Should roundabouts in/around urban areas be banned outright??

I am not getting you… You say Roundabout should be banned because of Cocaine…

Roundabouts are safer than Traffic Lights… Look at the evidence…

So if you say they should be banned for safety reasons I suggest you llok at the data (I have posted earlier)

Agreed, the roundabout installed are not always considering all the road users.. I asked out local councillors and traffic guys and they said that all the rules were written in a document ( in Dublin) and they are just following those rules…

Some of the stuff is highly dangerous and lacks total common sense…

There is a new traffic light pedestrian crossing on Blackrock at the end of Galway Prom… So that famous Galway Sunset is right behind the lights in the evening… Very easy to miss those lights, there is no raise in the road, every thing is a silhouette…

Common sense would have it raised, Sensor light on a pelican crossing and bight Organge globes so you won't miss it… I practically guarantee you someone is getting hit at the crossing…

traffic has gotten worse because the volume of cars has massively increases.

back in the days of the roundabout city, traffic would still be chronic at rush hour around most roundabouts. Traffic lights are a definite improvement, especially headford road which used to be total gridlock

One thing I dislike about roundabouts is the "medium sized ones" often have 2 lanes approaching but 1 lane on the roundabout itself. Sometimes there is just about enough room for 2 lanes but drivers treat it as a single lane anyway.

There should be a design rule where each lane on approach should be able to enter the roundabout to its own marked lane.

Normally, if you rear-end someone.. its your fault.

Not on a roundabout. I read a case about a driver who stopped on a roundabout.. he was rammed from behind (fnar).

Guy who crashed into him was in the clear.

Its illegal to stop on a roundabout.

Not if they are raised… So the Pedestrian crossing is at Path level and cars remain calm when coming off… Without that, Yes, drivers could be coming off the roundabout at speed…

Properly build Roundabouts are great. Since Galway has replaced some of there bigger roundabout traffic has got much worse, they are confusing and dangerous as there is a lot of breaking of lights in frustration (long waiting before getting another green)… We got the usual excuses of 'they are set up right and the smart system needs to be tweeked', sorry that is just BS….

Roundabouts are less aggressive when married with raised pelican crossings that light up when a pedestrian approaches them.. Not button to press, there is just a flashing Yellow light on top…

It turns out the that light has to flashing yellow by law (not done on the continent anymore). My solution would be that it would light up when a pedestrian approaches and

Yes whereas we have a lot of lower quality ones where they just provide dipped kerbs and a triangular pedestrian refuge right at the roundabout itself.

Generally speaking, I don't mind roundabouts because they're passive traffic management (no lights) but I think the design of them seems to have been a little bit of a free-for-all, and the choice to implement them seems to be a bit scattergun.

Dumbell interchange? Perfect

Urban area in a housing estate beside a shop with no provisions for vulnerable users? Not great: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8eA8t3PEbxdmoLqA7

I've stayed at that Clayton many times but I've never walked more than between vehicle and building. Even the route from the hotel to the garage is pure crap: in Google there's somebody taking the extremely obvious desire-line between the two that the planners couldn't figure out. The footpaths all around that mess are like a lesson in how not to do things. They even randomly put a "yield" sign (for pedestrians) on one of the traffic islands…but only in one direction!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/mmmuNVG452TZUZwW8

Yes, this is exactly the type of thing I was thinking of when you brought up "urban roundabouts". Abysmal.

I hadn't spotted it. That is a glorious cycle track in fairness. Very impressive.

Had the misfortune of coming up Dark Road tonight and seeing them for the 1st time, 2 & a half minutes waiting for the dirty things to go green. Unbelievable that they would put those things there, they will be the bane of Ballinacurra, Whitegate and the other villages past there that use the R630.

The lights under the Bypass bridge at the Ballick Road are unbelievable and have to be seen in person to be believed. traffic lights on peoples driveways, lol. Would be a dream wonderland for the posters that want more of the f*cking things.

Took me a minute to understand what you meant! People think they can enter the roundabout as other traffic exits? Ouch.

Poor design in fairness but at least the designers did put in "yields" on the cycle track, so they seem to have understood that the issue would occur…but didn't manage to get a protected design in.

This one might have resulted from that weird phase where the NTA and TII were experimenting mad with roundabout design, in a frantic effort to not just co-opt what the Dutch had perfected (and what all of us were telling them to just copy. In the end they waited until UK did a crap version of the Dutch design, and then copied the UK design and improved some of the defects. The new set of Irish designs now are ALMOST the same as the Dutch ones at least.

The town looks dense from above but when you're on the ground there it's surprisingly very spacious. Houses there mostly have a yard too with sheds and enough space for tools etc.

With Ireland there's a fear factor involved, other people are to be viewed with suspicion and mistrust so high density evokes fearful images of violence, drugs and crime. Now some of that is valid as we have a useless police force and a joke of a justice system too. The people in that town including the youth seemed more mature and although drugs were plentiful and the residents knew how to party the associated carry on such as fights and criminal damage were very rare in comparison to Irish towns with the same population such as Ennis, Kilkenny or Tralee.