Where is currently flooded in dublin

shopaholic

Right my family are currently sitting in ALSAA 'cos the roads around the airport are flooded but I can't find much on where else is flooded to get them home v(malahide road, and m50 between ballyfermot and finglas). Anyone else know?

mike65

This may help give a flavour.

http://www.dublintraffic.com/#M50

Mike.

shopaholic

Mike thanks for that. Typically they would arrive home at the weekend when noone is updating the news sites!!!:)

Chunky Monkey

Ballymun road at the Collins Avenue junction is completely under. Bus tried to go through it and a load of water came on to it. Don't think they'll try that again soon.

anotherlostie

There is some info here, but of course it may be out of date, in either a good or bad sense. It has stopped raining in West Dublin but it is darker than at 9.30 last night.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0809/breaking128.htm

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0809/flood.html

murphaph

Anybody know if Lucan village is flooded? Need to get from D15 to Newcastle this evening.

shopaholic

Anyone know if the m1 roundabout northbound to balbriggan is passable?

thenobody

well i know of someone who left ashtown (river road) over two hours ago to go to dunboyne and are currently just at blanchardstown.
N3 may be flooded and diverting everyone through blanch shopping centre.
M50 is crap through around there.

Nevyn

N3 section at blanchardstown, the tolka has broken it's banks, all of the roads in and around Clonsilla.

murphaph

Thaedydal wrote: »

N3 section at blanchardstown, the tolka has broken it's banks, all of the roads in and around Clonsilla.

Arrrghh, again the bloody Tolka brings a major national route to a standstill! It is unnaceptable that they haven't sorted this nonsense out already.

thebman

murphaph wrote: »

Anybody know if Lucan village is flooded? Need to get from D15 to Newcastle this evening.

Lucan is flooded, road closed that the 66 bus route goes on past a mcdonalds and some crappy chinese place next door. Don't think the town is that bad but Leixlip is also flooding in parts but passable. Bus skipped Lucan so the whole town could be flooded too.

I'd be driving slowly anyway, took ages for the bus to get to Maynooth with all the floods. The part where the road closed had a van try to get through and the engine stopped and they had to push it out.

Also there were two people canoeing (spelling??) on the floods.

Bluetonic

shopaholic wrote: »

Anyone know if the m1 roundabout northbound to balbriggan is passable?

M50? Airport? Swords? Lissenhall?

murphaph

brim4brim wrote: »

Lucan is flooded, road closed that the 66 bus route goes on past a mcdonalds and some crappy chinese place.

Thanks brim. Is it just flooded at that spot at McDonald's? Anybody know if the bridge is passable (you know the spot at Ulster Bank that can flood)?

shopaholic

Been onto guards - m1 lissenhall is flooded but passable, airport roundabout has guards at it. m1 at airport flooded. water is supposed to be rising.

Dirk Gently

Difficult getting around Finglas, on foot as well as by car. Power went a while ago but back on now. Most of the estates have impassable flooding but bad flooding on the main roads too. Most shores have burst and water is up as far as the doors of some houses. Was able to get up cardiffsbridge road and down by the firebrigade station into the village but some cars getting stuck on cardiffsbrige road on the flat outside the cardiff inn pub. Not many safe routes for driving around Finglas tonight.

Took these on welmount road about an hour ago..........

Jip

According to RTE news the following main routes are all closed, N3 both ways at Blanchardstown, M1 both ways, M50 blocked at Ballymun and the Port Tunnel but didn't catch the details of how extensive that is.

Zaph

Post in the D15 forum with pics of the N3 at Blanchardstown

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=56846220&postcount=13

January

Freakin hell thats bad...

MysticalSoul

All DART services north of Howth Junction were cancelled. I am in Portmarncok, part of station road, by village/Baldoyle roundabout was flooded, but ok. Taxi driver said regarding taking friend to Malahide that he would do his best, so that sounded like it was a bit dodgy.

mike65

Just clicked on the http://www.dublintraffic.com/#M50 and its still mayhem.

[url=https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/84334/61069.JPG[/url] hope the truck saw the obstacle.

Mike.

ronbyrne2005

Bad flooding at M1 at santry/port tunnel, santry stadium, the swiss cottage pub (water entered the pub). Dozens of cars stuck in water and abandoned on side motorways/roads. Got stuck on M1 after leaving cinema in swords at 8pm only home in glasnevin now nearly 3 hrs later (normally 20mins on a saturday). Few if any gardai on streets redirecting traffic along clear routes such as santry land and northwood. River of water running down M1 motorway (would'nt get that on the Autobahn)

AlekSmart

What an evening....:D

Lets get real for once,we just don`t do organization,full stop.
Interesting to notice the shiny new HQDC`s and M/ways so badly affected by the showers....:)

€36 Billion of Transport 21 funds surely should have bought some water dispersal expertise...???

