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

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.

I think tourists driving cars here must think Ireland is poor AF.

petition here:

https://www.change.org/p/cork-city-council-we-want-cork-city-council-to-fix-all-the-roads

mikeecho wrote: »

yeah... cos that'll do anything.

claim claim and claim for damage, that's what will make them fix things.

I would say removing and replacing that bunch of incompetent people (those in charge and those "repairing" the roads) would definitely help more.

Edit: I don't know, can somebody sue them? For being useless? That would be handy alright. It would be also handy if the government would be replaced by completely different people. By people that put interest of the citizens above everything else. I can't believe this is allowed in general by the public. I mean few hundred years back they would be hanged. No questions asked. Ok maybe that's a bit harsh but I don't think people were effing around back in the day. Today it's all white collar criminals laughing in people's faces. I'm not sure if the future is bright. Think about it next time you drive a car in Cork somewhere.

corcaigh1 wrote: »

Between the neverending property crisis, health crisis, homelessness, road conditions, huge taxes with nothing in return and cost of motoring increases and lots more im not disclosing, just the general crisis after crisis and corruption with no accountability I'm seriously considering leaving, I cant see it getting better ffs

Talking about leaving... Two of my friends actually left recently. When it comes to motoring there were two major issues that contributed to their decision. One of them is the insane insurance prices (full NCB and they want over 1000e for an older 1.8 car, that's clearly wrong) and the other is the condition of the roads. It's just not worth the effort anymore working and giving so much money away and get nothing in return. Paying 700+ euros a year in motor tax and drive a car on these roads. It's an insult.

The problem is actually bigger than it seems. It will require millions and millions of euros to make the place look good again. They obviously don't have the money or don't really care about the current state of the roads. There needs to be a major change in our society. Roads are only one of the little pieces in this big puzzle. New political party needs to be established that will have ALL the power and will to actually make everything better.