By Wesley Johnson author of 'The Belfast Urban Motorway' all about the history of the Westlink. Really measured approach to what would need to be done to fix congestion in the city, the whole series is great, going into depth on traffic engineering and rural road design.
by camcamio
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Think I remember Wesley said the Westlink would have to be 8 lanes each way to cope with (pre Covid) rush hour traffic.
Belfast will get a metro system when the rest of Europe are using teleportation
“The shift away from private car use”
Why is a “fantastic” idea?
How about the multi storey carpark the odyssey needed for planning approval, overruled. That decision backs traffic onto the westlink.
As soon as I start reading about disincentive ideas like removing parking to get people to switch i click close and have a chuckle.
>The real question is not whether we can afford it. We can. The real question is whether we have the courage to stop doing things by half measures.
Somewhere around a third of our elected representatives believe that climate change is not really an issue because of the actions of dead Jewish anti-Roman agitator and mystic from 2000 years ago (or something, I’m no theologian), another third will continue to accept brown envelopes from the NI Retail Consortium, and the other third either don’t want themmuns to get anyfin or are too stupid to understand that cars in cities are bad. Johnson is too naive for an old fella here.
Fair play to anyone putting the work in here. I hope they have some success, because my knee jerk reaction is that this’ll be about as useful as smashing their head against a wall.
I do have a real problem with the public transport over here. For healthcare workers on the weekend there aren’t early enough trains to get us to work.
The trains also aren’t fast enough, it takes 40 minutes to travel near enough ten miles, so when I drive it’s almost always quicker or about the same. I haven’t came across a slower railway than we have year in my travels, I’m sure there might be slower.
The buses would be just as bad to reach where I need to get too.
Some of us try to carpool, but as shift workers this isn’t always appropriate.
Also, people just genuinely don’t know how to drive appropriately.
But we are very car centric and I dispise it. The amount of cars parked across residential areas is honestly scary compared to twenty years ago.
Buses are gay, trains are gay and bicycles are most of all, gay. Cars are straight as fuck. Motorcycles are the straightest. Walking is cool, but rain is gay.
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