Cork traffic

I know I should ignore you but…

You say that it has “nothing to do with accident statistics in this spot”. So you favour a reactive approach to pedestrian safety, i.e. the authority shouldn’t proactively make the roads safer but should instead wait until there’s a good few deaths or life-changing injuries?

You ask what the danger is here. Have a quick chat with your favourite LLM and you’ll see that, worldwide, scores if not hundreds of pedestrians are killed every year when using a crossing on their green light. The most common causes are driver inattention or inebriation. Pedestrian-safe infrastructure mitigates dangers like this by forcing vehicles to slow down. Every 5kph shaved off speed dramatically reduces the risk of serious injury or death.

And in the case of this particular location, I would suggest that the presence of the bus stop immediately before the crossing means that the light on that side of the road is going to be obscured when a bus has stopped, i.e. increased risk precisely when people who have just got off the bus are wanting to cross the road.

Did a right job on the bridge…

https://x.com/OSullivanJennie/status/1790647530616758681

Im traumatised..... traumatised I tell ya. Trying to get the son into work in Musgraves this evening with Musgrave Park concerts starting.

Traffic on the south link backed up to Douglas, road closed at Kinsale/Tramore road, none of the trucks could get through, jaysus it was chaos and on until the 29th. I need a lie down.... It's gonna be a long month

The tweeter is yet another one who started as a contrarian, then anti women, anti-vaxx and now full blown racist. Often under the guise of "just asking questions".

Wee bit cheeky of the crashed spaceship management telling people to park at Kent Station car park.

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41416936.html

I'd love to see the ban 24 hours and enforced, with a delivery window in the morning for commercial vehicles only.

At this stag I reckon a lot of people flouting the ban don't even know that there is one!

That pretty much happens every light sequence.

Red light breaking :

This morning I stopped at a red light by the former Sextant. A car in an adjacent lane flew through the red light, I'd say about 3 seconds after the red light. I'd say the lights turned red (not amber) when they were 15 or 20 metres from the stop line and they still chose to proceed!

A while later I was coming out of The Square in Ballincollig. I was stopped at the red lights. The driver of the car in front of me was stopped at the lights but didn't want to wait. From a stopped position, they decided to proceed through the lights as there was no traffic coming. The weren't on the cusp of changing, or anything. They just didn't want to wait!

Extremely glary sun this morning - some lovely colours plus a rainbow - made it all the more likely for this to happen.

Todays joy was a crash west of the Mahon onslip going westbound, and a further crash at Mahon eastbound. One likely caused the other by rubbernecking.

Glad to have been through it about 20mins before it happened. People still arriving into work at 1040.