Dunmore road road closures

Hoffmans · 22-04-2015 11:51pm

From newtown to topaz its a bumpy ride, irish water have left the road in a right state for the sake of a few dozen water metres

wmpdd3 · 23-04-2015 1:51am

To me it looks like a major repair on the main pipes rather than just meters. I past there late at night last week, thankfully there were no restrictions after 12 am.

Hope it's not effecting business or there.

wellboytoo · 23-04-2015 5:42am

Hoffmans wrote: »

From newtown to topaz its a bumpy ride, irish water have left the road in a right state for the sake of a few dozen water metres

They are replacing the water main not meters.

fricatus · 23-04-2015 1:43pm

Hoffmans wrote: »

From newtown to topaz its a bumpy ride, irish water have left the road in a right state for the sake of a few dozen water metres

As others have said, it's not water meters that they're doing, but you are right - the road is in a desperate state. Anyone know whether this is just being left this way until the work is complete and tested? They might have to dig it up again in places so it makes sense to leave resurfacing until the very end.

wmpdd3 · 23-04-2015 4:35pm

I dont know but in one of the free newspapers last week it said there were no plans to resurface John's hill etc.

Taxburden carrier · 23-04-2015 5:12pm

Maybe the government could divert some of Irish Water revenue to Motor Tax to help repair the road........oh wait.....

wmpdd3 · 25-04-2015 12:03am

^^^^ Very good!

7upfree · 26-04-2015 2:09pm

Shane07 wrote: »

If this is true this is crazy! Why would they change it! It makes no sense they should be making extra lanes not less,wasting more money as usual!

A la The Quay..........

7upfree · 26-04-2015 2:10pm

wellboytoo wrote: »

They are replacing the water main not meters.

They are making provision for meters in some areas while this is going on.

Wanderer78 · 26-04-2015 8:15pm

7upfree wrote: »

They are making provision for meters in some areas while this is going on.

good stuff

Dum_Dum · 19-07-2015 4:32pm

Are there plans to resurface the road to a civilised standard and make good the damage - or is everyone happy with their sloppy work?

shinzon · 19-07-2015 4:36pm

Dum_Dum wrote: »

Are there plans to resurface the road to a civilised standard and make good the damage - or is everyone happy with their sloppy work?

that's upto the council, resurfacing etc nothing to do with IW, so whenever they get around to it

Shin

Shane07 · 19-07-2015 9:55pm

The road is in a shocking condition and is the main ambulance route to the hospital,seriously like only in Ireland!!!!

jayboi · 19-07-2015 10:17pm

Probably waiting for the schools to go back before they resurface.

wmpdd3 · 19-07-2015 11:04pm

They must be waiting until all work has been compleated before they resurface. Its like a country road out there.

The cycle lanes look like a DLS uniform, all grey and maroon stripes!

Hoffmans · 20-07-2015 10:44am

Some state of a road, iw's Digging campaign on behalf of the IMF didn't include making good the mess left behind
This is IMF strategy at its finest...

Wanderer78 · 20-07-2015 10:58pm

Hoffmans wrote: »

Some state of a road, iw's Digging campaign on behalf of the IMF didn't include making good the mess left behind
This is IMF strategy at its finest...

eu/imf/ecb=disaster!

wellboytoo · 21-07-2015 11:25am

Hoffmans wrote: »

Some state of a road, iw's Digging campaign on behalf of the IMF didn't include making good the mess left behind
This is IMF strategy at its finest...

What a ridiculous juvenile statement

7upfree · 21-07-2015 6:10pm

wellboytoo wrote: »

What a ridiculous juvenile statement

Yes and no. Given the figures released for IW this week (and the paltry level of "investment" since its inception, as opposed to what it has cost) it can be viewed as little else.

People need to acknowledge this for what it is - a repayment of a debt that is not Ireland's. And this is to the forefront. Water doesn't even enter into it.

CatFromHue · 21-07-2015 7:45pm

7upfree wrote: »

People need to acknowledge this for what it is - a repayment of a debt that is not Ireland's. And this is to the forefront. Water doesn't even enter into it.

That isn't it at all.

It's about restructuring how the govt brings in money so that we're not solely reliant people spending money like we were during the boom.

If you're to be believe how Water is currently payed for, though VAT and Motor Tax, once people stop spending and or/driving then there's no money coming in to pay for it.

This has nothing to do with paying off banking debt.

Wanderer78 · 21-07-2015 8:22pm

oh id say this woman might clear things up a bit!!!!

http://ellenbrown.com/
http://www.webofdebt.com/media/
http://itsourmoney.podbean.com/

enjoy

Hoffmans · 21-07-2015 11:06pm

If you are living in Happy cuckoo land alls grand imf and troica dont exist neither does corruption, state dirty secrets or turning your water tap to a trickle,
no need to explain what iw is really all about then...

wellboytoo · 22-07-2015 7:31am

Hoffmans wrote: »

If you are living in Happy cuckoo land alls grand imf and troica dont exist neither does corruption, state dirty secrets or turning your water tap to a trickle,
no need to explain what iw is really all about then...

