Well they didn’t get anything done while in government and now it seems the M50 is all of a sudden at capacity.
All of a sudden 
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We’re TII issuing warnings or were Prime Time doing pieces on this 6 or 12 months ago warning that it was almost at capacity? I don’t think so.
It seems to have become especially bad since the summer.
The M50 has always been heaving. This is not of a sudden.
There’s a post pandemic societal breakdown. Following the rules of the road is deemed optional. These are worrying times.
The roads would be grand if people stopped crashing.
And when they crash, if they’d just get off the fucking road into the margins, that would be of assistance also. Two fellas who have barely touched each other, sitting behind their wheel, waiting for a Garda car to makes it way through the traffic, to tell them to get off the road and sort it out among themselves, are whats wrong with this country.
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There’s that but maybe the great DOB is correct on his return to work preference for us city dwellers. It’s like folk are only going in 1 or 2 days so they decide to take the car, even though it’ll take longer. Then they decide…sure I’ll take a chance here & rat race down this one way street or jump these lights or ignore that stop sign. Some of the driving I’ve seen in the last 12 months in Dublin suburbia has been part perplexing, part horrifying. Not including the time I careered into the gate/railing outside my house one morning.
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our transport minister is cancelling public transport projects that would reduce traffic
thats a direct response to you voting the greens out
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the greens put in new dart routes- got voted out & 1 dart route & 1 luas route postponed
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Traffic on Saturdays is often worse than during the week with kids being ferried to sports and other activities.
We used to be a proper country.
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“But but but they were woke”
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Yeah that makes sense it’s the greens fault.
There’s a nawful lot of weed being smoked on the roads over here.
There’s some really quite remarkable driving. I was this morning filtering through two lanes of standing traffic in rush hour. Got close to the front and a 2023 VW campervan pulled across the gap deliberately to stop me. It was a lovely morning so I just waited until the lights changed. The driver then, having been third in the queue pulled out so far there were two wheels in the opposite lane into incoming traffic and tried four times to overtake in the madness. He couldn’t, but nearly hit two traffic islands. He then pulled into the right hand turning lane to move onto the m56. It’s two lanes, and the inside was clear so I filtered down to the front and was waiting for the light to change when our friend it transpired had pulled back across into the left hand straight ahead lane, undertaking both lanes and then swerving back into the outside lane and ignoring the red light, accelerating across the oncoming traffic and away onto the motorway.
I suspect he’d robbed the van.
I’m not blaming the Greens. I’m not sure what the solution is apart from another ring road or a load of extra public transport which will take years to implement.
Maybe we just need people to go back to remote working until we have the infrastructure to cope.
I’d also love to know how many of the incidents are down to drivers not paying attention because they are on their phones. From what I see day to day, I’d guess it’s a huge amount.
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And what’s the plan for Galway? That’s been a traffic blackspot for years with little or nothing done about it.
Luas and dart sw ready to go- built in 4 years
Government pulled then
Niall Toibin is some man.
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Is everything okay, @flattythehurdler?
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He was
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That Prime Time feature wasn’t great and the panel weren’t much use either. Shay Brennan and the Labour guy they had on won’t be doing much to fix anything.