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Plastik · 23-07-2019 10:26AM

Weepsie wrote: »

So that's both routes up from Enniskerry now as it's all over the other one too.

The Enniskerry side is grand now, the chippings were only on a short stretch and they've fairly bedded in. Fresh smooth tarmac was laid in the last week or so though between the turn for Devils Elbow and Kilgarron. Lovely to cycle on. Top quality surface. So chances are that will be hit with chippings at some stage also :rolleyes:

C3PO · 23-07-2019 07:28PM

Fresh gravel all the way from a few kms before the Reconciliation Centre, on the Enniskerry side, all the way to the Featherbeds high point! Not too bad climbing up but wouldn't fancy it going down! Wasn't there on Sunday!

Borderfox · 23-07-2019 07:50PM

It wasn't nice coming down it yesterday

smacl · 23-07-2019 08:56PM

Borderfox wrote: »

It wasn't nice coming down it yesterday

Was up there just now, looked crap so came back down by the featherbeds rather than Glencree. Why do they do this, there must be ten bikes for every car on that stretch of road?

C3PO · 24-07-2019 08:23AM

smacl wrote: »

Was up there just now, looked crap so came back down by the featherbeds rather than Glencree. Why do they do this, there must be ten bikes for every car on that stretch of road?

They’d be much better doing something with Cruagh Hill - really hate descending down that, the surface is terrible particularly under the trees!

ED E · 24-07-2019 01:51PM

smacl wrote: »

Was up there just now, looked crap so came back down by the featherbeds rather than Glencree. Why do they do this, there must be ten bikes for every car on that stretch of road?

Apparently if the road isn't on the gritting list it must be ripped to shreds.

smacl · 24-07-2019 03:29PM

ED E wrote: »

Apparently if the road isn't on the gritting list it must be ripped to shreds.

I reckon it is probably just the lads from Wickla Co Co letting us jackeens know that we've left the pale. Chucking a bunch of pebbles on the road just after the county boundary and up and down the roads to Glencree and Djouce seems to be a regular event. The bit they've done further on down between the gap and Laragh is a fantastic surface. Gas that you can see the country line so visibly.

sy_flembeck · 24-07-2019 11:09PM

smacl wrote: »

I reckon it is probably just the lads from Wickla Co Co letting us jackeens know that we've left the pale.

You do realise the pale goes somewhat further west then Glencree?

smacl · 25-07-2019 08:56AM

sy_flembeck wrote: »

You do realise the pale goes somewhat further west then Glencree?

I do now, every days a school day :P

the world wonders · 27-07-2019 02:06PM

The military road from the Featherbeds down into Glencree seems to have bedded in a bit today (compared to Wednesday), you can avoid most of it by staying in the car tyre tracks.

But there are some more shorter stretches added between Kippure gate and the Gap

magicbastarder · 27-07-2019 02:45PM

a few more roads around NCD with the same treatment now. coming south from ardcath, there's a crossroads where left goes to clonalvy, straight on to garristown, and right goes towards puddenhill. straight on is covered in gravel, and the road to clonalvy is covered in it for about a kilometre.

magicbastarder · 28-07-2019 09:29PM

jaysus, i went away for a few days and they blitzed the place. snowtown was also tarred and chipped, as well as mullaghteelin too.

funny thing is neither road needed doing, i've come down off snowtown at decent enough speed without worrying about the surface.

neris · 17-10-2019 03:44PM

Greenfield Road & Carrickbrack Road on the climb & descent of Howth Hill are currently in bits while a surface is being put down. Surface is very rough and loose and also the man hole covers are a good bit higher then the ****ty surface. Goes from roughly the secondary school up to near Duncarrig (after the primary school/grave yard coming down)

magicbastarder · 05-11-2019 09:09AM

still a few minor pockets of standing water out there, but the rock road at the bottom of booterstown avenue - on the inbound side - is under about six inches of water.

AndrewJRenko · 07-11-2019 01:47PM

The 'cycle lane' (aka, the section of road inside the dotted white line) along Goatstown Road inbound today was like a mini-stream. There was heavy traffic, so opportunities to move out of the lane were very limited.

It wasn't really raining that heavily for most of my journey, but there was an awful lot of water on the road. Hopefully, the newspaper-stuffed shoes will dry out before I head home.

blackwhite · 07-11-2019 07:04PM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

The 'cycle lane' (aka, the section of road inside the dotted white line) along Goatstown Road inbound today was like a mini-stream. There was heavy traffic, so opportunities to move out of the lane were very limited.

It wasn't really raining that heavily for most of my journey, but there was an awful lot of water on the road. Hopefully, the newspaper-stuffed shoes will dry out before I head home.

