Tralee Thread (No chit-chat)

michael999999

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

there's been an accident of some sort on the Oakpark Road. Couldn't see exactly where or what happened, but looks like down by Oaklands shop as there were loads of flashing lights there. Gardai were stopping traffic at the entrance to Ard Na Li & diverting it. hopefully no one hurt or worse.

Its really hard driving in this weather, really need ypur wits about you in the wind and rain.

carchaeologist

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

there's been an accident of some sort on the Oakpark Road. Couldn't see exactly where or what happened, but looks like down by Oaklands shop as there were loads of flashing lights there. Gardai were stopping traffic at the entrance to Ard Na Li & diverting it. hopefully no one hurt or worse.

Three car accident. All cleared now.

Ciarrai76

carchaeologist wrote: »

Three car accident. All cleared now.

yikes, hopefully it wasn't too serious! wonder how that happened, not exactly busy on the road at night. Wouldn't surprise me if it was someone pulling out of Fairies Cross...I've almost had an accident there a few times with people just pulling out in front of me...or about to!

Ovayonda

Hi everyone, first post and im in shock after what i saw this morning.
I was stopped at the traffic lights outside St Johns church,going from town
towards Boherbue. Then i saw a young lady waving her hand in the air,
she was walking on the footpath just about to pass the entrance into
St Johns, the reason she was waving was because a car came from Edward st
going into St Johns and nearly knocked her down, she couldnt have been more than a few inches from the car. It was only when the car
had passed her that i realised she was visually impaired with a guide dog.
As if that wasnt bad enough a second car did the same thing.
thankfully the third car stopped and let her pass.
Considering that i was in shock , i cant begin to to imagine how the young lady felt, and maybe this could affect the dogs confidence.
If i had been able to get the cars regs i would publish them here, and
suffer the consequences.. but i was to slow.
Is this is what we have come to..

Ciarrai76

Ovayonda wrote: »

Hi everyone, first post and im in shock after what i saw this morning.
I was stopped at the traffic lights outside St Johns church,going from town
towards Boherbue. Then i saw a young lady waving her hand in the air,
she was walking on the footpath just about to pass the entrance into
St Johns, the reason she was waving was because a car came from Edward st
going into St Johns and nearly knocked her down, she couldnt have been more than a few inches from the car. It was only when the car
had passed her that i realised she was visually impaired with a guide dog.
As if that wasnt bad enough a second car did the same thing.
thankfully the third car stopped and let her pass.
Considering that i was in shock , i cant begin to to imagine how the young lady felt, and maybe this could affect the dogs confidence.
If i had been able to get the cars regs i would publish them here, and
suffer the consequences.. but i was to slow.
Is this is what we have come to..

that's awful! There are some seriously ignorant & selfish people out there. So many people just want to go go go...they don't care if they get in someones way, they don't care if they nearly cause an accident, just drive through red lights, over take people who are actually doing the correct speed limit...its all total lack of patience!
I was nearly knocked down on the pedestrian crossing in the Mall a few months back, I had even waited to make sure nothing was coming rather than what some people do & just walk out on it expecting a car to stop for them. When I went to cross a guy just kept driving, as if he didn't notice me! I saw a woman knocked down on the same crossing last year!

I get so frustrated with people and their total inability to see what's going on around them, like they are in their own little bubble and don't care what's going on outside of it!

kn

Ovayonda wrote: »

Hi everyone, first post and im in shock after what i saw this morning.
I was stopped at the traffic lights outside St Johns church,going from town
towards Boherbue. Then i saw a young lady waving her hand in the air,
she was walking on the footpath just about to pass the entrance into
St Johns, the reason she was waving was because a car came from Edward st
going into St Johns and nearly knocked her down, she couldnt have been more than a few inches from the car. It was only when the car
had passed her that i realised she was visually impaired with a guide dog.
As if that wasnt bad enough a second car did the same thing.
thankfully the third car stopped and let her pass.
Considering that i was in shock , i cant begin to to imagine how the young lady felt, and maybe this could affect the dogs confidence.
If i had been able to get the cars regs i would publish them here, and
suffer the consequences.. but i was to slow.
Is this is what we have come to..

