M50 closed at Dundrum

bazzachazza

Reports of cars being abandoned and people walking. Not sure if it's actually closed both ways, but reports that ramps and mainline are dangerous and not gritted.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=m50

Some with pictures

bazzachazza

Posts on Twitter

M50 blocked off due to the griter thats on it's side. Gaurds are making everyone abandon cars cause of it. What the **** has Ireland com ...

ottostreet

bazzachazza wrote: »

Posts on Twitter

Jaysus thats ridiculous, had a look on DCC traffic cams, but not seeing anything, looks like the images were earlier anyway.

The bloody M50 closed!

Random

the gardai are making people abandon cars because there's a gritter out on the road? what am i missing?

bazzachazza

I gather its on its side. Bleeding typical. Those webcams haven't updated in a while they were showing daylight well after it was dark.

January

The gritter is on it's side according to some posts.

Random

adrieanne__x wrote: »

The gritter is on it's side according to some posts.

sorry, guess i misread then! now i start to wonder how the hell such things happened. guess i need to read some more!

cee_jay

AA website says :
Extremely heavy on the M50 northbound from after J13 Sandyford, where an incident is being cleared; delays remain through to Ballinteer. Southbound delays on the M50 are from J12 Firhouse to J13 Ballinteer. The road has been gritted. Gardai are advising motorists to avoid unneccessary journeys.

Random

someones hyping up nothing or the aa are way off the mark. which is it?

cravings

i live very near there and walked over the bridge over the m50 north on-ramp at ballinteer about half an hour ago.. it's moving slowly, but steadily. no sign of any blockage or specific obstruction.

happymondays

Random wrote: »

someones hyping up nothing or the aa are way off the mark. which is it?

I can see the traffic from my house,
Northbound traffic has been backed solid up since 5 this evening,
its still backed up right but seems to be moving very very slowly
I cant see any abandoned cars but did see 4 or 5 people walking up the middle about an hour ago.

Southbound traffic lane is clear, traffic slowely but ok/

Plasmoid

It's an absolute mess. Gardai out in force with the chopper. Snow plows and gritters everywhere.

There tailbacks from Sandyford to Blackrock and Dun Laoighaire as far as I can see and the m50 is crawling.

The snow is back as well now.

Phoenix Park

I feel their pain ,was almost 5 hours on the Southbound exit at Blanch last January the Wednesday it snowed really badly. Hope its a one off and not more of the same the next few nights/couple of months

bazzachazza

Absolutely ridiculous if the busiest road in the country doesn't attract the most attention from the council to keep it clear and moving. Same thing happened last time people spent countless hours going nowhere and STILL THEY HAVEN'T LEARNED A LESSON.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Ronan|Raven

Just back in Stepaside from work in Kimmage. Left at 5:40 - went via churchtown - dundrum as I heard m50 was blocked from my colleagues.

It was insane - most people going backwards - RWD Vans in walls. A guy in a rwd bmw infront of me reversing home... (I wish I took a pic now)

A car coming out his gate and sliding into my driver door.

glad to be home be damned if im leaving again!

6 inches of snow and a freeze and the city is in bits....

meercat

on the ball plasmoid

smokie2008

Theres a Woman having a Baby on the M50 Southbound (not joking)

Rackstar

Got on the M50 at Dundrum just as the fun was starting at about 16:45.

Started with a Tesco lorry getting stuck going up the north bound ramp! Was only 5 or 6 cars behind it when it got stuck. Got by easily enough thank god.

January

smokie2008 wrote: »

Theres a Woman having a Baby on the M50 Southbound (not joking)

You serious, where did you hear that??!?!!?

-Corkie-

adrieanne__x wrote: »

You serious, where did you hear that??!?!!?

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She can get free nappies of the Tesco truck now...:cool:

smurra3

I have someone who can help

jaffa20

bazzachazza wrote: »

Absolutely ridiculous if the busiest road in the country doesn't attract the most attention from the council to keep it clear and moving. Same thing happened last time people spent countless hours going nowhere and STILL THEY HAVEN'T LEARNED A LESSON.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I've seen gritters on it all the time. It's started snowing really heavily around peak traffic hours today so i put down the chaos to people who can't drive and have never bothered to learn how to drive in snow/ice.

kc66

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

It was insane - most people going backwards - RWD Vans in walls. A guy in a rwd bmw infront of me reversing home... (I wish I took a pic now)

Lol... wish you had that pic too. I can just picture it, trying to avoid eye contact.

smokie2008

adrieanne__x wrote: »

You serious, where did you hear that??!?!!?

My mate works in Roadwatch the guards were on to them

Cookie_Monster

took gf 3hr 10 mins to go from Carrickmines to M1 junction, 2h 30m of that clearing Dundrum.

Fire Engine came along at one point, guys were out on foot forcing people onto the central margin to get though :rolleyes:

January

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

took gf 3hr 10 mins to go from Carrickmines to M1 junction, 2h 30m of that clearing Dundrum.

Fire Engine came along at one point, guys were out on foot forcing people onto the central margin to get though :rolleyes:

That could have been for the poor lady giving birth in the car, DFB are EMT's too. Why you rolling your eyes?

Cookie_Monster

adrieanne__x wrote: »

That could have been for the poor lady giving birth in the car, DFB are EMT's too. Why you rolling your eyes?

just the ridiculousness of it all...

