Who has Responsibility for Clearing Debris from road

kerry4sam

Can someone tell me Please (from your own area)...

On my cycle this evening I came across so much shards of glass on the road both hard-shoulder and main road almost to the white line. In it before I knew it, just crawled along until I could stop and turn back incase damage was done. Crossed over the road and what dya know, glass again! Baxtard Shards of Glass! :mad:

Now I cycle with a spare tube, not two spare tubes and two tyres like. If damage was done to a tyre I'd have to incur expense to return back.

It reminded me of the impact of a car accident with the back panes of glass smashed.
Who would have responsibility for clearing this mess up?! God forbid an accident had caused this, then the Guards would take it on themselves to phone a tow-truck if that were needed but who would have the responsibility to clear this mess up?

Many Thanks,
kerry4sam

brianomc

Not sure if it covers the whole country or just Dublin but I have used www.fixmystreet.ie before. Easy to use and for potholes/glass they have been fixed fairly quick.
Only just used it for glass again a few minutes ago myself

comete

Clean up? Sure isn't it usually just brushed aside into the cycle lane?

Victor

Contact the council. It may be possible to do this via http://www.fixyourstreet.ie/

ted1

I carry two or three tubes. One brand spanking new and the other two are patched , which go on first.

kerry4sam

Thanks for your replies. Never heard of that site before but will try it

comete wrote: »

Clean up? Sure isn't it usually just brushed aside into the cycle lane?

Not down my way thankfully! Normally pretty damn good to be fair! I did hear sirens going earlier around the town today over an hour before my cycle which could be related in some way.
Would also explain why no clear-up done at point of my cycle. Not sufficient time in between.

Many Thanks,
kerry4sam

Beasty

If it's a public road and you consider it dangerous, notify the council - they have responsibility (unless it's a national road - not so sure about them). If they are made aware of a dangerous situation they have a responsibility to act. If they are not made aware of it they have no responsibility to remove the danger

Of course, the more fundamental question than is whether something is considered dangerous (which means they should act) or simply inconvenient (in which case they could put it to the bottom of the "list")

Useless Fecker

I got onto Fingal County Council last year about a big hole in the road on Swords main street. They were on the case fairly quickly when I said it was a danger to cyclists (as well as motorists!). They got on the case the next day in fairness to them.

JBokeh

The glass from automotive windows is grand, it's designed to break up into little cubes, which wouldn't go through a bike tyre, or the skin of people that may have to crawl through it to get out of the car ( though I imagine it would feel like crawling through lego, no cuts, but still hurts like mad)
The back of my car (and feckin driveway) is full of the stuff after I broke the window closing it onto a curtain pole I had bought. It's like glitter, you can clean it all you like, but it's never gone.

It is the glass from things like bottles getting smashed, and domestic window panes that will go through your tyre and into your tube.

It depends on your local council, where I am I think they've to be called by residents to pick up anything smaller than a double mattress up off the road, but I've seen Cork CoCo are pretty good about moving stuff off the road

Melodeon

Broken toughened glass is much 'safer' than broken ordinary glass, but this is purely because the pieces are relatively tiny rather than in large shards.
The tiny pieces still have razor sharp edges, it's just that they're so small that they're only likely to make small surface wounds during an accident or the subsequent victim extraction.
They're perfectly capable of nicking a thin bicycle tyre.

ted1

just to add that if you go through a patch of glass (particularly with a wet wheel) its no harm to get off the bike and give the wheel a rub to get rid of any pieces of glass that may have stuck to the wheel

Bloggsie

comete wrote: »

Clean up? Sure isn't it usually just brushed aside into the cycle lane?

I have seen the fire brigade sweep debris into the hard shoulder after an RTA, approx 1 week later I cycled past where the RTA took place and I had to swerve out onto the road as the debris was still there!

ted1

Bloggsie wrote: »

I have seen the fire brigade sweep debris into the hard shoulder after an RTA, approx 1 week later I cycled past where the RTA took place and I had to swerve out onto the road as the debris was still there!

did you contact them, if they are not aware of the problem they won't stop doing it.

buffalo

Noticed some glass from a car accident swept into the cycle lane on the Talbot bridge at lunchtime. Classy.

Victor

Report it!

buffalo

Victor wrote: »

Report it!

I did!

Shep_Dog

Victor wrote: »

Report it!

One can do ones best, but there was a report, this week, of an inquest into the death of a cyclist who tragically sustained fatal head injuries after his bike slipped on oil. As soon as he'd been taken to hospital his friends notified Wicklow County Council of the hazard and two days later, nothing had been done. They had to get the Gardai to intervene and eventually some warning signs were put place.

ted1

Shep_Dog wrote: »

One can do ones best, but there was a report, this week, of an inquest into the death of a cyclist who tragically sustained fatal head injuries after his bike slipped on oil. As soon as he'd been taken to hospital his friends notified Wicklow County Council of the hazard and two days later, nothing had been done. They had to get the Gardai to intervene and eventually some warning signs were put place.

If the council were made aware prior to the accident , I believe that they would be found negligent and partly responsible

Qualitymark

When it's outside my own place I'll go out with a stiff broom and sweep it up…