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    Irlands verkehrsreichste Straße: „Die M50 wird immer schlechter.“ Ich glaube nicht, dass es mehr aushält.


    Irlands verkehrsreichste Straße: „Die M50 wird immer schlechter.“ Ich glaube nicht, dass es mehr aushält.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/03/14/irelands-busiest-road-the-m50-is-getting-worse-i-dont-think-it-is-able-to-take-any-more/

    Von Adventurous-Tax512

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    1. Jlynch95 on

      „Such a system would involve tolling along the M50 on a junction-by-junction basis, with potentially different rates at peak times, instead of having a single toll point that only a proportion of the road’s users pass throug. Caulfield points to an M50 traffic management report published by TII in 2014 that explored the possibility and found multiple tolls would provide “significant benefits in terms of demand management. The price of driving has to go up a huge amount before people stop doing it,” he says. “It has to go up substantially.“

      These absolute ghouls continue to parrot the shite of increasing pricing before offering any viable alternative and reference other countries success with ULEZ zones and the likes, ignoring the fact they have infinitely better options for public transport RIGHT NOW, not in the future. Even alluding to adding tolling points to each junction is so ludicrous I’d nearly go so far to call it comical. Sure, making a N->S full journey on the M50 cost you 30 quid, I am sure numbers would drop and then every single arterial road into Dublin gets infinitely worse and makes the issue worse overall.

      This country continues to be stick, stick and more stick. People aren’t using the nightmare that is the M50 for shits and giggles.

    2. the__governor_ on

      And it will continue to get worse no doubt. The government announcing it is relaxing one-off housing development in summer proves the don’t care about reducing car dependency ( or are not thinking about the problem ). I’ve seen people on Meath CoCo asking again for an orbital road to be built while the thing they should be focusing on is getting a train to Navan delivered. Ireland cannot seem to move away from car centric thinking

    3. Garth8888 on

      When the M50 first opened, there was traffic backed up at the toll booths wasting time and fuel , costing the country millions every year. While the rest of Europe had motorway speed chip readers, the Irish motorist continued to get in line to get through the sheep pens. This went on for years and for some reason everybody just accepted the situation. Maybe it was just conditioning for the inevitable overcrowding on the M50 today.

    4. adjavang on

      This is what we get for voting the greens out. They were the only ones offering a carrot to actually get people out of cars, now we go back to FF/FG stick lead approach.

      Who could have seen this coming when FF/FG immediately walked back the public transport spending goals?!?!

    6. cupan-tae on

      The solution can’t only be tolls or more sustainable travel (cycle lanes/public transport). There needs to be an improvement in road infrastructure also. While there is a need for better public transport there is also a need for a better road network for those using cars. Improving both road network has been put on the long finger for far too long

    8. Dennisthefirst on

      Double deck it.
      Or Green tax all employers that bring employees in from outside it

    10. TheTealBandit on

      It’s almost like forcing people to commute all the way to the city for work every day because of the insane prices is a bad thing

    11. No_Influence_9549 on

      We need more people on bikes and shitloads more buses.

      I e-bike 25km each way to /from work and smile every time I cross over the jammered M50, be it at 06:00 or 17:00. At least I’m not in that.

    12. SoloWingPixy88 on

      People need to stop punishing greens and labour. It’s about getting what they can get in a coalition even if it’s not everything they want

    13. Sneakywulf1984 on

      We missed a golden opportunity 10-15 years ago to invest in our infrastructure abd could borrow at extremely low rates but Pascal o’donoghue was a disaster as finance minister.

    14. Pintau on

      Ban trucks from the M50 during morning and evening rush hours for a start. Its not an ideal solution but at least as a stop gap it would help improve the situation until a better solution is implemented. So much of the backlog is caused by trucks awkwardly merging with each other at all the busy junctions. Also extend the merging lanes, and add cameras with AI, anyone who causes a collision by failing to zipper merge into traffic properly or merging across multiple lanes should face heavy finacial penalties and potential points on their licence. If you hold up a whole city because you cant be bothered following the rules and conventions of the road, you should be penalised

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