Construction work on Irish roads.

Archeron

I recently heard a very sad story on the radio about a man who lost his daughter in a car crash. Her car hit some loose gravel on the road, she lost control, and as a result, lost her life.

Strangely enough, later that day, I was coming into the town in which I live. If you can picture it, theres a blind left hand bend coming into the town with a roundabout maybe 200 yards after this. As I am aware of the roundabout, I slowed down in plenty of time. As I approached the r'bout, I was in 2nd gear doing maybe 30KMPH. I braked, as is normal, and at that point realised that the builders who had been cutting up the road for pipe laying, had left gravel and loose chippings (without warning signs) all over the road. My wheels stopped, but I didnt and I sailed out onto the r'bout against my will. Thank the Lord there was no-one actually on it at the time.

This is just one of a few examples I've come across over the past while of roads being left in bad conditions after builders have left the site, as well as poorly placed builders signs and other such problems.

Is anyone actually accountable for this type of negligence, and to whom do you report it? I would guess that raising issues like this with the builders themselves would earn a hearty "go f*ck yourself". I'm not a moaner normally about these things, but hearing about that young girl dying really brought home just how disastrous things like this can be.

kluivert

Road Dressing can be hard to drive in alright, I remember the same thing happened on a corner to me but not as bad as to lose control, you could feeling the car slipping alright.

Sad story, so much for building safe cars these days.

el tel

I've often found that in when it comes to road works, in terms of proper markings, advance warnings, clenliness and the sensible use of cones and contraflows etc., Ireland is a disgrace and severely lags behind the measures taken in the North or in Britain.

mike65

True enough. I'm going to bat a copy of this thread over to Commuting/Transport where they enjoy a thread like this.

Mike.

Chris_533976

What bugs me more is farmers cow crap on the road. You try and brake on that stuff and you'll end up in the wall. Or just plain mud from the fields.

If you make a mess on the road you should be forced to clean it up.

Lord Nikon

Have you been on the Naas to Blessington road recently. They did some patchwork over the past few days, and the road is now worse than before they touched it. I will be taking pictures.

paulm17781

Police horses taking dumps in the middle of the city really bothers me. The police should have to clean that up.

dmeehan

paulm17781 wrote:

Police horses taking dumps in the middle of the city really bothers me. The police should have to clean that up.

you should visit Killarney in the summer. this debate has been going on for years between the jarveys (the lads that drive the jaunting cars) and the town council. Id say there will be agreement between the israelis and the arabs before this matter is resolved :rolleyes: