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Traffic question - Dublin to Cork on a Friday - best time to leave

  • 20-07-2012 09:29AM
    #1
    RebelScorned
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭


    Heya

    I'll be going from Ballsbridge, Dublin to Cork this evening, just wondering when the best time to leave after lunch is...

    I don't want to be sitting in the Red Cow for an hour but would like to get home as soon as possible because I have an early appointment tomorrow and need to get sorted.

    Thanks!


Comments

  • #2
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    I dont think the Red Cow is an issue anymore now it has been free-flowed. Newlands Cross is the only likely spot to cause any delay and I don't think thats too bad nowadays anyway.


  • #3
    MrDerp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭MrDerp


    Used to live in the gasworks on Barrow st near ballsbridge, and I'm from Cork so I went down a lot.

    Ballsbridge to Red Cow can be a nightmare on a Friday. The town leg is your enemy and I wouldn't leave after 4pm, I'd wait until 6pm if that was the case - a 3.30pm leaving time should be comfortable enough when it's not a bank holiday weekend.

    After the red cow, however, any time after 4 you're gonna be in annoying traffic. It's full of idiots driving too close to the car in front and then jamming on, so you need to leave good distance, but then another idiot cuts into your safe driving space forcing you back further.

    I'd aim to get through the red cow by 3.30 to avoid the worst of this, but it's uncomfortable until the M9 turn off regardless.

    Me? I'm sick of it, so I never hit the red cow earlier than 7, 7.30 :)


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