Farronshoneen Roundabout

It's drawn out to give the impression something meaningful is being constructed. It's like "security theater" at airport security - all for show, but hollow.

Something similar occurred back when they worked on the Quay - very public 'performance roadworks' that took years, the net result was a simple median that would have taken a a few months to put together anywhere else.

You're meant to think "Look! Waterford's improving" - when in fact it is not.

Budgets need to be spent before the end of year.

Yes. If you read up on NTA (main funding authority and policy maker) their view is to make it as difficult as possible for the motorist/car driver so that they are forced into using different modes of transport…..so projects are designed to annoy car drivers as much as possible and in this case they obviously want to extend this to annoying/pissing off duirng construction phase also….😡

Why aren't they working on this at night, like the Dunmore road resurfacing? It's crazy the delays it's causing, traffic backed up to the hospital roundabout this morning. Are there not implications for Ambulances even if they don't give a fcuk about the rest of us?

Plus the ‘cranks’ on boards would have less to complain/rant about…!

Who cares? They have the money to pay the workers shift rate, every building project in the country goes over budget. Plus they would get the job done a hell of a lot faster.

Much easier said than done. Most creches dont open until 8am so its not as simple as planning to leave earlier. The council dont care about complaints, sure when did they ever care? They have daily complaints about traffic route changes that add to traffic jams, anti social behavior from scumbags going on years, lights not working and foothpaths in a mess and they just sit back and let it happen.

A few days of night time working would mean nothing to them but would in the long term get the project over the line a lot quicker but that approach is far too much like common sense for them to accept.

I have to laugh at this "anti-car agenda" BS about the Quays, when the Quays are a massive car park with roundabouts added to make using them easier than they used to be.

realistically, probably not, our lives are now designed around the private car, its gonna be extremely difficult to change this, if not impossible, but if we significantly expanded other modes of transport, i.e. rail and bus etc, it would probably make the transition out of the private car more realistic, but at the moment, thats not happening at any required rate, so.....

park and ride makes a lot of sense, but again, probably wont happen, so.....

...id love to see the numbers on this, but my gut says, if its growing, it aint growing very rapidly, i see a hell of a lot of near empty buses wondering around this town, and i walk a lot, but thats only my observations, so we d need the numbers to be sure....

any idea on the long term trends, is it increasing over time?

I presume usage figures will be pubished by TFI in January.

Is there anyone responsible for this ongoing cluster**** out by Ardkeen? Like were these roadworks approved by the City Counsellors or is it just the Civil Engineering department in the Council who decided to do it, and who are not accountable to anyone?

That's why we have councillors

They are supposed to act on our behalf and advocate for public's interests to the council exec

have it on good authority that the original plan for this was for the two lanes to remain and thats what the council voted on but and get this the active travel site engineer of the works can over rule the vote without consultation with the council if he sees fit under whats called a section 38 licence which is what happened here which is why its just one lane now.

Shin

A signaled junction with two lanes would be better than this mess now!

Don’t fix something that isn’t broken. This junction was fine previously. If anything money could be spent on numerous other projects in the city. The main Tramore road is a disgrace. Not one cats eyes remaining, Road surface is all chippings and poor quality tarmac.