Athlone thread

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Many in Athlone known yet?

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

I still see ads for recruiting in Athlone.

Me too. Removal of deadwood still can be done in parallel.

What in the name of all that is holy is the point of the traffic lights as you turn for the town centre coming from crescent towards railway station? Ive never seen a need for that set. Can anyone enlighten me?

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

Are they the one's as you come out of the ATC car park beside St Francis Terrace? I never noticed them before until a few months ago but my passenger said they have always been there [since the shopping centre was built]

Aye, the worse part is that they've been kept. A simple stop sign or pedestrian crossing would have sorted this crap. 10 years FFS

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

I'm more scared that I've driven through them for the past 10 years and not noticed them!! I always look ahead to the lights at t-junction where the road comes down from the train station and heads into the crescent junction.

Well they only come into play where your going the opposite way i guess

martin1 wrote: »

Wash house road I think its called.

It goes along by AIT from Cyprus Gardens to the roundabout near smiths toys.

Anyway yesterday I was unfortunate enough to be behind a bus picking up students going westbound on that road, when another bus came from the opposite direction and also stopped to pick students eastbound. Both buses just STOPPED!!!!!! completely blocking the road in both directions while people trundled on and off.

now come on lads sure you cant be at that

surely something has to be done about this ludicrous situation

It's a longish road, they could at least stagger the bus stops, move one closer to the roundabout near Lidl, the other nearer to the main college campus side gate.
But the chances of two buses being at the stops at the same time? I'm in the college 3 times a week: 2 evenings and one morning and I've never seen a bus at both stops at the same time - maybe I'm just lucky.

I have an appointment in Athlone on Wednesday around Midday, due to work comitments i need the phone and cant send it away. Can anyone recomend somewhere that could repair it while in Athlone. Its an Iphone 6 that needs a charging port and more than likely a battery. Thanks

I've looked at the one way system plan and actually am starting to warm to it.

With the expanded bus services combined with the extra space allowed for cyclists through the one way, this is good for all concerned. There's always going to be those who want to park outside Eddie Rockets types who will object, but the area concerned is a 5 minute walk if they want to park and walk onward.

Next step for me is to get Texas centre converted to apartments and car parks and generally get more people living in and around town.

These things work well given adjustment time. We have 6 exits on the N6 to use to get closer to whatever area of town we want to head to if the car is needed.

charlieIRL wrote: »

I just seen that part of the Texas building was sold recently - the bit up near St. Mary's that was to be duplex houses.

Hopefully it will be finished off soon, its an awful eyesore there at the moment.

According to the Westmeath, it was the main shopping centre part that was sold - the multi-storey and the part facing onto St. Mary's Place wasn't sold.

Obviously different sales so; the shopping centre part was sold for ~€2.3 million to Bennett Construction.

pawrick wrote: »

I think it means we get new signs to replace the midlands gateway ones on the outskirts to town.

What about the orange loop signs?!