M7 roadworks speeds vans from Monday

Wildly Boaring

Well I drive up through it the other night and two geniuses had managed to hit each other west bound.

I was east bound.

The queue behind them was growing exponentially.

With no hard shoulder and narrow lanes perhaps we cant be trusted to go any quicker even out of work hours.

Wildly Boaring

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Well I drive up through it the other night and two geniuses had managed to hit each other west bound.

I was east bound.

The queue behind them was growing exponentially.

With no hard shoulder and narrow lanes perhaps we cant be trusted to go any quicker even out of work hours.

Reminded me.
When we did M1 Lusk services we got proper speed limit off gardai.

Taxi driver managed to hit the temporary barrier and somersault / roll over about 10 of them.

BlackandGreen

Patww79 wrote: »

They should really have only bothered widening outbound. Inbound is pointless.

Really?
I used to commute to Dublin in 2016 and every morning the minute you hit the m9/m7 merge the traffic would be at a crawl from about 7am everymorning.

Took me an hour to get from the m9/m7 merge to the red cow.

It was badly needed.

Odyssey 2005

Kill your speed,not my daddy.

Hard to kill your daddy at 6am on a Sunday morning when he's in bed !!

Gentleman Off The Pitch

BlackandGreen wrote: »

Really?
I used to commute to Dublin in 2016 and every morning the minute you hit the m9/m7 merge the traffic would be at a crawl from about 7am everymorning.

Took me an hour to get from the m9/m7 merge to the red cow.

It was badly needed.

I can't see the inbound widening benefiting cars going as far as the M50 and beyond, during morning rush hour anyway, since it'll mean everyone will reach the potential bottlenecks (i.e. each junction) between Naas and the M50 quicker. Even with the throttling effect of the road works speed limits there at the moment, traffic backs up at multiple points inbound due Irish motorists inability to merge, their refusal to leave adequate distance between their car and that in front, incessant brake tapping, poorly designed merges and traffic volume.

s14driftking

Gentleman Off The Pitch wrote: »

BlackandGreen wrote: »

Really?
I used to commute to Dublin in 2016 and every morning the minute you hit the m9/m7 merge the traffic would be at a crawl from about 7am everymorning.

Took me an hour to get from the m9/m7 merge to the red cow.

It was badly needed.

I can't see the inbound widening benefiting cars going as far as the M50 and beyond, during morning rush hour anyway, since it'll mean everyone will reach the potential bottlenecks (i.e. each junction) between Naas and the M50 quicker. Even with the throttling effect of the road works speed limits there at the moment, traffic backs up at multiple points inbound due Irish motorists inability to merge, their refusal to leave adequate distance between their car and that in front, incessant brake tapping, poorly designed merges and traffic volume.

it builds most days from kill or Johnston logistics straight threw to the redcow. I can see inbound getting worst once completed.

_Kaiser_

s14driftking wrote: »

it builds most days from kill or Johnston logistics straight threw to the redcow. I can see inbound getting worst once completed.

Yep.. as you say, it's already a mess from J7 inbound after it's widened to 3 lanes from J9. These works will just get the traffic there quicker and the M9 merge will still be a disaster with cars running into each other.

Outbound I reckon it'll just push the J9 chaos to the Carlow exit.

Wildly Boaring

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Yep.. as you say, it's already a mess from J7 inbound after it's widened to 3 lanes from J9. These works will just get the traffic there quicker and the M9 merge will still be a disaster with cars running into each other.

Outbound I reckon it'll just push the J9 chaos to the Carlow exit.

Outbound it will surely help.
Those of us heading cork or limerick usually fly after M9 traffic gone. So should help those 2 routes anyway.

coolisin

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Outbound it will surely help.
Those of us heading cork or limerick usually fly after M9 traffic gone. So should help those 2 routes anyway.

Those of us heading to Kilkenny Waterford fly along once the m7 traffic is gone!!!

Wildly Boaring

coolisin wrote: »

Those of us heading to Kilkenny Waterford fly along once the m7 traffic is gone!!!

Exactly. Sorry I never go that way. Some here are querying the need for this or I dunno looking for 4 lanes to their house.

Unfortunately though there is proof in civil engineering that the number of cars will simply increase once you increase capacity.

coolisin

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

Exactly. Sorry I never go that way. Some here are querying the need for this or I dunno looking for 4 lanes to their house.

Unfortunately though there is proof in civil engineering that the number of cars will simply increase once you increase capacity.

Nah I'm kidding the M9 ain't half as busy as the m7 my folks live in Roscrea so I know the m7 well.
The merge is f**ked due to people being in the wrong lane until the last second.

Then either going coast to coast in the lanes which causes people to slam on or going flying up the "fast"lane slamming on to make a gap in traffic in the slow lane.

Road being at capacity is one thing, you cannot fix idiots which there is alot of.