So the balls-up has started since last night which makes Fairview from clontarf to Edges corner a single lane with bollards down the centre.
This will be a permanent feature and works will take 21 months.
Local access is allowed.
I live on a street off North Strand. We were not told local access was allowed.
The light sequence has definitely been shortened but the main delay are cars filtering through to Fairview strand just blocking the road when they get caught in no man's land as the lights change. They should have put a big yellow box there.
It’s sort of ridiculous that people need a yellow box to remind them not to block a junction.
Completely agree with you yet it happens all the time.
Local access is not allowed, except via the (as yet) unaffected west other side of the road. If you are coming out of a side street, you must turn towards fairview, and when coming back, you must go around via Ballybough.
Pedestrians also aren't supposed to cross on red but they do risking their own life and putting in danger others (e.g., cyclists). So many times I've seen garda crossing on red or garda speeding in a car, using wrong lane or using phone while driving - and all that with no lights/siren.
They should all be fined/prosecuted.
The non-enforcement of laws in this country is pathetic.
What makes you think that? And plenty of cars going from Fairview right through past the five lamps. Does that still count as local to you?
Well they shouldn't but we are in a situation now where the govt loves legislation but does not back it up with enforcement. Were a govt to come into power and every law be enforced we would be in very restrictive place which would cause widespread anger and possibly unrest.
Anyone remember Fianna Fail's zero tolerance election promise?
I pay no attention to election promises. 😂
All moving fine on the Northside today. Didn't hear any major issues at the weekend. I was on a bus on Friday heading into town. The 5 lamps heading into town (and presumably the other way too) have a much longer wait. There is a very decent right turn filter for turning off Portland Row and onto Amiens St.
Also watched a guy come out at the Annesley Pub where there are huge markings on the road, no right turn signs and cones directing you left there, to drive around them and turn right and head in towards town in the bus lane. Time for AGS to be out in their new uniforms policing this section before the "locals" make up their own rules.
I note that Google maps have updated their streetview imagery through Fairview & N. Strand to footage captured in May & June 2022 when the works completed were limited to a few cones put in place.
The queues of cars heading outbound which don't appear to be moving should give an indication of the probelm to those that refuse to acknowledge the congestion.
What is also somewhat satisfying is that across the road from Duggan's jewellers, three of the four legal spaces are empty!
The diversion will be removed by the end of the month anyway because of all the chaos according to posters on here
Once the kids go back to school and it starts raining, that's when the real chaos begins apparently.
This year will definitely be unlike every other September when the schools went back, everyone adjusted their commuting times accordingly and there was no congestion or additional delays at all. The good old times, we used to call them 😃
Well only after a lot of grumbling for a number of weeks about traffic jams, not being able to get on buses etc.
It is never seamless!
Saville pl going outbound is total gridlock due to the removal of the left turn onto amiens st, traffic is backed up across the liffey upto Pearse St, bravo Owen keegan.
Yeah, I got stuck in that last week. But that section was already bad anyway.
No one commenting locally that they missed appointments or that their elderly aunty couldn't get into town. Funny that
Imagine major road works causing traffic congestion! It’s a total shock, I tells ya. Owen should look at all the other cities that performed water mains renewal under main roads and managed it without any traffic problems at all.
Yesterday, around lunchtime, I went from Leixlip to Clontarf and back via the works and there was no congestion. There were a number of private cars travelling inbound but not too many. There were no queues of traffic nor were there any other traffic issues.
So, if you managed to see a queue of traffic two weeks into the construction works, then that tells me one simple thing: there are too many people who make the choice to drive through extremely well publicised road works.
Is there anything work-wise actually happening on the North Strand at the moment? I see lots of barriers and cones, but no workers.
No members available to do upcoming VIP escorts so that gives you an idea of how short on man power they are.
Do you even know where I'm talking about. Stop trolling
Trolling.
I grew up near enough to that area. I went to school in Fairview. Yes, I think it is fair to say I know the area very well.
What has that got to do with anything though? My point still stands - the only thing causing traffic congestion there is the number of drivers who choose to drive there!
Your point is null and void, there is now no left filter lane so the straight through lane has to take the additional cars right until the left turn, but I'm wasting my time explaining to an anti-car twitter cyclist.
The junction has been narrowed so why are people still continuing to use it knowing that they will just add to the congestion in and around the road works? Traffic congestion is solely caused by people who make the choice to drive. It isn't caused by pedestrians, cyclists, train or bus users, horseback riders, people on scooters or people in hot air balloons causing it - would you like to prove me wrong like a mature adult or are you happy to throw out childish insults at anyone who challenges your obvious bias?
Oh, and for the record, I'm not anti-car so if you wish for me to take your insults personally, then you'll need to try harder!
It's not that many additional cars, as the left lane was fairly short anyway. People will learn to adapt. I know I'l be turning off right at Sheriff St. Upper now anyway. I'm sure plenty of other drivers will too.
