Things that annoy me in Dundalk !

SDTimeout

Stupidly enough i went to gran torino last night with a bigger crowd i think we had almost a full row. Never again as " funny " as it was to see an old man ? in pyjama bottoms up to his waist there was really no need to laugh louder than everyone in the cinema and then for the next 5 min and one of them turned the lights on.

Defo going to watchmen and knowing with just my mates

RONOC08

SDTimeout wrote: »

Sad about mizzoni's mind, my mates always raved about the wagon wheel. I'm a dominos man myself

Mizzonis? Gone? Dang There The Only 1s Who Deliver To Me Dominos Is Way Too Dear:mad:

TheBigFella

SDTimeout wrote: »

Well i am 16, so i was refering to the people who claimed kids ruined flims.:pac:

You must be one of the few who isn't annoying. The young teens are worst that 5 or 6 year olds. Shouting across the cinema to each other, changing seats every 10 mins, talking out loud and consistantly popping in and out to toilets/shops etc...

I'm sure its not a problem confined to Dundalk but its here that we see it and have to put up with it.

indiewindy

RONOC08 wrote: »

Mizzonis? Gone? Dang There The Only 1s Who Deliver To Me Dominos Is Way Too Dear:mad:

Not closed, seemed to be doing a bit of trade last Friday night

The Clown Man

bettedavis wrote: »

these lights don't bother me as such. the idiots that ignore them do. you could sit on a red light for almost a minute and here comes this ignoramous who hasn't got the brain to wonder for what possible reason there is no traffic at all on the roundabout at half five on a friday evening ! I actually think it's all locals who ignore them, they think cause there was always a roundabout there without lights they will get away it ignoring them cause there not 'real' lights, just temporary diversions if a class of school children should wish to go on a wander ! It's like the imaginery roundabout at kfc, icedome, jjb area. i was parked in the car park one day and it's amazing to see the amount of people who just completely ignore it, i know it's not hugely visible but surely we have to have some awareness in terms of obstacles or markings. Bizarre carry on !

Can I stab a guess that you don't drive yourself? You were sitting in the passenger seat right? I totally excuse anyone who doesn't drive. How could you know if you are not familiar with the road.

They are, in actual fact, not real lights. They are the result of the pure petulent incompetence of the road planners in this town.

Us locals know that there was once a problem with that roundabout when the thing was tiny. It was a black spot. After that they tore it up and made crossroads. But the lights were crazy. Queues forever. Then they tore that up and made another, bigger roundabout having bought and knocked the houses on the corners. And it worked perfectly. No one died. Traffic was bearable. Peachy.

Then some absolute fking muppet decided to put those lights there. They are not like other roundabouts. Roundabout lights have an order. A traffic flow. Like real lights they open the road for use at a green light. These lights don't have green lights. They have big stupid orange duplo lights. Like blinking sign saying:

"STUPID" .. "STUPID" .. "STUPID"

And they stop you even when you are IN the roundabout. And all come back on at once. And then everyone takes off at the same time into the roundabout. And there is a near crash every time. If I am in the roundabout I get the hell out lights or not.

I guess that many go through them because of one or several or all of these reasons:

1) They are stupid. As in, there was no thought WHATSOEVER put into them. *BEEP, TRY AGAIN*
2) They are so stupid they are just an insult to the intellegence of the town as a whole.
3) Stopping is like admitting you are one of the stupid people.
4) They are dangerous. Beware speed racers trying to get into the roundabout first. Beware especially 4 trying to get in first.
5) They are even stupider than the Marshes turnoff, the green, no wait, yield, yeah ok green lights outside Oscars or the Steal My Life Xerox lights. There has to be a line and this is it.
6) The thing was perfect before, now it is just stupid. I protest.
7) The road is crossed by 3 pedestrains a day. How stupid is that?
8) What happened to our flyover? We want our flyover. This was the main Dublin to Belfast road until very recently.
9) I'm praying that some day someone will actually stop and give out to me and maybe I can find out from them who was behind this since there's a fair chance they know the person to agree in the first place.
10) I actuallly agree wit the constept, im just to stupid too see the lites.