Just because you keep saying it does not make it true. Yes there is corruption in the world, yes some people have hidden agendas,yes we all have things we would rather remain private, but that does not mean there is a hidden World order controlling us like puppets, it just means you are paranoid and deluded.

CatFromHue · 22-07-2015 1:45pm

Wanderer78 wrote: »

oh id say this woman might clear things up a bit!!!!

http://ellenbrown.com/
http://www.webofdebt.com/media/
http://itsourmoney.podbean.com/

enjoy

That's all about the Greek problem, you know the guys who have had the ****ty income from their people into their countries balance sheet.

Wanderer78 · 22-07-2015 2:49pm

CatFromHue wrote: »

That's all about the Greek problem, you know the guys who have had the ****ty income from their people into their countries balance sheet.

look again and spend some time reading, listening and watching ellen browns work. impressive stuff and spot on in my eyes, and shes not just on about greece but the underlying critical problems on our global financial problems. theres a lot in it but its worth checking out. id highly recommend this podcast regarding global water politics etc:

http://itsourmoney.podbean.com/e/world-water-wars-032515/

enjoy

mooseknunkle · 12-11-2015 4:12pm

reni10 wrote: »

The traffic this morning was the worst I have ever seen!

It stretched from the Outer Ring road near the Halting site right up to the Ardkeen hospital and the whole way in the Dunmore Road!

Now they want to make the Road from the Outer Ring Road Roundabout at Farronshoneen to the Tesco Roundabout 1 lane as well as a trial!

So they are starting this trial "continental style roundabout" tomorrow

A trial layout will be installed on the roundabout at Tesco Ardkeen on the Outer Ring Road on Fri Nov 13th.
This trial is to test the impact on traffic of the introduction of a continential style roundabout at this location.
Contintental Style Roundabouts have a single lane entering from each approach, and the approaches are at right angles. These changes encourage slower vehicle speeds, so do make it easier for cars to enter the roundabout, due to the smaller gap in traffic needed at low speeds.
Continental style roundabouts are also safer for people who walk and cycle.
The trial will be removed on Saturday November 28th 2015

wellboytoo · 12-11-2015 10:46pm

mooseknunkle wrote: »

So they are starting this trial "continental style roundabout" tomorrow

2 weeks won't hurt anyone and might improve things!

BBM77 · 13-11-2015 2:54pm

Continental style roundabouts are also safer for people who walk and cycle.

As someone who cycles around 160km a week making lanes on roundabouts narrower does not make them safer for cyclist. I often wonder if the people who come up with these ideas ever actual cycled around an urban area.

Shane07 · 13-11-2015 3:58pm

I do not understand their obsession with narrowing busy roads and junctions...the junction was fine no need to be messing around with it!!!

Taxburden carrier · 13-11-2015 5:08pm

Will certainly make it interesting for ambulances coming from the outer ring road.

mooseknunkle · 13-11-2015 6:01pm

wellboytoo wrote: »

2 weeks won't hurt anyone and might improve things!

I was out there earlier and i dont know how its an improvement the traffic was backed up in every direction and that was early enough before the usual peak traffic times.

Daffodil.d · 13-11-2015 9:49pm

This new system is an absolute joke.I live on the Dunmore road and I will carefully taking other routes while this trial is going on. hopefully they're already seeing that this doesn't work. it was so bad the traffic was backed up everywhere.I reckon they should consider actually asking the ambulance drivers what they think of this.

mooseknunkle · 13-11-2015 9:55pm

The council are saying that this trial is at the request of the National Transport Authority and will be removed if is causing delays,seriously why put it at this roundabout when they know its going to cause more delays!

Waterford City and County Council say changes to the traffic layout at the roundabout at Tesco, Ardkeen was at the request of the National Transport Authority. The council were asked to participate in a trial of what are known as continental style roundabouts and the new layout was installed today.These have a single lane entering from each approach, at right angles which encourage slower speeds making it easier for cars to enter the roundabout.The trial period ends on Saturday November 28th but the council says it will be monitored daily and will be removed if it causes unacceptable delays.They say it will take a few days for a settled pattern to develop and they would welcome feedback from drivers on its facebook or twitter accounts.

http://www.wlrfm.com/news-single.php?cat=1&id=51424

katydid · 14-11-2015 1:13am

wellboytoo wrote: »

2 weeks won't hurt anyone and might improve things!

Do you still think the same after the utter chaos today? Twenty minutes to get from outside Homebase to the exit to Tesco, and fifteen minutes from there to the hospital roundabout.

