Are the roads safe enough?

joekickass345

hey everyone
just wondering if the roads from clonesilla to the warehouse (airsoftrealoaded) are safe enough to go
i heard thats it suppose snow alot tonight and would be a shame if i went back to school without a good airsoft day
*please god make school closed* lol
thanks

swiftblade

Well most of the major roads should be ok (when i say major i mean the motorway :rolleyes: ). If they are anything like they are around where i live i wouldnt drive too far. I've seen 3 crashes so far today (not major) . But still...... They is still snow on alot of the roads and if that re-freezes tonight....well. I think you know the rest

joekickass345

thanks man
now i gotta pray
cheers

Private Snafu

nearly lost the car on the way home from the warehouse tonight (albeit in tallaght) be careful theres a load of black ice on the roads, we were lucky!

Stonewolf

It depends where you are. Here in Dublin it's mostly just estates that are bad and most of the main roads are fine due to unrelenting treatment and heavy usage. The important advice is to drive carefully, keep your speed appropriate and try to use your gears and clutch rather than brakes.

Private Snafu

Very true but the further you venture away from the motorways and city the dicier the gets. Afaik clondalkin is just about impassible atm, and tallaght (away from the square is just as bad )

Shiva

Glasnevin Avenue is fine, but almost every road off it is a skating rink.
Cabra is similar...the main road into Phibsboro and the Navan Road are fine, but all the offshoots are dangerous.

mle1324

Shiva wrote: »

Glasnevin Avenue is fine, but almost every road off it is a skating rink.
Cabra is similar...the main road into Phibsboro and the Navan Road are fine, but all the offshoots are dangerous.

Its mostly the small roads in Cabra but having said that Faussagh Avenue can be just as bad at times.

Lemming

Stonewolf wrote: »

It depends where you are. Here in Dublin it's mostly just estates that are bad and most of the main roads are fine due to unrelenting treatment and heavy usage. The important advice is to drive carefully, keep your speed appropriate and try to use your gears and clutch rather than brakes.

Another tip I got from my car mechanic; if you're having trouble negotiating inclines (driveways, hills and the like), drop the pressure in your tires to around 15 lb of pressure. Will give you more chance of traction; albeit results may vary. It may just be enough to give you traction to edge your way up the incline instead of just burning rubber in a wheelspin.

Granted, sustained use of low tires will bald the inner part of your tires over time so driving at speed (if possible) will become decidedly dodgy as a prospect so this is a short-term suggestion only.

kdouglas

Lemming wrote: »

Granted, sustained use of low tires will bald the inner part of your tires over time so driving at speed (if possible) will become decidedly dodgy as a prospect so this is a short-term suggestion only.

Good tip, but I wouldn't be driving any faster than about 15-20mph with that kind of low pressure in my tires, aside from the damage you'll do to the tyres and the wheels themselves, you wont have proper control of the vehicle.

Stonewolf wrote: »

unrelenting treatment and heavy usage.

Ha! I've yet to see one gritter out on the roads, nor have I seen any roads that have actually been gritted. This country was very badly prepared for this kind of weather, even managing to run out of what little grit we had during the week and having to wait on ships to delivery more.

Also, this is kind of off-topic for the forum, however since you are asking about getting to a particular airsoft venue, it just about gets to stay here.

Lemming

kdouglas wrote: »

Good tip, but I wouldn't be driving any faster than about 15-20mph with that kind of low pressure in my tires, aside from the damage you'll do to the tyres and the wheels themselves, you wont have proper control of the vehicle.

True. if you're having to drop pressure, you're probably going to be pulling away in 2nd gear up an incline as slowly as possible or some such, so very low speed is a given.

I added the bit about balding tires in case somebody neglected to pump their tires back up shortly thereafter and instead kept driving around on low pressure tires.

hrta

Don't matter what you do with your tires, there is no traction on ice, and when it snows here in Ireland, you most of the time will have ice under snow, and you can have all the tires and drives in the world, ice is ice, the only way to drive in this weather is slow, slow, slow, driving is not the problem, it's trying to stop, so drive slow, or as ice drivers would say, you drive on ice with your left foot, and tie your right foot to the seat, what this means is don't use to much of the accelerator, use your breaks as little as possible, just take your foot off the accelerator to slow down, the secret is to keep the wheels turning and there fore they wont skid, and you keep control of the car, you should be in a low gear, and let the car labor in that gear, as this makes the car less likely to spin the wheels on you, if the car starts to skid or spin, you just have to clutch and steer into the spin and only tap your brakes, Stay at a farther distance than usual from other vehicles, if have to pull in to let them pass, just pull in, it's safer that way, the other thing is to know the road your driving, were are all the bad bends, are there hills, is it narrow, for cars to pass, or if i have to pass parked cars, does the road be wet most times, as this will mean more ice, if i cant get passed on this road can i turn around and get get back the way i came, have i got warm clothes with me, in case i need to abandon the car, some warm drinks, some food, you need to really plan every detail, before you go out for a trip in this weather, i know so of this might be a bit O/T, in around towns, but you never know, always plan for the worst, and stick to the plan, another thing, is you should go to an empty car park that is ice ed over, were there is no danger to any one or your self, and try out what way your car handling ice, what way the breaks pull on your car, how does it skid, when i over steer, how much to i need to steer, little is always better you will find, form what speed does it take to stop, get to know what your car does in these conditions, and learn.

Private Snafu

For the latest road conditions check here. Its being updated regularly

gerrowadat

Also see aaroadwatch.ie

I'm stuck in work in town for the night. Driving out to Clane is just too dangerous.

StevieGriff

Also NRA road condition info http://www.nra.ie/RoadWeatherInfo/Map/data/htm/WeatherTable.htm

.22 Lover

NRA?

StevieGriff

National Roads Authority. If you ever see a little weather station at the side of the road and a black cable running out from it across the road, that's what its for. http://www.nra.ie/RoadWeatherInfo/Map/data/htm/WeatherTable.htm

swiftblade

I was going over to visit a friend today and i couldnt get the car out of the driveway. No joke. I was taking off in second and the wheels were still spinning. My advise is stay at home. Its not worth it. Its going to get worse before it gets better

fleecymanager

gerrowadat wrote: »

Also see aaroadwatch.ie

I'm stuck in work in town for the night. Driving out to Clane is just too dangerous.

your better of man a few lads from clane i know were fitting in town today and it took them nearly four hours to get home and they left early, what do you recon on the trip to the north?

Tommyboy71

I think it is going to a wait and see. If it keeps up like this I reckon it will be postponed.

Sperminator

i live just a few minutes from the warehouse and i crashed my car on my road (least than a 100 meters from my house). even with advanced driving skills you can still crash. so if anyone is venturing out, take very very slowly, remember airsoft will continue on after the ice has melted, so its not worth your life.

mle1324

This morning I nearly saw a crash up in blanch,some gob****e bombing down the road in a jeep nearly want into some railings but managed to get control of the jeep.:rolleyes:

It was also a surprise to see Blanchardstown was packed today especially Dunnes Stores.

Stonewolf

people need food and provisions man, despite what the whingers might say the world doesn't stop because a few flakes of snow fell.