Neighbourhood Watch Merged Thread

As someone that cycles most places (walking too slow, driving too frustrating) I welcome the pedestrian crossing.

Obviously you're not a fan so, what would you suggest for pedestrians trying to cross this junction?

They over develop the area and existing roads are unable to cope. Then when the roads are at gridlock they come back and add the pedestrian and cycling infrastructure they omitted in the first place. But they do it so they are double stops every there. A junction followed by a nearby pedestrian crossing. Coolmine crossing is a classic one.

Just makes every gridlock worse.

You might say just avoid it by not taking the car it driving around it. But they've done this on almost every route in and out of D15. So it's impossible to avoid it.

Large parts of D15 are just one bottleneck after another.

Pedestrian bridges and underpasses aren't really viable either.

I disagree on both counts.

The Snugborough Road junction is an improvement in a number of ways. Traffic moves more freely, pedestrians have better chances to cross, the enhancement of the underground tunnel to Waterville and Tolka Valley from the garda station is great for dogwalkers, and the number of cycle lanes has vastly increased.

There has been a large increase in traffic around Coolmine Industrial Estate in recent years, and that crossing is one of the few that isn't pedestrianised and needs it.

Fingal have done a great job for pedestrians recently, with also the addition of the lights on Clonsilla Road.

There are two sets of lights on the Snugborough road at the upper entrance to Waterville, within 50m of each other. It's a disaster because lots of people don't stop at the first one on red and move up to the next lights which ultimately blocks the exit from Waterville if you want to turn right