Bypass of Ballina

monument · 19-09-2014 03:18PM #1

Why is bypassing Ballina not a polictal issue?

Bit funny given that the town has two TDs.

The town is congested with traffic, including a large amount of HGVs, making it unattractive to shoppers and any posable investment.

Unlike Castlebar, it does not even have inner relief roads to at least take trucks away from narrow residential and town centre streets.

I'm not expecting that the bypass would be built soon but if it's not pushed from its stalled stage of the end of route selection and onto design, then it will take another 10-20 years before we see progress.

Alqua · 22-09-2014 10:28PM

Not directly responding to your post OP, but an observation: traffic in Ballina moved well before they disastrously changed the system in 2010 (taking away traffic lights, strange one-way streets, speeding around the bridges, changing lanes and merging - confusion and chaos to this day).

I still make the same journeys by car and on foot, and they all take much longer and are more dangerous now. This has pained me no end for the last four years! It was a death-blow to the town in so many ways.

SamforMayo · 23-09-2014 08:15PM

Alqua wrote: »

Not directly responding to your post OP, but an observation: traffic in Ballina moved well before they disastrously changed the system in 2010 (taking away traffic lights, strange one-way streets, speeding around the bridges, changing lanes and merging - confusion and chaos to this day).

I still make the same journeys by car and on foot, and they all take much longer and are more dangerous now. This has pained me no end for the last four years! It was a death-blow to the town in so many ways.

I agree and its nearly impossible to cross the road at the main junction in the middle of town with kids.

Bypass of Ballina

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