The same shower that has shagged the traffic around the city. I beginning to think there is zero educational requirement to be a public servant.
Whoever is responsible for the traffic lay-out in this city needs to be shot with balls of their own compacted-sh*t. They either don't drive, or aren't familiar with Cork City, or probably both.
I mean whoever decided that around South Gate Bridge there should be four flows in and only two flows out (5 and 3 if you include the much much smaller Cove Street which is effectively circuitous anyway and carries a minimum of traffic) is bonkers.
Over on Wellington Road/Patrick's Hill/Hardwick Street area there are thee secondary schools and two grind schools - nightmare traffic magnates these days. So what did they do - you can no longer go down Patricks Hill to escape the area - you have to go down Hardwick Street, around into Leitrim Street/Devonshire Street and hope to eventually emerge onto Carrolls Quay - you can't go back up Coburg Street onto McCurtain Street. Alternatively you can go back east along Wellington Road, you can't go down York Street ("Thompson's Hill), you can no longer go down York Hill, and instead you are funneled up into St Lukes to encounter another traffic snarlup. Recently took me 25 minutes to get from Dillons Cross to The Colliseum at night.
If you want to cross from City Centre to the northside then you've either to traverse Collins Bridge or Boru Bridge, because you can't turn right on to Patrick's Bridge or the Christy Ring Bridge and have to keep going west until the North Gate Bridge, but of course you then can't go east up Pope's Quay you have to negotiate your way up Shandon Street and from there down Mulgrave Road and around
If it's the Green Party wanting people to burn less hydrocarbons they're failing dramatically given the amount of fuel vehicles expend having to travel much longer distances and especially when just inching along our now much narrower roads, utterly bizarre one-way systems, and blocked off roadways.
It really is farcical how utterly screwed up they've managed to make Cork City traffic.
