No money for the roads

listermint

I know the money is not ringfenced ,but you have to laugh. Where the hell is my +1800 euro going???

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-money-for-essential-road-repairs-admits-nra-29427656.html

ESSENTIAL resurfacing work on some of the country's busiest roads will not be undertaken this year because of budget cuts.


The National Roads Authority (NRA) has confirmed it does not have the money to complete the works, and that failure to do so will ultimately result in higher costs

Mint Sauce

listermint wrote: »

I know the money is not ringfenced ,but you have to laugh. Where the hell is my +1800 euro going???

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-money-for-essential-road-repairs-admits-nra-29427656.html

In the same big pot as every other tax, to bail out the greedy bankers, broke developers, and corrupt politicians that have destroyed this once great country.

:mad:

Viper_JB

Wooo, now they have an excuse for not repairing the roads that they haven't been repairing all along....fun winter ahead...

Guy:Incognito

Mint Sauce wrote: »

In the same big pot as every other tax, to bail out the greedy bankers, broke developers, and corrupt politicians that have destroyed this once great country.

:mad:

The councils are paying bankers now?

Zcott

Sounds like there should be a Boards whip around to raise money for our own resurfacing machine. Who's in?

Taylor365

Levels of surprise...

minimal. -_-

jimgoose

listermint wrote: »

I know the money is not ringfenced ,but you have to laugh. Where the hell is my +1800 euro going???...

Germany. Next.

Supergurrier

Drove along a solid five km of loose chippings in Kilkenny last week.

My poor poor front bumper

Its so lazy its like some genius in the council spotted tar on the surface if the roads and just threw out a few grands worth of chippings and went home early patting himself on the back

renofan

Supergurrier wrote: »

Drove along a solid five km of loose chippings in Kilkenny last week.

My poor poor front bumper

Its so lazy its like some genius in the council spotted tar on the surface if the roads and just threw out a few grands worth of chippings and went home early patting himself on the back

They did that on the road I travel on earlier this year, a van coming the other threw up some chippings/stones and cracked the windscreen and put two nasty dents in the driver's door.

Did my parent's road last year like that, it needs doing again. If it ain't done right it only costs more in the long run. But shure tis Ireland, what other way would we do it.

kuro2k

The Road Safety Authority says that dangerous roads account for about 3pc of all fatal accidents

Let me guess where they pulled that stat from..

SpaceTime

I would predict that the currently pristine motorway network will be a potholed mess within 5 years.

We're on our way back to the 80s.

endacl

Mint Sauce wrote: »

In the same big pot as every other tax, to bail out the greedy bankers, broke developers, and corrupt politicians that have destroyed this once great country.

:mad:

When was it great?!? I don't remember that. I remember it being 'grand'...

SpaceTime

LIGHTNING wrote: »

How so? The M50 has been around for a while and its in great nick. In fact the last time I was in Germany I was shocked at poor quality that some of the Autobahns were in. Take the clowns off the M50 and its a lovely road to drive.

Because until now the M50 has been maintained in great nick.

If no money's being spent on maintenance our road network will fall apart very quickly.

We also now have a hell of a lot more roads of motorway standard to maintain. In the 1980s we couldn't even afford to maintain the single carriageways.

I really wouldn't be surprised if Irish motorways look more like those in Belgium in a few years i.e. with bad surfaces, pot holes, damaged surfaces, etc etc.


We're already doing stuff on the cheap. For example, there are areas of the N40 Cork Ring that have just been patched and really should have been surfaced.

The Cork City N27 South Link is already falling apart on the inbound carriageway and it's getting progressively worse and worse as it's a very busy and old run of DC. No sign of anything being done on it at the moment other than some maintenance at the interchange onto the N40.

Mint Sauce

Viper_JB wrote: »

Wooo, now they have an excuse for not repairing the roads that they haven't been repairing all along....fun winter ahead...

That looks suspiciously like one of the descents of the Glen/Horseshoe Rd in Sligo.

I know this is the motoring thread, but gone down that on a road bike. Quite scary.

Mint Sauce

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

The councils are paying bankers now?

Bank Bailout, paid by taxpayers. Where else do the government get the money from.

Cienciano

Supergurrier wrote: »

Drove along a solid five km of loose chippings in Kilkenny last week.

My poor poor front bumper

Its so lazy its like some genius in the council spotted tar on the surface if the roads and just threw out a few grands worth of chippings and went home early patting himself on the back

It's mad that your car can be considered unroadworthy in an nct test for the indicators not being orange enough, but it's perfectly ok for the council to put down loose chippings. Nothing worse than coming onto a stretch of loose chipping on a motorcycle.

gubbie

Cienciano wrote: »

It's mad that your car can be considered unroadworthy in an nct test for the indicators not being orange enough, but it's perfectly ok for the council to put down loose chippings. Nothing worse than coming onto a stretch of loose chipping on a motorcycle.

Or on a bicycle. I would think that accidents are only gonna increase with people swerving to avoid potholes

I got a huge shock one day when a chipping flew up and hit me just under the eye. It was just from a driver coming in the opposite direction.

Del2005

Cienciano wrote: »

It's mad that your car can be considered unroadworthy in an nct test for the indicators not being orange enough, but it's perfectly ok for the council to put down loose chippings. Nothing worse than coming onto a stretch of loose chipping on a motorcycle.

Sure aren't they covered by putting a sign beside the road warning you there are loose chippings ahead and slow down to 20km/h and the best thing is they just leave it there as surface dressing needs to be done so often there's no point in removing the signs.

gubbie wrote: »

Or on a bicycle. I would think that accidents are only gonna increase with people swerving to avoid potholes

I got a huge shock one day when a chipping flew up and hit me just under the eye. It was just from a driver coming in the opposite direction.

They are fun on motorbikes also. I never ride slower than on a road that's been surface dressed. Don't know how the council are allowed do that to km's of road when a farmer/builder can in theory be sued if they left a couple of meters of road in the same condition.