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Dublin 15 road conditions,roadworks,closures,etc...

  • 02-01-2010 12:54pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭


    I need to go out today.What are the roads like in the D15 locality? If there is a thread on this already mods, feel free to redirect me or delete.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I'd be interested in finding out too. I really really want a bagel and I'm getting cabin fever but I'm not sure what the Hartstown Road and the roads around the centre are like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭gollyitsolly


    Theres a huge tree fell down inside the Portersgate estate if anyone needs logs. Just bring your saw!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    Havent been out today yet, but had no difficulty in driving up to Lohunda from here, and over to Ikea & back twice yesterday. Navan Road & M50 cleared up by the afternoon, and river road was ok. Just go very slowly, and watch the other eejits around you very closely- they are your biggest enemy in this weather!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Just back from Blanch. The Hartstown Road, Mountview Road and the road (Blanch Road South?) to the centre were fine. You just need to take it easy in case. The centre itself was fine but because of the snow the lines that mark out the car spaces are covered so parking was a bit of an issue. There were loads of spaces that were just too narrow and cars were jutting out of spaces.

    It was great to get out of the house and I got to have the nicest hot chocolate ever in Draíocht.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭gollyitsolly


    OK.The roads outside the estates not too bad. Didnt notice any grit though.Its getting colder now so ice will probably build up again. Its quite hard to drive slow when your feet have a life of their own!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    Best advice really is dont drive unless you really really have to. Shopping can usually wait a few days, buy food in your local shop if you are starting to get hungry again after the Christmas feast.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    I just WALKED to Ongar (first time ever!). Half an hour through a few estates.

    Main roads are grand, just the estates are bad.

    If it freezes tonight could be bad tomorrow though....


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Will be driving to Blanch Road North, any idea what its like around there?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    roads seemed ok around ballycoolin area this morning, just the industrial parks were like ice skating rinks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭suey71


    I've just driven from Bray and amazingly theres not much snow there.

    I wasn't looking forward to the drive as I thought the roads would be really bad with Bray being in Wicklow and all.

    It must be because its so close to sea level.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,420 ✭✭✭✭athtrasna


    suey71 wrote: »

    It must be because its so close to sea level.

    Nothing to do with the level it's the "warm" sea breeze. Seaside areas get the least snow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭suey71


    Thanks athtrasna, never knew that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    Riverwood, Laurel Lodge, Castleknock estates, Deerpark, Pecks lane, are all Ice Rinks, once you are off the main road. Ditto the park so they've closed a bunch of gates with really helped with the traffic this am. Around the shopping center and beyond doesn't seem as bad. Anywhere theres a hill seems to have problems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    Snowed again during the night, and now is very frosty. Looks like we'll be white for another day or 2 anyway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    looking worse today! Its bucketing down snow!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Asok


    3 trucks stuck between the IT park roundabout and the cruiserath roundabout on the blanchardstown road north going towards cruiserath so I'd avoid it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    As soon as the snow started I threw my stuff into my car and left for Cork where the weather seems to have picked up. I hope the snow stops in D15 though. It'll be a nightmare if it doesn't.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭suey71


    About an hour ago I saw a truck with a snow plough attached to its front and its trailer was full of grit, thing is, the gritter wasn't turned on.

    Maybe the council is saving it for a rainy day:D.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Well they do keep saying they're conserving it. :D I think that means that they are ignoring most roads, even primary routes, just in case. :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭suey71


    I haven't heard uncle Gaybo on the radio at all giving out about road safety since the bad weather started.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Asok


    Looks like blanchardstown rd north is currently getting gritted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,261 ✭✭✭kenon


    Just in off Blanchardstown Road North on the Corduff Rd is treacherous. Its starting to get busy now and I just watched a van lose control at low speeds.

    Kids have also put a large snowball on the road so people are having to drive on the path to get around it.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Asok


    The gritting was only done in front of an esb truck that had gotten stuck, The traffic corps and corpo truck dutifully tended to the scene until it was up the road and then fecked off without gritting and leaving other stuck trucks to it. Gotta wonder where the full truck of grit was going if they don't think a road that carries traffic from a number of business parks to the N3 is worth gritting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Asok wrote: »
    The gritting was only done in front of an esb truck that had gotten stuck, The traffic corps and corpo truck dutifully tended to the scene until it was up the road and then fecked off without gritting and leaving other stuck trucks to it. Gotta wonder where the full truck of grit was going if they don't think a road that carries traffic from a number of business parks to the N3 is worth gritting.

    Prolly down to grit the road around the hospital.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 674 ✭✭✭gollyitsolly


    Scariest thing today. Kids walking ON the frozen canal at Clonsilla train station.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Scariest thing today. Kids walking ON the frozen canal at Clonsilla train station.