Yeah. I am wary myself walking across St.Johns. It seems to be a bit of a pedestrian blind spot as there is no warning to pedestrians that cars could be zipping in from Edward St in particular. There is nothing in the set up of the entrance to indicate that it is a vehicular entrance and in fact the set up with the gates et al indicate that it is really a pedestrian entrance. It is unfortunately a rather handy 'rat run' in heavy traffic from Castle St to Denny St. I notice that the problem really seems to be traffic coming down from Edward St on the green light, they seem to if anything accelerate through the lights to the entrance - barreling down on top of unsuspecting pedestrians.

The only solution to the problem of that entrance would be to block off the vehicular access to the car park from St. John's Church - that would cut the number of cars using the St. Johns entrance by about 99%. I might be mistaken but I think there are the holes in the ground for the metal barriers at the entrance, never seen them used though.

expatin africa

hi, just wondering is rocky mountain still open or has it become burgerking yet

stop animal cruelty

^ rockey mountain was open last night anyway

Southern Dandy

^^ Was their not a licencing issue or something. That they can not use the name yet, but Burgerking are taking over it.

stop animal cruelty

^ I wasn't there last night, but I was coming out of mcdonalds and saw the sign was all lite up so it looked as if it was

Southern Dandy

stop animal cruelty wrote: »

^ I wasn't there last night, but I was coming out of mcdonalds and saw the sign was all lite up so it looked as if it was

^^ I see, this arrow (^) business is so much handier then quoting.....

Howard Juneau

^^^^ You're learning sham!

Southern Dandy

^^^Indeed I am, Cheers Bah!.

Southern Dandy

Does anyone remember them horrible Blue (I think) Lorries laden down with the carcasses of what I think were dead sheep driving through the town years back, maybe early 90's.

Used to freak me out.

Howard Juneau

^^^ Now thats a bit random. You on the WKD blue tonight?

Howard Juneau

Are we having a boardsies Christmas meet-up? The Grand? The Mall......del's yacht?

Southern Dandy

Howard Juneau wrote: »

^^^ Now thats a bit random. You on the WKD blue tonight?

Please, am a west coast cooler kinda guy! Gawwd.

Yeaaaah that's right am back to quoting!.

Howard Juneau

^^^^ could be worse, you could be a Ritz kinda guy :P

kn

Howard Juneau wrote: »

Are we having a boardsies Christmas meet-up? The Grand? The Mall......del's yacht?

Del's yacht is heading for the Caribbean this time of year. Rumour has it that he may have a private island there.....but that's only a rumour......

Ciarrai76

expatin africa wrote: »

hi, just wondering is rocky mountain still open or has it become burgerking yet

its still trading as Rocky Mountain, and still open. It won't be changing over to Burger King until sometime in January.

stop animal cruelty

Southern Dandy wrote: »

^^ I see, this arrow (^) business is so much handier then quoting.....

l have to quote you now, but l perfer it anyway...less hassle...saw it on a different thread and thought l like that :P

expatin africa

thanks

have'nt been in town since september, also hows is the traffic in town mainly round manor, dont get home to saturday and must do the christmas shoping on sunday and monday and saw d pic of the posted last week, dreading it

Howard Juneau

expatin africa wrote: »

thanks

have'nt been in town since september, also hows is the traffic in town mainly round manor, dont get home to saturday and must do the christmas shoping on sunday and monday and saw d pic of the posted last week, dreading it

It's going to be panda-moaning-um, sorry.

pookiesboo

Howard Juneau wrote: »

It's going to be panda-moaning-um, sorry.

carchaeologist

Southern Dandy wrote: »

Does anyone remember them horrible Blue (I think) Lorries laden down with the carcasses of what I think were dead sheep driving through the town years back, maybe early 90's.

Used to freak me out.

They are still out there. Wards operate them.

Ciarrai76

just came upon this FB page 'Bad Driving Kerry'....

https://www.facebook.com/baddrivingkerry

Ciarrai76

so 'Milanos' is now 'Sopranos'....AGAIN!!!! WTF!??

Pirates Ale

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

so 'Milanos' is now 'Sopranos'....AGAIN!!!! WTF!??

Whats the bet that it will be back to Milano's again within 6 months. :rolleyes:

kn

Pirates Ale wrote: »

Whats the bet that it will be back to Milano's again within 6 months. :rolleyes:

Notice on the window says it was opening at 4pm today. Are ye all still queuing in this weather??

Pirates Ale

kn wrote: »

Notice on the window says it was opening at 4pm today. Are ye all still queuing in this weather??

I might head down now, hopefully the queue will have died down a bit..