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The Road Condition Warning thread

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    #32
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,439 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    I saw what looked like a cyclist down just up from the Radisson Blu on Golden Lane before 10am today, with somebody helping them back up - presumably ice.


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    #33
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Phoenix park cycle lane is Lethal coming into the city - especially around the Áras.


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    #34
    The Noble Nudge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭The Noble Nudge


    godtabh wrote: »
    There is an outline Construction Traffic Management Plan for those sites. A legal planning document. Its a planning requirement. Not action ed by the developer

    Grand job.
    I got a phone call back from SDCC...
    Sending a litter warden up....


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    #35
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,131 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    if anyone is heading out the old N2, it's being resurfaced on the stretch past the coolquay lodge. let's hope it's different contractors to the ones who did the amateur job on the stretch north of there a year or two ago.
    I need to learn to bunnyhop. Got a rear wheel pinch flat from the "ramp" (more like a kerb) between old and new surface there today :(


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    #36
    Fuzzytrooper
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 896 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fuzzytrooper


    Anyone been out yet? How are the roads looking what with the yellow warning and all?


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    #37
    TooObvious
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭TooObvious


    Roads seemed fine on the N7 this morning all the way into Dublin 2...

    But I was driving! Forgot i was in the cycling forum. That said, there seemed to be a few cyclists out on the roads tipping along without issue.


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    #38
    Fuzzytrooper
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 896 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fuzzytrooper


    Yeah I'm standing here now at the bus stop feeling like a dope. Roads look fine overall


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    #39
    Grassey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey


    Saw some frosted sections on bike lanes. Roads looked fine.


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    #40
    strmin
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭strmin


    Nearly went down in Phoenix park this morning. Avoid cycling lanes and stay on the road.


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    #41
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    I saw a few people out around 5:30 along the N11. Roads were fine. Would have cycled today but needed to be in at 6


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    #42
    fat bloke
    Registered Users Posts: 5,822 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    godtabh wrote: »
    I saw a few people out around 5:30 along the N11. Roads were fine. Would have cycled today but needed to be in at 6

    EEESHK.:eek:

    God, I feel sorry for you and them, and a whole lot better about myself!!!:o


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    #43
    irishrover99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    it was fine from Nutgrove to Bluebell. I just gave myself an extra few inches from the sidewalk. It was no suprise to see that motorist hadn't changed their style of driving even in this weather.


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    #44
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,876 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    <mod note> Threads merged again.Please look for this thread re road conditions

    My commute was fine, via Ballymun road and Royal Canal.


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    #45
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    fat bloke wrote: »
    EEESHK.:eek:

    God, I feel sorry for you and them, and a whole lot better about myself!!!:o

    A 5am ride woulnt be unusual for me but if I needed to be in the office for 6 the start would have been to early.


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    #46
    Grassey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,393 ✭✭✭Grassey


    The Noble Nudge wrote: »
    Just aheads up on R113 yet again....
    From Hunterswood to Dodderbrook estate...and possibly further up at the stocking lane side...
    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2687328,-6.3378782,16z
    Due to the amount of new housing estates being built in the Ballycullen area the muck on the roads generated from the sites is making it lethal....
    Nearly hit the deck last night yet again...not even going fast..

    Rang the council sent from roads to planning and then onto environment with no progress....
    Be very careful....

    I cycle it most days, the developer has a road cleaner out a few times a day along the stretch from Ballycullen Green to Dodderbrook. But it seems they don't do it at the end of the day, I find coming down the hill at night particularly sketchy.


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    #47
    fat bloke
    Registered Users Posts: 5,822 ✭✭✭fat bloke


    Grassey wrote: »
    I cycle it most days, the developer has a road cleaner out a few times a day along the stretch from Ballycullen Green to Dodderbrook. But it seems they don't do it at the end of the day, I find coming down the hill at night particularly sketchy.

    Those cleaners are a joke. I live around there as well and all they seem to do is smear the mud around the place.


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    #48
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,458 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i've also on a couple of occasions seen them smash bottles in the cycle lane. they bounce them along in front of the vehicle for a while, but eventually just run over them.


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    #49
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    There is an orange alert for 17 counties this weekend.

    No heroics up on the sally gap!


