the state of the roads in west cork

danbo115

i know everyone complains how bad the roads are but over the last two weeks it has become crazy bad with all the potholes. i've seen plenty of roads being resurfaced over the last week but all the ones there doing are not that bad. and just throwing a bit of tar into the potholes and a week later its open again but two foot wider and deeper. i'm mainly complaining because 2 of my friends have already buckled there alloys and i'm driving on 18's and i have a funny all feeling i'll be next haha..

corktina

always have been bad all over Cork and once the frosts hit, there will be huge potholes again like there was in the eighties...CCC neever do a decent job on the roads, go over the border into Waterford and they improve immediately.

danbo115

ya sure any road out of cork is amazing. drove to ennis not so long ago and the roads were amazing. even tho is was mostly motorway, i drove a bit on mainroads and they still were better then any of ours

Porninferno

danbo115 wrote: »

ya sure any road out of cork is amazing. drove to ennis not so long ago and the roads were amazing. even tho is was mostly motorway, i drove a bit on mainroads and they still were better then any of ours

The state of the roads in West Cork is nothing short of utterly dreadful. The waste is simply mind-boggling.

Since I've moved back here (after nearly twenty years away and utterly regretting it) I've seen newly resurfaced roads being resurfaced after four months.

Newly "temporary" surfaced roads being resurfaced and subsequently resurfaced and relined after the same time period.

Roads that had been dug up for sewage/drainage works being dug up and resurfaced again after only 3 to 6 months. Potholes emerging after only a few weeks.

Potholes you could lose things in e.g Houses, lives, front axles, ball joints, tyres, self-esteem, confidence!

Money Pits!!

Gary ITR

Moved from motors

danbo115

Porninferno wrote: »

The state of the roads in West Cork is nothing short of utterly dreadful. The waste is simply mind-boggling.

Since I've moved back here (after nearly twenty years away and utterly regretting it) I've seen newly resurfaced roads being resurfaced after four months.

Newly "temporary" surfaced roads being resurfaced and subsequently resurfaced and relined after the same time period.

Roads that had been dug up for sewage/drainage works being dug up and resurfaced again after only 3 to 6 months. Potholes emerging after only a few weeks.

Potholes you could lose things in e.g Houses, lives, front axles, ball joints, tyres, self-esteem, confidence!

Money Pits!!

haha oh sure nearly every town has been dug up for new drainage and insted of resurfacing the whole road they just cover the bit they dug up and a month later it will have sunk half a foot because it hadn't been packed right

Longboard

The current flooding will not help ether.

Bovary

ballyvourney has simply got to be the worst village in the whole of cork county with THE schizophrenic nature of the county council there they seem to regularly dig trenches across all the village from end to end and then fill it all up again only to subsequently dig it all up again .....ON A REGULAR BASIS !!! what is the story ???:eek:

David_Kean

We are like a third world country. The people deserve more. I had to emigrate from this country in 1958,like thousands more because there was nothing here for us. I was one of the lucky ones to make it back to Ireland again in the closing years of my life. It is about time people stand up and be counted. Our forefathers suffered and died for this great land of ours.

Oh! Could our dead come back to earth,
This land of ours to view,

Their scorching words should sear our souls,

Their martyrdom renew,

In foreign shores our children work,

Some in festering slums they bide.

O GOD WAS THIS THE VICTORY,

FOR WHICH THEY FOUGHT AND DIED.
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Porninferno wrote: »

The state of the roads in West Cork is nothing short of utterly dreadful. The waste is simply mind-boggling.

Since I've moved back here (after nearly twenty years away and utterly regretting it) I've seen newly resurfaced roads being resurfaced after four months.

Newly "temporary" surfaced roads being resurfaced and subsequently resurfaced and relined after the same time period.

Roads that had been dug up for sewage/drainage works being dug up and resurfaced again after only 3 to 6 months. Potholes emerging after only a few weeks.

Potholes you could lose things in e.g Houses, lives, front axles, ball joints, tyres, self-esteem, confidence!

Money Pits!!

dh0661

Bovary wrote: »

ballyvourney has simply got to be the worst village in the whole of cork county :eek:

IMO the worst in the country, I travel Tralee/Killarney to Cork regularly.

murphym7

dh0661 wrote: »

IMO the worst in the country, I travel Tralee/Killarney to Cork regularly.

Don't talk to me about Ballyvourney - I drove through on the way to Killarney at the start of Feb had to replace 2 tyres and 1 complete wheel. Holy god like - there were some potholes that were huge you tried to avoid them only to go straight into a bigger one. Horrific. That was even driving slow. In fact there was one particular pot hole on the road heading to Cork that drivers had to cross to the other on coming lane to get around. Hope they have it sorted by now.