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delthedriver wrote: »May this year bring good health and everything that you wish for.
Best Wishes,
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Bastards. I'm sinking your yacht for not inviting me to your New Year's cruise.........:mad:0 -
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Drove past the infamous Matt Talbot Road/Strand Street junction over the holidays and started laughing when I saw the (much publicized here on Boards) red van with flashing hazards for the first time outside the laundrette!!:) It looked all the more out of place and dangerous now that the rest of the area is completed. Perhaps they need to put low steel poles or bollards on the footpath edges around there to prevent such illegal on the kerb parking?
I do think while it is still confusing for motorists, the safety for pedestrians is much improved. Visually, the junction looks far better too. For the 5 seconds I passed through it though, one motorist failed to use the roundabout correctly. I was yielding from Chapel Street for the motorist coming off High Street but she stopped and insisted on me going first even though it was her right of way. The motorist behind her wasn't too happy and beeped her out of it! Technically, it was not the roundabout or layout fault but her lack of understanding of roundabouts!
Finally, motorists of Tralee, please,please, please use your indicators on roundabouts and elsewhere where required (and of course use them correctly). I seemed to notice this time round that lack of use seems to be far more prominent down here than in Dublin/elsewhere. Surely those that don't use them are also inconvenienced by other drivers that don't use them (creating unnecessary delays at roundabouts/junctions for them also? etc) and therefore could/should appreciate why it's beneficial to use them??
Sorry, barely into 2014 and already ranting....!!:o0 -
Drove past the infamous Matt Talbot Road/Strand Street junction over the holidays and started laughing when I saw the (much publicized here on Boards) red van with flashing hazards for the first time outside the laundrette!!:) It looked all the more out of place and dangerous now that the rest of the area is completed. Perhaps they need to put low steel poles or bollards on the footpath edges around there to prevent such illegal on the kerb parking?
I do think while it is still confusing for motorists, the safety for pedestrians is much improved. Visually, the junction looks far better too. For the 5 seconds I passed through it though, one motorist failed to use the roundabout correctly. I was yielding from Chapel Street for the motorist coming off High Street but she stopped and insisted on me going first even though it was her right of way. The motorist behind her wasn't too happy and beeped her out of it! Technically, it was not the roundabout or layout fault but her lack of understanding of roundabouts!
Finally, motorists of Tralee, please,please, please use your indicators on roundabouts and elsewhere where required (and of course use them correctly). I seemed to notice this time round that lack of use seems to be far more prominent down here than in Dublin/elsewhere. Surely those that don't use them are also inconvenienced by other drivers that don't use them (creating unnecessary delays at roundabouts/junctions for them also? etc) and therefore could/should appreciate why it's beneficial to use them??
Sorry, barely into 2014 and already ranting....!!:o
The roundabout is just too bloody small. Whenever 4 cars arrive at each of the entrances simultaneously there's either a deadlock as they all wait for each other to make a move or they all take off at the same time. It's too small for them to avoid each other.
Also, if you're coming from the guards barracks side and turning right to Matt Talbot road you have no choice but to drive over the roundabout.0 -
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