I have always cycled to work or taken public transport, but if I had no choice but to drive I think I’d either park outside town a bit and then cycle the rest of the way, or get some kind of motorbike. I don’t know how people sit in that traffic every day, life wouldn’t be worth living for me, I have always made sure I wasn’t car reliant while living in Dublin no matter what!
Lots of people drive when they have other options too, and yes I know it’s their right to but the fact so many people are happy to sit in traffic when they have other options makes it so much worse for people who have to drive. 2 girls in my work drive in from parts of Dublin you could walk from in about 45 minutes. Madness.
Imagine how much faster it’d be if it wasn’t for all the cyclists blocking traffic. Building another road or two should fix the congestion.
Note that Dublin is the city with the most amount of time lost in traffic in that list.
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Took me 2.5 hours to get to Maynooth when heading west one evening from D4. Lights changed 5 times at Kilmainham before I got through lol.
Too many cars on narrow streets.
School runs are obviously one or the biggest issues, cause it’s night and day when school is off. We need a big push to get kids walking and cycling to school.
I’d love to see a big push to make work from home more entrenched as the default.
Yes, some jobs need to be in person. Hybrid has benefits, but if you could get a larger % of the population not having to do a morning commute, it would be a massive game changer.
Then just enforce the existing traffic laws so busses can actually use bus lanes, and you’d see everything move a bit smoother.
Good old Dublin. Big city problems, small city amenities, if even that.
We need a monorail network.
One of the main arteries of traffic in Dublin the Quays have being reduced from two lanes plus a bus lane to one lane a bus lane and a cyclist path. Is it any wonder traffic is getting worse when you reduce the amount of road for cars
It sure feels like it.
Would take me close to 2 hours to get to work using public transport, while it’s 20 minutes on the motorcycle. Fix the public transport.
It’s almost like private cars are a problem and something we should be discouraging.
Time for a congestion charge inside the North and South Circulars?
Do we seriously think Dublin has worse traffic than say..Delhi?
I thought for sure my city of Toronto was going to be #1, but looks like we are coming in at #3!
I was in Dublin years ago for a conference and I did notice the gridlock was very similar to home.
Major difference I noticed was everything was smaller, old streets and smaller vehicles.
Here we have many larger and newer streets but the problem is so many people drive giant monstrosities.
And on the flipside you’ll have people wailing that restricting car access is unfair because public transport isn’t good enough.
We need to work on public transport while also restricting private vehicle use within a 5-8km radius of the city. It’s not one then the other, it’s both at the same time
Also important to make it easier/better to walk, cycle and or use newer forms of sustainable travel like electric scooters.
Would there be anything to be said for a cycle lane tunnel network? The Boring company is making small tunnels with great efficiency, a mile per week (boo Elon). For our climate I think it would be desirable, especially in the west.
How to keep them safe etc would be another story.
Does anyone honestly believe that Dublin is the second slowest city in the world? Last week Dublin was in the top ten safest cities in the world with all western cities in the top 10. These lads have never been to eastern europe, safest region in the world.
Its years since I lived in Dublin, but when I did, the trip from my apartment across the city centre to get my bus home to the folks used to take far longer than the actual trip home to Dundalk. Decades pass and it just gets worse it seems
Parents dropping children to school is an absolutely monstrous contributor to this.
We need more schoolbusses.
We need to stagger conflicting start times. Majority of people, from young to old, have a start time of 9am! This is insane, it obviously creates congestion everywhere at the same time. Schools need to start at 8am, followed by office workers starting at 9am and finally Colleges need to start at 10am.
Never ever go to Moscow or the US. That’s true slow traffic.
I seen a post on Reddit somewhere yesterday, they where actually paid to cycle to work.
I’m blessed, I don’t need a car for most things. I can walk in and out of town, walk my kids to school, walk to all of the major music/theatre venues, walk to any type of eatery or retail store. It’s a walkable city that’s relatively flat, as I said, blessed.
Narrow streets, too many cars, poor traffic enforcement, and a whole other pile of reasons.
But more than any other, endless low rise sprawl rather than building upwards is at fault here. And if we keep going as we are (though thankfully at least a few 6-8 story apartment buildings are cropping up), it will only get worse and worse.
I grew up in Rathfarnham which was pretty much the very edge of Dublin in the 90s, as were Knocklyon and Firhouse. Nowadays they spawl way, way back into the far ends of Ballycullen and Stocking Avenue, and are horrendous for traffic before even getting properly “on the way into town”. Keep going as we are, and it’ll be like that up into Tiknock and around Bohernabreena before long. Then Enniskerry and Kilbride. Then Glendalough and Dunlavin… on and on until Nenagh and New Ross are essentially suburbs of Dublin (and Cork and Limerick and Galway) with unequipped roads and infrastructure, multiplying the issues of what is already amongst the very worst traffic in the entire world despite being a small nation.
Without building upwards aggressively ASAP, there is literally no avoiding this reality.