    My Mam grew up in Cadbra and it used to be done thing most winters.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭suey71


    I used to do it myself down there in winters passed.

    I've got 3 kids now and would flip if I found out that they did it.

    I don't tell them anything I got up to when I was a kid.

    Let them play with their Nintendos and PS3's, its safer.:D.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭ciaran76


    Anyone see the amount of cars abandoned on the new Tyrellstown relief road.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    suey71 wrote: »
    I used to do it myself down there in winters passed.

    I've got 3 kids now and would flip if I found out that they did it.

    I don't tell them anything I got up to when I was a kid.

    Let them play with their Nintendos and PS3's, its safer.:D.


    So true, as a kid I would have spent every waking minute out in this sort of snow, doing stuff I certainly wouldnt let my own kids do.

    I dont think the cold spell has been here long enough for the ice on the canl to support much weight. I was down at the canal on tuesday and put a foot out on the ice to see how strong it was, and went it straight through, it was less than half an inch thick.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭ciaran76


    just to let some know its taking 30 mins to get out of littlepace this morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    My wife made it to work this morning in Ballymun no bother thankfully, which is not bad considering what the roads are like where we are.

    Mind you I did have to go up to the hill at the end of the road at 7am and spread a bucketful of salt on the road to make sure she could get past that bit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    We are iced in as expected and the dentist rang to cancel my daughter appointment,
    it will be a trip to the shop later and settling in for the weekend at this rate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭ciaran76


    From Littlepace to Swords too me 1.5 hours.

    40 ish mins in Littlepace drove up past Ongar into Hartstown(Petrol) to the Blanch centre into Blanch. village and onto the M50.

    Longer then usual but safest way I thought also seemed to be a bit quicker then most who got stuck on the N3 at Littlepace.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭LeperKing


    Anyone know what the approaches to roselawn shopping centre are like?

    Thanks,
    LK.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,015 ✭✭✭Pat Dunne


    Roselawn road is like a sheet of glass.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭suey71


    The Moldovan guy across the road from me has just put on his snow wheels.:cool:.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    Most of the minor roads and estates are like glass in Dublin 15.

    If you go really slow and dont spin the wheels you should be ok. Don't go fast and you won't slide too far. Keep you distance from the next car to allow for If you don't know how to drive on the snow/ice don't bother because it is very slippy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭suey71


    WHY AREN'T THEY GRITTING THE ROADS?

    How much money has the economy lost this past week or so because the Gov. couldn't afford to buy grit?

    On second thoughts, maybe they have the grit but cant afford the diesil for the trucks.

    I'm really pee'd off right now. My wife works in Liffey Valley S.C. and had to stay with friends last night as she is 81/2 months pregnant and is too afraid to drive home.
    I'm home with 3 kids and looking at hours upon hours of Peppa Pig and Lazytown.

    AAAAAAAAAGH my head hurts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭peteypop


    thank god the takeaways are still delivering:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    I've never seen so little gritting. Even with fair milder weather theres been vastly more gritting. I'd lay bets they didn't buy enough in to save money, and have less resources to spread it, probably through cost cutting aswell.

    Can't really blame them if there no money. Thats the Govt fault.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    peteypop wrote: »
    thank god the takeaways are still delivering:D

    Funny then the grit lorries can't get through. Not really a believeable excuse is it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    Zaph wrote: »
    ....It's currently -6C out there, so if you are venturing out wrap up well.

    Its really cold out all right. Don't think I've ever seen it colder.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,352 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Freezing fog now, just to make things a little more interesting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    Plague of Locusts is up next I believe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    I think its less slippy than yesterday, the fresh snow has more grip and they've gritted more places more.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,693 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    Any update on road conditions around blanch road north?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭JoePie


    I nearly shed tears sitting on the 39 between Cabra garda station and the turn for Blanch Village today. My God...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    I'm going to venture out WALKING (again!) to Ongar this morning.

    I'm loving this snow. Never walked so much around D15 in my life!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭jeffk


    I was over in the (shopping) centre this morning.

    Maybe it’s just me but I was shocked how the roads have not been touched said for tyre marks from previous cars. Of course seen as it’s snowing and people can’t see the no entry markings it’s ok to go up them, ok it’s not visible but surely people have been there before and know the systems.

    Apart from that the roads are in a bad way, people still alien to what an indicator is. Also a car flying up a bus lane and under cuts me with no indication (god love them, they must be in a rush somewhere). In my estate (brookhaven) there are lumps of snow on the road, possible people are clearing it of their cars outside the house and it has built up.

    Any ways a big weeks shopping was done I wont be rushing back out, be careful out there people.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    Seen a lot of poor driving, especially speeding, and very few cops around. I guess they are busy elsewhere. Lots of tailgating crazy enough. It would be dangerous even if it was a dry surface.


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