Loose Chippings!!!!!!

BoozyBabe

Is anyone else here completely fcuked off with the council laying down loose chippings everywhere????

I know it's a good job when the gravel has been bed in / moved to the side of the road, but really, do they even try to bed it down before they allow motorists to drive on it?

I've just bought a new car (well new to me), the paintwork in perfect condition, & you'd think on badness, I've come across road works every day since I got it, & I've been pebble-dashed EVERY time. I'm actually afraid to look at the paintwork now.

& besides all that, is it not common courtesy when you're meeting another car whilst driving on the loose chippings that you slow down so you don't skite the stones up at the other car?

The amount of pr!cks that are racing when they go past me & I just get showered.

This morning, yet another long stretch of resurfacing & an idiot boy racer overtakes me just as we're about to go round a corner, a car comes the other way, so he has to pull in right in front of me.
The amount of stones that he threw up at me.

I'm driving all different roads to try & avoid the resurfacing, but there's none left now.

SO p!ssed off, or maybe I'm just having a bad morning.

Your thoughts................?

Funsterdelux

My boss is from Canada and he couldnt understand why they left the loose chippings on the road surface, in Canada they use it as a underlay, its good grip for the top layer of asphalt, I wouldnt mind but its not like we get really bad frost and snow over here, it doesnt last that long, especially if its a half arse job, it should only be used in back roads, where you cant speed.

nesf

Moved from AH.

Jumpy

I just called the local council about the crap job they did on the roads.
I am from Aus and when I called them I was under the impression the road wasnt finished yet (like where is the top layer of tar?) and asked them when it was due to be completed.
Apparently 'thats the way they do things in Ireland and have done for a hundred years'
The muppet kept disagreeing with everything I said.
I assume its the Department of the environment I get onto to take this to the next level?

Seanie M

Jumpy wrote:

I assume its the Department of the environment I get onto to take this to the next level?

And fair play, seriously, to you for doing so. If people like complaining, please complain to the relevant authorities! Sheesh! Its not that hard!

smash

here's one for you.... coming into sandyford ind est this morning to work I turned at the beacon court and was in traffic with a jcb drilling into the concrete about 10 foot away from me when SMACK - a lump of concrete from the pavement they're drilling his my bonet, checked it afterwards and yep, a nice big chip!

BoozyBabe

B@stards!!!!!

Gets me SO mad!!!!

The Doktor

This loose chippings, is a Temporary, cheap ass way, to make a bad road a bit better for a while.
You should try and drive on them on a motorbike. I can honestly say, its scary. First, because you get piles of gravel which can cause you to crash. And even if you are riding real slow, you get people flying along with no consideration for others (even though they usually have signs on the loose chippings saying 20mph...slow...etc), and stones fly up ...and they HURT!
Ive had cracks in my visor, chips out of my helmet due to this.
The councils should not be allowed do this.

mike65

'Stone' age solutions for the 21st century. Sorry

Mike.

colm_mcm

loose chippings are usually accompanied by a speed limit. The problem is more to do with our terrible attitude towards safety than a problem with the councils

DublinWriter

colm_mcm wrote:

loose chippings are usually accompanied by a speed limit. The problem is more to do with our terrible attitude towards safety than a problem with the councils

Yeah! Speed limits! Driving home on the R152 (connecting road between N2 and Drogheda), they've been doing some work on the road lately, the speed limit is 60 mp/h old money, and it's basically a twisty two lane typical R-road.

Got completely showered by loose chippings from an on coming car doing 60 m/ph, sounded so bad that I had to check the windscreen for cracks.

Typical 'fiddly-diddly-ah-sure-it'll do boss' Irish mentality to public works.

colm_mcm

Yup, gotta get home quick, Fair City is on!

Silvera

I agree, chippings should not be used as a top layer any more!!

In times past when Ireland was a poor country, it was acceptable - but not nowadays with all the money available to the govt !!


I regularly drove the road from Gorey to Wexford town (via Ballyedmond) and was impressed with the great job they did laying down proper tarmacadam.
However, what did they do last week - PUT CHIPPINGS OVER THE LOVELY NEW TARMACADAM !!!

It's issues like this that we need to campaign on, and that's why I believe that all Irish drivers should form (be part of) an association - power in numbers !!

Henry Ford III

Only in Ireland. Nowhere else leaves loose chippings on the roads.

maidhc

Silvera wrote:

PUT CHIPPINGS OVER THE LOVELY NEW TARMACADAM !!!

It makes a big difference in the long run though, it is a much more hard wearing surface.

colm_mcm

yup, very suited to our wet weather.

AMurphy

Aaaaaah, so you got pooped on my the annyal migration of hte Loose chip heard of lorries and their herders. They are late this year, usually the complaints start about mid May, must global warming disrupting their migration patterns.
Meanwhile the man in command thinks this gives you the best roads in the EU.
Oh yes, sombody niticed, these amimals are very prome to pooping on newly laid billiard table smooth & otherwise better than perfect Tarmack. Strange habits that they have developed, find a smooth surface and poop on it.

Welcome to Summer.

rexel21

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

REALLY ANNOYS ME.
ive just moved here and the 20 mile stretch i use to work seems to be getting patched up in this fashion a mile at a time. yea they have a 25 km sign but the guy coming the other way in a old banger doesnt give a ****. chips tar and i dont even want to mention my windscreen and bonnet. and all the chips are in my line of view too.
even worse when they are finished the road will still be **** and bumpy with a 100km limit that will put anyone putting it into practice in the ditch on a few corners.

To make thinks worse i've had to replace two tyres in six months and run flats at that.

ahhh must buy a **** mobile for the next five years when they prob wont have finished it and have to start again.

Jarren

Blast from the past:D

mb1725

The NCT system for cars has changed people's attitudes for the better, maybe it's time for an 'nct' for the roads, make sure they are carworthy.

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