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

A trench in the middle of the road... It's like this for months and nothing is being done. Thousands and thousands of cars drive into this on daily basis.

I had to turn down the g sensor sensitivity beacuse all the footage from the dash cam was going to "Emergency folder". It thinks I am in an accident.

Shocking stuff. Unbelievable.

the reality is, Cork will never be a modern and prosperous city... you really do need perfect road surface for a place to look presentable and simply good looking. Everywhere you go it's potholes, cracks in the road.. how can somebody be so bad at managing a city like this?

iirc I don't think this is more than 3 years old... very bad mileage. shocking really.

I don't really think UK is a good example tbh. Maybe they are the reason the roads here are more less the same like there. If you look at the roads on the continent you'll see the difference. Money isn't everything, you can give the city council half a billion euro to fix all the main roads in the city and the quality of those roads will start to deterioate 2-3 years later. And there isn't much traffic here either when you compare it to the UK or the continent for example. You have few buses circling the city here, very few lorries. Go to a large city elsewhere, there's big trucks driving through towns etc. and the roads are in reasonable condition. Nevermind motorways. I can see tumbleweed rolling on Cork-Dublin motorway. I would say the upkeep here is poor due the "sure it's grand" approach. How is that trench on Victoria cross still there for months? Insane. Everything takes forever and it's fixed poorly.

It's just inconvenient and annoying to be vigilant all the time making sure I don't hit something (pretty sure I am not alone). You really have to be familiar with the roads in cork to know what to expect and where's what. You should be able to just drive and watch the traffic and not to focus on the road so much.

Saw a guy behind me hitting this (Dennehy's cross). Brutal. They fixed it, few days later same problem.

That whole junction is bumpy... horrible really, and it's one of the busiest junction in the city 🤢🤮

those are actually nice roads when you compare them to cork roads... I don't see any trenches really. But is it like that everywhere or few spots here and there? In cork everywhere you go the roads are sh1t. And it's not just roads, road signage etc. The place constantly looks tired. Tell me, where else in Europe you drove a car? Can you compare? Because I sure can.

Something like this would be fixed quite quickly elsewhere... Is money the issue, or what is the problem? Or is grand like this? Probably that is the case.

also... they are most likely old roads too, they could be 10-20 years old (or even more), roads overe here looks like this after 2-3 years... so...