My friend has a theory that it's conception was influenced heavily by the menstrual cycle. I think she might be onto something. Could also be small man syndrome. YOU WILL ALL STOP FOR ME! Or childhood bullying. In which case he did in fact get us all back.

Whatever way you look at it, if you know the road you also know that those lights are the most prominent display of pure stupidity in a mass of prime examples.

Mr Magnolia

Why don't you get off the fence and tell us what you really think The Clown Man :pac:

I also think it's the worst designed/executed junction I've seen anyhwere in the world.

amacachi

Mr Magnolia wrote: »

I also think it's the worst designed/executed junction I've seen anyhwere in the world.

I wouldn't go that far. http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/1-405.shtml

Mr Magnolia

I may have overstated it a little. It's certainly one of the worst/dangerous from a pedestrian point of view.

bettedavis

The Clown Man wrote: »

Can I stab a guess that you don't drive yourself? You were sitting in the passenger seat right? I totally excuse anyone who doesn't drive. How could you know if you are not familiar with the road.

They are, in actual fact, not real lights. They are the result of the pure petulent incompetence of the road planners in this town.

Us locals know that there was once a problem with that roundabout when the thing was tiny. It was a black spot. After that they tore it up and made crossroads. But the lights were crazy. Queues forever. Then they tore that up and made another, bigger roundabout having bought and knocked the houses on the corners. And it worked perfectly. No one died. Traffic was bearable. Peachy.

Then some absolute fking muppet decided to put those lights there. They are not like other roundabouts. Roundabout lights have an order. A traffic flow. Like real lights they open the road for use at a green light. These lights don't have green lights. They have big stupid orange duplo lights. Like blinking sign saying:

"STUPID" .. "STUPID" .. "STUPID"

And they stop you even when you are IN the roundabout. And all come back on at once. And then everyone takes off at the same time into the roundabout. And there is a near crash every time. If I am in the roundabout I get the hell out lights or not.

I guess that many go through them because of one or several or all of these reasons:

1) They are stupid. As in, there was no thought WHATSOEVER put into them. *BEEP, TRY AGAIN*
2) They are so stupid they are just an insult to the intellegence of the town as a whole.
3) Stopping is like admitting you are one of the stupid people.
4) They are dangerous. Beware speed racers trying to get into the roundabout first. Beware especially 4 trying to get in first.
5) They are even stupider than the Marshes turnoff, the green, no wait, yield, yeah ok green lights outside Oscars or the Steal My Life Xerox lights. There has to be a line and this is it.
6) The thing was perfect before, now it is just stupid. I protest.
7) The road is crossed by 3 pedestrains a day. How stupid is that?
8) What happened to our flyover? We want our flyover. This was the main Dublin to Belfast road until very recently.
9) I'm praying that some day someone will actually stop and give out to me and maybe I can find out from them who was behind this since there's a fair chance they know the person to agree in the first place.
10) I actuallly agree wit the constept, im just to stupid too see the lites.

My friend has a theory that it's conception was influenced heavily by the menstrual cycle. I think she might be onto something. Could also be small man syndrome. YOU WILL ALL STOP FOR ME! Or childhood bullying. In which case he did in fact get us all back.

Whatever way you look at it, if you know the road you also know that those lights are the most prominent display of pure stupidity in a mass of prime examples.

sorry to dispute you're obvious genius, clownman but no i am never a passenger and always a driver and although i absolutely agree that these are the most ridiculously un-needed lights ever, you can not possibly dismiss them just because you think so. They are lights and theyre there to be obeyed at 2 in the afternoon and 4 in the morning. So you are the one i see driving through them everytime i'm there. if you did that on a test , you'd fail. what if a guard stopped you, how do you think, 'it's al right guard, i'm a local, i know they're not real lights' !! you see the light is red......you must stop, the same way you stop at the square at 5 in the morning even if there isn't a car for miles. If we all just ignored things because they bother us where would we end up ! have you been on a roundabout in italy? chaos !

