Catastrophic condition of roads in Cork city (pic heavy thread)

just mess...

Farren's Quay X Shandon st.



Cycling lane on Farren's Quay, massive bumps right there..



Cornmarket st.

This bit was lower then rest of the road after some roadworks. Then they went back and just didn't level it with the rest of the road:

Patrick street.

Resurfaced about 6 months ago?

Take a good look everyone.

Grand parade, Cork city:

Green st.

Lough rd.

Dorgan's road (heading towards UCC)

Highfield ave.

Gaol walk (UCC)

the drop is too big, it wasn't supposed to be built this way.

heading towards Victoria cross, city centre bound lane.

Sunday's Well rd, turning left to Shanakiel rd.

Bottom of Strawberry hill on Shanakiel rd.

Resurfacing is the only option.

Cork city, roads department:

Roads Directorate, Room 303, 2nd Floor, City Hall, Cork.

http://www.corkcity.ie/services/roadstransportation/

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Roads Service Maintenance Requests (021) 492 4189 / 492 4758
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Email: roads@corkcity.ie

Funny this ad..

three more reasons to choose a 182 Volkswagen they say..

In cork city there's hundreds of reasons not to buy any 182 car.

How many of you contacted the city council and your local TD?

Lia_lia wrote: »

West Cork is desperate but you'd kind of expect it on country roads, not in the city!

Cork city is the second largest city in the country with about quarter of million people living here. Cork is very busy and the roads are not maintained properly according to this. Roads are literally falling apart and what is mentioned in this thread is only a drop in the ocean. It would take me many days to document everything in Cork.

Trasna1 wrote: »

I saw yesterday that Cork city has gotten extra funding for road repair and it looks like it's money desperately needed. Not to repair the road, but to train up some competent road repair men. Not sealing repairs is asking for trouble.

The root cause of the vast majority of the issues in this thread are poor remedial works, in particular the cutting and sealing of road openings for services. Potholes happen, but the chucking in of cold tar and letting the road traffic compact it is incredibly lazy and extremely wasteful since the "repair" won't hold. Potholes need to be cleaned out, stoned, compacted, tarred, compacted and finally sealed.

As you said, funding is one thing, but the other is using the money efficiently. If everything would be done properly the repairs would last much much longer and there would be no need to come back and fix the spots again (and make it worse eventually). Also money would be saved and spent elsewhere. But I guess if it's not their money they don't really treat it like their own. People are more less sensible with money they make and try to spend them wisely (well I know I do). But in this case it seems like it doesn't matter how much is spent and on what. It is utterly wrong and Cork could look much better and nicer if more effort would be put into the work done. Training and mentoring is definitely required at this stage.

zilog_jones wrote: »

Well with the boundary extension, they're going to have a hell of a lot more roads to maintain. If it's not substantially more funding, it won't be enough to improve anything...

I read about it in the news some time ago and that was the first thing that came up my mind. How the hell are they gonna be able to maintain all these extra roads if they are not able to keep current Cork roads in acceptable condition. It will be a disaster if something won't significantly change. At the moment it's already very bad.

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When I read articles like this:

http://www.eveningecho.ie/corknews/One-million-square-foot-of-new-office-space-in-the-pipeline-for-Cork-9355ec8f-9eac-4c78-8289-5b1b478efd1a-ds

http://www.eveningecho.ie/corknews/No-parking-spaces-in-planned-new-city-skyscraper-project-8361810a-2d73-4ae3-b680-3db1b8fb5c7b-ds

I always wonder if they actually will be repairing the roads to a high standard or just leave them as they are and keep repairing (I wouldn't call it repairs to be honest) them like they do now. You will have brand new shiny buildings surrounded by absolutely terrible roads. That makes no sense whatsoever. And some people commenting on facebook like "that's what Cork needs" and "wonderful news for Cork" ... they are clearly out of touch with reality. You just can't have new offices built and do nothing with the roads. Not just roads surrounding the buildings but all the roads in the whole city. New buildings with new cars on roads that resemble emmental cheese. Stupid.

I wonder what would it look like if the Fire Brigade would drive over this in full speed in case of emergency.