Moneenageisha Roundabout: Temporary Road Closures

Xiney

I have to say, as a cyclist and a pedestrian, I really love the new intersection.

If we want to encourage people to leave their cars at home, this is a step in the right direction.

what_traffic

agree with Xiney - its actually added a minute to my cycle commute. The roundabout never bothered me as a cyclist because of its small size but for novice\young\old cyclists and all pedestrians its a much easier junction to negotiate.

coldwood92

The roundabount is an fing disater they it is on GBFM anyway and I would agree

Malice

coldwood92 wrote: »

The roundabount is an fing disater they it is on GBFM anyway and I would agree

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

snubbleste

From The Sentinel

The growing cost of the so-called ‘smart lights’ at Moneenageisha Junction is set to exceed €600,000 after Galway City Council continued to spend more than €10,000 a month rectifying the chaos that followed the installation of the lights.

An internal report obtained by the Connacht Sentinel reveals that consultants and engineers known to have provided flawed data for the controversial traffic light system were nonetheless re-engaged by the cash-strapped council and paid additional sums to rectify the logjam they had created.

The cost of the signalised junction up to May 2009 when it first opened was in excess of half a million euro. However, the report from the Directorate of Transport and Infrastructure reveals that the council quickly became aware that “the system was not working very well” and causing knock-on traffic delays at adjacent junctions.

Contractors were recalled at least six times to make changes to the system between June and December last at a cost of at least €40,000. The cost of much of the renovations could not be provided by the council because work was still ongoing, and formed part of a separate contract.


Local councillor and resident Brian Walsh said that the signalisation of the junction had had a worsening effect on the traffic mayhem that existed when it was controlled by a roundabout.
“There has been no improvement whatsoever in the traffic flow to justify the colossal sum that the council has paid out,” he said. “The advice of the consultants involved in the original traffic modelling has to be questioned and I am not happy that additional fees were paid to the same consultants who had provided flawed advice in the first place.”

There is more, who got fired? >>http://www.galwaynews.ie/10881-council-spent-%E2%82%AC40000-rectifying-new-moneen-lights

unJustMary

There has been no improvement whatsoever in the traffic flow

I'm not sure what junction the person who make this statement is referring to, but it's certainly not the same Moneen. junction that I know.

Traffic safety for pedestrians has improved astronomically.

Traffic flow overall has (now) improved considerably too - as far as I can tell from lay observation without any measured data to back this up.

YMMV.

Michifuz

Why the economy and the model will push you on buying a car and then everybody will tell you is wrong and that you get on your feet and walk 1 hour each way to work as the public transport system is not as good as it should be?

Actually now the junction works much better.

KevR

The local media are like a broken record - so-called 'smart lights'. Very cringeworthy.

I think Moneenageisha is a lot better now then when it was a roundabout. Peak traffic flow through the junction is much better, safety for pedestrians and cyclists is much improved. Sometimes, not all the time, people have to wait a bit longer off-peak but that's a price worth paying for the much improved peak traffic flow.

alibabba

I totally agree

Who gives a dam if an extra 40K was spent
The junction is very good these days (maybe coming down the hill from Bohermore is still a bit slow), i pass thru here most days at dinner time coming from Mervue and I get all the way down to the lights before stopping.
A while back you cud be up at Thermo in the queue.