Where is currently flooded in dublin

shopaholic

Right my family are currently sitting in ALSAA 'cos the roads around the airport are flooded but I can't find much on where else is flooded to get them home v(malahide road, and m50 between ballyfermot and finglas). Anyone else know?

mike65

This may help give a flavour.

http://www.dublintraffic.com/#M50

Mike.

shopaholic

Mike thanks for that. Typically they would arrive home at the weekend when noone is updating the news sites!!!:)

Chunky Monkey

Ballymun road at the Collins Avenue junction is completely under. Bus tried to go through it and a load of water came on to it. Don't think they'll try that again soon.

anotherlostie

There is some info here, but of course it may be out of date, in either a good or bad sense. It has stopped raining in West Dublin but it is darker than at 9.30 last night.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0809/breaking128.htm

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0809/flood.html

murphaph

Anybody know if Lucan village is flooded? Need to get from D15 to Newcastle this evening.

shopaholic

Anyone know if the m1 roundabout northbound to balbriggan is passable?

thenobody

well i know of someone who left ashtown (river road) over two hours ago to go to dunboyne and are currently just at blanchardstown.
N3 may be flooded and diverting everyone through blanch shopping centre.
M50 is crap through around there.

Nevyn

N3 section at blanchardstown, the tolka has broken it's banks, all of the roads in and around Clonsilla.

murphaph

Thaedydal wrote: »

N3 section at blanchardstown, the tolka has broken it's banks, all of the roads in and around Clonsilla.

Arrrghh, again the bloody Tolka brings a major national route to a standstill! It is unnaceptable that they haven't sorted this nonsense out already.

thebman

murphaph wrote: »

Anybody know if Lucan village is flooded? Need to get from D15 to Newcastle this evening.

Lucan is flooded, road closed that the 66 bus route goes on past a mcdonalds and some crappy chinese place next door. Don't think the town is that bad but Leixlip is also flooding in parts but passable. Bus skipped Lucan so the whole town could be flooded too.

I'd be driving slowly anyway, took ages for the bus to get to Maynooth with all the floods. The part where the road closed had a van try to get through and the engine stopped and they had to push it out.

Also there were two people canoeing (spelling??) on the floods.

Bluetonic

shopaholic wrote: »

Anyone know if the m1 roundabout northbound to balbriggan is passable?

M50? Airport? Swords? Lissenhall?

murphaph

brim4brim wrote: »

Lucan is flooded, road closed that the 66 bus route goes on past a mcdonalds and some crappy chinese place.

Thanks brim. Is it just flooded at that spot at McDonald's? Anybody know if the bridge is passable (you know the spot at Ulster Bank that can flood)?

shopaholic

Been onto guards - m1 lissenhall is flooded but passable, airport roundabout has guards at it. m1 at airport flooded. water is supposed to be rising.

Dirk Gently

Difficult getting around Finglas, on foot as well as by car. Power went a while ago but back on now. Most of the estates have impassable flooding but bad flooding on the main roads too. Most shores have burst and water is up as far as the doors of some houses. Was able to get up cardiffsbridge road and down by the firebrigade station into the village but some cars getting stuck on cardiffsbrige road on the flat outside the cardiff inn pub. Not many safe routes for driving around Finglas tonight.

Took these on welmount road about an hour ago..........

Jip

According to RTE news the following main routes are all closed, N3 both ways at Blanchardstown, M1 both ways, M50 blocked at Ballymun and the Port Tunnel but didn't catch the details of how extensive that is.

Zaph

Post in the D15 forum with pics of the N3 at Blanchardstown

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=56846220&postcount=13

January

Freakin hell thats bad...

MysticalSoul

All DART services north of Howth Junction were cancelled. I am in Portmarncok, part of station road, by village/Baldoyle roundabout was flooded, but ok. Taxi driver said regarding taking friend to Malahide that he would do his best, so that sounded like it was a bit dodgy.

mike65

Just clicked on the http://www.dublintraffic.com/#M50 and its still mayhem.

[url=https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/84334/61069.JPG[/url] hope the truck saw the obstacle.

Mike.

ronbyrne2005

Bad flooding at M1 at santry/port tunnel, santry stadium, the swiss cottage pub (water entered the pub). Dozens of cars stuck in water and abandoned on side motorways/roads. Got stuck on M1 after leaving cinema in swords at 8pm only home in glasnevin now nearly 3 hrs later (normally 20mins on a saturday). Few if any gardai on streets redirecting traffic along clear routes such as santry land and northwood. River of water running down M1 motorway (would'nt get that on the Autobahn)

AlekSmart

What an evening....:D

Lets get real for once,we just don`t do organization,full stop.
Interesting to notice the shiny new HQDC`s and M/ways so badly affected by the showers....:)

€36 Billion of Transport 21 funds surely should have bought some water dispersal expertise...???

Looks like the M50's come to a complete stop!

murphaph

AlekSmart wrote: »

What an evening....:D

Lets get real for once,we just don`t do organization,full stop.
Interesting to notice the shiny new HQDC`s and M/ways so badly affected by the showers....:)

€36 Billion of Transport 21 funds surely should have bought some water dispersal expertise...???

If only the government and local authorities were half as good at getting water down the drain as money there'd be no probs.

sgt.bilko

Deleted User wrote: »

Looks like the M50's come to a complete stop!

Wheres that cam? what direction?

sgt.bilko

sgt.bilko wrote: »

Wheres that cam? what direction?

http://www.dublintraffic.com/Site0Camera89.jpg

Northbound near Ballymun, according to the rte news site 2M50 blocked northbound & Ballymun"
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0809/flood.html

mobby

AlekSmart wrote: »

What an evening....:D

Lets get real for once,we just don`t do organization,full stop.
Interesting to notice the shiny new HQDC`s and M/ways so badly affected by the showers....:)

€36 Billion of Transport 21 funds surely should have bought some water dispersal expertise...???

In fairness I have never seen rainfall as heavy as today’s rain, unbelievable stuff was falling from about 2pm. But I do tend to agree main roads should be able to cope better then what appears to have been the case.
Also why was their no Met Éireann
weather alert?

This thread reminds me of an event in early ninties when British Rail had to cancel hundreds of trains because the loco's were damaged by the "wrong kind of snow".

Typical Irish rain is usually fairly light but falls for hours, this was very heavy downpour!

Chunky Monkey

Where the hell were the guards in Ballymun today?? More than two hours after our bus got stuck I went past the same spot again. There was a single traffic cone in the middle of the water, a couple of abandoned cars and traffic at a standstill going all the way back to the start of the Ballymun road. Saw three of them chatting away at the side of the road in Phibsborough. I'm sure they were doing something very important but sure didn't look it.

jimmycrackcorm

I heard the these guys are applying for a taxi licence....

Chunky Monkey

So that's why they call it a splash tour! Doh