TheBigFella

The Clown Man wrote: »

They are, in actual fact, not real lights. They are the result of the pure petulent incompetence of the road planners in this town.

Like all lights they can be a pain when you have to sit and wait but they are there for a reason, so pedestrians can cross without the risk of being knocked down.

Although ,now that there is a 'clown' ignoring them, the risk is still there.

And his logic - "nobody died before the lights were there"

How can you argue with this ?????????????????????????

dwpg83

mm the fact that it's dundalk is enough of a reason for me

Ann22

The Clown Man wrote: »

the thing was tiny. It was a black spot. After that they tore it up and made crossroads. But the lights were crazy. Queues forever. Then they tore that up and made another, bigger roundabout having bought and knocked the houses on the corners. And it worked perfectly. No one died. Traffic was bearable. Peachy.

Back in 1986 a friend's mother was tragically killed trying to cross the road on that roundabout. I've never forgotten it. If the lights are improving road safety that's the important thing.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Gee Clown Man but you're well named. I both drive this roudabout and walk in the area. Yes, it's not the best designed junction in the country but the lights have made it safer afetr years of messing about with options. Provided of course that idiots don't ignore them (no matter how many reasons they can come up with for doing so) the lights ensure pedestrians are no longer at risk. Lord help us if we can't wait at traffic lights for less than 2 minutes without complaining. The are "real" lights, like it or not.

How the incompetence of the planners (another debate!) can be described as "petulent" confuses me. Do you think they put the lights up out of temper?

Wertz

I despise the avenue rd r'about too, but purposely didn't include it in my rant about the town's traffic situation.
I live in the area and use this junction a lot. The amount of time I see people breaking these lights, seemingly completely oblivious to thier presence annnoys me no end. Someone above said that it's the locals who are breaking the reds, but I think it's the opposite...locals would all know that this is a traffic controlled r'about, but through-traffic doesn't seem to notice...and they can't really be blamed sine there is never a green light showing on the signals; it's either amber/flashing amber or red and the frequency of change is so slow that many people who pass through them irregularly may never even notice that there is a set of lights on the damn r'about.
My hatred for the junction went up a few notches after my mates 13 yr old son was struck by a car just before christmas (he was badly shaken, got a fair old bruise across his torso)...thing is he's adamant that the green man was lit....the car stopped briefly and then took off.
As far as I'm aware there is no signage for the lights and they are not obvious due to the lack of a green light...but for people who say that it's unneccesary?? Bay estate school? Access in general for those who live in that estate or on the bottom of the av rd? Pedestrian access to the retail parks?
What needs to happen at that junction is for lights to be placed in a more obvious position, more signage and better policing of the area (cameras). You're living in cloud cuckoo land if you think that any town outside of Dublin is ever going to have a pedestrian flyover built, particularly with how money is...


Which reminds me: what in the name of f*ck is the UDC's obsession in this town with erecting horticultural displays and Diarmuid Gavin installations on the r'abouts surrounding the town? What a supreme and ridiculous waste of money. Not only that but they also seem obsessed with building mounds in the middle of many of them, meaning that traffic entering them in many cases can't see the other side of the r'about or more importantly the traffic. I saw 4 council men spend about 2 days last week doing the one at JJB/Currys r'about...now I for one know of at least 5 large potholes in the general area that could have been filled, which would have been of so much more benefit to the Dundalk motorist, instead of the window dressing that Dundalk UDC seems to be so wrapped up with...

