Sligo Town early morning traffic

BronsonTB

8.45
Traffic was crazy on temple street but yet castle street was deserted...
Closing O'Connell street seems to have caused huge delays...
Do most people not use John Street into Adelaide street to wine street?

worlds goodest teecher

BronsonTB wrote: »

8.45
Traffic was crazy on temple street but yet castle street was deserted...
Closing O'Connell street seems to have caused huge delays...
Do most people not use John Street into Adelaide street to wine street?

Traffic around town at 8.15 was much busier than normal this morning.

Mint Sauce

And yet people keep beeping, including professional drivers, who know full well OConnell Street is closed. Road has been a kip, you complain and make a scene. Road is now closed to hopefully restore it from its current kip, and you still complain and make a scene.

Okay, it's going to be closed for how ever long, it only adds 5/10 to your journey. Suck it up for the few weeks.

prodsc

Will be great fun next week!!

http://www.sligococo.ie/PublicNotices/GrattanStreetRoadClosure/

Not just early morning, all day!

Buford T Justice

Mint Sauce wrote: »

And yet people keep beeping, including professional drivers, who know full well OConnell Street is closed. Road has been a kip, you complain and make a scene. Road is now closed to hopefully restore it from its current kip, and you still complain and make a scene.

Okay, it's going to be closed for how ever long, it only adds 5/10 to your journey. Suck it up for the few weeks.

Anyone with half a brain would know that the traffic light sequence on adelaide street and John St needs to be re-sequenced since O'Connell St. was closed to traffic. But no, that would only make sense so lets not do it.

Basq

prodsc wrote: »

Will be great fun next week!!

http://www.sligococo.ie/PublicNotices/GrattanStreetRoadClosure/

It's mid-term so shouldn't be too bad tbh!

Buford T Justice wrote: »

Anyone with half a brain would know that the traffic light sequence on adelaide street and John St needs to be re-sequenced since O'Connell St. was closed to traffic. But no, that would only make sense so lets not do it.

THIS! THIS!! THIS!!!

SligoBrewer

I was at home recently for a work thing and cycled in to town from about 6k out. Couldn't believe all the traffic from the Pearse Rd in, and town is just rammed with cars.

It's genuinely time to start pulling cars from town and moving towards having it being more pedestrian and cycle friendly like it was during the Fleadh.

loki7777

And where would you divert all that traffic when around the town you have all that road works - bypass is also busy like hell in the morning?

KatyMac

Have to drop daughter to IT for 9am every morning and it's a nightmare coming in the dual carriage way at Summerhill. If you land there any later than 8.10 then you will sit for half hour or more going through. And it's the same on the homeward journey from 5-6pm.

SligoBrewer

loki7777 wrote: »

And where would you divert all that traffic when around the town you have all that road works - bypass is also busy like hell in the morning?

You give people decent infrastructure to leave the car at home, and you remove the infrastructure that has cars throughout town.

The plaza in Stephen Street is a good example of what should be done.
Pedestrianising O'Connell St is another that we had but changed our mind on. At the minute OCS is a mess with cars, pulling in everywhere.

We have a concrete examples of how beautiful our town can be if we started to remove cars from the centre, Rockwood Parade.

People love looking at old photos of town when the most common sight in the street were bikes, people walking and children playing. Long term, that's the vision we should be striving for.

KatyMac wrote: »

Have to drop daughter to IT for 9am every morning and it's a nightmare coming in the dual carriage way at Summerhill. If you land there any later than 8.10 then you will sit for half hour or more going through. And it's the same on the homeward journey from 5-6pm.

This is an excellent example of induced demand. More roads creates more traffic as more people unnecessarily drive. Where were all these cars before 2009?

Cycling to the IT itself is hard. You've to either cross three lanes of traffic on the new bridge, or you've to cycle up Markeivicz Road because there's no contra flow cycle lane on Stephen Street.

T-Bird

SligoBrewer wrote: »

You give people decent infrastructure to leave the car at home, and you remove the infrastructure that has cars throughout town.

The plaza in Stephen Street is a good example of what should be done.
Pedestrianising O'Connell St is another that we had but changed our mind on. At the minute OCS is a mess with cars, pulling in everywhere.

We have a concrete examples of how beautiful our town can be if we started to remove cars from the centre, Rockwood Parade.

People love looking at old photos of town when the most common sight in the street were bikes, people walking and children playing. Long term, that's the vision we should be striving for.



This is an excellent example of induced demand. More roads creates more traffic as more people unnecessarily drive. Where were all these cars before 2009?

Cycling to the IT itself is hard. You've to either cross three lanes of traffic on the new bridge, or you've to cycle up Markeivicz Road because there's no contra flow cycle lane on Stephen Street.

IMO most of the traffic build up is down to the ridiculous traffic light system. You are almost guaranteed to stop away everyone of them, even at night time.