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The Road Condition Warning thread

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    #572
    magicbastarder
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    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.


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    #573
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,042 ✭✭✭✭neris


    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)


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    #574
    magicbastarder
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    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.


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    #575
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,488 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    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.


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    #576
    blackwhite
    Registered Users Posts: 8,532 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    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:


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    #577
    breathless
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    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


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    #578
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,831 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    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.


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    #579
    Dr_Colossus
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    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.


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    #580
    Alanstrainor
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 23,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    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.


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    #581
    cdaly_
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    Is that south of the airport beacon enclosure?


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    #582
    Alanstrainor
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    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.


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    #583
    cdaly_
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


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


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    #584
    07Lapierre
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    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


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    #585
    Alanstrainor
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    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.


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    #586
    Pa ElGrande
    Registered Users Posts: 3,496 ✭✭✭Pa ElGrande


    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.

    Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.



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    #587
    dastardly00
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    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?


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    #588
    AndrewJRenko
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    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.


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    #589
    bazermc
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    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


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    #590
    CramCycle
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    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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    #591
    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


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

    They all have invisible tow bars for pulling their non existent trailers and horseboxes.


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    #592
    mr spuckler
    Registered Users Posts: 3,107 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    Utter Consternation wrote: »
    They all have invisible tow bars for pulling their non existent trailers and horseboxes.

    Although having recently bought a car where the tow-bar retracts out of sight when not in use I've found myself having to rethink that opinion which I also shared!


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    #593
    RobertFoster
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    The descent into Howth is being resurfaced. The top layer from just before the Abbey Tavern to the T junction is gone. The surface is very rough with ramps at both ends.


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    #594
    neris
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    RobertFoster wrote: »
    The descent into Howth is being resurfaced. The top layer from just before the Abbey Tavern to the T junction is gone. The surface is very rough with ramps at both ends.

    They've dug it up and there's cobbles. Time for the Ronde von howth


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    #595
    magicbastarder
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    help me. Ronde?


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    #596
    dastardly00
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    help me. Ronde?

    'De Ronde' is a Dutch nickname for 'The Tour', referring to Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders), which involves riding on cobbles :)


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    #597
    magicbastarder
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    (it was just a (weak) joke)


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    #598
    magicbastarder
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPnBrK6D26g


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    #599
    dastardly00
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    (it was just a (weak) joke)

    D'oh, it's been a long day :o


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    #600
    The Noble Nudge
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    Gritters have been out so roads have that scummy greasy surface to them be careful out there...Mt Venus road, cruagh and view point last night but no doubt all the lesser used gritted roads will be the same.


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    #601
    magicbastarder
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    RobertFoster wrote: »
    The descent into Howth is being resurfaced.
    have they completed this yet?


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