The sheer amount of window lickers on their phones at traffic lights causes uncountable delays. Light sequences that should be letting 10+ cars through only let 3 or 4 because the cunt at the front of the queue has a reaction time measured in the seconds.
This then leads to drivers further back blatantly breaking the red light, delaying the people on the side of the junction that’s now turned green.
It is the most stupid design ever, “for pedestrian to pass, they shut down the whole junction”, I don’t know whose nephew got to contract to update the traffic lights here in this country, but the way they implemented it is the most basic and stupid way possible. It even caused the huge traffic once they opened luas on o’connel bridge till they fixed it there. I couldn’t believe it the first time I noticed that even for such a huge junction they shut down all cars passing for pedestrians.
I think this stupid design has contributed to huge number of folks running red lights. Junction utilisation is joke in this country.
Those studies are always funny cause you only hear about the ones where your city/country is the worst. When I lived in Poland I saw so many headlines about studies that proved that Lodz (where I lived) or Warsaw has the worst traffic. Then I moved here and see the same headlines about Dublin.
Bollocks globally… Have you been to Brazil, traffic is mental there
I haven’t read the report and have no idea of the criteria but call bullshit. No way it’s slower than Manila, Dhaka or Jakarta just to name 3
Bull-shit. I’ve been in lots of cities where it’s far, far worse: Yangon, Kampala even Buenos Aires.
Galway first
Parents dropping their kids 5 minutes up the road for school. When schools are off it takes 30 mins off my commute
I cycled 45 mins to college each way, it was faster than driving (at least an hour with the traffic) or public transport (no rail connection, would need to take 2 busses which would take 1.5 hours)
How long until we get a first place?
Why am I not surprised considering that almost all intersections stop completely if someone wants to cross the street and they can cross it diagonally through intersection (most of them), that you have literally <5 sec of green light and 2 times more yellow, that none of the lights are remotely synchronized, that most people leave 1-2 cars distance to the car in front at the lights and they leave from a light when it’s already yellow, and that you have ignorant people that completely block an intersection and don’t back up or move/allow traffic. And in general drivers in Ireland are oblivious to what’s happening around them, it’s surreal.
Not to mention the induction pads that almost no one is aware of (if you stop before the pads you spend a lot more time at the light or the light never turns green – seen those).
They should at least implement timer displays in the intersections where you have the biggest Is.
If Istanbul is not in the top 5, I wouldn’t rely on that analysis .
Only issue with this study is that there is no consideration of cities that have motorway running through them vs. around them.
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I have always cycled to work or taken public transport, but if I had no choice but to drive I think I’d either park outside town a bit and then cycle the rest of the way, or get some kind of motorbike. I don’t know how people sit in that traffic every day, life wouldn’t be worth living for me, I have always made sure I wasn’t car reliant while living in Dublin no matter what!
Lots of people drive when they have other options too, and yes I know it’s their right to but the fact so many people are happy to sit in traffic when they have other options makes it so much worse for people who have to drive. 2 girls in my work drive in from parts of Dublin you could walk from in about 45 minutes. Madness.
Imagine how much faster it’d be if it wasn’t for all the cyclists blocking traffic. Building another road or two should fix the congestion.
Link to study [here](https://www.tomtom.com/traffic-index/ranking/). Not exactly breaking news – this has been the case for years now.
Note that Dublin is the city with the most amount of time lost in traffic in that list.
Doubt
Took me 2.5 hours to get to Maynooth when heading west one evening from D4. Lights changed 5 times at Kilmainham before I got through lol.
Too many cars on narrow streets.
School runs are obviously one or the biggest issues, cause it’s night and day when school is off. We need a big push to get kids walking and cycling to school.
I’d love to see a big push to make work from home more entrenched as the default.
Yes, some jobs need to be in person. Hybrid has benefits, but if you could get a larger % of the population not having to do a morning commute, it would be a massive game changer.
Then just enforce the existing traffic laws so busses can actually use bus lanes, and you’d see everything move a bit smoother.
Good old Dublin. Big city problems, small city amenities, if even that.
We need a monorail network.
One of the main arteries of traffic in Dublin the Quays have being reduced from two lanes plus a bus lane to one lane a bus lane and a cyclist path. Is it any wonder traffic is getting worse when you reduce the amount of road for cars
It sure feels like it.
Would take me close to 2 hours to get to work using public transport, while it’s 20 minutes on the motorcycle. Fix the public transport.
It’s almost like private cars are a problem and something we should be discouraging.
Time for a congestion charge inside the North and South Circulars?
Do we seriously think Dublin has worse traffic than say..Delhi?
I thought for sure my city of Toronto was going to be #1, but looks like we are coming in at #3!
I was in Dublin years ago for a conference and I did notice the gridlock was very similar to home.
Major difference I noticed was everything was smaller, old streets and smaller vehicles.
Here we have many larger and newer streets but the problem is so many people drive giant monstrosities.
And on the flipside you’ll have people wailing that restricting car access is unfair because public transport isn’t good enough.