Tescos are going to lose out big time over the next couple of weeks. I hope they sue the corpo for every cent they've got.

katydid · 14-11-2015 1:16am

mooseknunkle wrote: »

The council are saying that this trial is at the request of the National Transport Authority and will be removed if is causing delays,seriously why put it at this roundabout when they know its going to cause more delays!

http://www.wlrfm.com/news-single.php?cat=1&id=51424

How could anyone with grey matter between the ears not work out that when you reduce two lanes of traffic to one in three directions at a roundabout it's going to cause chaos?

wellboytoo · 14-11-2015 10:04am

katydid wrote: »

Do you still think the same after the utter chaos today? Twenty minutes to get from outside Homebase to the exit to Tesco, and fifteen minutes from there to the hospital roundabout.

Tescos are going to lose out big time over the next couple of weeks. I hope they sue the corpo for every cent they've got.

No its a complete clusterf*ck to be honest, hopefully the powers that be will acknowledge that quickly as well.

Alpha Centauri · 14-11-2015 3:34pm

wellboytoo wrote: »

N a complete clusterf*ck

exactly!

Alpha Centauri · 14-11-2015 3:34pm

wellboytoo wrote: »

a complete clusterf*ck

exactly!

7upfree · 14-11-2015 4:25pm

What lunatics dreamt this up? Utter madness.

Daffodil.d · 14-11-2015 8:41pm

Apparently they're removing it now.

katydid · 14-11-2015 8:44pm

Daffodil.d wrote: »

Apparently they're removing it now.

Yay!

TheBlaaMan · 14-11-2015 8:50pm

What is baffling is that someone, somewhere - whom we are relying on for proper management of public facilities - thought that this would be a good idea worth "trying out". As a motorist and cyclist, I cannot see any agruments that could be made to validate this approach. Cycling thru there in recent days meant sharing 60% of the old road space with 200% of the normal volume for your lane...........

Causing back-ups on every approach road even at "quiet" times was utterly predictable.

I fully accept that the NRA or CoCo cannot take a poll of everyone before they do anything, but playing (because that's all it was) with road users stress levels when 99.9% of people could see the likely outcome, smacks of an arrogance that I would have thought belongs to a time long ago. Seemingly not.

katydid · 14-11-2015 8:54pm

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

What is baffling is that someone, somewhere - whom we are relying on for proper management of public facilities - thought that this would be a good idea worth "trying out". As a motorist and cyclist, I cannot see any agruments that could be made to validate this approach. Cycling thru there in recent days meant sharing 60% of the old road space with 200% of the normal volume for your lane...........

Causing back-ups on every approach road even at "quiet" times was utterly predictable.

I fully accept that the NRA or CoCo cannot take a poll of everyone before they do anything, but playing (because that's all it was) with road users stress levels when 99.9% of people could see the likely outcome, smacks of an arrogance that I would have thought belongs to a time long ago. Seemingly not.

Even if the NRA, not knowing the geography of the area, the local businesses and so on, thought it was a good idea to reduce two lanes to one in three directions, one has to ask why the local authority didn't point out to them that that particular area was totally unsuitable.

Daffodil.d · 14-11-2015 10:01pm

katydid wrote:

Even if the NRA, not knowing the geography of the area, the local businesses and so on, thought it was a good idea to reduce two lanes to one in three directions, one has to ask why the local authority didn't point out to them that that particular area was totally unsuitable.

totally. AND they had to change the lane format there a few years ago to relieve traffic going ahead as opposed to into Tesco. so there was already a recorded issue there. Or did they forget that. It's the ability for ambulances to pass these that concerned me the most. Do they even bother consulting with the hospital when making these changes. This country is so backwards one has to sit back and wonder sometimes.

Taxburden carrier · 14-11-2015 11:07pm

katydid wrote: »

Even if the NRA, not knowing the geography of the area, the local businesses and so on, thought it was a good idea to reduce two lanes to one in three directions, one has to ask why the local authority didn't point out to them that that particular area was totally unsuitable.

One thing you can be sure of...NOBODY will be responsible or accountable.

TheBlaaMan · 14-11-2015 11:55pm

https://twitter.com/MulliganEddie/status/665605261919428608

katydid · 15-11-2015 12:37am

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

https://twitter.com/MulliganEddie/status/665605261919428608

It's a pity it had to come to the council being bombarded with complaints to make them see what a four year old would have told them, had they asked. You have to wonder what kind of morons work in the roads department.

StringerBell · 15-11-2015 1:52am

Massive, massive morons.

katydid · 15-11-2015 5:36pm

I drove along there today, at lunchtime. Not particularly busy, but the traffic was not good. It'll be chaotic again tomorrow morning. They've taken away the barriers blocking the inner lane of the roundabout, which is a big help, but the lanes approaching the roundabout are still narrowed down to one. It was particularly bad coming from Williamstown to Tesco, where the early filter off lane helped traffic flow very well; the left lane for the turn off to Tesco, the right lane straight on for the hospital. Now you can only get into the left lane a few yards before the roundabout.

If the idea is to put in a cycle path, there's plenty space on the grass verge on either side of the footpath.

It looks as if they gave in to pressure after Friday's fiasco. Let's not let up now, until they see sense.

Dunmore road road closures

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