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Traffic lights

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  • #32
    Sauve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    31 (now an ironic 32) posts on the existence, or lack thereof of traffic lights in Roscommon.........



    *closes account*
    :pac:


  • #33
    DeltaWhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭DeltaWhite


    There are lights in Ballaghaderreen.... Main St.


  • #34
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    ^ correct


  • #35
    DeltaWhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 666 ✭✭✭DeltaWhite


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Your better off without them. The new traffic lights around Galway are a ****ing disaster.


    Really? I havent been since last year, I heard they were totally re-vamped! Are they really that bad?


  • #36
    cazzak79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭cazzak79


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Your better off without them. The new traffic lights around Galway are a ****ing disaster.

    Don't know why they took the roundabouts away


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  • #37
    Hippies!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Hippies!


    DeltaWhite wrote: »
    There are lights in Ballaghaderreen.... Main St.

    They're not the type he's looking for...


  • #38
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    DeltaWhite wrote: »
    Really? I havent been since last year, I heard they were totally re-vamped! Are they really that bad?
    Ya, they're totally geared towards the traffic coming off the motorway so if your coming in the N17 your stuck in a tailback out to the Citroen dealership.


  • #39
    peterk675
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 166 ✭✭peterk675


    There's constantly traffic lights somewhere with the council going mad for the work these days! :pac:


  • #40
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    peterk675 wrote: »
    There's constantly traffic lights somewhere with the council going mad for the work these days! :pac:
    They've got budgets to squander! Public institutions are punished for saving money so they're wasting it left, right and centre at the moment. We got a free driveway at work they where so desperate to waste as much tarmac as they could before the end of the year.


  • #41
    blackwhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,992 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    donvito99 wrote: »
    Leitrim got their first set of traffic lights in 2003.

    Go ask the nerds in the Roads forum for a laugh.


    Leitrim replaced them with pedestrian lights a year or two ago.


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  • #42
    peterk675
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 166 ✭✭peterk675


    ScumLord wrote: »
    They've got budgets to squander! Public institutions are punished for saving money so they're wasting it left, right and centre at the moment. We got a free driveway at work they where so desperate to waste as much tarmac as they could before the end of the year.

    But the thing is Roscommon's roads are still dreadful, even with all the budgets they're trying to get rid of ! :mad:


  • #43
    RichT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭RichT


    The amount of my life I have lost at them damn level-crossing lights in Castlerea make up for the rest of the county's lack of traffic lights. :mad:


  • #44
    RoscommonTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 922 ✭✭✭RoscommonTom


    is that true about leitrim having no lights too, it means were not the only ones so


  • #45
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    RoscommonTom wrote: »
    Theirs pedestrian lights alright but no traffic lights. I think thetes traffic lights in Carrick so that rules leitrim out, as for athlone those lights are in westmeath

    Is Carrick -on-Shannon not in Co. Shannon? Leitrim doesn't actually exist, it's simply a place parent in Sligo scare their kids with by telling them they'll be sent there if they're bold.


  • #46
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Hey give me a yellow card beside my post.

    OP, leave the Brians alone.


  • #47
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    CJC999 wrote: »
    Is Carrick -on-Shannon not in Co. Shannon? Leitrim doesn't actually exist, it's simply a place parent in Sligo scare their kids with by telling them they'll be sent there if they're bold.

    No its in Leitrim. Although anyone I know from there claim that its in Roscommon.

    Even Leitrim people dont like being from the place.

    :D


  • #48
    RoscommonTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 922 ✭✭✭RoscommonTom


    They should get rid of leitrim alright, sure the road to roscommon is the only good thing to come out of it


  • #49
    Brendan Flowers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭Brendan Flowers


    RoscommonTom wrote: »
    is that true about leitrim having no lights too, it means were not the only ones so

    On the way into Athlone beside the Army barracks, Roscommon has traffic lights


  • #50
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Probably none left in the country because the fúckers in Sligo County Council have bought them all. We're wall to wall traffic lights here, even Bono wrote a song about it when he got stuck here (it was originally called City of Blinding Traffic Lights).