Clown man got one thing right; the sheer incompetence of the traffic planners in the town hall. These guys should have stuck with their fisher price garage playset, because as is evident by their many snafus around the place, they haven't got a feckin' clue about what to do with real cars and traffic...

amacachi

Wertz wrote: »

Which reminds me: what in the name of f*ck is the UDC's obsession in this town with erecting horticultural displays and Diarmuid Gavin installations on the r'abouts surrounding the town? What a supreme and ridiculous waste of money. Not only that but they also seem obsessed with building mounds in the middle of many of them, meaning that traffic entering them in many cases can't see the other side of the r'about or more importantly the traffic. I saw 4 council men spend about 2 days last week doing the one at JJB/Currys r'about...now I for one know of at least 5 large potholes in the general area that could have been filled, which would have been of so much more benefit to the Dundalk motorist, instead of the window dressing that Dundalk UDC seems to be so wrapped up with...

Beats filling in potholes. Like that one across from the Dunne's on Park Street everyone loves. Or the lovely ones along Bridge Street.

Wertz

Or the whole avenue road...

amacachi

amacachi wrote: »

Beats filling in potholes. Like that one across from the Dunne's on Parl Street everyone loves. Or the lovely ones along Bridge Street.

They will get filled eventually, a pothole/crater/hump the width of the road out my way was filled and fixed the other day, it only took the council 8 years to get there :rolleyes:.

bettedavis

I think the frustrating thing with lights is the timing. either too long or not long enough. the best ones are i think at the windsor, never too long either way. the worst ones are at the castle road /marist junction. Jesus give us a chance ! at some times it's 2 cars at most before it's red again. i don't know why they never employed the same system as the north/Uk............amber before green. I'm embarassed by my need to discuss traffic lights but it counts for 99 % of my road rage !

Wertz

bettedavis wrote: »

I think the frustrating thing with lights is the timing. either too long or not long enough. the best ones are i think at the windsor, never too long either way. the worst ones are at the castle road /marist junction. Jesus give us a chance ! at some times it's 2 cars at most before it's red again. i don't know why they never employed the same system as the north/Uk............amber before green. I'm embarassed by my need to discuss traffic lights but it counts for 99 % of my road rage !

The lights at the windsor are great...just such a shame that so many muppets feel it's their god-given right to break the amber-red when coming from the Vincent avenue. This kamikaze dive across a junction where lights have turned green, even when the junction is already half blocked by traffic backed up from hill st bridge is going to get someone killed someday...I've nearly had my front end clipped a few times.
I agree fully about St Mary's rd lights though, especially the way they back traffic up entering from the bypass. I've never been through that junction at school run time, must be bedlam.
I still maintain that the mullaharlin rd lights on the M1 approach rd are the most poorly timed and downright dangerous set in the town...

As for the amber-green UK system, I agree...always like the time it gives you to get in gear etc, but it would never work down here...far too many people would jump the anticipated green IMO, since Irish drivers seem so selfish and unaware of their fellow road users, and lead to minor collisions and a danger to pedestrians.

Oh another thing that annoys me about Dundalk (will it never end?): the UDC has spent a lot of money providing cycle lanes at various places round town...but yet the majority of cyclists choose to use the road. Good example is beside Aura/tax office...cycle lane the width of a lane of traffic, wide footpath, grass verge (and a traffic island), and then what is supposed to be a 2 lane approach to the junction with the bypass where for a lot of the time especially in heavy traffic, cars can't get in to distinct lanes...the cycle lane remains unused.
Same is true on the road down from the college, where you have a narrow 2 way road with wide margins, footpath and cycle lane on both sides...yet you still get clowns cycling on the road. Don't even start me on the parking thing at the college itself...

Wertz

Not an annoyance, just kind of fits with the theme this thread has taken.