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    #50
    terrydel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭terrydel


    Ryland Cold Barometer wrote: »
    There is an orange alert for 17 counties this weekend.

    No heroics up on the sally gap!

    Ha, I'm planning on heading over the Wicklow Gap to Roundwood and back tomoro morning. I dont think the sneachta is due til Saturday night. :D


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    #51
    irishrover99
    Registered Users Posts: 2,023 ✭✭✭irishrover99


    terrydel wrote: »
    Ha, I'm planning on heading over the Wicklow Gap to Roundwood and back tomoro morning. I dont think the sneachta is due til Saturday night. :D

    Wicklow Gap could drop to about -7 tonight.
    I'd be given it a miss if i were you.


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    #52
    terrydel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,881 ✭✭✭terrydel


    irishrover99 wrote: »
    Wicklow Gap could drop to about -7 tonight.
    I'd be given it a miss if i were you.

    Will reassess in the morning.
    will stay lower if required.


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    #53
    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Studded tyres on, was hoping to hit the Sally Gap tomorrow morning, but have to collect something from Drogheda instead... :/


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    #54
    Macy0161
    Registered Users Posts: 9,288 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    Wicklow Co Co just sent out a text advising motorists to avoid the Sally Gap because of icy conditions. Probably character limited so didn't suggest Alek should head up! :)

    Roundwood to Kilmac Road is well gritted these days*, but can't vouch for the other direction and on up the Gap. I suspect it is treated as far as Glendalough.

    *generally - there's a turnaround point near calary church where the Roundwood gritter turns back, and the Bray depot turns coming from the other way, so if it's bad in Bray, they can be late getting up the Long Hill.


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    #55
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 19,876 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Just remember the people who come to save folk in the mountains are volunteers and don't need the added hassle this time of year of any of us going arseways on some black ice.

    That said, I think my studded tyres have also arrived this afternoon!!


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    #56
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,458 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    sure if you fell in a few inches of snow, surely that would cushion you?
    STATUS ORANGE

    Snow-ice Warning for Connacht, Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Dublin, Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Wicklow, Offaly, Westmeath and Meath

    Significant falls of snow are expected Saturday night and into Sunday. Accumulations of 4 to 8 cm could occur quite widely with greater totals possible. Drifting snow locally at times too with brisk winds. Slippery paths and treacherous roads also due to snow accumulation and ice.
    Issued: Friday 08 December 2017 11:00
    Valid: Saturday 09 December 2017 23:00 to Sunday 10 December 2017 23:00


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    #57
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Anyone who'd consider cycling in the mountains in weather like this deserves to not be rescued in the event of an accident.


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    #58
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,719 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Alek wrote: »
    Studded tyres on, was hoping to hit the Sally Gap tomorrow morning, but have to collect something from Drogheda instead... :/

    Looks like freezing conditions plus heavy precipitation over the next two days, your local Everest may be looking more like the real thing tomorrow! Going up via Kilmashogue and across via the woods can be good gas in the snow. Don't think I'm in great condition to cycle it at the mo myself, but might walk up to Fairy Castle tomorrow to check out the sneachta with the youngest.


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    #59
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,719 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Just remember the people who come to save folk in the mountains are volunteers and don't need the added hassle this time of year of any of us going arseways on some black ice.

    That said, I think my studded tyres have also arrived this afternoon!!

    If you have studs on and don't fancy the hills, the canals can be pretty impressive when frozen too.


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    #60
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users Posts: 3,137 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    smacl wrote: »
    If you have studs on and don't fancy the hills, the canals can be pretty impressive when frozen too.

    On them or beside them? :D

    Not sure about roads this morning, but yesterday, the side roads were shining in Stepaside. All black ice. There is no way, I would trust cycling on the roads when some (many) motorists were still driving like it was warm and dry.


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    #61
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    smacl wrote: »
    Looks like freezing conditions plus heavy precipitation over the next two days, your local Everest may be looking more like the real thing tomorrow! Going up via Kilmashogue and across via the woods can be good gas in the snow. Don't think I'm in great condition to cycle it at the mo myself, but might walk up to Fairy Castle tomorrow to check out the sneachta with the youngest.
    Where is fairy castle?


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