The Road Condition Warning thread

Green Party: Ossian Smyth · 18-01-2019 06:15PM

My council, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, has started a weekly cycle lane sweeping schedule, at my request.

Cycle lanes will be priority for sweeping after storms and during Autumn. If you have any thoughts about this, let me know.

secman · 18-01-2019 06:30PM

Slightly off topic, but still good advice, a club member had a spill on Tues evening, out of saddle pulling to get up speed, worn cleats, shoe dislodged, over handle bars, broken elbow in left arm and broken finger in right hand, lesson for us all , a professional driver, he's out of work for 6 weeks.

magicbastarder · 18-01-2019 06:36PM

Green Party: Ossian Smyth wrote: »

My council, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, has started a weekly cycle lane sweeping schedule, at my request.

Cycle lanes will be priority for sweeping after storms and during Autumn. If you have any thoughts about this, let me know.

i wonder how the sweeper will cope with the rollercoaster of the cycle lane on leopardstown road!
good stuff though; one observation i would add is that i was out on the bike around howth (i think it was howth anyway) a few weeks ago, and a sweeper had been along and managed to lift a lot of crud that was nestled up against the kerb and sweep it out into the middle of the cycle lane, where it was obviously too heavy for the vacuum to lift. is it possible to report this for a return visit?

i guess regular sweeping will prevent such a buildup in future though.

Wishbone Ash · 18-01-2019 09:37PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

... i was out on the bike around howth (i think it was howth anyway) a few weeks ago, and a sweeper had been along and managed to lift a lot of crud that was nestled up against the kerb and sweep it out into the middle of the cycle lane....

There's a road sweeper who does my street occasionally. He usually drives about 30cms out from the debris along the kerb to ensure he doesn't actually pick up anything. Presumably for fear that he might have to empty the sweeper. What an utter waste of time.

ED E · 18-01-2019 10:00PM

This may not be news but far side of Rathcoole the building site has left a nice slick of mud all along the road. Good for drifting I'm sure.

Wishbone Ash · 19-01-2019 12:11AM

ED E wrote: »

... far side of Rathcoole....

Leaving Gary Larson aside, I always find descriptions using 'the far side of xxxx' amusing. I'm tempted to say that I live on the 'far side of Dublin'.

ED E · 19-01-2019 12:32AM

Don't be silly, they dont have internet access outside the pale. Can only have one meaning :pac:

AndrewJRenko · 20-01-2019 12:29PM

ED E wrote: »

This may not be news but far side of Rathcoole the building site has left a nice slick of mud all along the road. Good for drifting I'm sure.

There's usually very specific planning conditions about NOT letting this happen. It might be worth contacting the planning enforcement dept at the relevant authority (South Dublin?) with more details.

magicbastarder · 20-01-2019 03:29PM

i was on the R125 very briefly - came from roganstown towards knocksedan - and there's oil visible on the road there too. so quite possible it's spilled all the way from there to garristown if it was the same vehicle.

Wishbone Ash · 20-01-2019 03:44PM

There's also a large diesel spillage around the Fingallian's roundabout in Swords and on the road from there over towards the junction for the Balheary Road.

magicbastarder · 20-01-2019 07:58PM

not so much a warning as just a general observation, but a lot of the roads around NCD are filthy. the worst was the mall climb, up to fourknocks, but at least i was going slowly for that. had to give the bike a good wash when i got home, it was covered in muck.

What Username Guidelines · 20-01-2019 08:43PM

Just out for a run and temps dropping fast, 3 trucks out gritting (south west Dublin). Damp ground and overnight frost may leave cycle tracks ropey in the morning.

CramCycle · 20-01-2019 10:32PM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Leaving Gary Larson aside, I always find descriptions using 'the far side of xxxx' amusing. I'm tempted to say that I live on the 'far side of Dublin'.

I live on the better far side of Dublin

magicbastarder · 20-01-2019 11:47PM

is that the near far side?

Mickiemcfist · 21-01-2019 01:29PM

I used that fixmystreet site & reported the southerly cycle lane between rte & UCD on the N11 early last week, seems like it's been looked at as I saw white spray paint on a few of the potholes this morning, hopefully something will come of it.

