Road surface

davidoco

I passed through Balivor in Westmeath yesterday and the road surface has to be the worst in the country.

It seems that somebody dug up the road six months or a year ago to lay a pipe of some sort and now the road is disintegrating. If that job was done for a private company on private land the person who laid it would be called back and told to fix it or risk being sued.

But I guess it’s different when you do work for the county council. The company or contractor who did the job is probably doing another job for the council and they (the council) haven’t got the balls to make them go back and fix it.

impr0v

I feel obliged to defend the honour of my home county by stating that Ballivor is in fact in county Meath.

daymobrew

Report it to the county council. They can be good about fixing these things.

davidoco

Apologies to Westmeath.

I'm not talking about a few potholes here, the whole way through the village is in bits (about a mile) and if the people who live there can't be bothered to complain!

The fact that it is in Meath might explain. The road out of Trim to Dublin has been under construction for the past three years but they are now finished and where they were working is a nice job but why or why did it take so long?

impr0v

There could be a lot of reasons, for example there might be another service installation scheduled for the near future and to resurface the road now would be a waste of money, this is more likely considering the pace of development in what used to be a sleepy rural village (if you disregard the NEC plant). Another possibility is that the contract to install the service which caused the damage to the surface is coming to the end of a trial period and once they have finished testing, etc. on the service, the resurfacing will commence, as to do so prior to that point might involve digging some of it up again. Also a new road surface will adhere better to the old surface if laid in dry and moderately warm weather, so they could be waiting for summer.

DubTony

In Dublin, irrespective of who digs up a road, they are required to lay a temporary surface when work is completed. The councils road people will then go along sometime and lay a proper surface. We wouldn't want all those efficient gas, electricity and phone people laying new roads and taking council jobs, now, would we?

It can take councils months and even years after the fact to send in a road crew to lay a proper surface. Temporary surfaces aren't supposed to be left for months, but all too often they are.

Crumlin in Dublin has been in a mess for a few years while a huge new pipe of some sort was installed in the area. While it was installed by the council, in several sections, over several months, they still haven't repaired any of the roads.

Tony

Victor

DubTony wrote:

In Dublin, irrespective of who digs up a road, they are required to lay a temporary surface when work is completed. The councils road people will then go along sometime and lay a proper surface. We wouldn't want all those efficient gas, electricity and phone people laying new roads and taking council jobs, now, would we?

Certainly in the city council area, whoever digs up the road is now responsibile for making it good.