By sheer cooincidence I was on Dublin st about half an hour ago, heading toward the DSC. I was first in line at the lights, noticed the green from Vincent Av turning amber, got in gear just ready to move off...at that very moment a 96 registered Opel people carrier comes barreling round the corner, just breaking the red...nothing unusual there.
The next bit is why I'm posting this; as the car took the corner I noticed something bouncing along the ground....thought it was a sports bag or something...then I noticed that the rear offside door was open...then I looked at the road again....and there's this child (5-6?) getting up off the ground, and a booster seat sitting on the road beside him. Now it's immaterial but it was an African woman driving and obviously one of her kids that had been flung out the door...I put on my hazards and crawled around the car which was now stopped in the middle of the junction...someone from a car coming behind her had got out to help. The wee lad seemed fine...he was crying (but then who wouldn't be) and his mother was having a screaming fit in the middle of the roa. Another few seconds and there would have been a serious risk of that child being hit...
I don't know...why do people insist on breaking this light?
...and how come people don't belt their children up in the back properly? What happened to child locks?
I'm not trying to take a race element in here, but the amount of bangers being driven by the African community around town is frightening...these cars can't be roadworthy and I feel many of their drivers are not competent to use the roads.
It's laughable. Anyway no-one was hurt this time, but it's only a matter of time at the windsor lights IMO...

Mr Magnolia

I really hope you took the number and will report this to the Garda Wertz. That poor child is lucky to be alive.

flag123

I agree with a lot of the things people are saying here about Dundalk. But there is one thing I hate is the price of things, people always say to me, "be patriotic", but it is very hard to do so if there is something half the price up north. Did anyone else read the Argos over christmas??..One if the local politician had an article in it talking about why people should shop down south and support local buissness.when I was reading it, I felt as if I was being given out to and forced to shop down south. I agree with supporting buissness but some things are un-realy over priced. I understand that the prices have to be slightly higher but this carry on about the price of runners or clothe is out the window!

Wertz

Mr Magnolia wrote: »

I really hope you took the number and will report this to the Garda Wertz. That poor child is lucky to be alive.

All I got was the year and county (an inherent problem of Irish reg plates IMO) 96 D something something, plate was dirty too...not even sure what type of opel it was (it may well have been a toyota picnic either). Plenty of people there who may have. I was going to take the phone out and snap a pic but some eejit 2 cars back started beeping so I just moved off. I'd be very surprised if someone at the junction didn't though...the traffic coming from Hill st was completely blocked, and vincent av was on a red.

Unreal, but a very common occurance at them lights, well up until the child coming flying out, now that's a first :eek: :mad:

Westwood

the accent

annex

Most of all that has been mentioned bugs me but one thing that really bugs me and its nothing to do with Dundalk.
Everytime I go to Lidl there are at least 4 foreign cars parked with no tax and no insurance :mad:

StiffLitlemicky

Wertz wrote: »

All I got was the year and county (an inherent problem of Irish reg plates IMO) 96 D something something, plate was dirty too...not even sure what type of opel it was (it may well have been a toyota picnic either). Plenty of people there who may have. I was going to take the phone out and snap a pic but some eejit 2 cars back started beeping so I just moved off. I'd be very surprised if someone at the junction didn't though...the traffic coming from Hill st was completely blocked, and vincent av was on a red.

You were stoped in the middle of the road taking a picture and the guy that beeped you was an eejit!:rolleyes:

Wertz

StiffLitlemicky wrote: »

You were stoped in the middle of the road taking a picture and the guy that beeped you was an eejit!:rolleyes:

What? Where did I say I was taking a picture. Learn to read.
...and yes an eejit was beeping...usually when traffic doesn't move off from a light change, there's a fairly good reason...in this case the presence of a child and booster seat in one of the lanes. Obviously I should have put my boot down and to hell with any obstruction eh?

Bingles

I tell you what annoys me and its getting worse the sheer amount of people on clanbrassil street looking for money for various different charitys. Then you go into boyds and there is one on either end of the entrances looking for more money. Then to top it all of not all but some of the people arre so rude when you ignore them. It drives me mad.

TommyT

Joseph Ndo

flag123

Bridge street???..
full of pubs and possibilitys of getting robbed or attacked..
For the amount of pubs there, it is no were near what you would call a place to "go out"..
hhmmmm I just noticed a new pub has opened there, catering for the people who got bared from the others and to start a new leaf.
Bad timing to open a PUB of all things...
awh well, this probably won't make a difference, but goodluck to the owner..!:D

Mr Magnolia

TommyT wrote: »

Joseph Ndo

ROFL. Our centre half nearly cost us a couple toward the end.

