Cork traffic

Yeah I hate people who use their legs to get around as well!!

These most recent posts have confirmed my suspicions that these posts aren't genuine but just someone having a laugh. Well played Diabhalta, well played. 👏

My favourite post was "We don't drive on footpaths" followed by a picture of a car parked on a footpath. How did it get there?

Ah, you are using the wrong kind of logic!

The cause of the car on the footpath is the lack of parking spaces and the proliferation of cycle lanes and oversized footpaths. It is not the fault of the driver who drove their car onto the footpath and left it there!

A couple of years ago there was wonderful "logic" used in a similar thread. A poster claimed that if the fixed costs of motoring were reduced, people would be encouraged to use their cars less. The "logic" was that as people pay so much to have cars that they are damn well going to use them - make it cheaper and they would walk and cycle! They argued this point over and over.

This is what you are up against.

I am talking about city centre re the parks, none of those places you mentioned are in the city centre (except the junkie and bird sh1t park). By the time you get to Atlantic pond etc. your ice cream will melt. Quays are roads, no benches.

Cork city is called a city only because it's large in size. In fact cork city is a village, and majority of people living here are villagers. It's ok to walk, it's not ok to be a moron while walking. Try some stuff people are doing here abroad, and people will think you clearly have low IQ.

just look at this guy, having a stroll in the middle of a junction. Nobody cares. Some village ffs, I know we are at the very end of Europe in the middle of nowhere but come on. Get your sh1t together will ya?

It's still bonkers at the Opera House junction. People constantly making the illegal right turn and running red lights!

And if you are coming from the opera house direction and just on the turn to the bridge, those cars that make the illegal turn are looking at you as if you are in the wrong for blocking their way 🙄

Regarding the Opera House craziness, what boggles me is that the whole line of traffic held up by selfish drivers, typically just wait quietly behind these bell ends, with rarely even a beep.

Although, this might be explained by the fact that a sizeable portion of the people held up are planning to do the very same thing themselves!

This is what I expect people to do and probably what I would do but it is very annoying for pedestrians to be listening to that carry on.

I've found myself in horn blaring competitions. Subsequently, I've realised that any observers don't give a fiddlers who is in the right. They just see and hear two arseholes blaring their horns!

I have been one of those arseholes (but in the right, of course 😂).

Theres a long discussion about this in the Roads forum. Unfortunately it seems as if merging traffic from Mahon is causing the tailbacks now, not the tunnel.

True people don't know how to use merging lanes. People are probably afraid of being accused of queue jumping in they are going passed stopped traffic in the main lanes.

Hardly surprising when so many people have no idea how to use lanes, generally. We are a nation of middle lane drivers when it comes to 3 or more lanes.

hi

Where can i find an update map that shows the traffic flow in the city center now in 2023?

Yes .. I did google it to no avail. 😀

I passed along the street today and several cars were parked on the footpaths. No sign of enforcement, but that’s not new.

I had words with someone driving on Patrick's Street yesterday. They appeared to be from Cork but were genuinely perplexed at my assertion that they were driving in a bus lane. They thought I was insane and making stuff up.

Meanwhile, people continue to illegally turn right onto Christie Ring bridge and speed through the pedestrian crossing on red lights at same junction.

Patrick's Quay seems to have become another popular weekend park entirely on the footpath spot.

I've seen them ticketing a lot of people over the last few weeks. People parked fully up on the footpaths arguing with them.

Lots on Patricks Quay too.

That is being completely ignored by people who think they can still go from Watercourse Road to MacCurtain street.

The bus lane on Devonshire street may as well not be there. It is ignored by all.

Is there any map of the changes anywhere?

The answer is enforcement cameras.

Stick up a camera on the Patrick St. bus lane wand watch the problem disappear.

Stick another camera up watching Christy Ring bridge, and be amazed as that problem disappears too.

Lots of drivers have repeatedly demonstrated that they will continue to do whatever they want if there are no consequences. Camera would solve that.