Derfil

For god sake that's just typical of this banana republic right now. Hope that woman and her baby are ok.

bazzachazza

jaffa20 wrote: »

I've seen gritters on it all the time. It's started snowing really heavily around peak traffic hours today so i put down the chaos to people who can't drive and have never bothered to learn how to drive in snow/ice.

My point is it should be kept open and in good condition at all times not as an after thought. They should be proactive not reactive. This section is the highest section of the M50 therefore the most prone to ice and snow conditions. The section underneath the Blanch exit should also be targeted due to the slopes either side. The rest is mainly flat. Its not rocket science yet they never learn.

Absurdum

I'm glad I took this week off

Phoenix Park

civil servant?

lostwallet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLi-EjsLpiM

Absurdum

Phoenix Park wrote: »

civil servant?

of course!

Cookie_Monster

lostwallet wrote: »

video

[CSI]
that's the GF there in the outside lane alongside the truck cab, second back from the guy with his fogs on
[/CSI]

:D:D

Vanbis

I was driving down from J14 at 5pm at 30kph and the front of the car was skidding and moving left to right.

I have to take exit 14 in the morning to get into work which is up hill so hopefully its clear and they gritt the roads.

Mister men

jaffa20 wrote: »

I've seen gritters on it all the time. It's started snowing really heavily around peak traffic hours today so i put down the chaos to people who can't drive and have never bothered to learn how to drive in snow/ice.

Lol. Is there a special place to go to learn to drive on snow/ice. **** happens deal with it.

jaffa20

Mister men wrote: »

Lol. Is there a special place to go to learn to drive on snow/ice. **** happens deal with it.

An empty car park perhaps. I wasn't complaining about what happened if you read back over the thread.

Divorce Referendum

Mister men wrote: »

Lol. Is there a special place to go to learn to drive on snow/ice. **** happens deal with it.

People could still educate themselves though. Alot of people doing completely the wrong things.

Joe10000

A guy in front of me today in an s class was trying to drive downhill by tapping the accelerator and the immediately braking so as to slide a few yards and he was not having the craic , he seemed to think accelerate and brake was the best way to get home, was priceless.

mcwhirter

Is m50 still blocked, I have to drive on it soon

Lemming

bazzachazza wrote: »

My point is it should be kept open and in good condition at all times not as an after thought. They should be proactive not reactive. This section is the highest section of the M50 therefore the most prone to ice and snow conditions. The section underneath the Blanch exit should also be targeted due to the slopes either side. The rest is mainly flat. Its not rocket science yet they never learn.

Whilst not defending the numpties that run the country, I was driving home from work this evening around 8pm (Leeds southbound towards Sheffield) on the M1, and I couldn't see the road surface. At all. Only for the fact that my GPS was telling me I was still on the M1 and that I was following the jeep in front whom I hoped to god knew they were still on the M1 I may as well have been driving across a frozen lake.

Now, ordinarily - even in heavy snow - UK motorways are very well kept, so kinda shows just how f*cked this spell of snow has been. From the off-ramp at Sheffield to wher eI live is 1.8km - less than a mile - and it took well over thirty minutes to drive and it was well dodgy. This all on roads that have been well gritted for the last three/four days.

That the m50 is all screwed up by virtue of the fact that the county councils/road authorities in Ireland have consistently never been able to grit so much as a bag of chips with salt, it doesn't bode well when there's that much difficulty in the north of England (and I dare say Scotland too).

MagicMarker

mcwhirter wrote: »

Is m50 still blocked, I have to drive on it soon

http://www.aaireland.ie/AA/AA-Roadwatch/Dublin.aspx

*MAIN TRAFFIC* * No delays reported for M50 traffic, drive with extra care as icy conditions may linger. * Take extra care driving around the City centre, icy patches may linger. * On the N11, conditions are slippery from Foxrock to Morehampton Rd and on Northumberland Rd through Mount St. Newtownpark Ave is also extremely icy.

antomorro-sei

Delighted I havn't had to be out driving in this much since Sunday!

mullingar

lostwallet wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLi-EjsLpiM

Brave sod who decided to go behind the squad car to follow it @ 1.31, naughty!

creativedrinker

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

A guy in a rwd bmw infront of me reversing home... (I wish I took a pic now)

HAHA quality!!!

BlackWizard

creativedrinker wrote: »

HAHA quality!!!

I had to reverse out of a bad part of an estate today. I could just tell everyone was looking at me

creativedrinker

im hoping to go to sandyfort tomorrow night via the m50, getting on the m50 at the airport.. does anyone know the conditions these roads are about 7 oclock ish?? would be heading off back at 10..

would you sugest im crazy and cancel or in the m50 useable

BostonB

Its the worst day of the year.

Why would you not cancel?

creativedrinker

BostonB wrote: »

Its the worst day of the year.

Why would you not cancel?

ironically enough.. i have snowboarding lessons booked

Bullseye1

LOL.

A-Trak

creativedrinker wrote: »

im hoping to go to sandyfort tomorrow night via the m50, getting on the m50 at the airport.. does anyone know the conditions these roads are about 7 oclock ish?? would be heading off back at 10..

would you sugest im crazy and cancel or in the m50 useable

Sandyford Industrial estate was at a standstill last night, if you're going to that indoor slope place, if you can, I'd think about cancelling and saving yourself a wasted jouney sitting in the car,

Just had a look out the window now, (The office I work in looks over the estate,) and traffic is slow but moving.

Saying that, it's bucketing down snow at the minute, and I'd expect things to get choked up soon.