Lonan3 Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 BRADDAN BRIDGE ROUNDABOUT PLAN UNVEILED From Iom Today (complete with pretty picture!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinkydevil Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 How long before someone takes the tree out!! Looks ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thriller Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I will if someone pays me. All these roundabouts are wearing out my tyres, why dont we ask the DOT to pay for new ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojomonkey Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Please god no. I’m not Manx by birth but I do love the Island with one major exception - the inability of a vast majority of motorists have in negotiating a roundabout. IF THERE'S NO ONE COMING YOU DON’T HAVE TO STOP!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboarder Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 How long before someone takes the tree out!! Looks ridiculous. Lol, to say nothing of it taking out a load of biannual bike freaks. (Or maybe this is a softening tactic for future TT policy). Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryMcCann Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 How long before someone takes the tree out!! Looks ridiculous. Lol, to say nothing of it taking out a load of biannual bike freaks. (Or maybe this is a softening tactic for future TT policy). Lol. Well seeing as the tree has been there for longer than the TT has run I don't think that is really a problem. A roundabout there is a very shit idea though, especially as there will be another one on the other side of the bridge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desperate Dan Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 People stopping on the two promenade merger lanes gets my goat, Fucking retards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thriller Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I looked at that picture for ages .. then it came to me. Someone has painted a thick white line around the tree to make it look like a roundabout. Is this what it will take 9 months to achieve? Pathetic. Im afraid so, well thats what happened on Ballanard road and the road next to Kirby Garden centre. think its called cooil road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 The whole reason for this bit of tinkering is that the TT course is sacrosant - no matter the road layout dates from the pre 1930's and is totally unsuited to today's traffic the TT course cannot be altered - my own opinion is that leave it in place for the 100 aniversary but after that allow the roads to be brought upto date without worrying about lap times, racing line etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojomonkey Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 The TT course from 100 years ago isn't the same as the current one is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 No, it isn't Mojo. Something is needed there though as turning right from the hosptial is tricky with the volume of traffic from Douglas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heathen Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Its the logic of WHY they are doing these changes that is lost on me. It surely must be costing a million or more by the time they have finished with the extra lanes and widening the bridge and the DOT logic seems to be that instead of queuing to go through Quarterbridge people coming into Douglas will filter right off Braddan Bridge, go all the way up Vicarage Road, all the way past the Coach and Horses, onto Cooil Road past B & Q, through the roundabout, through Kewigue, along the quay, and then enter Douglas via the Swingbridge. From what I recall someone else posting a while ago isn't this new roundabout system supposed to make traffic bypass Douglas? In so much as traffic coming from the north and wanting to travel south can negotiate several roundabouts on the outskirts of town and never have to travel through the centre of Douglas? Not sure anyone coming in from the west would take the route you suggested as it seems rather silly to negotiate 9 roundabouts after the first Braddan Bridge one to get into town rather than 3 to get to the same objective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 It has all the hallmarks of another complete f**k up written across it. This + image screams photoshop - c'mon people!... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Ayres Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 "An artists impression" Who the fuck was the artist? Salvador Dali springs to mind. Without much improved lighting and some sort of protection for the tree, like the raised bit it stands on now, it is an accident waiting to happen. The problem mainly arises at schooltime, the schoolrun if you like. Would a set of lights not been more effective, timed to work at times of peak demand, instead of major civil engineering works? I know they have to justify raising road tax and the cost of petrol but this is just silly. Most people understand lights much better than can negotiate a roundabout. Bets are on as to how long the tree lasts once an artic has to go up to the hospital and 'clips' it a few times, or until a weekend racer goes for it and leaves his/her impression. Total waste of money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copycat Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 every tree reaches the end of its life - how old is the one there? pobably about time for a liiitle "shrub" instead - ask yourselves has the existing tree been protected? no, then you can work out why not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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