The Road Condition Warning thread

rolling boh · 15-07-2018 07:01PM

I cycle from clonee around meath generally seems to have been a lot of patch jobs done on roads some small others a bit of a stretch even on some of the back roads near dunboyne have had some minor repairs just watch out as you can come across them when you least expect them.

magicbastarder · 15-07-2018 08:03PM

it was interesting to see when the roads first got fully wet, the cars leaving behind tyre trails of what looked almost like foam; whatever concoction of dust, rubber, brake dust, soot particles, oil, etc. that was. i'd say you could probably put it in a refinery and make some weird fuel out of it. or perhaps the world's most dangerous drug.

RobertFoster · 15-07-2018 08:35PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

it was interesting to see when the roads first got fully wet, the cars leaving behind tyre trails of what looked almost like foam; whatever concoction of dust, rubber, brake dust, soot particles, oil, etc. that was. i'd say you could probably put it in a refinery and make some weird fuel out of it. or perhaps the world's most dangerous drug.

Collect it and refine the platinum expelled by catalytic converters from it. You'd be rich I tells ya.

eeeee · 15-07-2018 08:50PM

I was also wondering why it's foamy. I was expecting it to be spectral-greasy, but the foam I am confused by. It's like soap suds.

magicbastarder · 15-07-2018 10:03PM

Weepsie wrote: »

No crashes. However, be careful washing your cars, OHs, paintwork

i read this differently from how i think it was intended. partly due to a misplaced comma.

Wishbone Ash · 15-07-2018 10:17PM

Weepsie wrote: »

No crashes. However, be careful washing your cars, OHs, paintwork may be ruined due to how dried in tree sap and bird poo were. She went to wash it off and may have scratched up the bonnet pretty bad. I know nothing about cars, but fear it's expensive (despite how I reassure her) -

Is she aware that she's not supposed to waste water washing her car for the foreseeable future?

(My car is covered in dried in seagull shite at the moment. They congregate around my house).

magicbastarder · 31-07-2018 09:41PM

coming south out of the naul, was waved down by a motorcyclist - they've resurfaced the road there and the road is chock full of loose chippings. one of his mates had come off and hurt his hand; he said it was lethal, and said it was 'all the way down to the next village', which i assumed meant ballyboughal. it's not down that far - i crossed back over the R108 at the nags head, and there's no sign of resurfacing there, so it's probably the stretch between the two. looks very recent.

was from this junction, south.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5730209,-6.2838453,16.75z

Borderfox · 01-08-2018 07:30AM

magicbastarder wrote: »

coming south out of the naul, was waved down by a motorcyclist - they've resurfaced the road there and the road is chock full of loose chippings. one of his mates had come off and hurt his hand; he said it was lethal, and said it was 'all the way down to the next village', which i assumed meant ballyboughal. it's not down that far - i crossed back over the R108 at the nags head, and there's no sign of resurfacing there, so it's probably the stretch between the two. looks very recent.

was from this junction, south.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5730209,-6.2838453,16.75z

Loads of junctions on the back roads from Kilcloon to Batterstown full of gravel about 2-3 inches deep

secman · 01-08-2018 07:49AM

Would love to know what RSA 's view is on that method of road maintenance. It takes several weeks for such roads to be bedded down by traffic. Same happened on Lisheen and around Ballyknockon about a month ago. Lethal when initially covered with inches of gravel ☹

magicbastarder · 01-08-2018 08:11AM

plus, the naul-oldtown road (the section nearer the naul) was very glassy last night in the rain because the same top dressing job was obviously done cheaply, so it's just smooth tar in sections.

irishrover99 · 01-08-2018 08:16AM

magicbastarder wrote: »

coming south out of the naul, was waved down by a motorcyclist - they've resurfaced the road there and the road is chock full of loose chippings. one of his mates had come off and hurt his hand; he said it was lethal, and said it was 'all the way down to the next village', which i assumed meant ballyboughal. it's not down that far - i crossed back over the R108 at the nags head, and there's no sign of resurfacing there, so it's probably the stretch between the two. looks very recent.

was from this junction, south.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5730209,-6.2838453,16.75z

That's a really fast descent isn't it?
I only been on that road a few times but its one of my favorite roads, all the way from Naul to the Airport.

magicbastarder · 01-08-2018 08:25AM

it's before you get to that long descent down past hollywood lakes golf club (which is not affected), but the section where i turned off is a descent.

