Warum ist Stau so schlimm?
https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2026/0328/1565586-traffic-ireland-analysis/
Von karolaug
Warum ist Stau so schlimm?
https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2026/0328/1565586-traffic-ireland-analysis/
Von karolaug
31 Kommentare
Usually a lack of fibre, or too much dairy.
>But Ireland’s car ownership rate is the fourth lowest in the EU.
The problem is the lack of infrastructure. Contrary to the popular opinion we do not have a lot of cars and if we invested in road infrastructure in key areas we would solve the problem.
The public transport is objectively less convenient and more time consuming. As we have a lot of space and low population density with the correct infrastructure we could all commute in comfort way faster than even with the best public transport possible. At least everywhere outside Dublin.
Office jobs limiting WFH. Silly imo, so much more productive minus a 2+ hr commute.
Cars. But also a crippling lack of proper public transport
Lots of cars
Wow, who would have thought increasing the population by over 30% over a 20 year period, while at the same time barely increasing infrastructure would lead to massive congestion.
Now do the health system, the education system, the child care system, and the housing system.
Shit infrastructure
Lots of cars, poor infrastructure, poor public transport.
If only people could avoid the commute and work from home.
Sprawling suburbs built around car ownership
Too.many people driving
No public transport
Urban sprawl
No park and rides for those coming from the countryside
Wfh initiative is half assed
I don’t know if I’d say its completely bad planning because most of the issues in my area seem to be from the increased amount of traffic. Like the idea of roundabouts is to keep traffic flowing yet its often followed by a set of traffic lights that stop flow and create backups,
then you also often find junctions without a filter light and no filter lane, if 2 cars need to filter across the whole queue behind can only sit there.
I’m seeing here in Navan, the solution they come up with in one area is great until you get to the older area’s and the new 2/3 lane traffic all has to bottle down into single lane traffic. Its a fucking joke around Navan town nowadays, its easily the worst the traffic has ever been in town with the new updates and „solutions“
Car dependency, poor public transport, low density urban sprawl, roads that had had insufficient capacity even before they were finished being built and a glacial moving infuriating planning system that prevents anyone fixing it. Probably also our individualistic society.
2 or more cars for every family with a population 50% higher than it was when we built the road network, the failure of decentralisation, a total lack of high rise in CBDs, with bus lanes and bike lanes now making it worse. Always 30 years behind on roads because of the political resistance to building roads. Not building roads doesn’t make public transport better folks. It’s a copout.
Increased population, places of work congregated in areas and the biggest…. No underground metro.
Terrible, infrequent public transport not going to the proper places. Terrible cycling infrastructure and terrible mentality towards cycling and cyclists. 1 person per car for commutes.
Enshrining the right to WFH is a no brainer. A school bus system would also make a huge difference.
Because too many people keep using their cars too much
Too many cars, fragmented and under provisioned public transport.
NIMBYs, legacy of a poor country.
Also accumulated debt, we have so little proper public transport that it seems only cars can really deliver anything.
Also the „ah shure it’ll be grand“ attitude „just a a new lane to the m50 and shure away you go shure“
Lack of applying rules of the road too. Take people parking on pavements or in bus lanes outside churches and graveyards, it’s the culture of letting drivers away with it on the presumption there is some valid social reason for it.
One metro line for Dublin is woefully indeaquate we need at least four.
Even our most ambitious outlook falls short of the mark.
We suffer from a lack of confidence and imagination a lack of vision and a lack of drive to change things.
Transport is just a very visible outcome of that small country can’t fix things mentality
Mathematics.
Each road has a certain capacity for flowthrough at a certain speed. Once that’s reached, the vehicles bunch up. Worse than that wave mathematics mean small stops can ripple through a traffic flow, snarling up roads miles behind an initial braking car.
Definitely a lot more cars on the road than in the past but also there’s a huge amount more shite and/or distracted drivers on the road, people with zero ability to anticipate the flow of traffic or too buried in their phones to notice
There’s a junction near my house I go through every day the number of cars that get through it on green varies from about 5 – 20 depending on how aware the people in their cars are.
Abolish the height limits in city centres. The fact we haven’t speaks volumes to our ridiculous planning.
Because moving people around in big mostly empty boxes is incredibly inefficient.
Poor road designs leading to bottle necks
People are missing a huge factor:
Asking people to return to the office
100%
40 years of population increases while little to no improvement in infrastructure and public transport over the same period.
Peoples inability to follow the rules of the road doesn’t help either. Sitting in yellow boxes, going through reds, sitting on their phone and missing green.
Becuase there is no ring road around dublin.
Traffic is being pushed out if the city to make it a walkable city, fair enough, but that traffic all gets pushed onto a motorway that runs through dublin. And lorries commercial vehicles and workers that are not stopping in dublin are also pushed into it.
So instead of a ring road where vehicles that are not stopping in dublin can go around it, there is just one motor way that goes through dublin that everyone, including trucks heading to wexford or drogheda have to drive through.
In other words, massive sprawling capital with no ring road to go around it, and half the country has to use this motorway that drives through dublin.
Make it a law that people be allowed work from home as often as they like and traffic reduces considerably. Also make it a law that if you live within walking distance of your child’s school you’re not allowed to drive them there unless it’s absolutely pissing rain out.
Shit public transport, refusal of WFH, housing costs
Because public transport is a joke, like I am in and out to the Dublin twice a week. Takes just over and hour by car, drive half way and get a train is about 1:15 bus it the whole way is hours.
We need more direct services at peak times, not a route which goes a half hour out of the way to maybe pick up 2 or 3 people….
The vast majority of people on my bus in the morning go to O’Connell Street. The bus does be half full by the time it gets to the start of the M3 just outside Virgina, it then fills up in Kells.
Surely a small single decker bus could fly up the motorway using the quickest route to O’Connell Street on any given morning.
Then have another service which goes the current route for those who need some of the other stops.
After all there is a bus at 6:15, 6:30 and 6:45 all going the same route.