Latest Julianstown Traffic Volumes Released
The National Roads Authority (NRA) has released its latest update on traffic volumes in Julianstown showing that there is no let up in traffic volume in the village. The NRA maintains a traffic counting system in the village located just North of the school and updates the data regularly. The most recent update includes figures up to November 14th, indicating that the small village has traffic volumes exceeding most national routes. Indeed only today Martin Cullen opened the Loughrea Bypass to cater for traffic at half the level in Julianstown.In summary
- Weekday Average Volume still around 21000, with 7% HGVs
- Friday is the busiest day with 22000
- Peak hourly volume is 1600 vehicles per hour
- October volume up 16% since 2003 when M1 opened
- Year-Year traffic volumes are growing
- Yearly growth occurs mainly in the January-June time frame and levels off in the second half of the year possibly reflecting new house buying cycles.
- Friday is the busiest day of the working week and Monday the quietest
- Commuterisation of East Meath is apparent with the "peak hour ratio" growing to 1 from a level of 0.84 in 1997
posted by FPL @ 11:52 AM
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