GhostyMcGhost wrote: » And much better enforcement to prevent these incidents Accidents should be the exception rather than the rule
gilly2308 wrote: » It beggars belief how slow the authorities are to attend accidents or move accidents from our main thoroughfares, in most other countries any accident bar a major one would be moved asap, whereas in good old backward Ireland the Police stroll out whenever it suits them. I have lost count of the amount of stupid rear end accidents that I've come across on the N7 or M50, that happened at least an hour previously, and there they are still blocking one or two lanes, with not a Garda in sight, and half of Dublin in gridlock. I've always said that we should have a permanent Garda presence on the M50 during peak times, and likewise on the M7, M4 and M1. We also need to bring in regulated speed limits that can be changed to suit the conditions, with tougher penalties for those who causes accidents (particularly a rear ender) especially if it can be proved that they were on their phone at the time of the accident which is often the case.
CeilingFly wrote: » gilly2308 wrote: » It beggars belief how slow the authorities are to attend accidents or move accidents from our main thoroughfares, in most other countries any accident bar a major one would be moved asap, whereas in good old backward Ireland the Police stroll out whenever it suits them. I have lost count of the amount of stupid rear end accidents that I've come across on the N7 or M50, that happened at least an hour previously, and there they are still blocking one or two lanes, with not a Garda in sight, and half of Dublin in gridlock. I've always said that we should have a permanent Garda presence on the M50 during peak times, and likewise on the M7, M4 and M1. We also need to bring in regulated speed limits that can be changed to suit the conditions, with tougher penalties for those who causes accidents (particularly a rear ender) especially if it can be proved that they were on their phone at the time of the accident which is often the case. Its nothing to do with gardai or any other body. Its to do the the drivers. Unless there is an injury there is absolutely no need for the gardai to be involved but the probeklm is with stuipd motorists who insist on calling gardai and leaving their cars exactly where they are until the gardai arrive. the first thing a garda does is tell them to move the cars to the hard shoulder. There no real difference in time attending an accident here compare to other countries - statistics show that and the UK is not much better than here with minor accidents causing huge delays due to the "wait for police" attitude. (I used to drive length and breath of UK for over 10 years) So don't rush to blame authorites (its a total cop out based on no facts) - motorists are to blame, both for the accidents and also for refusing to move their vehicles to the hard shoulder as quickly as possible to minimise delays to other motorists. More enforcent of undertaking and tailgating is required and that's where the authorites can improve immensely
AugustusMinimus wrote: » Tell me. Why are people undertaking on this road? Because the Gardai never enforce correct lane usage. This is by far the biggest issue on the Naas dual carriageway.
sdanseo wrote: » Well, I think we can safely say the works won't be starting tomorrow! :rolleyes:
Tyson Fury wrote: » Traffic should be nice and handy as some people will pull sickies and the schools are off.
spacetweek wrote: » Things looking bad and a lot of people being asked not to come in to work. Actually the road might be deserted at this rate.
sdanseo wrote: » It was pretty busy inbound around 6.30am when I was headed outbound towards work. (Then of course they had us gone by 11, should have just told us not to bloody bother).
benny79 wrote: » Same here! and I texted my boss Sunday night and he laughed at me! Drove in and sent home at 11! still the drive in was bliss with no traffic... Petty its not like that everyday
_Kaiser_ wrote: » I genuinely don't think the main problem is the amount of traffic itself.. the main issues I see every day are tailgating, people cutting in front of others without looking/indicating or just out of ignorance (and lane-weaving to do so), and the dawdlers holding up traffic for no reason and/or tapping the brakes every few seconds. An extra lane won't do much to address any of that I just expect the southbound queue to start coming up to the M7/M9 split rather than the ball at Naas.
Truckermal wrote: » Amen! The same for the M50 aswell! I seen it when sitting in the Aux lane for the N7 people come down in lane 2 and 3 and cut across everyone causing everyone to jump on the brakes! Plenty of d1ckheads in trucks and coaches at it too..
SoupyNorman wrote: » 3 simple words will help this problem. Average Speed Cameras.
_Kaiser_ wrote: » "Speed" isn't usually the issue in my experience as above... it's reckless behaviour like lane-weaving and dawdling/incorrect lane usage ASC's won't do anything to detect those issues.. what's needed is AGS to get out and actually enforce more than "speed" and tax disc checks
SoupyNorman wrote: » Speed most certainly is a contributory factor, people speeding are forced to brake far more frequently this in turn causes ribbon braking which causes traffic to build. If everybody was forced to drive at 60kph at rush hour I would say there would be an instantaneous ease of issues.
Anatom wrote: » Loath as I am to derail this thread from posting about the traffic between Kildare and Dublin back to, you know, the actual topic, but someone said yesterday that work had already begun on the Sallins by-pass. Does anyone here know whether that's true and, if so, where is this work they're speaking of?
davidm20 wrote: » Sallins By-Pass Seem to have started a little work in the last week. The area around Link 1 is been boarded off
davidm20 wrote: » Check my post #882 @ 05-09-2017. That post has an attached image
