Random Waffle Thread

Pimento. Tapas Bar & Restaurant. Opening Friday the 27th of November.

Where the Italian Connection was on Kennedy Ave. at bottom of Riverbank Apartments > https://www.facebook.com/Pimento-1560117094262117/?pnref=story

Paddy's a great chef. Can't wait!

Where Boscos was on Tullow St., beside where Bon Appetit is, a new cafe type unit is opening; lost count of how many cafe/restaurant type businesses have gone in there since Boscos was there; rates issue I wonder?

After all Bon Appetit is in business years now.

Heard McHughs Courthouse Hotel bought by Germaines in/of Baltinglass (for the €375k too).

Ritz Hotel & the JT/John Tyndall being refurbished (latters licence coming from a Ra'villy Pub I think?) albeit at a slow enough rate.

strelok wrote: »

is bon appetit that place with all the pastries and stuff in the window?

walked by it so often without going in i always sort of forget it's there now

I'd keep doing that if i were you!!!!!

That is just what Carlow and Tullow St needs a big name retailer to bring folks back down.

what the hell are they doing with the speed limit out the N80 wexford road, they have moved the 60km zone further out (approx 1km) so now they have it starting before you get to where the speed van is normally parked and on the way out the 100km zone starts well before where the 60km starts on the way in.. makes no sense that you can do 100km one direction and 60km another??

couple that with the decision to basically remove the hard shoulder out by the turn in at Tinryland clubhouse by putting in kerbs on the left hand side as you come off the roundabout.. now if you are behind somebody turning into the clubhouse you will have to wait for them to turn rather than going around them like before...

some shocking decisions in my opinion..

Travel that road every day in and out. Tinryland thing makes sense because people just leave their cars there and cars coming out of the roundabout have cut it close before.

Assume other speed restriction is temporary for roadworks?

brianblaze wrote: »

Travel that road every day in and out. Tinryland thing makes sense because people just leave their cars there and cars coming out of the roundabout have cut it close before.

Assume other speed restriction is temporary for roadworks?

I think that we will start to see some cars tailing back on to the roundabout in the evens now as we see people queue behind a car turning into the clubhouse.. I am happy to be proven wrong but looks like an accident and traffic jam waiting to happen..

Not sure the speed zone changes are just temporary, they look permanent to me...

Just seen bog_man_1 post and now the speed zone changes make sense if they are related to a new roundabout (well overdue) going in there.

tommycahir wrote: »

what the hell are they doing with the speed limit out the N80 wexford road, they have moved the 60km zone further out (approx 1km) so now they have it starting before you get to where the speed van is normally parked and on the way out the 100km zone starts well before where the 60km starts on the way in.. makes no sense that you can do 100km one direction and 60km another??

couple that with the decision to basically remove the hard shoulder out by the turn in at Tinryland clubhouse by putting in kerbs on the left hand side as you come off the roundabout.. now if you are behind somebody turning into the clubhouse you will have to wait for them to turn rather than going around them like before...

some shocking decisions in my opinion..

There never was a 60 km/h zone there in the first place, the limit dropped from 100km/h straight to 50km/h near Wall's Forge roundabout (where trucks often park and block the sign on the way out of town).
Perhaps when you passed through it they hadn't fitted all the signs yet because I came that way today and there are 60km/h signs in both directions, the outward pair on the back of the aforementioned 50km/h signs and the new 60/100km/h signs about 300m from the business park.

I think a permanent 60km/h zone is a good thing considering the dangerous junction at the biz park. Anyone trying to get in or out of the junction would be aware of how frustrating (hence more risk taking) it can be especially during darkness. Slowing traffic from 100km/h to 60km/h should help a lot.

Didn't go as far as the clubhouse but could see the new kerbing from the motorway roundabout and thought it a bit odd alright.

brianblaze wrote: »

Another roundabout.

Where?

Gatso vans are just for making money, not for safety

brianblaze wrote:

Another roundabout. I love them for traffic management but lads nobody in Carlow knows how to indicate on them. I've had a lot of close calls with idiots just driving and hoping I'll guess which way they're going!

But sure they are going the same way everyday, they don't need indicators.

Hosey's closed with crime scene tape at the entrance and 2 Gardai standing outside it.

Raided, didn't get anything from what I heard.