Have we learned anything from Monday?

rx8

Right, so it's chucking it down with lots of lovely white fluffy stuff here in the big schmoke.
The M50, N4,N7 N11 etc will all be turning into a car park soon and there's going to be lots of people facing a 4 or 5 hour trip home.

So people.... BE PREPARED !!

Don't go out unless you absolutely have to.Bring or wear warm clothes.
Have your mobile phone with you.Bring a snack and something to drink.

Keep your distance from the vehicle in front and if it happens to be a truck or bus then give it even more room.
Lots of trucks got stuck on Monday on the ramps around the M50,it's going to happen again.

The Buses will probably be pulled out of housing estates soon,if they haven't already,so,if you are using public transport, be prepared to walk some of the way home.

Be patient, Drive safely, Don't eat yellow snow.:)

ManFromAtlantis

agreed.
know someone who left work at 6 and got home at 1am past naas.

godtabh

i'll get the train home at 9

Stupido

brown snow is not good either!

Cookie_Monster

"Have we learned anything from Monday? "

No and it'll be worse today:eek:

Colm R

Don't go up to the Sally Gap to have a look!!

TJM

Lightweight cars with wide tyres and no traction control have "interesting" handling characteristics in the slush.

loyatemu

over 4 hours from IFSC to Greystones this evening - most of it spent on a bus crawling through Bray. This landslide thing on the Dart line couldn't have happened at a worse time of year.

L1011

TJM wrote: »

Lightweight cars with wide tyres and no traction control have "interesting" handling characteristics in the slush.

Make those wide tyres sports tyres like on mine and it gets even more interesting...


I had no problems getting home tonight, usual 35mins, N7 was just damp as was the backroads to Maynooth. And my car loves 'just damp'

Taxipete29

The problem in this country is we dont see these kind of conditions often enough for it to prompt anyone to do anything about it. The amount of snow we got this week was laughable compared to what they get in parts of Europe. A freind of mine who works in the Airport told me they ran out of de-icer fluid out there on monday, Carry on Ireland. We are a laughing stock

Del2005

Taxipete29 wrote: »

The problem in this country is we dont see these kind of conditions often enough for it to prompt anyone to do anything about it. The amount of snow we got this week was laughable compared to what they get in parts of Europe. A freind of mine who works in the Airport told me they ran out of de-icer fluid out there on monday, Carry on Ireland. We are a laughing stock

Would you rather they spent your tax money on things that will rarely be used, snow ploughs, or on important things like hospitals and schools?

Most of the roads where passable if you drove properly. It's just that in general the Irish can't drive when the roads are OK, so when we get a bit of snow the bad driving gets worst. People where driving up hillls that cars where already sliding down!! Driving too close etc.

And don't forget one of the largest economies in the world, not too far to our East, had the exact same reaction to roughly the same weather. And they are now running out of salt and can't buy the correct grit. Their airports where closed also.

andrewh5

Del2005 wrote: »

Most of the roads where passable if you drove properly. It's just that in general the Irish can't drive when the roads are OK, so when we get a bit of snow the bad driving gets worst.

I completely agree. The general standard of driving in this country is appalling. Thank you so much Fianna Fail for the license amnesty and allowing learners to drive unaccompanied for so long! Bloody great decisions they were! :mad:

Cookie_Monster

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

"Have we learned anything from Monday? "

No and it'll be worse today:eek:

I think my point was proved quite well last nite. More utter incompetance on the roads.

That said I had some great fun sliding around the estates last night:D:D:D