The Road Condition Warning thread

Wildly Boaring

And one bit of good news.

The 3 trenches across the road here were patched. Were a right bollix

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117735463#Comment_117735463

Could do with looking at the one further down just after Mary's St heading for the church. That's had quite the rut in it for a few years now and has only gotten worse after recent heavy rains this years.

They are resurfacing between John's on the Platin Rd and Duleek St. despite it being done around 2/3 years ago. Full on rip the road up and lay the felt underneath again, sorry I can't remember the technical terms for it and the industrial estate beside it only getting the pat of a shovel last week along with the craters on the Rathmullen Rd and in both cases they ignored the worst ones.

Macy0161

Wicklow County Council seem to be randomly patching stretches with chip and tar, at least on the R755 Kilmac to Roundwood Road - Ballinastoe Cross and on the bend at Shramore. Well bedded in at this stage, but at the cross roads it is literally a patch at the cross roads.

sy_flembeck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117746452#Comment_117746452

And the same this morning at the junction at the top of Altidore and Cooladoyle. Also, as the southern end of Green Road but that looks more like there was a bit left on the back of the truck one day and they just flung it about randomly to get rid of it

Wildly Boaring

"Also avoid laytown village for next day or two. Surfacing ongoing from new spine road to Aldi. Dodgy enough the weekend."

Lovely and smooth this evening.

Few manholes covered over so I assume they'll be breaking them out next.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117750158#Comment_117750158

Seems to be all nordie crews doing the work around Drogheda, was it the same out there? Loving the work they did in town this week. Rode up Beamore Rd which was closed to cars the other morning and a lad moved a cone for me as I approached and gave me a how ya lad on the way by.

Wildly Boaring

Didn't notice.

Saw Blacktop (from Skryne) but they crosshire in everywhere to do tack coat.

magicbastarder

tack coat is the top layer?

Wildly Boaring

The sticky bit under layers.

Tack and then a layer.

Some corner cutters don't use it.

Wishbone Ash

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117493986#Comment_117493986

I missed a left turn in the car this evening so turned into that 'road' to get back on track. Sweet Jesus, it hard to believe it's a public road. Rolling along in 1st gear was too fast!

magicbastarder

is there such a thing as a road being 'retired'? or taken out of council stewardship?

bazermc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117755484#Comment_117755484

On Craggy Islands they take the roads in during bad weather, does that count?

sy_flembeck

The Wall part 1 is completely closed at the Coolakay end where it meets The Wall part 2, so presumably it's also closed from the Kilmolin side.

There's also a lot more gravel flung about between the waterfall entrance and Crone car park

Callow Hill is still in ribbons 🙄

Wildly Boaring

Some right craters on these 2 bits in the kinda Walterstown/Senchalstown area

Wildly Boaring

Meath Co co gone bananas about Bellewstown with the chips.

The roads north and south of the cross are done. North isn't too bad nearly all down the bottom. South loooked a complete disaster.

The road to the NW (past the quarry) is closed all week, I assume for similar.

The road that you T off from to go up Hill of Carnes was done about 10 days ago.

magicbastarder

some of the junctions i'm passing these days look like sand and gravel pits. the one at the top of snowtown - i.e. the one where the road coming to/from the fourknocks direction joins the R108 - is particularly bad.

Rechuchote

Purely a Dublin City comment, but I've asked several times for road condition - potholes, slippy or edge-up manholes, gravel, dangerous cambers, badly-made patches, giant hollows where bus wheels have hollowed out the roads, etc - to be added to Dublin City Council's "See it? Say it!" app (on which you can report things like full bins or rubbish or glass scattered), without any success or even a reply. Maybe a flood of requests would get this done.

magicbastarder

yeah, there's other patchwork resurfacing going on around the area there, ive seen a few spots where they've had to come back and do a proper repair job after that fibre laying two years ago dug trenches in the roads.

magicbastarder

i see what WB means about the roads around bellewstown - but it's also worth mentioning that as you head from fourknocks towards bellewstown (via the road that goes through cromwell's bush crossroads) has been tarred and chipped right at the bottom of the hill at the back of fourknocks, on a bad bend; very easy to be carrying a decent speed into it:

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5994356,-6.3312018,3a,75y,358.47h,82.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3U-GMKKnJwy3p3j9O4yFBA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Picture doesn't really do this beast justice in terms of how deep this is, it's about 6-8cm deep. Shouted a warning to a fella who passed me the other morning on the way to it and received a thumbs up as he gave it a wide birth. It's the R152 heading out of Drogheda just over a slight rise on a bendy stretch of road with a solid white that drivers liek to put the boot down on by in large. I reported it a few times and it was filled with gravel which was washed/driven away in no time.

crosstownk

For anyone who goes out to Manor Kilbride/Blessington or that general direction, it'll be a few more weeks before Lisheen Road is reopened. A real nuisance but at least the flooding will be rectified before becoming an ice rink in the winter months.

magicbastarder

On the rathgreat to Springhill road (i.e. the one west of the nags head if you're heading towards oldtown) downhill at the western end there are a couple of piles of gravel pulled out onto the road. Wouldn't like hitting them at speed.

Wishbone Ash

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118097668#Comment_118097668

You learn something everyday - for years I've been calling that 'Springfield'. 😱

magicbastarder

i had to double check there to make sure i had it right.

magicbastarder

the opposite of a warning, and i'd say anyone local knows about it, but the swords-ashbourne road is closed between the nine mile roundabout and the R130; but it's really just the far western end which is closed.

the signs are up between the points on the link here - but the road is actually only impassable between the roundabout and delphi lodge, so it's much quieter than normal, and pleasant to cycle. i think the closure is due to last another week or two.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/53.4958938,-6.3828051/53.4907309,-6.3326022/@53.4923483,-6.3638881,15z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e1

Wildly Boaring

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117613793#Comment_117613793

The bit at clogherhead is fixed.

Like a billard table.

magicbastarder

well, the cycleway is fine but the road isn't.

https://twitter.com/DubFireBrigade/status/1466551111351869440

ARX

I have no expertise in the matter, but I can't help but wonder whether the fact that most gullies I see are filled with mud makes flooding worse, as the water can't drain off the road on its way downhill, and then can't drain when it gets to the bottom of the hill.

Any experts who can comment?

Wildly Boaring

No expert.

But yes.

If a gully is blocked it will make flooding worse.

We surveyed an N road back in 2014 for Tip CoCo and found 1 in 5 gullies blocked. NRA had no issue paying to have cleaned. There is preventative maintenance budget there just for this kind of stuff.

NRA/TII only manage M and N roads

magicbastarder

also, the time of year coupled with the last few windy days might mean there are more leaves in the storm drains than usual, i guess.