Felexicon · 27-08-2018 07:42AM

Broken glass spread the whole way across the shared cycle path at the Airport. It's on the first section after the Airport roundabout heading towards Santry. Best off staying on the road for that part I'd say.

magicbastarder · 28-08-2018 07:17AM

Not so much a road condition warning but an avoidance warning.

https://twitter.com/ConorTMcGrane/status/1034136569375010819

Wishbone Ash · 28-08-2018 08:05AM

magicbastarder wrote: »

Not so much a road condition warning but an avoidance warning.

https://twitter.com/ConorTMcGrane/status/1034136569375010819

Surprised he didn't mention it on Boards. Perhaps he will yet.

RobertFoster · 28-08-2018 08:59AM

Any excuse for a new pair of cycling shoes :pac:

Fighting Tao · 29-08-2018 03:00PM

Dublin Port tunnel is closed in both directions due to an incident and the 5 axle ban has been lifted from the city centre as a result. More trucks in the city centre as a result.

silverharp · 29-08-2018 06:14PM

havnt felt so smug cycling in a while , anyone stuck in a car/bus on Bath avenue or heading towards Irishtown looks like they wont be moving for an hour. is there a patron saint i can offload this smugness onto?

Fighting Tao · 29-08-2018 06:18PM

silverharp wrote: »

havnt felt so smug cycling in a while , anyone stuck in a car/bus on Bath avenue or heading towards Irishtown looks like they wont be moving for an hour. is there a patron saint i can offload this smugness onto?

It took my 80 minutes to travel 6.2km in the car today that tskesnme between 16-18 minutes on the bike. Unfortunately off the bike for medical reasons at the moment.

Wishbone Ash · 29-08-2018 06:55PM

silverharp wrote: »

havnt felt so smug cycling in a while , anyone stuck in a car/bus on Bath avenue or heading towards Irishtown looks like they wont be moving for an hour. is there a patron saint i can offload this smugness onto?

There must have been a serious amount of smugness among the cyclists of north Co Dublin heading south on the R132 this morning after the chaos of the closed M1. We had 26 staff stuck in traffic for 2-3 hours making things very challenging here.

magicbastarder · 29-08-2018 09:03PM

yeah, a colleague (who's a keen cyclist) drove from dundalk to dublin today; three hours. she ended up at a dead end somewhere near balbriggan, led there by google maps navigation, because she forgot to switch it from bike navigation to car navigation.

Ray Bloody Purchase · 18-09-2018 03:46PM

Could be a bit risky tomorrow morning. The wind is usually at my back on the way in though. :cool:

https://www.independent.ie/weather/storm-ali-met-ireann-issue-status-orange-wind-warning-for-13-counties-as-120kmh-gales-expected-37328041.html

positron · 18-09-2018 04:12PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

yeah, a colleague (who's a keen cyclist) drove from dundalk to dublin today; three hours. she ended up at a dead end somewhere near balbriggan, led there by google maps navigation, because she forgot to switch it from bike navigation to car navigation.

Lol, M1 is probably the best thing to have happened to Dundalk and Drogheda in a very long time as far as infrastructure development in concerned! How did she manage to stay on old N1 thru Drogheda etc - sounds like a serious case of driving while asleep.

magicbastarder · 06-01-2019 10:38PM

wasn't a problem today, but there's a stretch for about 1km, about 1km north of the nag's head, heading for the naul, where some farmer has managed to cover the road in muck, to a comical extent.
i'd say that will not be a fun road to cycle if there's a decent shower of rain.

irishrover99 · 07-01-2019 09:57AM

Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »

Could be a bit risky tomorrow morning. The wind is usually at my back on the way in though. :cool:

https://www.independent.ie/weather/storm-ali-met-ireann-issue-status-orange-wind-warning-for-13-counties-as-120kmh-gales-expected-37328041.html

Thats obviously an error.
This storm was in September.

Edit. Must stop drinking on Sunday nights.

Duckjob · 07-01-2019 10:08AM

irishrover99 wrote: »

Thats obviously an error.
This storm was in September.

So is the post

irishrover99 · 07-01-2019 10:24AM

Duckjob wrote: »

So is the post

Sorry, its Monday morning:(:(

Miklos · 07-01-2019 11:34AM

Does anyone know if the R755 from Kilmacanogue to Roundwood still has a temporary traffic light on the Long Hill?

Mickiemcfist · 07-01-2019 04:09PM

Miklos wrote: »

Does anyone know if the R755 from Kilmacanogue to Roundwood still has a temporary traffic light on the Long Hill?

I drove from kilmac up to the sugarloaf on Saturday & no temporary traffic lights by that point anyway. (Presume that's the long hill you mean)

Miklos · 07-01-2019 04:36PM

Mickiemcfist wrote: »

I drove from kilmac up to the sugarloaf on Saturday & no temporary traffic lights by that point anyway. (Presume that's the long hill you mean)

That's the one, thanks for that.

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