The Idiots Who Co-ordinate Traffic Lights !

Saab Ed

Living in Navan life has just become very much easier if I want to get to and from the town thanks to the new M3. Journey times to and from Dublin have nearly halved and the traffic in the centre of the town has been cut considerably........

BUT , Who are the idiots who have programmed the new traffic lights set up. Coming from the Kinscourt Rd side of town , you have to use the new link road that brings you to the old Dublin Rd. Now for some reason when you get into the que for these traffic lights , even though most of the traffic on this stretch of road is heading to the new M3 in the direction of Dublin and there's little or no traffic on the old Dublin Rd at all , for some reason unknown to me the lights stay green on the old Dublin Rd for an age yet the lights for the new link road stay red for minutes on end. In turn this starts a huge que and back-up of traffic onto what are local roads.

Ironicly before the M3 was opened and when the old Dublin Rd was alot bussier , the lights on the Dublin Rd used to stay red much longer than they do now. Go Figure! So to sum up what we now have is a Motorway which is flowing fine , an old Dublin Rd which is almost deserted and a link road which is constantly plugged with traffic , stood still at traffic lights watching nothing drive by.

Anyway the point of my rant is who the fu*k sets up these traffic lights so poorly. This isn't something thats left to random choice, there's entire traffic flows that are monitored for months to see how roads are to be used , what roads need what and whan new ones are built. How can some plonker in a van screw the entire thing up because he clearly doesn't seem to know what he's doing when he's setting up the traffic lights. Like millions of euro are being wasted because of some dill who doesn't understand traffic flows just sets up something in a way that doesn't work. Any other Navanites out there having the same problem!

markpb

Contact the traffic authority in (presumably) Navan town council and ask them if they're aware of the problem. I don't know about them but the ITS department in Dublin City Council are very open and communicative.

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KamiKazi

Not As Bad As Those Idiots That Randomly Capitalize Words

Saab Ed

KamiKazi wrote: »

Not As Bad As Those Idiots That Randomly Capitalize Words

Well now that you've brought it up .......

Titles of books, songs, stories, works of art, magazine articles, tests, and other written materials must begin with a capital letter. Every other important word of the title must also begin with a capital letter. Words that do not need a capital letter unless they are the first word of the title are a, an, and, of, to, the, etc.


But anyway your answer wasn't productive , was factualy incorrect and nobody likes the grammer police around here, it makes you look like a bit of an .....eh......idiot

KamiKazi

Saab Ed wrote: »

Well now that you've brought it up .......

Titles of books, songs, stories, works of art, magazine articles, tests, and other written materials must begin with a capital letter. Every other important word of the title must also begin with a capital letter. Words that do not need a capital letter unless they are the first word of the title are a, an, and, of, to, the, etc.


But anyway your answer wasn't productive , was factualy incorrect and nobody likes the grammer police around here, it makes you look like a bit of an .....eh......idiot

Only applies if you're a silly yank with a silly version of the English language

Saab Ed

KamiKazi wrote: »

Only applies if you're a silly yank with a silly version of the English language

The hole's getting bigger

Anyway back on topic. I just wanted to see if anybody else was getting p!ssed off with this too.

testicle

Saab Ed wrote: »

Well now that you've brought it up .......

Titles of books, songs, stories, works of art, magazine articles, tests, and other written materials must begin with a capital letter. Every other important word of the title must also begin with a capital letter. Words that do not need a capital letter unless they are the first word of the title are a, an, and, of, to, the, etc.


But anyway your answer wasn't productive , was factualy incorrect and nobody likes the grammer police around here, it makes you look like a bit of an .....eh......idiot

Are they related to the grammar police?

FarmerGreen

Sounds like a detector fault.
Try reporting it to the council.