M11/N11 Traffic October 2015

Alun

When the traffic is really, really bad my wife drives through Carrickmines up to Kilternan, along the Scalp, through Enniskerry and via back roads on to the Kilcroney roundabout. Not much fun in the winter, but she has an MX-5 so if it's sunny it's a much more pleasant drive She's lucky in as much as she has a parking space that allows her to drive through Westwood and on at the Carrickmines junction instead of having to negotiate the Leopardstown roundabout though.

Alun

EastCoastFM wrote:

Road users in Wicklow and surrounding areas are being urged to exercise extreme caution on the roads this evening as bad weather has caused flooding in many areas. The Coast Road between Wicklow and Arklow is impassable due to the flooding and the exit ramp for Jack Whites has been closed to traffic. Elsewhere, the main road through Rathnew is completely flooded and traffic is backed up in both directions. Drivers are asked to use their lights and slow down.

Someone didn't do their job properly by the looks of it.

Thargor

Are they ever going to stop digging up the Vevay Road in Bray? How many times has that spot outside Centra been dug up? Its 2-3 times a year and they never resurface the road properly afterwards, place is like a dirt track to cycle through with the amount of bumps and holes they leave in it.

Dr Strange

Thargor wrote: »

Are they ever going to stop digging up the Vevay Road in Bray? How many times has that spot outside Centra been dug up? Its 2-3 times a year and they never resurface the road properly afterwards, place is like a dirt track to cycle through with the amount of bumps and holes they leave in it.

On last count it's the fourth time this year alone (may be the fifth).

marty_crane

It mightn't be so bad if they'd at least leave it in a half decent state while they're working on it. Disgraceful that it's being left the way it is

Zebbedee

Dr Strange wrote: »

On last count it's the fourth time this year alone (may be the fifth).

And it'll have to be dug up again when they are reinstating it.

zoobizoo

P0lygon Wind0w wrote: »

If you went down to Shankill, you can do this little skip
https://goo.gl/46vwoQ

It Saved me many hours during the great flood of '06


Not sure about Cherrywood to Shankill though

Cheers for that

zoobizoo

BTW - where do the delays start on the M50?

Travelling south in the evenings, the traffic seems to be backed up close to the Cherrywood turn off... the accordion effect happens then all the way into Bray north and presumably beyond.

Does the speed limits in Kilmac slow things down or is it total volume of traffic?

A bridge crossing the Dargle bringing cars on to the Herbert road would be a blessing for those living in the town.

d31b0y

Supposedly lowering the speed limit on parts of the road will actually increase traffic flow.
In fact, it appears that there are plans to implement variable speed limits on certain parts of the M50;
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/variable-speed-limits-to-help-reduce-congestion-on-m50-34291555.html

loyatemu

problem with the M11 is there is 4 lanes reducing to 2 in the space of about 1KM - the road is massively over capacity, no amount of tinkering with speed limits is going to change that.

BigMoose

Exactly the above - no tinkering with the variable speed limit on the M50 will solve the 4 lanes into 2 problem on the M11. Once you get past Bray north and are on the 2 lane bit, it keeps moving (all be it slowly, unless there's a crash then all bets are off). There's typically a slow down at Bray south as folk discover cars queuing in the hard shoulder before they were expecting it so have to slow on the main carriageway to get let in. By the time you get to the 60 in Killmac it's moving fine.