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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    just mess...

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


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    junction with Upper Cattle Market st.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Farren's Quay X Shandon st.

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

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    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:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭wally1990


    You should see the absolute state of the road outside Blarney (the children’s park)
    Coming from
    Dublin pike direction into blarney and turn left at the park there

    The whole road is in an absolutely awful condition ! Huge holes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Patrick street.

    Resurfaced about 6 months ago?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    wally1990 wrote: »
    You should see the absolute state of the road outside Blarney (the children’s park)
    Coming from
    Dublin pike direction into blarney and turn left at the park there

    The whole road is in an absolutely awful condition ! Huge holes

    Fella at work was actually telling me about it yesterday. Take some pics, email them to the council. I am sure it will be sorted out in no time, maybe next year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Take a good look everyone.

    Grand parade, Cork city:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Sullivan's quay

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    Barrack st. bottom

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Green st.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Gould st.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Lough rd.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Bandon rd.

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    Hartland's ave., near junction with Glasheen rd. and Dorgan's rd.

    big bump in the middle of the road

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Dorgan's road (heading towards UCC)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Magazine rd. x Highfield ave.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Highfield ave.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    still Highfield ave.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Gaol walk (UCC)

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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Gaol rd x Western road.

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    Lane that's heading to town

    bicycle symbol right next to it... what an irony.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    heading towards Victoria cross, city centre bound lane.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    one of the busiest roads in Cork city:

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    pedestrian crossing

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    on the other side

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,839 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Wow

    And I thought Tipperary Town was bad!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


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    left lane going up

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Bottom of Strawberry hill on Shanakiel rd.

    Resurfacing is the only option.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Strawberry Hill

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Cork city, roads department:

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

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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    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.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Tommyboy40


    corcaigh1 wrote: »
    €2.665!! wtf are you driving a rolls royce phantom!!?

    Mercedes CL500. Hydraulic shock!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭JohnBoy26


    callaway92 wrote: »
    Wow

    And I thought Tipperary Town was bad!!!

    It is dreadful along with the roads in many parts of Tipperary.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭flintash


    OP, check out Watercourse road from Blackpool library to T&A. "Best" road in Cork in my opinion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Blarney st., just by the grotto

    You literally have to slalom around this...

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Glad I found this thread, OP. You pretty much photographed my commute and I agree, it's a nightmare! I find myself driving in the middle of road and constantly swerving to avoid potholes every day. Especially around Sundays Well which generally isn't the nicest driving experience regardless of the road condition. West Cork is desperate but you'd kind of expect it on country roads, not in the city!

    A good few people at work have emailed the council about potholes. I probably will email too but I'm in constant contact with them about parking issues, so I'd say they're sick of me. Although I guess it is a different department.

    I had to get my wheels balanced recently and the guy at the tyre shop said everyones wheels seem to be fecked from potholes this year.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Trasna1


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,986 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    You have definitely highlighted something which the whole country can sympathise with OP.

    But I would say you could pick any town or city in Ireland, and you would be able to find very similar examples.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Trasna1 wrote: »
    I saw yesterday that Cork city has gotten extra funding for road repair and it looks like it's money desperately needed.

    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...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    One of the local schools down my way organised a fun run recently,the evening before,some of the organisers marked the potholes on the route with yellow marking paint. They used a lot of it. As if by magic,the Monday after the run,all the marked potholes were filled.
    It's as if highlighting them shamed the council into action.
    That delay set tarmac (cold tar) that's used in many of the pictures in this thread is only for temporary repairs or not for areas of high traffic but the council thinks that it's grand for repairs on roads.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,574 ✭✭✭Padraig Mor


    Diabhalta wrote: »
    Sullivan's quay

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    Barrack st. bottom

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    I'm noticing a lot more of this around Cork recently - drains, access covers, etc sinking 3+ inches into the road.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    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.

    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.


    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Harbour view rd., SuperValu

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    pedestrian crossing by the library

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    outside Credit union

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Diabhalta


    Everything needs to be rebuilt.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Diabhalta wrote: »
    Pictures taken today. Still a mess.

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    It's desperate here. Was driving from Western road today and right onto Sunday's Well and my car was rocking all over the place from the state of the road. Such a busy junction, as you said.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Imo biggest issue is with repairs. They shovel out tarmac and give it a vauge Pat and away they go. If they took the Wacker out if the truck and compressed it properly it would last much longer and be flatter.

    The truck they were using for a while to spray in tar and chips might as well be spraying into the air for all the good it done to potholes.

    I'd prefer if they done 10000 potholes right than 100000 poorly


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