A Question for High-Milage Drivers!

mike65

Which village, town or city do you most hate visiting or driving through?

I had this thought after spending too long in traffic at Gorey which must be the tailback captial of the south-east :mad:

Name and Shame here! (and tell why)

Mike.

Chimaera

Newmarket-on-Fergus in Clare - thank God they've bypassed it now - the main Limerick-Ennis Road used to run through it, and it takes two 90degree bends in succession on the way through :rolleyes:

Another one I dislike is Crusheen between Ennis and Galway - same thing again, nasty 90 deg bend in the middle.

DMC

Dunshaughlin

Grrrr. Now they are digging the street up to lay new sewerage for the next_six_months.

ando

Drogheda is a biatch

Borzoi

My top five boils on the bum:

Kildare
Limerick
Drogheda
Mitchellstown
Fermoy

All of whom I'd happily nuke from orbit:D

halkar

M50 Biggest car park in Europe :rolleyes:

daveg

ClareGalway in Galway. Takes me an hour every evening to get home. I only live 11 miles from Galway :rolleyes:

Ba$tard

Sarsfield roundabout in cork on a busy day...

Thursdays are a nightmare....you could spend 25 minnutes to go 200 yards, no joke.

Our efficent local authority had planned in the orginal map to make a flyover there...guess what...yes....they didn't.

Another for me as I go Glanmire-Ballincollig is ballingocllig town just as school finishes.....they are building a by-pass, built by the turks, so the road surface with be excellent...


J .

Turner

(1) Drogheda. Although you can take the left at the europa and then the first right and end up at mullens

(2) Kildare town.

Used to despise enfield, love it now.

Chief.

BigEejit

4 of the worsts in Cork are:
Ballincollig
Macroom
Fermoy
Michelstown
If you arrive at any of those at the wrong time of day, you'll be stuck for 30 minutes +

Stephen

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Carlow. Its a big bottleneck on the main Waterford-Dublin road, and traffic is usually hellish here too

mike65

Good call! Carlow on Friday afternoon or indeed just after the schools turn out is very bad.

Mike.

ToxicPaddy

Originally posted by Stephen
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Carlow. Its a big bottleneck on the main Waterford-Dublin road, and traffic is usually hellish here too

Yup, I have to agree, many a day Ive spent an hour trying to get
through Carlow..

Gorey is just a kip and a nightmare

New Ross if you are headin from waterford to anywhere on the east cost north of New Ross on a Friday evening, traffic can be backed up for miles on the waterford side..

Monasterevin.. another joke and impossible to get through..
Kildare town, not much better..

Jeez there are so much more, just dont have the time to list
them all...

:rolleyes:

John2002

Worst imo is Kildare town or else Newmarket-on-Fergus is pure sh1te too.

Anybody know what the story with the Kildare bypass is? What's the holdup?

The wonderfish

On the N7 at Johnstown & Kill traffic lights on a friday evening, absolute disaster.....also as we are on the subject of delays, a mate took 6.5hrs last week to get from cork to dublin on the train and to make it worse the trains toilets were out of order for the whole journey!! :mad:

Turner

I heard about that, aparently the train stopped in charleville and the toilets in the station were locked. Eventually passengers were able to relieve themselves in limerick junction.

As far as travelling during the day, I never do it. If I am goin anywhere I will leave after 11pm

For example (leaving after 11pm)

Dublin - Cork 2hrs 30 mins.
Dublin - Dundalk 50 mins
Dublin - Donegal 2hrs 30 mins
Dublin - Killarney 3hrs 15 mins.

Leaving during the day (not to mention rush hour traffic)

Dublin - Cork 4-7 hrs (kildare HAH! roadworks HAH lorries HAH 40mph drivers HAH)


Dublin - dundalk (m50 HAH airport rnd-abouts HAH julianstown HAH drogheda HAH, at night you can go through julianstown at 70mph, I hate when people slow to 30mph)

Dublin - Donegal (you might as well fly to knock and get a taxi) 4-7 hours during rush hour)

Maybe we should have a sticky thread detailing short cuts traffic info etc.

Chief.

JabbaTheHut

There are pretty simple ways around those two poxy towns,Kildare and Mitchelstown,but a wee bit hard to explain in text. (or maybe I just wanna keep it to myself )

btw,Chief,Dublin to Cork,in 2 1/2 hrs ,even at 11pm,is roasting some road

Turner

If the roads are empty, let them be roasted.

That was in a Rover 75 2.0 V6 at 5am in the morning.

Chief.

JabbaTheHut

Lol. I was thinking it wasn't a mini somehow.

I thoguht of another town.It's kinda outa the way a little but Bailieborough in Cavan is a disaster.It's "abandon city" when it comes to parking,and you have to squash through it because of the "parking".It used to be like that in Mitchelstown,but they've lined the parking since,and makes life a share easier there now to get through

DMC

I never thought I'd see Baileborough mentioned in this list!!

Old market town, old parking habits. Kingscourt it ain't.

I live near Kells, which is an urban disaster area on Fridays. Thank God I can get around it by going through Oristown and Carlanstown.

C'mon the M3.

original gadget

Originally posted by John2002


Anybody know what the story with the Kildare bypass is? What's the holdup?

Ive been told the KE bypass will not open till next year - its ready to rock, but they are finishing off the drainage, lights, etc... but it will just transfer the bottleneck to Monisterivan.....

mike65

I'd just like to get this off my chest -

I HATE GOREY!

Yes I was in that hell hole again today, thats better...;)

Mike.

ToxicPaddy

are they ever gonna by pass that hole..???

well actually they should do the same with New Ross & Enniscorthy.. they whole bloody lot of em... complete nightmares to get through :rolleyes:

mike65

TP that none of the above has a bypass - not forgetting Carlow and Waterford shows just how badly the SE region has been treated, it'll be 10 or 15 years before they're all by-passed.

Mike.