Right Hand Lane at Rice Bridge

Green Hornet

Are there any plans to do anything about the right hand lane coming off Rice bridge into town? I have to go into the town by that lane as I go up Summerhill and it's a complete disaster most evenings but particularly on a Friday evening.

People want to turn tight down by Guiness and sometimes only one per green light gets through resulting in the tailback not moving at all. They steadfastly refuse to go up Summerhill and its infuriating.

They should block off the right hand turn at peak hours or something and it might help.

Even a small roundabout or ANYTHING might help.

Sully

That whole bridge area is a mess in general. Turning down right does seem a bit stupid alright, should be blocked altogether.

Green Hornet

Yeah, I agree. They should block it off altogether. I suppose the tyre place might object to that though.

Sully

Green Hornet wrote: »

Yeah, I agree. They should block it off altogether. I suppose the tyre place might object to that though.

There is another slip road to it not that far away. Plus, id say say most people go that route (as there business catchment would be mostly Waterford city) then approaching via Ferrybank.

Would be great to see a major revision of that area. Train station area is especially bad.

daftdave

if ppl think outside the box, take the next right down mary street and drive round the block and yer there, same difference really.

Trick of the Tail

Road works there this eve, maybe they're doing something about it?

Whatever, no doubt they'll cock around with it a few times, spending too much money, as they usually do when trying to fix junctions.

It always seems to be a 'try it and see' solution with Waterford City Council - displaying their usual ineptitude in traffic handling. Whoever is in charge of that really doesn't deserve their job.

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robtri

I come in accross the bridge every morning and traffic would be improved if the could stop people turning there, the only question is, if they do that will we just move the problem 100 feet up the road to the next junction.....

Trick of the Tail

Me too. Build a roundabout there then! One with proper, correct priorities and lanes, unlike the station one.

The junction's probably not quite big enough, so they'd have to build out into the river a little, so thats probably why they won't do it.

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Cabaal

alinton wrote: »

Me too. Build a roundabout there then! One with proper, correct priorities and lanes, unlike the station one.

The junction's probably not quite big enough, so they'd have to build out into the river a little, so thats probably why they won't do it.

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That and I'd imagine they want to see how the bypass affects traffic coming in/out of waterford before they spend any extra money on road dev in waterford

Sully

alinton wrote: »

Road works there this eve, maybe they're doing something about it?

Seems to be pipe works rather then fixing the junction im afraid!

Trick of the Tail

Cabaal wrote: »

That and I'd imagine they want to see how the bypass affects traffic coming in/out of waterford before they spend any extra money on road dev in waterford

Ah good point, that will of course reduce the traffic at the bridge considerably.

However the right turn thing to Grattan Quay will still be a problem. Maybe a right filter light might then be used.

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robtri

Cabaal wrote: »

That and I'd imagine they want to see how the bypass affects traffic coming in/out of waterford before they spend any extra money on road dev in waterford

possibley, but i reckon just no one in city hall is bothered about it..