The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

I normally leave blanch at 630am and Im in work in Park west for 7am. Today howveer it took me till 730am just to get down the N3 from clonee over the M50 and until 755 to get into work. An extra hour.
ARGH. Its funny in some ways that 1 small accident (someone had a tip in the blanch sliproad onto M50) can backlog the traffic all the way up the N3 past clonee. I also heard that the M50 was stopped getting onto it at the airport roundabout too. So the whole place comes to a standstill really if anything happens. Time to start leaving at 530am.

Takes me an hour and a half to get from Drogheda(ish) to Blanch these days - it's so much that I've updated my cv and I'm now actively looking for employment closer to home..even if it's only the other side of blanch it'd save me 15-30mins in the morning..

I don't mean to cause offence - but BOY is traffic bad around blanch. I might as well be driving something much much much smaller.

yeah Maud, thinkig of moving to Drogheda area myself. better value for houses etc, so gonna get the CV out and about from jan/feb and see what I can do. If I got something north of swords I'd be laughing.

I saw that tailback down the N3 this morning, certainly looked longer than usual. I work in Blanch myself, I'm 5 kilometers down the road and it takes me a half an hour to drive in The area is an absolute nightmare for traffic, there really is no way around it....

CJ

is not only blanch area.

i drive A LOT everyday and boy .. traffic in Dublin it's a mess.

cause
1. very bad drivers
2. difficult road sistem

Go West young man - Go West.
I live 25 miles (in Clare) from work in Limerick and it takes me 25 minutes to get in or out.

Don't see the attraction of Dublin myself - I lived there for a few years and while the traffic was bad in the 90's its on a whole new level now.

Better standard of living in the West - similar salaries/cheaper housing/ less time commuting/better quality of life.

the joys of bein out of dublin

I have to agree with MyFeckin, I live almost 20 miles from work.
Anything more than half an hour in the morning is unusual.

Fact : today morning 1500 m ( ~ 1 mile ) in 45 minutes !!!

Myfeckin FTO wrote:Go West young man - Go West.
I live 25 miles (in Clare) from work in Limerick and it takes me 25 minutes to get in or out.
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so you AVERAGE 100kmph! tut-tut!

colm_mcm wrote:

Myfeckin FTO wrote:Go West young man - Go West.
I live 25 miles (in Clare) from work in Limerick and it takes me 25 minutes to get in or out.
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so you AVERAGE 100kmph! tut-tut!

No traffic - decent road - and I know the road very well - its actually a relaxed drive at that pace in the Zed.

colm_mcm wrote:

Myfeckin FTO wrote:Go West young man - Go West.
I live 25 miles (in Clare) from work in Limerick and it takes me 25 minutes to get in or out.
.

so you AVERAGE 100kmph! tut-tut!

Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't that an average of 60 mph


Daz...

[edit]oops just realised it kmph doh! forgot is klm over there i have gotten so used to the mph over here.

I live in stepaside and work in the IFSC. I leave the house at 630am and I'm in and at my desk by 7am which includes a 5 minute walk from the car park. If I leave anytime between 5pm and 7:30pm I can also be home in 45 minutes. The longest part are getting across ballsbridge but once on the dual carriage-way its easy. I guess it depends on what part of the city you live in


Unfortunately I couldn't live outside Dublin.....

I've often thought if I ever had to live with that kinda traffic I'd get myself a motorbike of some description, even some piece of junk 50cc yoke.

As much as I like going for a drive, out of principle alone I couldn't spend anything more than 30 mins to get to work and 30 mins home. Life's just too short!

hate to brag but it only takes me six min utes to get to work. one of the joys of living in ballyfermot

paul2508 wrote:one of the joys of living in ballyfermot

Take 'em if you can paul, they're few and far between

CJ