roads and heat

peasant

aarrrggggh :mad:

The road on my way to work has melted away. It is now one big pool of semi-liquid tar. So the car gets a lovely coating of tar, including underbody protection.
Then Mr. councilman decides it's time to take the gritter out of hibernation and to sprinkle some sand and grit into the soup. Nowhere near enough to cover the tar, but plenty to go flying about and pepper your car in tiny stonechips and for the sand to form a nice adhesive emulsion with the tar all over your car.

Lovely!

Anybody got some feathers going spare to make the look complete?

And its only 22 degrees outside...

I want my road tax back !!!!:mad:

Kadeshh

I was in Dubai last week. 48 degrees, direct sunlight for hours and hours and all the roads are perfect (including the 14 lane main street!). I wish we didnt live in such an incompetent country...

Mitch Connor

Kadeshh wrote:

I was in Dubai last week. 48 degrees, direct sunlight for hours and hours and all the roads are perfect (including the 14 lane main street!). I wish we didnt live in such an incompetent country...

14 lane! that would be a nightmare in this country! Could you imagine having to come across 13 lanes, to drive 20kmh below the speed limit, cause the guy in the overtaking lane won't budge, and you can't undertake!

Kadeshh

i meant 7 each way, sorry. and no-one on it drive less than 80kph(thats just the trucks). they're all mental drivers over there. and the road is lined with dozens of 50+ storey buildings to distract you as you ohh and ahh aswell

Anan1

Kadeshh wrote:

I was in Dubai last week. 48 degrees, direct sunlight for hours and hours and all the roads are perfect (including the 14 lane main street!). I wish we didnt live in such an incompetent country...

Perhaps we should import slave labour too..

Mitch Connor

Kadeshh wrote:

i meant 7 each way, sorry. and no-one on it drive less than 80kph(thats just the trucks). they're all mental drivers over there. and the road is lined with dozens of 50+ storey buildings to distract you as you ohh and ahh aswell

still - could you imagine trying to drive something like that in ireland - enough trouble with 2 and 3 lane roads!

Tabnabs

I was on that road in Dubai last March, taxi man said it was just as busy when they only had three lanes each way... M50 upgrade anyone?

OP, can you not just go a different way to work? Yes it's a crap situation, but you'll save your car. Why not let us know where it is so the rest of us can avoid it?

peasant

I could do double the mileage and go the long way round ...but that's not my point.

Sections of this road are perfect, so I know it can be done right. But instead of making the rest of the road like these sections, the council just do their annual slapping on of more tar followed by the rocks that they call "loose chippings" ...so every year the tar pool gets deeper and deeper. It's so bad by now that a truck driving along will take out whole clumps of road and deposit them somewhere else ...preferably on the windscreen of an oncoming car.

Where is this road?

Any minor road outside the capital will look like this these days.

I still want my road tax back ...:mad:

Robbo

Anan1 wrote:

Perhaps we should import slave labour too..

Gama, perhaps?

afatbollix

Kadeshh wrote:

I was in Dubai last week. 48 degrees, direct sunlight for hours and hours and all the roads are perfect (including the 14 lane main street!). I wish we didnt live in such an incompetent country...

same as spain but when it rained there is no grip..... its a balance im affriad... maybe we should do the same as the north/ uk???

mike65

Hi peasant you might look at this (I'm will you brother!)

Mike.

peasant

Also, I shouldn't think that the annual massacre with fresh tar and tons of crushed rock comes in cheaper than a job done properly.

Yes, the once off cost would be higher for the proper job, but it wouldn't need bi-annual care (once in spring to close the potholes that the frost tore into it and once in atumn to replace what's melted away in the "heat") and lots af patching up of little craters inbetween.

But this is the lunacy of annual budgets ...sorry, but destroying everyones car is the best we can offer for the money that we're allocated.

Pool the money for several years and do it feckin properly !

Darwin

Tell me about these roads, Laois is full of them. My new car has only 4K on the clock and is already covered in tar spots and stone chips. Worse still are the muppets who won't slow down on a newly gritted road and spray your car with stones. The road outside my house is heavily cratered and any truck that passes by shakes the whole house from top to bottom from the vibrations. I've sent photographs and numerous letters to the county council/local TD and still no joy. Mike, your post says it all....

legs11

ah well, what do you expect with our inept government. with a new bertie harney brigade on the horizon dont expect good roads any time soon.......

i would never buy a new car in this country, the biggest waste of money ever. after 2 months it would be riddled with paint chips, markings and lose thousands.........phfft

Robbo

Robbo wrote:

Gama, perhaps?

Believe it or not they would get a fair wage compared to the carry on in Dubai.

Thousands of migrant workers workers were brought in. A large number of them had their visas and passports taken. They havn't been paid, are forced to work long hours for their room and board.
They have no choice because they can't leave dubai and won't get work without papers.

Its a city built on slave labour.