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Slippery pavements

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  • 01-04-2010 2:29am
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    simu
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    Does anyone else find the new paving in town to be dangerously slippery after rain? I nearly slipped five times today!

    Just wondering!


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    evilivor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,613 ✭✭✭evilivor


    simu wrote: »
    Does anyone else find the new paving in town to be dangerously slippery after rain? I nearly slipped five times today!

    Just wondering!

    Yes. Terribly. Nearly went arse over tit a few times yesterday.


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    MikeCork2009
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    Yes and its terribly reflective too when wet. Nearly went blind yesterday walking up Patrick Street!!


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    simu
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    Glad to hear it's not just me! It's quite deadly really. I was carrying my daughter in a sling too so a fall would have been really bad. Walking up Oliver Plunkett St I had to make a pointed effort to stay on the tarmac and avoid the paving as much as possible.

    You'd think there would be safer paving options available for a rainy city - was it a bad choice of paving or is there no alternative?


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    Bill-e
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    It's the shinier ones that are the worst. Most of the slabs have a bit of grip but they have a different colour slab every 4 or 5 slabs which is much more slippy then the others.

    Nearly face fived the ground a good few times myself!


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    Léan
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    Yes!! I've slipped several times :(

    I was walking down by French Church St onto Patrick St about three weeks ago in the rain and I took some serious hopper :mad:.


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    trotter_inc
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    The paving on the Western Road outside of the Lee Hotel (Jurys) is very slippery, I run along there quite a lot and run on the road instead of the paving when I can.


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