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Douglas roadworks

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    #32
    Austria!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭Austria!


    Passed this today, backed up about 20 cars going into douglas at 7.20 in the evening. Absolute madness. One or two cars wanting to go right to kinsale roundabout can completely screw traffic. Is this what it's going to be like permanently?


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    #33
    jamesbere
    Registered Users Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Austria! wrote: »
    Passed this today, backed up about 20 cars going into douglas at 7.20 in the evening. Absolute madness. One or two cars wanting to go right to kinsale roundabout can completely screw traffic. Is this what it's going to be like permanently?

    Its a joke at this stage, can't understand how these roadworks have taken so long. I mean it looks like going into the long weekend and they're still not finished.


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    #34
    mik_da_man
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,948 ✭✭✭mik_da_man


    jamesbere wrote: »
    Its a joke at this stage, can't understand how these roadworks have taken so long. I mean it looks like going into the long weekend and they're still not finished.

    Passed there a few times recently and I cannot understand how it's taking so long, and what the need was in the first place.


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    #35
    kub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,546 ✭✭✭kub


    I can't help but think that this must be doing that contractors name damage at this stage.

    They started on site in June, I am beginning to think that this contractor is busy on more lucrative work and is perhaps allocating resources elsewhere, either that or they are charging the council by the hour.

    I had the pleasure of been stuck there this afternoon, that left straight on lane is still closed off, the only reason i could see was because there was a cherry picker parked there unused, which could have been parked up on the now extended foot path.


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    #36
    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    I'm shocked to see they are still working on it. I remember back at the start of this post user 'hoodwinked' said they would still be at it come the return to school in September...I laughed to myself..hats off to you hoodwinked ;)


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    #37
    GavRedKing
    Registered Users Posts: 53,262 ✭✭✭✭GavRedKing


    I've been caught there on two occasions, both on Sundays when it slipped my mind to go through the housing estates and avoid the traffic and have been stuck there for a good 10-15mins each time.


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    #38
    Blackie Grey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭Blackie Grey


    Made a complete bollox of this ,all for a few pc cycle lanes..those lights by roundabout are illegal people are driving straight through them.


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    #39
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,288 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Blackie Grey wrote: »
    Made a complete bollox of this ,all for a few pc cycle lanes..those lights by roundabout are illegal people are driving straight through them.

    What's a "pc" cycle lane?


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    #40
    TheChizler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,455 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    I don't understand why the South Douglas road works are taking so long, the Douglas Road one took a matter of weeks, and that involved a raised path.


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    #41
    kub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,546 ✭✭✭kub


    I delighted to inform you all that I passed those never ending roadworks earlier and they have disappeared. 2 lanes are reopened.
    Praise the Lord....


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    #42
    TheChizler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,455 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    kub wrote: »
    I delighted to inform you all that I passed those never ending roadworks earlier and they have disappeared. 2 lanes are reopened.
    Praise the Lord....
    Just passed this! ESB were all over it last night so maybe there were some electrical issues they had to sort out before they could open it.

    No sign of a cycle lane, not sure where reports of them putting one in came from, AFAIK it was always a footpath widening exercise.


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    #43
    Blackie Grey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭Blackie Grey


    TheChizler wrote: »
    Just passed this! ESB were all over it last night so maybe there were some electrical issues they had to sort out before they could open it.

    No sign of a cycle lane, not sure where reports of them putting one in came from, AFAIK it was always a footpath widening exercise.

    As far as I know it was a waste of time project in the Banana Republic.


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