We need to work on public transport while also restricting private vehicle use within a 5-8km radius of the city. It’s not one then the other, it’s both at the same time
Also important to make it easier/better to walk, cycle and or use newer forms of sustainable travel like electric scooters.
Would there be anything to be said for a cycle lane tunnel network? The Boring company is making small tunnels with great efficiency, a mile per week (boo Elon). For our climate I think it would be desirable, especially in the west.
How to keep them safe etc would be another story.
Does anyone honestly believe that Dublin is the second slowest city in the world? Last week Dublin was in the top ten safest cities in the world with all western cities in the top 10. These lads have never been to eastern europe, safest region in the world.
Its years since I lived in Dublin, but when I did, the trip from my apartment across the city centre to get my bus home to the folks used to take far longer than the actual trip home to Dundalk. Decades pass and it just gets worse it seems
Parents dropping children to school is an absolutely monstrous contributor to this.
We need more schoolbusses.
We need to stagger conflicting start times. Majority of people, from young to old, have a start time of 9am! This is insane, it obviously creates congestion everywhere at the same time. Schools need to start at 8am, followed by office workers starting at 9am and finally Colleges need to start at 10am.
Never ever go to Moscow or the US. That’s true slow traffic.
I seen a post on Reddit somewhere yesterday, they where actually paid to cycle to work.
I’m blessed, I don’t need a car for most things. I can walk in and out of town, walk my kids to school, walk to all of the major music/theatre venues, walk to any type of eatery or retail store. It’s a walkable city that’s relatively flat, as I said, blessed.
Narrow streets, too many cars, poor traffic enforcement, and a whole other pile of reasons.
But more than any other, endless low rise sprawl rather than building upwards is at fault here. And if we keep going as we are (though thankfully at least a few 6-8 story apartment buildings are cropping up), it will only get worse and worse.
I grew up in Rathfarnham which was pretty much the very edge of Dublin in the 90s, as were Knocklyon and Firhouse. Nowadays they spawl way, way back into the far ends of Ballycullen and Stocking Avenue, and are horrendous for traffic before even getting properly “on the way into town”. Keep going as we are, and it’ll be like that up into Tiknock and around Bohernabreena before long. Then Enniskerry and Kilbride. Then Glendalough and Dunlavin… on and on until Nenagh and New Ross are essentially suburbs of Dublin (and Cork and Limerick and Galway) with unequipped roads and infrastructure, multiplying the issues of what is already amongst the very worst traffic in the entire world despite being a small nation.
Without building upwards aggressively ASAP, there is literally no avoiding this reality.
The sheer amount of window lickers on their phones at traffic lights causes uncountable delays. Light sequences that should be letting 10+ cars through only let 3 or 4 because the cunt at the front of the queue has a reaction time measured in the seconds.
This then leads to drivers further back blatantly breaking the red light, delaying the people on the side of the junction that’s now turned green.
It is the most stupid design ever, “for pedestrian to pass, they shut down the whole junction”, I don’t know whose nephew got to contract to update the traffic lights here in this country, but the way they implemented it is the most basic and stupid way possible. It even caused the huge traffic once they opened luas on o’connel bridge till they fixed it there. I couldn’t believe it the first time I noticed that even for such a huge junction they shut down all cars passing for pedestrians.
I think this stupid design has contributed to huge number of folks running red lights. Junction utilisation is joke in this country.
Those studies are always funny cause you only hear about the ones where your city/country is the worst. When I lived in Poland I saw so many headlines about studies that proved that Lodz (where I lived) or Warsaw has the worst traffic. Then I moved here and see the same headlines about Dublin.
Bollocks globally… Have you been to Brazil, traffic is mental there
I haven’t read the report and have no idea of the criteria but call bullshit. No way it’s slower than Manila, Dhaka or Jakarta just to name 3
Bull-shit. I’ve been in lots of cities where it’s far, far worse: Yangon, Kampala even Buenos Aires.
Galway first
Parents dropping their kids 5 minutes up the road for school. When schools are off it takes 30 mins off my commute
I cycled 45 mins to college each way, it was faster than driving (at least an hour with the traffic) or public transport (no rail connection, would need to take 2 busses which would take 1.5 hours)
How long until we get a first place?
Why am I not surprised considering that almost all intersections stop completely if someone wants to cross the street and they can cross it diagonally through intersection (most of them), that you have literally <5 sec of green light and 2 times more yellow, that none of the lights are remotely synchronized, that most people leave 1-2 cars distance to the car in front at the lights and they leave from a light when it’s already yellow, and that you have ignorant people that completely block an intersection and don’t back up or move/allow traffic. And in general drivers in Ireland are oblivious to what’s happening around them, it’s surreal.
Not to mention the induction pads that almost no one is aware of (if you stop before the pads you spend a lot more time at the light or the light never turns green – seen those).
They should at least implement timer displays in the intersections where you have the biggest Is.
If Istanbul is not in the top 5, I wouldn’t rely on that analysis .
Only issue with this study is that there is no consideration of cities that have motorway running through them vs. around them.