Looks like the M50's come to a complete stop!

murphaph

AlekSmart wrote: »

What an evening....:D

Lets get real for once,we just don`t do organization,full stop.
Interesting to notice the shiny new HQDC`s and M/ways so badly affected by the showers....:)

€36 Billion of Transport 21 funds surely should have bought some water dispersal expertise...???

If only the government and local authorities were half as good at getting water down the drain as money there'd be no probs.

sgt.bilko

Deleted User wrote: »

Looks like the M50's come to a complete stop!

Wheres that cam? what direction?

sgt.bilko

sgt.bilko wrote: »

Wheres that cam? what direction?

http://www.dublintraffic.com/Site0Camera89.jpg

Northbound near Ballymun, according to the rte news site 2M50 blocked northbound & Ballymun"
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0809/flood.html

mobby

AlekSmart wrote: »

What an evening....:D

Lets get real for once,we just don`t do organization,full stop.
Interesting to notice the shiny new HQDC`s and M/ways so badly affected by the showers....:)

€36 Billion of Transport 21 funds surely should have bought some water dispersal expertise...???

In fairness I have never seen rainfall as heavy as today’s rain, unbelievable stuff was falling from about 2pm. But I do tend to agree main roads should be able to cope better then what appears to have been the case.
Also why was their no Met Éireann
weather alert?

This thread reminds me of an event in early ninties when British Rail had to cancel hundreds of trains because the loco's were damaged by the "wrong kind of snow".

Typical Irish rain is usually fairly light but falls for hours, this was very heavy downpour!

Chunky Monkey

Where the hell were the guards in Ballymun today?? More than two hours after our bus got stuck I went past the same spot again. There was a single traffic cone in the middle of the water, a couple of abandoned cars and traffic at a standstill going all the way back to the start of the Ballymun road. Saw three of them chatting away at the side of the road in Phibsborough. I'm sure they were doing something very important but sure didn't look it.

jimmycrackcorm

I heard the these guys are applying for a taxi licence....

Chunky Monkey

So that's why they call it a splash tour! Doh

Ste.phen

They were probably taking a break,
I gather Phibsborough, Cabra Road and Navan Road were screwed all day, and I know from coming home in a taxi last night that the Finglas Road was seriously unpleasant, and had Gardai directing traffic onto the right-hand side of the road in places to avoid flooding.

AlekSmart

What Garda presence there was yesterday came courtesy of the GAA for Croke Park crowd and traffic "control" duties.
Once the agreed overtime hours ran out so did the Members,who in fairness did have homes to go to also.

However,not for the first time has Garda overall Command and Control been found wanting.

It is for me a great source of mirth to read the GAA glossy brochure on Croke Park,especially the bits about Public Transport "links" and Garda Traffic Management Plans.

The first element in any such plan would be the switching OFF of the Traffic Signals at Drumcondra Rd/Clonliffe Rd junction combined with the acceptance that the current entrance/exit arrangements to All Hallows (Paid) Car Parking is totally at varience with ANY Traffic Plan.

Additionally,individual Gardai need to be briefed on their responsibility to a greater church than the GAA "fans".
Time and again the general traffic flow(such as it was) has to stop as a Gard leans in through an open car window to brief the driver on the arrangements.
This single procedure tends to be repeated at each and every junction in the Drumcondra area leading to the virtual collapse of whatever bit of an oul plan there is(I,for one,would like to have sight of this "Plan" because it`s my belief that no such thing exists escept in the fertile mind of the Garda Press Office/GAA HQ.)

It should also be borne in mind that yesterdays attendance at Croke Park was far from a capacity crowd,yet appeared to be VERY car intensive afact which led to the complete collapse of Drumcondra and North Bound traffic.

Fogra : I did note however,nice Mr Ahern TD being driven to his usual spot outside St Lukes and entering it`s safe haven.
Also noted that the recently erected Flood Defences around Botanic Avenue appear to have been only PARTIALLY effective...hmmmmmm that was a LOT of money spent to little avail then..was it not ??

BizPost

Agree yet again Dublin falls apart when it comes to organisation.

Traffic Control
There was more than the guards needed to warn and divert traffic. Why weren't the army mobilised? As cars were pulled out of flooded roads others just drove straight in.

