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Traffic light sequencing in Dublin city

Viscount Aggro · 2020-09-13 18:35:06

Anyone noticed the green lights now only last up to 5 seconds? Enough time for 2 to 3 cars to move. Noticed this all around Pearse street, grand canal street and traffic lights all along the canal southside. A lot of motorists are deciding to extend the sequencing, by driving on amber and red lights. Whats this about,…

13-09-2020 06:35PM

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Anyone noticed the green lights now only last up to 5 seconds?
Enough time for 2 to 3 cars to move.
Noticed this all around Pearse street, grand canal street and traffic lights all along the canal southside.
A lot of motorists are deciding to extend the sequencing, by driving on amber and red lights.
Whats this about, maybe the council is trying to push more people out of cars, to use other forms of transport?

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#2 13-09-2020 06:37PM

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Viscount Aggro wrote: »

Anyone noticed the green lights now only last up to 5 seconds?
Enough time for 2 to 3 cars to move.
Noticed this all around Pearse street, grand canal street and traffic lights all along the canal southside.
A lot of motorists are deciding to extend the sequencing, by driving on amber and red lights.
Whats this about, maybe the council is trying to push more people out of cars, to use other forms of transport?

Seems to have shifted emphasis to pedestrians as vehicular traffic is way down. Perhaps they want to keep the pedestrians moving and not queueing at traffic lights

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#3 13-09-2020 06:38PM

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Pedestrians now have priority.

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#4 13-09-2020 06:44PM

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Smee_Again wrote: »

Pedestrians now finally have priority.

Fixed that for you!

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#5 13-09-2020 06:45PM

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thread about it here already.

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#6 13-09-2020 11:11PM

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Viscount Aggro wrote: »

A lot of motorists are deciding to extend the sequencing, by driving on amber and red lights.

That's been the norm in Dublin for decades, nothing new in that

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#7 14-09-2020 07:05AM

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yup, see here
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058090996

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#8 14-09-2020 07:19AM

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Seth Brundle wrote: »

Fixed that for you!

Careful! You’ll trigger the motorists if you point out they are not necessarily the most important road user.

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#9 14-09-2020 01:46PM

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Smee_Again wrote: »

Careful! You’ll trigger the motorists if you point out they are not necessarily the most important road user.

ooooooooh edgy :pac:

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