Farronshoneen Roundabout

Improving pedestrian and cycling crossings

All they're doing is extending the footpath outwards, but shur the "weather" has delayed them by a couple of month to pour a bit of concrete.

It's being driven from WEF UN climate change net zero 2030.. Check it out... Google is your friend.. Bus connects, smart cities etc etc...

https://www.waterfordcouncil.ie/media/projects/public-consultations/2022/s38-farronshoneen/21016-01-0001-OPTION%208%20FINAL%201-400.pdf

Plan for what it is worth. If the plan has not changed, think it will improve things there. But yes, ridiculous time of year to do it.

Make it more difficult to drive.. Higher priorities for pedestrians, bicycles and public transport .. This route is on a proposed priority Bus connects route with busses every 10 minutes during peak hours..

Because it would cost 2 - 3 times more plus the noise would disrupt a lot of people.

...try sleep next to such works!

...no traffic issues on the bypass friday morning 9.30....

Roundabout seemed fine. Council works in strange ways. It’s mostly coming from this Green anti car agenda. The Quay is also another example of these projects.

Just too many cars. Roads cannot expand to meet exponential growth in car ownership unless we tarmac everywhere...and I'm a petrol head!

more pedestrian and cycle friendly infrastructure is welcome, but without massive expansion our other modes of transport, such as rail and of course bus infrastructure, you may forget about it, you ll just end up pi$$ing everybody off and backing the place up.....

Do people want to use buses? Anytime I am in Waterford or Kilkenny the buses are nearly empty and the place is clogged up with car traffic. I think we should have full time park and ride facilities on outskirts of Waterford to help with traffic.

I am in Waterford city every day at various times. I think bus usage has increased dramatically. There is a valley period mid morning and early afternoon, but this may be normal. Overall bus usage is growing strongly in my view. The route Tramore to City has a lot of suburban traffic as well and now uses double deckers. In fairness Kilkenny is a relatively small town with only a recent history of a single bus route.Urban bus routes have existed in Waterford city since at least 1950

TFI announced early this year I think, that bus trips in Waterford city in 2022, were well over 1million ?

The buses need to be reliable, clean and affordable. Since the W5 started from the hospital into town I tend to use it if it's just myself going into town as it's reliable unlike Kenneally's where I've been left waiting for ages most times I've gone to use it and even had to wait up to an hour on numerous occasions even in times when there hasn't been much traffic. Their timetable is a piece of fiction.

Anytime I've taken the W5 bus there's been plenty of passengers on it.

I thought the same when I lived 10/15 minutes walk to town and never needed the buses; any time I saw one it as either completely empty, or no more than 5 people on them. Now that I live further out of town and I've started to take the bus in terms of speed the W3 and W5 buses between 9 to 5 are always at least 50 - 75% full.

I got the W5 from John Street to Ardkeen a couple of Fridays ago in the afternoon and I barely made it on the bus. There were about 20 people standing, and I got the last standing space right up by the driver - it was like being back in Dublin again.

It was the Engineer not the councillors who had the final say, the councillors weren't even told of the change in the plans.

Problem is the public also don’t read and examine the plans for change when it’s announced.

How on earth do council engineers have so much power and no accountability. This really should have been flagged by our represented councillers and the decision debated and reversed.

I would put hard cash on the fact that none of these engineers who have torn up and destroyed the city with one way roads, illogical changes to the traffic such as New Street and Ozanam Street ever have to use these streets themselves.

Fine for cars maybe but not for pedestrians. Trying to cross the road is a nightmare, cars never let you cross even at the pedestrian crossing at Solas Centre.