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Potholes in the UK. Residents Fight Back

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    you could setup a viable business printing those signs over here at the moment :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,155 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    My point which I forgot.

    Recently the councils said that we cannot even try to fix the roads ourselves(i.e outside your house) because they are taking too long. If we did they would sue us for the price of a new road. NICE! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    I was driving through Gort Co. Galway the other day and I was shocked with the state of the road through the town, an absolute disgrace, I feel sorry for the people who have to drive through it everyday.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 370 ✭✭bongi69


    N8 just before Abbeyleix (heading to Cork) is quite bad, altough they are patching it up section by section.
    The 1st mile outside the town in the same direction was always bad for potholes, and now its just worse


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,284 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Gort has been bad for years, especially on the south end of the town. I haven't been there for a while, or since the flooding, it may be worse now.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Gort has been bad for years, especially on the south end of the town. I haven't been there for a while, or since the flooding, it may be worse now.

    It's by far the worst I have ever seen it.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,155 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    I travel through gort at least 4 times a week.

    Take the pothole's and the fact they are laying gas lines from the Galway side to the Ennis side and its a war zone.

    They even have a sign from the local community apologising for the state of their roads.

    Fair enough when the Motorway opens eventually they will be able to tear the entire road up to replace it but not before then I would imagine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭h3000


    Berty wrote: »
    ...

    They even have a sign from the local community apologising for the state of their roads.
    ...

    Spotted that, I was not too sure was it erected by the council or someone else.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,155 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    h3000 wrote: »
    Spotted that, I was not too sure was it erected by the council or someone else.

    That's why I said Community. Im sure it's not the council because that would be weird and unlikely they would apologise for not doing what they are paid to do.

    Possibly Gort Chamber of Commerce.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    Our government believes that there are more safety gains to be made by installing safety cameras everywhere instead of fixing roads which are literally covered in dangerous potholes.

    Unreal crap.

    I'm paying over €400 each year on motor tax (God help those paying over €1,000 for a 3.0 TDi) and untold excise duty on every fill of petrol. The least I feel that I and every other motorist deserves are roads with some sort of decent surface.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    Our government believes that there are more safety gains to be made by installing safety cameras everywhere instead of fixing roads which are literally covered in dangerous potholes.

    Unreal crap.

    I'm paying over €400 each year on motor tax (God help those paying over €1,000 for a 3.0 TDi) and untold excise duty on every fill of petrol. The least I feel that I and every other motorist deserves are roads with some sort of decent surface.

    +1. I'm paying €600 a year vehicle tax on a Mondeo with low profile tyres. I shudder to think what a good deep pothole would do to them. I would disagree that the government thinks speed cameras are a better safety gain though. I suspect that from their point of view cameras make money, potholes don't. Roll on the general election so that we can elect FF and the Greens again and carry on as before:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,155 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    ART6 wrote: »
    Roll on the general election so that we can elect FF and the Greens again and carry on as before:(

    And they will go into a two party government with...............................LABOUR who brought in the 30kph speed limit.

    Who do you prefer to be in power?

    Green's or Labour?

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    Berty wrote: »
    And they will go into a two party government with...............................LABOUR who brought in the 30kph speed limit.

    Who do you prefer to be in power?

    Green's or Labour?

    :D

    Me? On balance none of the current crop of deadbeats. I would like to elect a government that knows how to run the economy and how to provide essential services such as roads without ripping everyone off, without cheating, lying, and living high on the hog. Nothing to do with this thread, but if at least we had good roads and less of the Green's tree hugging I would be half satisfied.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 3,816 Mod ✭✭✭✭LFCFan


    Recently part of the R132 (road between Drogheda and Kilmoon Cross(N2)) was resurfaced. Nice to have it done but it wasn't essential. At the same time the rest of that road towards Kilmoon Cross was supposed to be done too but once they got to a certain point (Riverstown Cross) they stopped and the engineer working on it actually told my Dad that the rest of the road was the responsibilty of another section of the council despite it being the same road in the same county. The road between Riverstown Cross and Kilmoon Cross (especially the last mile towards Kilmoon) is some of most shockingly bad road I have ever witnessed and it has been like that for a couple of years. Since the mini ice age recently it has gotten so much worse and they attempted to 'fill' some of the holes desite the fact that the road itself is actually lifting and turning to crap. It's nearly undrivable now and no sign of them fixing it. It boggles the mind to think of the incompetance in the councils :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    They have been patching up (filling in the same holes) week on week in Limerick! Effing disgrace really


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