Solution 3......stay at DensOriginally Posted by Deeranged
Why is it seen as some insurmoutable problem that traffic might get held up on Kingsway for twenty minutes every two weeks in the football season? I used to go to Dortmund games at The Westfalonstadion in the eighties and there were thousands more cars than would ever be at any Dundee game trying to get out of the car park onto the Autobahn; there was never a problem, people just got on with it, yes it took a while to get away sometimes but half an hour was usually it. The police controlled egress, simple as that.
Solution number one - temporary speed restrictions on Kingsway, slow the traffic down to 30mph. Filter all that traffic into lane two. Allow all the traffic from the car park to flow into lane one. Easy.
Solution number two - temporary traffic lights. Slow the traffic to 30mph, stick traffic lights on Kingsway and stop the traffic completely, allow a minute's worth of traffic out of the car park and then let the Kingsway traffic move for two minutes, rinse and repeat - easy. There are already traffic lights on the road so it would be nothing new or revolutionary - they do it on the road into Edinburgh at peak hours so why not there? Note - traffic flow times are estimates and not scientifically calculated (in case Islay gets the calculator out).
Simple traffic management. If planners can make those lights at Claypotts work they'd make something work there. The way some people perceive this 'problem' you'd think they were talking about emptying Wembley onto the M25 and it had to be done within ten minutes.
And add to that the fact that if they were to get the plans right there would be places to go on site after the games so not all the traffic would need away within five minutes of the final whistle. Then of course add in that it's Dundee FC and half the crowd would be gone ten minutes before the end anyway because we'd be getting humped.
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