Stuff that grinds your gears

[Hallbopping]

I assume there's some basic tracking system in the lights tied to a digital clock. Even if they only collect the results when the lights need repairing there has to be some way of monitoring pedestrian traffic so they can gauge things for future lights changes. (Or am I giving the council way too much credit here? Even if they never look at the stats?) So I do it as part of my juicing of the stats. Fuck the car wankers over.

Although something I did notice is bus drivers not tagging on people with Free Travel Passes, on occasion. I've seen it a few times. I dunno if it's a case of them being wary for the people with Free Travel Passes so 'De Social' aren't monitoring their every move (what were you doing coming home from town every Thursday at 3am, Granny?) Or whether they're trying to mess up the utilisation rates of certain bus routes so they get less prioritised.

Again, I could be giving people far too much credit with all this and it's just they couldn't be fucked about waiting for the machine to read the card.

The City Council have traffic cameras in the city centre so I’d imagine they are monitoring how traffic light sequences are working for motorists and pedestrians through these.

I must say, I’m finding this discussion about traffic light behaviour and patterns very exciting. In fact, I’m seriously considering starting a new thread on the subject.

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

Worst of all actually is when someone starts pressing the button repeatedly and the light happens to suddenly go green, so they think that it has worked and they've saved the day for everyone

 

[Two Pour Bore]

The City Council have traffic cameras in the city centre so I’d imagine they are monitoring how traffic light sequences are working for motorists and pedestrians through these.

I must say, I’m finding this discussion about traffic light behaviour and patterns very exciting. In fact, I’m seriously considering starting a new thread on the subject.

There's video games about this kinda stuff. They're not out and out amazing but they do the job.

I think it was Cities Skylines that was developed out of a traffic management game. And the sequel, CS2, is meant to be total bollocks so you can pick up Cities Skylines 1 for cheap in the huge DLC package every so often. Have a blast being a city planner. There's even a fella on youtube who used to be a literal city planner, working for the city planning department in his city in the US, who plays the game using proper-ish city planning techniques.

 

[Hallbopping]

There's video games about this kinda stuff. They're not out and out amazing but they do the job.

I think it was Cities Skylines that was developed out of a traffic management game. And the sequel, CS2, is meant to be total bollocks so you can pick up Cities Skylines 1 for cheap in the huge DLC package every so often. Have a blast being a city planner. There's even a fella on youtube who used to be a literal city planner, working for the city planning department in his city in the US, who plays the game using proper-ish city planning techniques.

That’s class. I bought a game there last year where you build a transport system for and between cities but it seems to be something that’d be better on a laptop. Transport Fever 2.

Like I built a high speed train line between two cities and got trains running but nobody was boarding the trains

 

[jimmym]

The sequence of those particular lights will mean that if you have a green light to go into Tramore Valley or join the link road then no other lights will be green so you have full right of way.

Outside the bus station on merchants quay at the junction with Brian Boru bridge there is a yellow box, People are meant to stay out of the box so buses
coming over the bridge and turning right to park at the station can make the swing, Needless to say many ignore the box and make life hard for the bus driver,

 

[Happyhonkaman]

Outside the bus station on merchants quay at the junction with Brian Boru bridge there is a yellow box, People are meant to stay out of the box so buses
coming over the bridge and turning right to park at the station can make the swing, Needless to say many ignore the box and make life hard for the bus driver,

What is it about yellow boxes that drivers here find so hard to understand? Just stay out of the fecking thing, because it is there for a reason and your stopping in it probably impedes that function. There is nothing subtle about a yellow box, impossible to miss but it makes no difference

 

[hemlock666]

One of the departments at work got a new sales manager who now has half the place hugging each other. He hugs all his team when he arrives. Just the ladies of course.

I reckon the guy is a creep.

These people see each other daily. It's all very fake and a bit weird.

 

[Hallbopping]

What is it about yellow boxes that drivers here find so hard to understand? Just stay out of the fecking thing, because it is there for a reason and your stopping in it probably impedes that function. There is nothing subtle about a yellow box, impossible to miss but it makes no difference

The junction of Parnell Place and Merchants Quay is a disaster for it. People seem to think that by stopping in the yellow box they will stop traffic on a green light from taking ‘their space’. The proximity of the lights at Brian Boru Bridge don’t help but still.

It’s a nightmare as a cyclists as so many motorists block the pedestrian/cycle crossing.

 

[Happyhonkaman]

One of the departments at work got a new sales manager who now has half the place hugging each other. He hugs all his team when he arrives. Just the ladies of course.

I reckon the guy is a creep.

These people see each other daily. It's all very fake and a bit weird.

someones jelly

 

[hemlock666]

someones jelly

Free hugs?