Pothole Pix

E39MSport

Check out this bad boy.


The roads are falling apart here in North Kildare.
Thats going to sprout oil in a few more weeks if its left unresolved.

I hit both sides of it in the dark last night in the corolla. Ouch.

Jarren

let them know http://kildare.ie/CountyCouncil/CustomerCare/OnlineCommentCard/

Yakult

That looks like an average road down here in Kerry.

I'll try to get some pictures that show the state of the roads here. Its like driving on the moon. :rolleyes:

E39MSport

jarecki1976 wrote: »

let them know http://kildare.ie/CountyCouncil/CustomerCare/OnlineCommentCard/

Done - thanks.

500sel

R_H_C_P wrote: »

That looks like an average road down here in Kerry.

I'll try to get some pictures that show the state of the roads here. Its like driving on the moon. :rolleyes:

I'll bet the roads around kilgarvin are still like a mini motorway.:D

J77

R_H_C_P wrote: »

That looks like an average road down here in Kerry.

That almost looks like a good road in Kerry! Absolute joke there.

Stinicker

500sel wrote: »

I'll bet the roads around kilgarvin are still like a mini motorway.:D

A lunar surface, cratered and pocked more like, some of them are so big they would make a fitting grave for when Healy Rae senior does eventually pop his clogs.

KingIsabella

What goes up and down a road but never touches it?




The council.


Sorry sorry....i know its terrible.

bc dub

for any north dubliners, I haven't any pics but there is a monster pot hole near the nct centre in Ballymun. if you're coming from Ballymun, you pass the nct centre and its near the entrance to sillogue golf course. last night i think I saw lava coming up from it.

Iwannahurl

Ah, potholes. Takes me back...

Careful how you go about campaigning against them though.

A Cavan man ended up in court a while back after being arrested for highlighting dangerous potholes with paint.

This is what the senior road engineer said in court, without irony or embarrassment.

Patrick Gaynor, senior executive engineer in charge of roads in the Cootehill area, said the only people permitted to paint roads were executive engineers. No one was given permission to paint on this occasion. "The local authority is responsible for the upkeep and repair of the roads and no one else."

Jimbob 83

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Ah, potholes. Takes me back...

Careful how you go about campaigning against them though.

A Cavan man ended up in court a while back after being arrested for highlighting dangerous potholes with paint.

This is what the senior road engineer said in court, without irony or embarrassment.

Patrick Gaynor, senior executive engineer in charge of roads in the Cootehill area, said the only people permitted to paint roads were executive engineers. No one was given permission to paint on this occasion. "The local authority is responsible for the upkeep and repair of the roads and no one else."

Only in Ireland :pac:

E39MSport

It's (ahem) pot luck when the road surface is covered with water. You can't see jack sh1t and have to avoid them by memory. I hit 2 massive ones yesterday evening.

There was a gigantic one on Kilcock/Clane road just after the snow. I went straight into it in my cruiser as normally I don't care about potholes in that yoke however I think I've bent on-side rod end because the steering wheel is about 20 degrees off centre now. Guy in front of me in a new Saab who nearly disappeared in it pulled over up the road - looked punctured.

The council (or some responsible member of the public) placed a traffic cone 'in' the hole the following day and all you could see of the cone was the top 4/5 inches !! I'd guess it was about 2' x 2' and about 1 foot deep.

johndaman66

500sel wrote: »

I'll bet the roads around kilgarvin are still like a mini motorway.:D

Ah yeah, the backward parochial style of counter-productive politics we seem to be so fond of in this country...

zapata

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Kilkenny county council.......

Run_to_da_hills

Wait until the holes dry out, circle them with florescent quick dry paint, then the council have absolutly no excuse that they didn't see them.........sorted.

zapata

On a more serious note:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/07/20/four-killed-in-pothole-crash-115875-21533974/

How to get around the painting issue:
http://inhabitat.com/artist-pete-dungey-turns-potholes-into-guerrilla-gardens/

Iwannahurl

zapata wrote: »

On a more serious note:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/07/20/four-killed-in-pothole-crash-115875-21533974/

How to get around the painting issue:
http://inhabitat.com/artist-pete-dungey-turns-potholes-into-guerrilla-gardens/

Speed had to be a significant factor in that UK crash.

Residents said a 20-inch long hole 80 yards from the crash scene could have caused the vehicle to career out of control if it was travelling at speed.

The Vauxhall Tigra somersaulted several times after hitting the tree before coming to rest on its roof.

As for planting in potholes, you'd need shrubs and trees for our craters.

stealthyspeeder

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Speed had to be a significant factor in that UK crash.

Residents said a 20-inch long hole 80 yards from the crash scene could have caused the vehicle to career out of control if it was travelling at speed.

The Vauxhall Tigra somersaulted several times after hitting the tree before coming to rest on its roof.

As for planting in potholes, you'd need shrubs and trees for our craters.

Yea sure if they didnt hit the pothole, the speed they were travelling at would have killed them anyway. No way the focus should be on the the road being left in a state of disrepair, it should be on setting and enforcing abitary speed limits :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

or maybe your anti speed drivel should be taken back to the threads that have been almost been set aside for it.

Iwannahurl

Alcohol, excessive speed and (allegedly) a pothole. A lethal combination.

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/05/13/teenage-driver-over-alcohol-limit-in-neston-horror-crash-92534-26436031/

http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/Cheshire/Neston/CH64/News/Local-News/163782-Neston-fatal-crash-inquest-records-verdict-of-accidental-death

Shortly after the crash, residents expressed concerns that a pothole in the run-up to the spot may have caused the car to lose control.

However, Pc McDonough said there was no evidence of the Tigra coming into contact with the hole in the road.

E39MSport

Nobody else got any pix? I even went home to get the camera for the pic in post #1.

Iwannahurl

E39MSport wrote: »

Nobody else got any pix? I even went home to get the camera for the pic in post #1.

A reasonable question.

I don't have many suitable pix on file, and there aren't many potholes near me,
but I'll do my best.

E39MSport

Iwannahurl wrote: »

A reasonable question.

I don't have many suitable pix on file, and there aren't many potholes near me, but I'll do my best.

Good - get out there and find me some potholes

-Chris-

stealthyspeeder wrote: »

Yea sure if they didnt hit the pothole, the speed they were travelling at would have killed them anyway. No way the focus should be on the the road being left in a state of disrepair, it should be on setting and enforcing abitary speed limits :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

or maybe your anti speed drivel should be taken back to the threads that have been almost been set aside for it.

Attack the post and not the poster, and let's try to keep speeding and road repair as separate discussions (or as separate as we can).

-Chris-

E39MSport wrote: »

Nobody else got any pix? I even went home to get the camera for the pic in post #1.

Nope, I'm in Dublin. All our roads are smooth as glass.