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NRA Traffic website and Northern info

  • 17-05-2009 11:14PM
    #1
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,480 ✭✭✭✭


    Since when did the NRA have access to what the Northern Irish VMS signs are saying:

    http://www.nratraffic.ie/vms/default.asp


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  • #2
    icdg
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    Its probably to do with their Dublin - Newry travel times initative that the NRA and NI Roads Service are both involved in...

    http://www.nra.ie/News/PressReleases/htmltext,11447,en.html


  • #3
    L1011
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    Doesn't explain why they'd have bothered putting the M2 and M3 ones in though. Must be a case of having access to the NIRS system and just using all the data.

    There are also some Irish VMS's missing from that list - they have one on the entire N7 when there are at least two coming towards Newlands X, and theres one (with a ghosted burnt in message) on the Kildare Bypass (I think)...


  • #4
    Our man in Havana
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    There are 2. One before J11 southbound and another just after the start of the M7 northbound at Portlaoise.


  • #5
    Zoney
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    That one at Portlaoise is from pre-Kildare/Monastevin bypass days, and was for suggesting diversion via Stradbally/Athy when the traffic through the towns on the old N7 was particularly insane. I'm not sure it was a VMS though - was it not a fixed message that could be switched on/off?


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