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Dublin gridlock hits headlines in US newspapers... More
Port Tunnel shut down as truck's engine blows up... More
22 km TRAFFIC JAM on nightmare M50 Thur 14 Dec...More
More gridlock hell is on way as M50 gets facelift...More
Driving tests postponed because of gridlock...More
Thousands of angry motorists caught in road chaos after accident brings M50 to a standstill...March 2007
THOUSANDS of angry motorists were 'held captive' for over 90 minutes on the M50 yesterday after a crash brought traffic to a total standstill.
The chaos occurred just 24 hours before an Oireachtas committee was due to meet to discuss gridlock on the M50.
Two lanes of cars and trucks were caught in a tailback for miles as emergency services attended a crash involving two trucks and a car.
More...Irish Independent
Dublin: A 90-minute hell...Vienna: a two-minute wait
(Getting around Ireland...especially towns and cities...is a nightmare most of the time.)
HOW much do I despise this city's traffic? Let me count the ways. I was one of the thousands of southsiders caught in the gridlock of 10 days ago when our seven-minute journey turned into a 90-minute fiasco. The reason we only spent an hour and a half in a dark, cold, unmoving line of traffic was because we were lucky enough to be able to abandon the car. Yes, in this city you consider yourself lucky if you can dump your car on the side of the road and, with your nine-year-old daughter (who is wearing football shorts and a blazer), walk half a mile home in sleeting November rain.
More...Irish Independent
For €50-plus, is a seat on the train too much to ask?...More
Lives ruined by gridlock...More
Choas on the M50...More
On the road to nowhere...More
Threatened by Garda for making emergency phone call to check on her baby...More
Traffic gridlock was a symbol of our national carelessness...More
CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF HOW CORRUPTION WORKS
State agrees to buy West-Link toll bridge for €600m
(This scenario is the result of deals done between crooked or stupid politicians and greedy business crooks who saw an opportunity to screw the motorist for over 20 years. Toll roads were initially invented to pay for road improvements which facilitated the free movement of traffic...in other words, you are paying for a service that enables you to go from A to B as efficiently as possible...not a bad deal. In Ireland on the M50 you pay road tolls to be held up...where else in the world would you pay to be in a traffic jam caused by the fact that you have to pay to be in it? And now our stupid government have to pay €1m a week to a bunch of crooks UNTIL 2035!!! And not one of our brass neck politicians, when asked about this debacle, shows even a modicum of embarressment.)
Lifting the toll bridge barriers before the M50 upgrade is finished would be a "disaster", the Taoiseach said yesterday, as it would just move the traffic jam elsewhere.
The Government is in the final stages of buying out the toll franchise from NTR for around €600m.
Mr Ahern said the cost of compensating National Toll Roads is estimated at €45m a year up to 2020.
More...Irish Independent
Traffic chaos on the double
Port Tunnel trucks 'nightmare' on M50
MOTORISTS face traffic chaos on the double after the Port Tunnel opens next month.
Thousands of extra trucks will flood onto the already-congested M50 from the tunnel. They will hold up traffic as they scramble to get across lanes in time to link up with the M50.
Truck drivers will have just one kilometre of frequently jammed roadway in which to change lanes by cutting across one of the fastest-moving traffic lanes in the country.
More...Irish Independent
Anti-gridlock road scheme to get underway
(Excuse me...again!...But I thought that this was the job of Gardai/Police ALL THE TIME and not just at Xmas...Must be taking the wrong tablets!)
The Operation Freeflow traffic management plan for Dublin will swing into action at 6.30am tomorrow.
Dozens of dedicated traffic gardaí will be backed by an extra 163 student officers for the six-week initiative to ease gridlock during Christmas and the New Year.
More...Breaking News.ie