  • #51
    BUBBLE WRAP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭BUBBLE WRAP


    Hippies! wrote: »
    Thanks, here?
    https://maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&ll=53.970637,-8.302601&spn=0.00178,0.005284&sll=53.970754,-8.302673&sspn=0.000896,0.002642&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=53.970754,-8.302674&panoid=72awy0nAZh1UbMXjhUniNA&cbp=12,195.75,,0,9.23

    They never go red, there green 24hr a day. :D

    EDIT: As are these, which are on a one way street. :Dhttps://maps.google.ie/maps?hl=en&ll=53.970637,-8.302601&spn=0.00178,0.005284&sll=53.970754,-8.302673&sspn=0.000896,0.002642&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=53.970754,-8.302674&panoid=72awy0nAZh1UbMXjhUniNA&cbp=12,195.75,,0,9.23


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  • #52
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    Brendan Flowers wrote: »

    On the way into Athlone beside the Army barracks, Roscommon has traffic lights
    Yeah, you're right, where you can turn right into Battery park. I'd bring it up on google maps but I haven't a clue how to.


  • #53
    blackwhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,992 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    Rasheed wrote: »
    Yeah, you're right, where you can turn right into Battery park. I'd bring it up on google maps but I haven't a clue how to.

    I'm pretty sure the county boundaries were changes a while back, bringing all of Athlone south of bypass into Westmeath.

    See the OSI map here..... http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,603425,741111,5,10

    The county boundary is the very light line that leaves the Shannon south of the town at the canal mouth, and goes diagonal across to R246 at Monksland.


  • #54
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    blackwhite wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the county boundaries were changes a while back, bringing all of Athlone south of bypass into Westmeath.

    See the OSI map here..... http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,603425,741111,5,10

    The county boundary is the very light line that leaves the Shannon south of the town at the canal mouth, and goes diagonal across to R246 at Monksland.

    I never actually knew that! I know there was a lot if confusion regarding people's addresses like 'Athlone, Co. Roscommon' vs. 'Athlone, Co.Westmeath, especially when registering for things. At least it's clear now!


  • #55
    Bummer1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭Bummer1234


    Theres no trafficlights in Co.Cavan either that i know off...The council just stick in roundabouts beside roundabouts to make a mess of everything.....If the council had it there way....They wouldn't be turned on because of "Cut backs"...


  • #56
    Brendan Flowers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,397 ✭✭✭Brendan Flowers


    Yeah it was only done for postal reasons. West of the Shannon is Roscommon.


  • #57
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    there are lights at the garage on the way up to the racecourse


  • #58
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,541 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Brendan Flowers wrote: »
    Yeah it was only done for postal reasons. West of the Shannon is Roscommon.

    west of the shannon is connacht but now parts of westmeath are in connacht :rolleyes:


  • #59
    blackwhite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,992 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    Brendan Flowers wrote: »
    Yeah it was only done for postal reasons. West of the Shannon is Roscommon.

    It's not just postal reasons, Westmeath County Council are now responsible for the roads/water/sewerage there as well.


  • #60
    RoscommonTom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 922 ✭✭✭RoscommonTom


    I think their in west meath lads


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  • #61
    Milk & Honey
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    Brendan Flowers wrote: »
    Yeah it was only done for postal reasons. West of the Shannon is Roscommon.
    It was nothing to do with post. It was administrative.

    Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898

    County of Roscommon

    The existing judicial county of Roscommon less the portions of the towns of Athlone and Ballinasloe situated therein
    Part of the judicial county of Galway (Rosmoylan ED)
    Part of the judicial county of Mayo (Ballaghaderreen, Edmondstown EDs)


    County of Westmeath

    The existing judicial county of Westmeath
    Part of the judicial county of Roscommon (the portion of the town of Athlone situated therein)


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