Rescue
Apparently there are only a dozen drysuits in all of Dublin Fire Brigade across a couple of Fire Engines. They need to be able to deal with sort of stuff a lot quicker and not leave people trapped in cars waiting for an hour to be rescued. Where were'nt some of the lifeboat people called out as they were in the UK last year?

faceman

There are floods almost annually in parts of the UK. Flooding is not an Irish only problem

mike65

If we can belive the climateologists intense summer rain will be more of a feature of the weather here (it already is across the water), so this sort of thing could be happening several times a year.

Mike.

murphaph

faceman wrote: »

There are floods almost annually in parts of the UK. Flooding is not an Irish only problem

True, but the response was a truly irish one. There is no 'plan' or 'system' to deal with anything out of the ordinary here.

ongarite

Clonee to Lucan road is still flodded at Leixlip exit. Leixlip Confey road closed, very badly flooded and so is Stirling, Rooske Rd to Dunboyne.

brightkane

Came the backroads from the N4, through lucan to clonsilla last nite, flooding as prev stated at the junction at mcdonalds in lucan village where u come off the n4, at the time we went though 10pm it seemed back anough but by mounting the footpath we got through it, the bridge was passable. The backroads were terrible though. it was like driving through a river of water, road was packed with cars, some just pulled in to see what the hell they were going to do and others went hell for leather though it.

The speed of which the water was flosing down the road was something to behoold, it would like white water rafting kinda weather. We did make it hope, luckily it didnt seem deep enough but we didnt stall around long enough through any of it. One thing we did see alot of people doing and ourselves included was if you see a part that looks bad stop and let the car in front go through first and then go yourself, rather then u stuck up his arse and him stalling and u being nackered then also!

Glyni

Anyone any idea how bad the roads are now. Have to get from Ballymun to Drumcondra. Nightmare getting home yesterday don't know if I should take the chance.

brightkane

I went from Clonsilla to cabra just there now, N3 is still closed and flooded in blanch, and the m50 northbound is backed up and not moving as far as the eye can see

joolsveer

I was on the M50 this morning. There is flooding between the Blanchardstown and Finglas junctions in both directions. It is passable but there are long talibacks in each direction.

Glyni

Anyone know if the Ballymun Road is still flooded

ljcoolk

the n3 to muldhuddart slip road (were new apts are currentlly been built) is inpassable. people might take this route to get to Blanchardstown better of taking the Damastown road

bk

Is the M1 and parts of the M50 still closed?

What directions would people recommend for getting from Drumcondra to Cork.

Cheers

lostexpectation

couldn't they put indicators on poles along where it often floods, i guess the only way to judge if an road is passable is if you look at things sticking up out of im but it may be hard to judge, they could have feet markings and also, hatchbatch and saloon markings.

markpb

bk wrote: »

Is the M1 and parts of the M50 still closed?

The last news update I can find was RTE 2 hours ago:

People are being asked to avoid the M50 in Dublin as many sections of it are affected by flooding. Gardaí are warning of potential serious problems on the motorway this afternoon as match traffic for Croke Park builds up. The Dublin Port Tunnel Southbound has been re-opened and will be toll-free until 4:00pm to accomodate traffic going to Croke Park.

Gardaí say flood water has subsided in most areas, but parts of north county Dublin are still badly affected. The N3 near Blanchardstown has now been re-opened and traffic is moving normally in both directions. Considerable delays can still be expected on the M50 as there is still severe flooding on both northbound and southbound lanes.

The M1 is closed at Shantalla Bridge and will remain closed for several hours an diversions are in place. Those travelling northbound to Dublin Airport are advised that a section of M1 is closed at Whitehall and traffic is diverted to Santry. A contra-flow is in operation along the M50 between Finglas and Blanchardstown.

mackerski

The M1 is closed at Shantalla Bridge

Ain't that the truth? The M1 hasn't come that far south since the tunnel opened...

markpb

mackerski wrote: »

Ain't that the truth? The M1 hasn't come that far south since the tunnel opened...

You must be one of about two people in Dublin who knows that

batman2000

This was the M50 this morning going northbound at J5 (finglas) Was sitting in traffic for 45 mins to get passed this..it was only 07:15..you think they would have done work during the night. They only began trying to clear it at daybreak it seems

Bogger77

batman2000 wrote: »

This was the M50 this morning going northbound at J5 (finglas) Was sitting in traffic for 45 mins to get passed this..it was only 07:15..you think they would have done work during the night. They only began trying to clear it at daybreak it seems

TBH: it's safer to be working in daylight, when dealing with floods. The risks of a foot getting trapped in a gully is pretty high otherwise