Cork traffic

I was driving in town yesterday and was no 2 lane eastbound on merchants quay. Unless was too early, but it was at like 11

Just drove new route around 1.30 - I do this journey alot to get to top of patricks hill from city hall - parnell place -> merchants quay -> patricks bridge . ! Pleasantly surprised ... was quicker, drove up summerhill instead of going back down the quay and cut up york hill to get to Patricks Hill ! I have reservations though what be like during evening rush hour and when schools are back !

There's chaos at every turn of the lights by the Opera House.

Despite loads of signage everywhere, cars are still insisting on turning right onto Christy Ring Bridge. There is no priority for them in the lights sequence so they end up blocking people trying to go west along the quays and sometimes blocking traffic coming off the bridge. People really are asshats!

The junction needs a guard at peak times, for a while, I think.

This has probably been effected in rush hour by two nights of crashes on the south ring.... and one night of crashes near the Elysian plus a second night of traffic lights out in that area.

I think we badly need red light cameras with effective enforcement.

It had become completely normalised for 1 to 3 cars to run lights at almost every sequence of most lights. Just spend a few minutes at any junction and you will see.

Red light cameras and yellow box enforcement.

I'm afraid I can't be charitable and accept that anyone, when they get to that junction thinks they are allowed to turn right. The lanes have changed (only one heading west on Lavitt's Quay), yet no one is accidentally driving on the wrong side of the road!

There's about 4 large signs along the length of the Quay, signs at Parnell Place and on Patrick's Street (where they shouldn't be coming from after 3,anyway). They know!

That extra time in the lights sequence is to allow busses to turn right onto the bridge.

Anybody know is there a particular email or form to report issues with traffic lights? On MFR turning left onto Melbourn rd, the filter light doesn't turn green when it seems like it should (while traffic from Melbourn is turning right onto MFR)

Traffic seems to be crazy all over the city. And a lot of the time the cause seems to be sequencing of lights. Lights are turning red with a green man every 30 seconds at Heineken. All backed up in the mornings.

I was going N-S over the Christy Ring Bridge today and while stopped at the lights about four cars made the illegal right turn onto the bridge. What really took the biscuit though was about 2h later when passing through the same junction I saw an Expressway bus do the same thing. The complete lack of enforcement is absolutely mental.

Seriously, they can't not know. The lane layout is completely changed, there are big, multiple signs. They know.

It would be of more concern if drivers managed to not see any of the signs.

It is, surprisingly rare to hear compliant drivers blowing their horns at arseholes holding up the traffic, alright. It does happen, though.

Buses are allowed turn right onto the bridge, btw. Problem is that there's rarely room for a bus because of all the self entitled twits making the illegal right turn.

This is not true of any traffic lights.

Far too much priority is given to cars, rarely are pedestrians given frequent enough or long enough crossing times.

Don't try to blame pedestrian crossings for traffic when you are the traffic.

Traffic problems are caused by cars and exacerbated by poor driver behaviour - notably, blocking junctions and breaking lights.

That's a very specific scenario. She would have to go as far as North Gate Bridge to cross the river from there.

Generally, though, if you want to go north, you shouldn't be on Merchant's Quay, at all. You should turn right at the bus station, rather than left onto Merchant's Quay.

These changes are part of wider changes to traffic flow. I don't really fully understand it yet, but the changes aren't finished.

But drivers just need to follow the rules, irrespective of whether they agree with them or not. Otherwise, chaos reigns. What other rules can we ignore? One way streets? Pedestrian streets? Already yellow boxes and traffic lights are routinely ignored. Drivers really need to cop on in a big way and an Gardaí need to ensure they do.

Fair enough. No argument there but turning right at North Gate bridge brings you up Shannon St. just makes no sense if, say, that woman wants to go to Montenotte. I’m just sympathetic to her tbh. If there’s a wider strategy put the proper infrastructure in place and then enforce it. If people cant see the sense in a plan they’ll ignore it, and the Gardai won’t bother to enforce it. I was standing on the Bridge trying to figure out how to get from Boreenmana Road to Mallow. I’ve decided to go down Lower Glanmire rd and take the North Link. But it’s a bit counterintuitive.

It's not coming on anywhere near every 30 seconds, that's just a ridiculous exaggeration.

And this is not the cause of traffic build up.

Missed that but about left on Brian Boru bridge. That makes sense. Thanks.

Ah, didn’t know buses were permitted. That would explain it. I was thinking it was a bit brazen.

Traffic is nuts the last few weeks. On Thursday it took me over 1hr 15 mins to get from Blackpool to Douglas. My commute is one that cannot be done by public transport. Lanes blocked, double parking, yellow boxes filled. Breaking red lights at junctions is pretty standard too.

On Friday I went in to the city again and it was consternation by Heineken. Stand still. Gave up on my plans. Made an escape out of the city and went the Tunnel way which was surprisingly much faster than usual.

It is hard to judge it these days, on the other hand it took me 40 minutes to go from Douglas to the tunnel on Friday morning due to a lane closure there. Ridiculous times.

My apologies it’s actually closer to 20 seconds.

Traffic is hairy alright. Took me 1.15 hrs to drop a couple of kids from Boreenmanna Rd to the travel lodge on Kinsale road roundabout and get back to Boreenmanna on Friday afternoon. Place was like a car park.

It took me a while to figure out how to get out the limerick road from town some morning last week as well. I know the roads have changed but the signage is confusing.

The last thing we should want to do is emulate Dublins policy. The air quality is even worse than ours. It’s not reasonable to say they want to reduce emissions and at the same time have a sequence like this that exponentially increases car emissions.

Yes, you're right.

Another example is the removal of all the mature trees on boreenmana road to replace it with a bus lane. We know international best practice is to use trees in cities to create shade, reduce noise pollution, improve the appearance of the city, improve air quality, habitats for wildlife etc. And mature trees are not equivalent to saplings, so should be protected. I am 100% sure if they had "keep existing trees" as a requirement, the plan would not remove them, it would be part of the traffic separation.

And don't get me started on the stinking latrines that are the electronic trees.

It would be awful if we had a proper functioning public transport system, then people couldn't use the excuse of there not being suitable public transport for going absolutely everywhere in their cars,irrespective of need or options.

Funny, I don't hear any weeping or any talk at all from all these tree lovers when a new road is built but as soon as a single tree is removed in a measure that may disrupt car use in any way, it all about the trees and their environmental benefits!

It rings very false to my ears, I'm afraid.