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Road Standards

  • 21-05-2006 12:51pm
    #1
    garred
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    Whats the story with the standard of "finishing" to our roads. I'm not talking about down the country but in Dublin. What I drive has'nt got a great suspension, but my god, some of the bumps and holes make it heartbreaking to drive. Being in and out of Dublin a lot the amount of "tarred" coverings and quality of these is appalling. I know some parts of the roads have to be dug up for pipe laying, etc but the quality of cover on these excavations is abysmal. Or is it just me?


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  • #2
    murphaph
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    garred wrote:
    Whats the story with the standard of "finishing" to our roads. I'm not talking about down the country but in Dublin. What I drive has'nt got a great suspension, but my god, some of the bumps and holes make it heartbreaking to drive. Being in and out of Dublin a lot the amount of "tarred" coverings and quality of these is appalling. I know some parts of the roads have to be dug up for pipe laying, etc but the quality of cover on these excavations is abysmal. Or is it just me?
    No it's not you. The standard of road 'repairs' following excavations is more often than not, disastrous and if, like me, you use a motorbike you'll realise even faster just how (often) dangerously substandard these works are. I've written letters of complaint to Fingal CC to no avail about what Rilmount did to many miles of road in the D15 area when they installed the Metropolitan Area Network fibre optics on behalf of the ESB. The MAN is easily recognisable by regularly spaced sets of SIX large square manhole covers bunched together, feckin lethal in the wet on a bike! The tar banding they slopped all along these trench repairs is disgraceful and slippy as hell in the slightest rain. The entire repair is uneven and ruined many a decent road surface. They should have been forced to install that network under the pavements or soft margin, not under the carriageway.


  • #3
    Chris_533976
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    Heres a section of a Wikipedia article on it.
    Apart from roads constructed in the last decade, road surface quality on non primary Irish roads is poor by international standards. Many tourists come away with the impression that Ireland has Third World road infra-structure if they have to leave the Primary roads.

    The road surface used by local councils typically consists of stone chips laid on a 6 mm or less layer of bitumen. Cracks and potholes develop easily. While these roads have good skid resistance when recently laid, this advantage is nullified since tyre-wear is twice as rapid, and turning movement by large vehicles easily tears up the surface. When freshly laid, loose chippings are a serious hazard to traffic, damaging paintwork and windows if one travels too fast or is unlucky. This type of surface has low quality course road noise characteristics and is prone to more rapid deterioration (the tar melts at the height of even the mild Irish summers).. This method is used as it has lower initial cost, however there is more overall cost due to increased maintenance. This type of surface is almost non existent outside of the British Isles (though it is used sometimes in New Zealand) and is far below the standards of, for example, continental European roads.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads_in_Ireland


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