunmore road residents working in Ferrybank/KK etc. (its not oneway Journeyman 8). Totally agree - these people are totally ignored by the current set up. Dunmoreroader wrote: » The model drawings I've seen show it as high-level so no interference with river traffic. So just the moo-la from the government and the NIMBY objectors in Freshfield & Maypark to worry about. So should be in place by the 20's................. 2120's. I don't think it will take that long - the delays are going to get much worse and it will become obvious that a new traffic bridge will be the priority not a cycle path Clock-Tower to Ferrybank.
Dunmoreroader wrote: » The model drawings I've seen show it as high-level so no interference with river traffic. So just the moo-la from the government and the NIMBY objectors in Freshfield & Maypark to worry about. So should be in place by the 20's................. 2120's.
Dunmoreroader wrote: » Think I saw the proposed route for the bridge mooted for Maypark Lane coming right through the entrance to the nursing home; Its doable and a lot of the traffic that Harry Palmr refers to is not just going into the city but also includes lots going north across Rice bridge which would divert across a Maypark-Christendom alternative e.g Dunmore holidaymakers, UHW hospital visitors/patients from Wex/KK/Carlow etc. Dunmore road residents working in Ferrybank/KK etc. (its not oneway Journeyman 8).
JMT2016 wrote: » Exactly, it would be like taking the M50 to get from Santry to Dun Laoighaire. The price isn't the problem it's just the physical distance doesn't make it a decent alternative. Oh yes 50 mins is not the norm - as I said, I got every red light in heavy traffic.... but it is still shocking that the main arteries through the city are so clogged it takes ridiculous amounts of time to get around.
O Riain wrote: » Like to know where they are going to get the money from. The government has to subsidise the toll bridge when the numbers are not up to scratch so if they helped fund a second bridge, that subsequently reduces the traffic on the toll, then it would be costing more than the just capital investment for the second bridge. The bridge would also need to be lifted otherwise we will no longer be able to have ships in the city centre.