Ann22

Bingles wrote: »

I tell you what annoys me and its getting worse the sheer amount of people on clanbrassil street looking for money for various different charitys. Then you go into boyds and there is one on either end of the entrances looking for more money. Then to top it all of not all but some of the people arre so rude when you ignore them. It drives me mad.

I don't mind the charities as such. If i give to one I tell the rest I've already given.I hate passing the old woman outside the post office, she stares at everyone coming out with her hand out. I do give her a few coins but sometimes I don't have spare change and I feel her eyes boring into me when I don't give her anything. I wonder if she's forced to beg? She's out there in all weathers! It doesn't bother me as much walking past the younger beggars up the street but it still feels uncomfortable.

flag123

Ann22 wrote: »

This annoys me too:(. The woman outside the post office stares at everyone coming out with her hand out. I've given her a few coins on a few occasions but sometimes I don't have spare change and I feel her eyes boring into me when I don't give her anything. I wonder if she's forced to beg? She's out there in all weathers! It doesn't bother me as much walking past the younger beggars up the street but it still feels uncomfortable.

I once seen those beggers with a pair of top of the range runners on jumping into a Range Rover (probably a family member's or close friend's) after a "hard" days work.

I know how you feel, after seeing this I was sickend.:mad:

Matka

Hi there!

I agree with u....I am here 4 months and I know what u talking about....:D

indiewindy

TommyT wrote: »

Joseph Ndo

At least hes gone now, so wont annoy you anymore!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Matka wrote: »

Hi there!

I agree with u....I am here 4 months and I know what u talking about....:D

talisker

Mr Magnolia wrote: »

I imagine there's smoke billowing from that keyboard Wertz.

:pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:your a little inconsistent senor flower. happily obliging differences in terra - dundalk versus drogheda- but alas no lightning bolts with pejoratives about drogheda. skunk my monkey. but hey lets get back to beating the poor little town of dundalk. a town full and i mean full of great people who put up with the shenanigans of poor town planning swayed by little paper bags of dinero.

soups05

my favorite junction to hate is at the rear of the long walk shopping centre. there is a barrier which allows a car to exit then a stop sign. thats fair enough but what i hate is when your on the main road, coming around from xtravision, and some idiot pulls out from the car park,through the barrier, and keeps going.
I had a few near misses there, one guy blared his horn and swore at me...till i hopped out of my car at showed him the large red sign which said STOP. i let him know in rather colourfull terms that he needed to learn the rules of the road and pay more attention to the road signs.
Everyone assumes that once the barrier goes up its a mad dash to the lights to wait for the red.

bettedavis

soups05 wrote: »

my favorite junction to hate is at the rear of the long walk shopping centre. there is a barrier which allows a car to exit then a stop sign. thats fair enough but what i hate is when your on the main road, coming around from xtravision, and some idiot pulls out from the car park,through the barrier, and keeps going.
I had a few near misses there, one guy blared his horn and swore at me...till i hopped out of my car at showed him the large red sign which said STOP. i let him know in rather colourfull terms that he needed to learn the rules of the road and pay more attention to the road signs.
Everyone assumes that once the barrier goes up its a mad dash to the lights to wait for the red.

i read this the other day and thought, that's never happened to me. about an hour ago i found myself coming round that way and recalled this post, and sure enough i had only got to the corner an whiz ! out comes this wan at high speed as the barrier was raised, with not even a glance to her left. Road Rage moment. Kismet though, as had i not read your post i prob wouldn;'t have been as aware and would have been right into her.

sex?

indiewindy wrote: »

The disappearing atm machines of Dundalk bugs me as over the past few months more have gone
Hill Street Bridge please knock it down

well we wont have to worry about that bloody bridge for much longer. as soon as marshes phase two gets on the way (god help us all) there knocking it down and connecting it up to a roundabout or a junction down where the road at lidl just disapeers.
speaking or the marshes part 2, it'll either make or break the town. that hellhole has sucked a lot out of the town. in case the letters of the place haven't noticed, dundalk isnt a very rich town. we dont need more ladies boutiques in the place we need a €2 shop or a fruit and veg shop in the place.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

sex? wrote: »

in case the letters of the place haven't noticed, dundalk isnt a very rich town..