Was going down there around 8am - have never seen it so bad.

To be fair - any time I signaled to move out the people in the motoring lane held back and left space.
Only problem was at the Roebuck lights - someone coming from Roebuck trying to squeeze into the queue had overshot the turn, and was stopped blocking the cycle lane :mad:

breathless · 07-11-2019 08:21PM

Between Ranelagh and Portobello, someone, presumably DCC made a half hearted attempt to sweep up the leaves yesterday and has left two large piles in the middle of the cycle path

eeeee · 07-11-2019 09:46PM

Hole in the road as you turn towards Parkgate street from the Quays, just as you cross the bridge before Heuston and turn left, the hole by the manhole there is growing my the day.
An awful one to inadvertently go into if you're not familiar with the road. It's just on the turn.

Dr_Colossus · 07-11-2019 11:09PM

eeeee wrote: »

Hole in the road as you turn towards Parkgate street from the Quays, just as you cross the bridge before Heuston and turn left, the hole by the manhole there is growing my the day.
An awful one to inadvertently go into if you're not familiar with the road. It's just on the turn.

That's been at least a week developing worse each day and typical inept council patch work previously hence the problem. Likely to break a wheel or wrist hitting that it's so bad at present.
The whole of Parkgate Street is a disgrace in both directions, they resurfaced a small section heading east just before that quays that was particularly bad at the time of the velo convention but usual half measures.

Alanstrainor · 08-11-2019 12:01PM

I passed this in Portmarnock again this morning... it's exactly the same, or even worse. With two lads scratching their heads beside the big industrial pump that's trying to empty it.

https://twitter.com/sticky_bottle/status/1191469556843331584?s=20

And what's funny, or depressing is that these fields have always been perpetually flooded. And it's not the sea that's flooding it as the road is below this point. I would have thought a drainage solution was part of the plan.

cdaly_ · 08-11-2019 03:00PM

Is that south of the airport beacon enclosure?

Alanstrainor · 08-11-2019 03:14PM

cdaly_ wrote: »

Is that south of the airport beacon enclosure?

Yep. Immediately south of it. The water runs right up to the fence surrounding the beacon.

cdaly_ · 08-11-2019 03:37PM

As I understand it, the track is dual-purpose. Cycleway and triathlon training...

07Lapierre · 08-11-2019 03:40PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I passed this in Portmarnock again this morning... it's exactly the same, or even worse. With two lads scratching their heads beside the big industrial pump that's trying to empty it.

https://twitter.com/sticky_bottle/status/1191469556843331584?s=20

And what's funny, or depressing is that these fields have always been perpetually flooded. And it's not the sea that's flooding it as the road is below this point. I would have thought a drainage solution was part of the plan.

The word on the street is:

https://twitter.com/alan_kelly/status/1192720932550447105?s=21

Alanstrainor · 08-11-2019 10:09PM

07Lapierre wrote: »

The word on the street is:

https://twitter.com/alan_kelly/status/1192720932550447105?s=21

You know, when I first heard of this track my initial thought was that they would f*ck it up in some way. But my god this is epic; I had thought that maybe they wouldn't make it wide enough, or make a mess of the junctions. But needing a boat to traverse the track is a whole new level of insanity. And it doesn't even take much rain for this section to flood.

Pa ElGrande · 09-11-2019 11:43AM

2 areas to watch

Mud on the cycle track coming into Leeson street from Morehampton road, with large pool of water when it rains. It's hazardous because that part of street is not well lit on the way home in the evening.

Large spread of wet and compressed leaves on Anglesea Road just after the RDS where there are car parking spaces, as a cyclist maintain control in this section do not cycle through them.

dastardly00 · 10-11-2019 09:15AM

I'm thinking of going for a shower in the Slieve Blooms today. I've never been before. For anytime who is familiar, should I have any concerns about ice on the road?

AndrewJRenko · 10-11-2019 12:19PM

Pa ElGrande wrote: »

Large spread of wet and compressed leaves on Anglesea Road just after the RDS where there are car parking spaces, as a cyclist maintain control in this section do not cycle through them.

The RDS side of Anglesea Road floods with any kind of vaguely heavy rain.

bazermc · 10-11-2019 09:33PM

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

The RDS side of Anglesea Road floods with any kind of vaguely heavy rain.

It’s grand though. The locals only drive 4X4’s

CramCycle · 10-11-2019 11:37PM

bazermc wrote: »

It’s grand though. The locals only drive 4X4’s

Ah, the D4 tractor, the ideal vehicle for all those agricultural needs of the modern suburban family

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