If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Tipp Road, flyover

Xennon · 2007-11-25 12:56:04

What GENIUS is responsible that this new traffic system on the flyover??? Its just bloody dangerous at the moment!

Options

25-11-2007 1:56pm

#1

Xennon

Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2004

Posts: 842

What GENIUS is responsible that this new traffic system on the flyover??? Its just bloody dangerous at the moment!

0

Comments

Options
#2 25-11-2007 2:43pm
Mr E

Registered Users Posts: 55,514 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2001

Posts: 47732

Haven't been on that road for a while, what have they done?

0
Options
#3 25-11-2007 4:10pm
Kess73

Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2007

Posts: 25051

I'm guessing the OP is on about how you come up either of the sliproads and want to turn right to get onto the main Tipp to Limerick road.

It has been that way for a long time now, unless something new has happened. No thought went into the setup that was there, and how there are not more accidents there, I will never know. Mind you with the darker evenings and heavier seasonal traffic, it is worth avoiding anywhere near peak times.

0
Options
#4 25-11-2007 4:30pm
jetrothull

Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭

Join Date: November 2007

Posts: 4

new trafic lights ,i believe , on N24

0
Options
#5 25-11-2007 10:00pm
Xennon

Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2004

Posts: 842

Sorry I should have been more clear but i was in such disbelief as I drove home, traffic lights on an intersection that should have been a "full diamond" intersection from day one. But at the moment its a maze of traffic cones. Thats right up there with the pedestrian crossings on roundabouts and on bends.
Traffic calming = lets make the road more dangerous

:eek:

0
Options
#6 25-11-2007 10:18pm
Kess73

Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2007

Posts: 25051

Have not seen those traffic lights yet, I did see new traffic lights in Clarina today though, that should help make it even more of a bottle neck when the school traffic hits in the evening.

0
Advertisement
Options
#7 25-11-2007 10:29pm
Mr E

Registered Users Posts: 55,514 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2001

Posts: 47732

These are the same rocket scientists who are going to close off the sliproad from the bypass to Childers Road (beside South Hilton).

Bloody hell.

0
Options
#8 25-11-2007 11:35pm
Xennon

Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2004

Posts: 842

Tis ART I say!!!...ART!

0
Options
#9 26-11-2007 9:25am
Jumpy

Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2004

Posts: 7207

Will there be traffic lights either side of the on ramps? If not, I cant see it working.

0
Options
#10 26-11-2007 2:36pm
Kess73

Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2007

Posts: 25051

Mr E wrote: »

These are the same rocket scientists who are going to close off the sliproad from the bypass to Childers Road (beside South Hilton).

Bloody hell.

What is the story there? Is that the bit that turns left at the end of it and the traffic lights stop the right turn?

0
Options
#11 26-11-2007 3:15pm
Jumpy

Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2004

Posts: 7207

Kess73 wrote: »

What is the story there? Is that the bit that turns left at the end of it and the traffic lights stop the right turn?

Hes referring to the Quality Hotel, not the the Hilton (its nicknamed the Southhill(ton))

0
Advertisement
Options
#12 26-11-2007 5:48pm
Kess73

Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2007

Posts: 25051

Jumpy wrote: »

Hes referring to the Quality Hotel, not the the Hilton (its nicknamed the Southhill(ton))

I know. I was asking as to what is happening to the left turn there, if anything, and if he knows when that change is coming.

0
Options
#13 26-11-2007 5:59pm
Mr E

Registered Users Posts: 55,514 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2001

Posts: 47732

It was mentioned a few months ago on another thread. Let me see if I can find it.

0
Options
#14 26-11-2007 6:01pm
Mr E

Registered Users Posts: 55,514 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: November 2001

Posts: 47732

Here it is...

0
Options
#15 26-11-2007 9:34pm
Kess73

Registered Users Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2007

Posts: 25051

Mr E wrote: »

Here it is...

Thanks for that.

0
Options
#16 27-11-2007 4:22pm
han68

Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭

Join Date: September 2007

Posts: 33

After driving over some more cones yesterday morning early (around 5.20) someone came up with the idea to put some additional lighting in. (at least that was there when I came back home yesterday evening). But agree with the OP that the whole cone idea is an absolute shambles, the same is currently happening on the N7 Nenagh bypass. Cones over a stretch of a few miles and everyday cones are being knocked over and lying all across the road.

0
Options
#17 27-11-2007 10:37pm
old boy

Registered Users Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2004

Posts: 2401

and them county managers are amoung the highest paid in the country, according to the leader lately

0
Options
#18 29-11-2007 8:33pm
ninty9er

Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2005

Posts: 9048

Put flyovers at x with entries and exits making the traffic lights redundant...damn traffic lights:mad::mad:

0
Options
#19 29-11-2007 8:41pm
ninty9er

Registered Users Posts: 9,366 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2005

Posts: 9048

damn attachment!!

0
Options
#20 02-12-2007 5:36pm
Xennon

Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2004

Posts: 842

I have just driven from Cherbourg to Marseilles, my god what a joy!!, flyovers, flyunders, lanes marked with overhead signs, lights, propper warning signs...intelligent restrictions on areas with road works complete with concrete sperators..... Really shows how inept our road system is.

0
Options
#21 02-12-2007 7:19pm
phog

Registered Users Posts: 24,314 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2006

Posts: 23437

Xennon wrote: »

I have just driven from Cherbourg to Marsailles, my god what a joy!!, flyovers, flyunders, lanes marked with overhead signs, lights, propper warning signs...intelligent restrictions on areas with road works complete with concrete sperators..... Really shows how inept our road system is.

Yes, and if the Greens get their way the roads won't improve too much in the near future. Imagine the only 2 Irish cities connected by motorway are Dublin/Belfast, all the other roads connecting Dublin to the other cities have single lane traffic not to mention the other cities connecting to each other.

0
Advertisement