Church Road Resurfacing

vinpaul

Congratulations to the engineer and officials that decided to have contractors work during the night. Work on almost half of Church Road was carried out last night. This is in preparation for the resurfacing of the entire road. More county councils should follow this practice as the disruption to traffic is kept to a miminum.
Lets hope that the ramps that have been removed will not be reconstructed.

Tiradon

The efficiency with which the entire operation was set up and then finished off was also very impressive.

Charleslando

I really hope that ramp nearest the town gets sorted out, its in bits and could easily cause damage to cars just attempting to get over it.

Welsh Wizard

Charleslando wrote: »

I really hope that ramp nearest the town gets sorted out, its in bits and could easily cause damage to cars just attempting to get over it.

That road was one of the worst roads I've ever driven on, the surface of the moon I'm sure is smoother.
I actually avoided that road at all costs, delighted its getting re-done as it was letting the rest of the town down.

It made my day when I seen all the marks of spray paint on the road and it wasn't the local yobos..

pixbyjohn

Welsh Wizard wrote: »

That road was one of the worst roads I've ever driven on, the surface of the moon I'm sure is smoother.
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This is a photo I took of the moon in Feb 2012, not soo smooth at all:D:D:D

Moon 29/02/2012 by pixbyjohn, on Flickr
I hear the new ramps will be dreadfully high

loyatemu

my understanding (from his newsletter) is that Simon Harris is resurfacing this road single-handedly - good on ya Simon!

happyhappy

loyatemu wrote: »

my understanding (from his newsletter) is that Simon Harris is resurfacing this road single-handedly - good on ya Simon!

Brilliant! You couldn't have described him better!! And to think he told us all before the election that he was not going to be like the 'typical' politician. he is worse than most of them now!

On topic - they are progressing rapidly tonight, very impressive roadworks!!

pixbyjohn

happyhappy wrote: »

Brilliant!
On topic - they are progressing rapidly tonight, very impressive roadworks!!

Who is doing the work ? Is it Dan Morrissey ?

Maudi

happyhappy wrote: »

loyatemu wrote: »

my understanding (from his newsletter) is that Simon Harris is resurfacing this road single-handedly - good on ya Simon!

Brilliant! You couldn't have described him better!! And to think he told us all before the election that he was not going to be like the 'typical' politician. he is worse than most of them now!

On topic - they are progressing rapidly tonight, very impressive roadworks!!

taoiseach material our simon..

happyhappy

pixbyjohn wrote: »

happyhappy wrote: »

Brilliant!
On topic - they are progressing rapidly tonight, very impressive roadworks!!

Who is doing the work ? Is it Dan Morrissey ?

Not sure pixby, it possibly is. I got waved through the contraflow too quickly to see.

Simon is operating that too, as well as plaining the road and laying the new surface!!

loyatemu

Maudi wrote: »

taoiseach material our simon..

once Simon's finished the work, Enda will be along on his bike to inaugurate it. FG - getting Ireland moving again :pac:

loobylou

And then Simons going to sport out the moon.

Annasopra

Ok - could we keep this on topic please.

Welsh Wizard

Gonna try it out on the way home from work later...
Hopefully they put down raised crossing points for walkers instead of huge speed ramps.

jungledrums

Welsh Wizard wrote: »

Gonna try it out on the way home from work later...
Hopefully they put down raised crossing points for walkers instead of huge speed ramps.

And hopefully drivers will realise that they are not pedestrian crossings and stop randomly on the main street

matt-dublin

Bout time, usually they don't do this work at night OP because the cost of implementation doubles.

its cheaper to do during the day

loyatemu

credit where credit's due - they've done a good job on this with minimal disruption. Was cycling along it this evening, great not to have to weave all over the road to avoid the potholes. Well done Simon Wicklow Co. Co.

matt-dublin

They're only patched it up, its still bad in any car with decent suspension

I thought they were doing a full resurface.

The next time it snows all the potholes will be back

Matt Le Tissue

looks like A full resurface to me, is it not?

Maudi

matt-dublin wrote: »

They're only patched it up, its still bad in any car with decent suspension

I thought they were doing a full resurface.

The next time it snows all the potholes will be back

patched what up?its a very well done complete resurface..it does tend to 'lift'when its laid in the rain..that wasnt..it wont lift..well done simon and the lads..and yea it a real treat on the bike.

FirstIn

I think the patching up was prep. pre final surface.

matt-dublin

FirstIn wrote: »

I think the patching up was prep. pre final surface.

i haven't been up the top of the main st since earlier this week but was down the bottom between the park and ride and the station and it just looked patched.

earlier during the week the top of the road was patchy and one of the ramps had beem skimmed out but thats the last i saw it

d31b0y

It's a complete resurface from the station right the way down to Centra by the looks of things.

Nice job too.

treecreeper

its fantastic, will let you know how the mobility scooter travels it, but in my vanm smooth as a baby's bottom!

Welsh Wizard

I've always said to the wife that if i won the lotto id have that stretch of road sorted..
Driving on it on the way to the "offy" for a few birthday beverages....

Real nice job...Even better than id imagined.. Complements the town nicely

Nice present..:D

matt-dublin

was up there on sun morning, much better, they did a gr8 job.

FirstIn

We've had this stretch of road resurfaced. We've had the lights mended on the C'land road.
The railings at the roundabouts on the same road are currently being repaired. (Ok, it's 19 months since most of them were wanged, but better late than never)
It's all to be welcomed.

PS, I'm guessing the railings repair is probably something needed as part of the council taking charge of the road.

The Real B-man

Wait until its ripped up to lay pipes

pixbyjohn

The Real B-man wrote: »

Wait until its ripped up to lay pipes

There is always 1 :D:rolleyes:

loyatemu

The Real B-man wrote: »

Wait until its ripped up to lay pipes

dunno about pipes, but at some point UPC will get around to upgrading the cable in Greystones which will probably involve a lot of road openings. Also Eircom are rolling out fibre to the curb, though I'm not sure if that involves as much disruption.

Church Rd was last fully resurfaced in the 90s - they were digging it up again within a year.

vinpaul

Do these new markings indicate the positions of man-holes, stopcocks etc and other services that have been covered over by the resurfacing. Seems to me that cuttings will be made to restore all of the covers that need to be accessable.

The Bishop Basher

Well it'll be ripped up at Brady's for the roundabout in December. Not so
new but ripped up in Blacklion for another roundabout there.

The Durutti Column

pixbyjohn wrote: »

Who is doing the work ? Is it Dan Morrissey ?

No, it's Simon Harris.

Annasopra

I'd already asked for this to stay on topic. Any more comments about Simon Harris will receive infractions.