The Road Condition Warning thread

Pigeon Reaper · 23-01-2019 10:33AM

Some of the roads where very icy this morning.

mr spuckler · 23-01-2019 11:30AM

the coast path from Kilbarrack into town looked frosty in patches but didn't feel slippery at any point. got down to -0.1c by Alfie Byrne road so not even as cold as a couple of days last week!

daragh_ · 29-01-2019 11:18AM

Oil Spill on the R113 just before the Firhouse Community Centre heading towards the M50. Road Crew were spraying it when I passed. Suds everywhere. Take it very handy if you are passing.

neris · 29-01-2019 12:28PM

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1090202435497398272?s=19

1bryan · 29-01-2019 02:02PM

ah, the Gardai, best friends to cyclists everywhere!

Hurrache · 29-01-2019 02:04PM

1bryan wrote: »

ah, the Gardai, best friends to cyclists everywhere!

A Damascene conversion, or guilt?

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1090214598807040000

29-01-2019 04:20PM

Hurrache wrote: »

A Damascene conversion, or guilt?

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1090214598807040000

Rubbing my temples here after seeing the comments on that

Hurrache · 29-01-2019 04:37PM

I was lucky, I saw it early when there was basically none so was spared the migraine, haven't checked back since.

cdaly_ · 29-01-2019 06:15PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Rubbing my temples here after seeing the comments on that

I love the one where he complains:

Kenneth Durr* wrote:

Put some laws in place for cyclists. Do what they want. Going faster than cars.

OMG, how could we!

* Apt name...

magicbastarder · 29-01-2019 06:42PM

ran into a couple of largish chunks of gravel on the way home, there's a few on the strand road inbound near the merrion gates, some nearly the size of a golf ball; and managed to ping one into the side of a car on the roundabout at the east link. thankfully, judging by the sound of the impact it didn't hit a metal panel, could have hit the tyre of the car.

smacl · 29-01-2019 08:36PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

ran into a couple of largish chunks of gravel on the way home, there's a few on the strand road inbound near the merrion gates, some nearly the size of a golf ball; and managed to ping one into the side of a car on the roundabout at the east link. thankfully, judging by the sound of the impact it didn't hit a metal panel, could have hit the tyre of the car.

Better you pinging it than it pinging you

magentis · 29-01-2019 08:40PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

ran into a couple of largish chunks of gravel on the way home, there's a few on the strand road inbound near the merrion gates, some nearly the size of a golf ball; and managed to ping one into the side of a car on the roundabout at the east link. thankfully, judging by the sound of the impact it didn't hit a metal panel, could have hit the tyre of the car.

Should you not have stopped and made sure you didn't damage someone's car?

magicbastarder · 29-01-2019 08:45PM

what's the liability if my vehicle throws up a chipping and hits someone else's vehicle?

also, stopping on the east link roundabout and trying to flag a car driver down is not a simple task, i suspect.

Wishbone Ash · 29-01-2019 08:50PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

what's the liability if my vehicle throws up a chipping and hits someone else's vehicle?....

I can't see how any road user would be liable. Surely if any, it's the responsibility of the local authority or whoever else maintains the road.

Fighting Tao · 29-01-2019 08:52PM

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I can't see how any road user would be liable. Surely if any, it's the responsibility of the local authority or whoever else maintains the road.

Or the truck driver that the stones fell of.

magentis · 29-01-2019 10:03PM

Fighting Tao wrote: »

Or the truck driver that the stones fell of.

I suppose if I was travelling on a bike and some stone fell off a truck and hit me I would just dust myself off and keep going too.....

Fighting Tao · 29-01-2019 10:06PM

magentis wrote: »

I suppose if I was travelling on a bike and some stone fell off a truck and hit me I would just dust myself off and keep going too.....

Eh? Do you think a bike dropped stones or ripped the road up somehow?

If a truck has an insecure load they are responsible for the damage caused. Now..how to find the truck that dropped a few golfball sized stones is another matter.

magentis · 29-01-2019 10:32PM

Fighting Tao wrote: »

Eh? Do you think a bike dropped stones or ripped the road up somehow?

If a truck has an insecure load they are responsible for the damage caused. Now..how to find the truck that dropped a few golfball sized stones is another matter.

Eh???

If a road user causes damage to another road user the responsibility for such damage lies with them.If I throw a brick out my car window and it hits a cyclist,I'm on the hook.Not the manufacturer of the brick.

magentis · 29-01-2019 10:35PM

It's just like if a cyclist clips the mirror of a stationary car in traffic.What makes it ok for said cyclist not to stop and make good the damage?

This is why cycles should have reg plates and insurance.

Fighting Tao · 29-01-2019 10:37PM

magentis wrote: »

Eh???

If a road user causes damage to another road user the responsibility for such damage lies with them.If I throw a brick out my car window and it hits a cyclist,I'm on the hook.Not the manufacturer of the brick.

So we've gone from a small stone pinging from a tyre to a brick. Next it will be a boulder and then maybe a mountain! :rolleyes:

Fighting Tao · 29-01-2019 10:41PM

magentis wrote: »

It's just like if a cyclist clips the mirror of a stationary car in traffic.What makes it ok for said cyclist not to stop and make good the damage?

This is why cycles should have reg plates and insurance.

And....we have jumped the shark!

magentis · 29-01-2019 10:49PM

Aaannnddd.

You clearly do not grasp the gist of the reason this site exists.

You are clearly incapable of discussion.

Fighting Tao · 29-01-2019 10:52PM

magentis wrote: »

Aaannnddd.

You clearly do not grasp the gist of the reason this site exists.

You are clearly incapable of discussion.

Registration plates has been discussed many times. There is a search function you could use to see how original you are. Also, have a search to see how well registration plates work on vehicles that leave the scene of collisions or scratch other vehicles in car parks etc.

Corca Baiscinn · 29-01-2019 11:01PM

Hurrache wrote: »

A Damascene conversion, or guilt?

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1090214598807040000

Más mall is mithid!

Wishbone Ash · 29-01-2019 11:38PM

magentis wrote: »

....If I throw a brick out my car window and it hits a cyclist,I'm on the hook.Not the manufacturer of the brick.

Sweet Jesus, what a ridiculous analogy!

I was struck in the face by a stone flicked up from a 4x4 coming from the opposite direction a couple of weeks ago on a rural road. I seriously doubt that the driver had intention or even knew it happened. I don't hold them responsible. Even if i did, what could I have done about it? (Bearing in mind that it displayed registration plates and was probably insured).

tomasrojo · 29-01-2019 11:44PM

I was squirted in the eye by an improperly adjusted windshield spray nozzle once. Thankfully, the driver stopped and made good the damage. He had no choice. His car had registration plates and was insured.

Wishbone Ash · 29-01-2019 11:58PM

......and we won't even get into all those so called 'law abiding' rural dwellers and their loose dogs that we have to encounter regularly. Dog owners should display registration plates and have insurance.

CramCycle · 30-01-2019 12:02AM

MOD VOICE: I haven't read this thread in awhile, I will go back through it but FFS. Its a road condition thread, if your post is not about that, then it is not for here.

Mc Love · 30-01-2019 12:40AM

The roads in the morning could be bad, might have to head over to the wimp thread.

Was just outside and its full of frozen hailstones and good bit of snow falling.

Mc Love · 30-01-2019 09:28AM

Road was fine this morning, few bits of snow on the road (from falling off cars) but more or less was grand

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