Cork traffic

The cameras there are the moment are the AGS CCTV cameras, I believe?

The enforcement cameras are different. They are more akin to speed cameras in that they are automatically watching for triggers (i.e. car going through a red light, bus lane etc.). When triggered, the image is automatically sent for processing.

You see them quite a bit in the UK. They are smaller than speed cameras, but also painted yellow so that drivers are visually aware that they are there.

IMHO the answer is in signage and education. BIG SIGNAGE.

Seems to me that very few people know what all these changes entail- how to get from point A to point B etc.

There was a big hullaballoo and party celebrating McCurtain Street being opened as two way but not a single map or infographic to explain the changes. How many people on this page have asked for a map explaining the changes ? The reason they're asking is because there's none readily available. Cork City Council Website has some maps of sorts but they're completely useless. They're actually the initial proposals from a number of years ago rather than an updated map of how traffic should be flowing.

The right turn from York Hill is getting a lot of attention but that's actually as a consequence of the rest of the traffic changes now forcing more cars up that way whilst the only way to get off Wellington Road is by going up to St Lukes or heading down towards Hardwick Street and doing a loop of God knows where. There's been no right turn off York Hill since at least 2006 when I started working up that direction but it's only now that it has become an issue.

It also seems to me that the only way people are finding out that Coburg St is bus lane only on to McCurtain Street is when they actually drive on to it. BIG SIMPLE SIGNS are needed. The lighted type where you only get to read one line out of four as you drive past as are useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.

Information first, then enforcement.

You're being pretty naive if you think the majority of drivers care about what a sign says. Most will do what is convenient for them and what they think they can get away with. There are cars parked in loading bays and on double yellow lines all day long in the city and they know damn well that they're not supposed to, but they do it anyway because they know there's no consequence.

Signage (or the lack of) is a problem if people don't know that they're not supposed to turn right. The signage there is pitiful.

It's hard to complain about people doing something wrong if they don't know that they're doing wrong in the first place.

Don't get me wrong - it pisses me off as much as the next fella. I had one literally drive up to my drivers door t-bone style as I went around there early this week. From where I was looking he didn't have a clue that he wasn't supposed to turn there.

I disagree. There are signs all along the quay displaying no right turn. What more do you expect? Should they have flown a huge sign over the junction?

No doubt in my mind that the vast majority of people taking that turn, know full well that it's illegal to do so.

I suppose it's the fault of the traffic lights that at almost every sequence of the lights, cars run red lights?

Always when someone does something dickish like blatantly skipping queues in the wrong lane, someone always let's them in! These enablers are just as bad as the dicks!

The further from the City Hall the less interest is shown.

Don’t know if this should be in Traffic or Antisocial Behaviour.

No idea what the buildup was but two lads getting into fisticuffs by the courthouse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cork/comments/18pr2mg/the_christmas_spirit_in_full_effect/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_content=1&utm_term=22

Yeah :) That's where I would have gone

It’s the not just the traffic wardens though. Used see this every Christmas when we lived on the coal quay. The guards would come out of the bridewell and generate a ridiculous number of fines (no paper tickets issued on the car) Head back in and come back out two hours later. Rinse and repeat. Drivers completely unaware until they got the post.

That really is good news. I really thought that the gardaí had no interest in enforcing parking enfringments, particularly footpath parking. Perhaps we are seeing a change.

Oh, also good news!

I'd (genuinely) love to know why it is that so many/most Cork drivers don't use indicators myself.

I know it happens other places too, but everytime I'm down that way (regularly) it stands out to me - junctions/roundabouts/lane changes.. it makes no difference.. they'll just turn whatever way and whenever.

It really annoys me to be honest. Would love to know why though!

I had the very same thought when picking herself up outside the Metropole over Christmas. I don’t get the use case, if you’ll pardon the tech nerd speak.

It's a bus route. There are buses. I'm sorry you haven't seen them.

That wasn't sarcasm.

How many would satisfy you?

Maybe I completely missed the other guy’s point but I was saying that westbound MacCurtain St is pointless only for private vehicles because they can’t turn left into Bridge St. I think westbound MacCurtain St should be bus+bike only.

That turn coming out at ross motorcycles used to be no right turn , not that anyone ever took any notice

I thought you were allowed to turn left from Bridge street onto Cogburg street?