You lost me there mate! Letter??

bettedavis

i'm on my pot hole rant again. Got the car serviced three days ago and last night coming down park street from dublin street , at the lights at duffys/oscars drove into a crater on the corner. i actually had to pull over cause my swearing was impeding my driving.

Wertz

Zane Ripe Rival wrote: »

You lost me there mate! Letter??

I think they mean letting agent. Someone who lets.

Nothing really annoying me of late in the town...petrol prices being that few cent higher per litre than on down the road is pretty vexxing but there's nothing that can be done about that. I too have had a run in with that pothole at Oscars...can't see it being mended until there's a serious collision by someone trying to avoid it though...council are far too busy tending to gardening on roundabouts (two of which have had cars collide with them in the last fortnight).

Mr Magnolia

That work is contracted, I doubt it's the co.co.

AFAIK, there is a pothole repair truck that services several districts. It's in Dundalk 1 week out of every 4. It'll probably get attended to then.




I've been thinking about the dumb pedestrian lights on the Avenue road roudabout. The reason why they're being ignored so often is that they're simply not seen.

Driving around a roundabout people are watching to make sure that a car or person doesn't come into my path from the left. To see the lights you need to be looking to your right so they're simply unseen. On top of this when you are close to the roundabout exit the lights are up at a high level so unless you're looking at the clouds you simply won't see them.

So the council can do three things:
1) Move the pedestrian crossing away from the roundabout
2) Lower the lights and put up plenty of signage and maybe a ramp or 2 on the approach
3) Leave it as it is and wait for someone to get knocked down

Now to email this off to the co.co.

Wertz

As I mentioned about those lights, the main problem is that there's never a green light showing....it's either amber (flashing or lit) or red. Given that every single street light is orange, it's very hard to see that there even are traffic lights at the junction. I went through a red at it the other night. It was only when I was through that I saw the red light in my wing mirror...that's coming from someoine who knows and uses it daily...what chance have non locals got?
emails? lol they can't even answer a letter in that place...

Mr Magnolia

I'll let you know if they get back to me.

Mr Magnolia

Well I noticed that the traffic lights have been lowered. It was probably done before my email. At least it's something, I don't think it'll be the end of the problems though.

I received no reply to my mail btw.

SDTimeout

Was in a county council meeting today. Hated the stairs back down :pac: lifts were in use

TommyT

Sadly another pothole rant. Just put new 20" BBS alloys on the womans car, they look great and set the car off well, but the amount of potholes that there are in and around town is unreal. There is one near the Windmill bar that would knock the fillings out of your teeth, there are quite a few on Hill St/Dublin Rd, in fact most roads in town are covered in them. Do the council not repair them?
Another traffic related rant. Firstly the lights on the roundabout at the bottom of the Long Avenue. Do they all have to go red when someone uses the pedestrian crossing, surely only the crossing in question should turn red.
Also the traffic lights on the inner relief road from Xerox down to the quay. None of them are in sync. You come through the lights at Xerox only to have to stop again 50 metres later at the new hotel. Why does a hotel entrance need a set of lights? Then you are guaranteed to have to stop at the lights at the council offices and then at the quay, surely someone could ensure that the lights are working to keep traffic flowing. The lights around town are as bad, there has been no thought given to their installation and timing. Do the local council have someone responsible for traffic management? And why do they have signs blocking yor view on the approach to every roundabout??? Dundalk people dont seem to be able to use roundabouts, the council are making it harder for them by making it impossible to see on the approach to the junction.