Study Clacks Dublino come una delle città più difficili del mondo in cui guidare, battendo La LA
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/study-ranks-dublin-as-one-of-the-hardest-cities-in-the-world-to-drive-in-beating-la-1808814.html
di OperationAlarming700
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A few days ago I created a post here complaining how hard was to drive in Ireland specially Dublin even after years driving here (I’m a immigrant), and most of the comments were “you’re just a bad driver, it’s very easy to drive in Ireland”.
Now this study just gave me the reason. Driving in Ireland specially Dublin is not easy at all.
I find Dublin has very weirdly laid out junctions. They’re often extremely awkward and like the council is constantly reinventing the wheel.
It also has loads of streets that you’re never really sure if there’s one lane or two lanes or even three lanes – not marked and lanes form spontaneously.
When you couple it with very pushy drivers that do things like block merges and block lane changes, it’s really uncomfortable driving.
> Dublin also has the second-highest number of direction-based searches in the world.
I don’t understand what a “direction based search” is.
I see this as a positive
Everything is done poorly. Literally everything.
A remarkable feat.
The people in charge are inadequate, whether it’s council or those in charge of infrastructure. We also have a broken traffic light system that isn’t built for manual cars (slow off the lights instant red to green).
I’ve driven in many cities around the globe … Dublin is nowhere near the top 5. This is actually laughable.
Absolutely ridiculous. No comparison
I doubt “study” was conducted by anyone with real experience in driving anywhere that was covered.
I drive through town maybe a few times a year, but every single time I have to take a different route because another road has been made one way, or pedestrianised, or for public transport only. A bit of consistency is all I want.
Well LA is a bunch of straight lines so not surprised. It takes Dublins traffic over LAs soulless suburbs any day
It is but in the same way old cities always are? Learned to drive in the oldest city in Canada and Dublin is bigger and busier but not more awkward. Cities built long before cars not ideal for cars, more at eleven etc
It certainly is a shitshow.
Driving in a city should be hard, it’s supposed to encourage public transport use. Maybe this just points to how poor our public transport is that people would rather sit in awful traffic in the city rather than get the bus/train
I drive in the city occasionally and it’s like a war of attrition with other drivers, the way the city is setup makes drivers behave borderline aggressive and don’t give you any leeway. Especially if you’re in a small car like I have.
Bollocks. I grew up driving around Dublin and thought it was grand then I visited Malta and you couldn’t pay me to drive there. My friends from Tenerife say the same
Small price to pay for having a beautiful city.
There doesn’t seem to be a standard format for a junction in Dublin. I can approach one crossroad where the left lane is for straight and left, I can approach a near identical one a few minutes later, and the left lane is for left only. No way of knowing until you’re on top of it.
Not to mention poor/non-existent sign posting.
I don’t see why it’s so hard, I mean, there are plenty of morons doing it /s
It’s a bit of a challenge alright, but that’s the charm of Dublin streets.
Just back from Paris for the 3rd time this year, its nuts to drive there.
Rented a car in Dublin Airport visiting home in Summer. Americans either side of me cheaping out saying, “I can drive a manual”, and saw one of them not being able to move the car in the parking lot. I would guess this is behind some of the results but doubt its a very rigorous study.
What a shit study. Obviously never been to anywhere in the Middle east, India, Africa or South East Asia.
It’s not even in the top 5 most difficult in Europe and certainly not the world.
I’ve driven in Athens, Napoli, Istanbul, Bucharest for example, all of which are much worse.
Forget even comparing to Marrakech Morocco, Ho Chi Minh Vietnam, Rio Brazil or other notoriously difficult and chaotic driving countries. India? Worse driving conditions and drivers ever.
In Dublin it is rare you’ll get honked at, certainly not screamed at and unlike some cities… carjacked. There are a few horses, but no cows, donkeys, and not thousands of bicycles and scooters.
Respectfully LMAO
Dublin is far worse for driving than Boston – which is quite a feat