Ray Bloody Purchase · 21-01-2019 01:33PM

Mickiemcfist wrote: »

I used that fixmystreet site & reported the southerly cycle lane between rte & UCD on the N11 early last week, seems like it's been looked at as I saw white spray paint on a few of the potholes this morning, hopefully something will come of it.

I used it to report this poor surface (bottom left of the screen) on the way into CC from Harolds Cross. Reported it two months ago and still nothing.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3322358,-6.2752468,3a,75y,328.63h,52.24t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sCFwNbZDOEjRwK2kzyhDM7w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

buffalo · 22-01-2019 08:36AM

All the doom and gloom and yellow warning from Met Eireann, got the train in. Road looked fine outside the estate.

magicbastarder · 22-01-2019 09:10AM

nary a bother on the roads. littly bit windy though.

eeeee · 22-01-2019 09:12AM

Going through the Phoenix park shortly, it was frosty yesterday, they don't seem to salt it. Not looking forward to it!

irishrover99 · 22-01-2019 09:19AM

nee wrote: »

Going through the Phoenix park shortly, it was frosty yesterday, they don't seem to salt it. Not looking forward to it!

It didn't get below freezing last night and we had a strong enough wind so the roads and cycle paths should be fine.

mr spuckler · 22-01-2019 10:32AM

yep, no problem at all coming in along the S2S path from Kilbarrack to town, didn't even have a hint of frost / ice at Alfie Byrne rd unlike one day last week.

Ray Bloody Purchase · 22-01-2019 10:55AM

I wish i'd gotten a weather warning yesterday evening. 12km into driving wind and rain. I was bolloxed for the evening after it.

mr spuckler · 22-01-2019 11:03AM

Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »

I wish i'd gotten a weather warning yesterday evening. 12km into driving wind and rain. I was bolloxed for the evening after it.

I cycled home from work early yesterday evening with a lovely tailwind! then I'd to cycle ~10km back into town around 6:30 into the headwind & rain :mad:
at least then I got the payback when going home the second time!

Dr_Colossus · 22-01-2019 12:08PM

Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »

I wish i'd gotten a weather warning yesterday evening. 12km into driving wind and rain. I was bolloxed for the evening after it.

Was real nasty yesterday evening alright, got soaked and to really stick the boot in got caught in a heavy shower of hail that would cut the face off you with the driving wind behind it, was difficult to see.
Was nice this morning though, wind had dropped and roads mostly dry

Mickiemcfist · 22-01-2019 12:18PM

Dr_Colossus wrote: »

Was real nasty yesterday evening alright, got soaked and to really stick the boot in got caught in a heavy shower of hail that would cut the face off you with the driving wind behind it, was difficult to see.
Was nice this morning though, wind had dropped and roads mostly dry

Got caught in that hail myself, it was apocolyptic!

CramCycle · 22-01-2019 04:36PM

It was the rain that done me in last night, knuckles are still sore from the cold. Young lad in front of me with no socks, on a fixed gear with no brakes or foot retention. I felt pity for him and his rolled up trousers.

magicbastarder · 22-01-2019 04:38PM

CramCycle wrote: »

I felt pity for him and rolled up his trousers.

that was the way i read that first time round, a rather odd image. like jesus washing the the feet of his disciples.

Ray Bloody Purchase · 22-01-2019 05:03PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

that was the way i read that first time round, a rather odd image. like jesus washing the the feet of his disciples.

I never knew the apostles were into cycling.

Brass monkey weather out there at the moment. It'll be a hardy cycle home.

What Username Guidelines · 22-01-2019 05:21PM

Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »

I wish i'd gotten a weather warning yesterday evening. 12km into driving wind and rain. I was bolloxed for the evening after it.

Same, I’ve a long straight road about 2km long heading southwest at the end of my commute, and it’s always a wind tunnel, but last night it was like cycling through jelly. With bits of glass being shot at my face. In shorts. Wussed out and worked from home today with the weather warning, but it looked fine this morning. Ah well.

magicbastarder · 22-01-2019 06:34PM

Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »

Brass monkey weather out there at the moment. It'll be a hardy cycle home.

that was fine cycling home; though i was heading generally north-north west, so the wind was more from the side than any other direction.

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