Catastrophic condition of roads in Cork city (pic heavy thread)

Diabhalta

Innovative approach! Instead of fixing the road they will show you where it's in bits...



right here:

Diabhalta

hmm, I guess this is like some sort of a speed bump... Makes you go slow that's for sure. Wow.

Be right back

I have no pictures but the north ring road, particularly between the fire station and Dunnes is very bad.

Black_Knight

Be right back wrote: »

I have no pictures but the north ring road, particularly between the fire station and Dunnes is very bad.

I've noticed roads getting much worse since the lockdown.

Black_Knight

Diabhalta wrote: »

hmm, I guess this is like some sort of a speed bump... Makes you go slow that's for sure. Wow.

Togher road has been in ****e for years. They relayed the road between SuperValu and cross roads towards togher, but ignored the worst part of the road outside SuperValu and the garage. Slow down and drive like an F1 driver warming tires to dodge those potholes.

Diabhalta

now this is something I do not understand and never will.

They resurfaced that horrible bit at the bridge and part of the road that takes you up to the northside, but they just stopped and didn't resurface the rest? They supposed to go a bit further and do another like 50 meters ffs.

Diabhalta

aboslutely no point repairing that and eventually creating bumps and just horribly botching the whole job. R.e.s.u.f.a.c.e. i.t.

Diabhalta

Diabhalta

new footpath built like two monts ago? Nobody really uses it, so it's a parking space now (it supposed to be a parking space in the first place).



new lanes painted, a tiny bit of road replaced too, I guess just so it counts as an actual improvement of the road infrastructure.

Diabhalta

nope.



nope.



nope.

Diabhalta

that's a no from me I'm afraid ﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿

Diabhalta

like what am I supposed to do here when I am heading straight? when there's a car is in the opposite lane I can't go there... so I just dive in.. wtf.





this appeared two weeks ago, I don't know what it is but it's not doing anything.



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ok.

Diabhalta

place is literally falling apart..



further towards the city centre outside the church, it's the same... just totally in bits destroyed beyond repair or waiting for some shoddy repair..

there is no hope for this place. Like nothing.

Diabhalta

Cork city council needs to cop on. After months and years very little has been done. Like give me 4x4 or I don't know what is the solution really.. Should I start a GoFundMe or what??

ofcork

Saw them throwing shovels of tar into the potholes on grand parade Wednesday morning.

chalkitdown1

ofcork wrote: »

Saw them throwing shovels of tar into the potholes on grand parade Wednesday morning.

And it's in bits again already. What a surprise.

Markcheese

ofcork wrote: »

Saw them throwing shovels of tar into the potholes on grand parade Wednesday morning.

Yeah ,was driving on grandparade on wednesday evening and wondered what ejit had though it a good idea to make it like driving on a plowed field ,
Very very shody ..

Markcheese

ofcork wrote: »

Saw them throwing shovels of tar into the potholes on grand parade Wednesday morning.

Yeah ,was driving on grandparade on wednesday evening and wondered what ejit had though it a good idea to make it like driving on a plowed field ,
Very very shody ..

Cork Trucker

Markcheese wrote: »

Yeah ,was driving on grandparade on wednesday evening and wondered what ejit had though it a good idea to make it like driving on a plowed field ,
Very very shody ..

I tweet the city council last year about that, hit me nowhere. From the corner of the south mall up to the traffic lights by the Capitol is like a country Boreen

Cork Trucker

Be right back wrote: »

I have no pictures but the north ring road, particularly between the fire station and Dunnes is very bad.

Look at the replies.
https://twitter.com/corktruckdriver/status/1259860695782510595?s=21

Diabhalta

newly resurfaced bit of road outside those new houses on Harbor View Road.

Somebody can explain why they kept this? What is the purpose of it, other than you feel it under the wheels everytime you drive over it? Painting lines is surely a much better idea??

Fabio

I drive a motorbike around the city, or used to until Covid, a fair bit as part of my commute.

The area around the bus station is basically just a gravel road. It's apocalyptic. And it's not just a comfort thing, it's a real safety issue for those of us on two wheels...powered or not.

Diabhalta

after recent works on Sunday's well rd there's this half of the new surface on the road that's very bumpy... I assume it's only temporary? No way this is permanent. Don't be telling me this is the final product. It's awful.

Diabhalta

Cathedral road is another candidate for resurfacing. From the garda station all the way to Donatello's. Cracks in the road everywhere.

Blarney street at top still in total bits. Absolutely destoryed at this stage.

Mount Agnes rd outside Lidl in Churchfield also totally destroyed. Still. For years now.

Diabhalta

In Shandon outside the sweet shop...

These tiles are used all over central and eastern Europe... for foothpaths... Definitely not for roads, it's also bad further up by the rotunda..

btw. nice scratches from people's oil sumps...

Diabhalta

I remeber them putting that pedestrian crossing there like 4-5 years ago.. they just painted lines over those two potholes on the left, it's in absolute bits now.

Diabhalta

this is a classic ... over the period of more than a year the road keeps sinking here after the bridge on Victoria cross heading towards Dennehy's cross... it's so bad now that you can see the road damaged from cars and vans and everything scraping their oil sumps... shocking.

here a typical move of a motorist driving around it. When you're in the right lane and there's nothing coming towards you on the other side of the road you can drive around it too.

Absolutely shocking stuff right here.

Seems to just be no enforcement of any kind of standard for repairs other than on N roads. The way some of the utilities leave the roads in the all of the cities is an absolute disgrace.

What annoys me, especially with the electrical, gas or telecommunications companies is they make money out of that infrastructure, especially somewhere with density like a city, yet they hack holes into publicly paid for infrastructure then don't fix it properly, leaving it for the local authorities to clean up after them eventually with a resurface.

Diabhalta

Western road has been resurfaced finally... it's sure is a nice sight, but unfortunately reality is a bit different. It just won't last long. There will be problems in the future, who knows when.. could be in a year or two, three.. How do I know? Because that was the case elsewhere, I suspect the problem is simply underneath or I don't know what is causing this but these roads don't last long. You can polish a turd but ti will still be a turd.

An example. Dyke parade. Iirc they resurfaced it 3-4 years ago?

You can't see it, this is a google street view pic from July 2019 but there is a little but deep pothole right here somewhere where the letter E in the word Dyke is...

It's there for months, hard to drive around it so slowing down is the best option... Again, this is a relatively new surface, it should last at least a decade and be still intact after all that time

then you turn left towards Mercy hospital and also the road is falling apart.. like how is this even possible after only 3 or 4 years?

somewhere here roughly:

C4Kid

Douglas is currently like a warzone thanks to David Nodwell.

I appreciate it's temporary, but an absolute disgrace all the same the condition of the road ATM. Some shower of cowboys.