Irish roads in winter 2010/2011: picture and video thread

Tech3

I thought we may as well add some brightness to the doom and gloom of the awful weather over the last few days. One good point is that it provides some opportunities to take great pictures of the N roads covered in snow.


One today of the N52 on the Irish times:





Another on the Indo of the Nass Road

wellbutty

N25 between Waterford and New Ross last Saturday

munchkin_utd

heres a pic from the indo of a sidestreet called Susanville Ave somewhere in ireland.
Seeing as they werent arsed saying where in ireland it is, it must be Dublin (as much of the Dublin media's attention or knowledge or interest doesnt extend to beyond whats outside the M50).

dubhthach

There is a Susanville Road in Drumcondra.

Amtmann

M50 at Sandyford:

http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/cold-spell-set-to-continue-138140.html

KevR

Click for full size images

M6 yesterday morning (snails pace):




Athlone BP yesterday morning (was at a standstill):





Athlone BP this morning from the J10 overbridge:

KevR

Red Cow I think on RTE 6:01 News:

Tech3

Wow the Atlone bypass looks to have been in poor condition there Kev, I wish I took a photo of the N21 from last year when I was crawling up it at about 5km/hr on the climbing lane near Castleisland. The road was covered in snow and every car had to follow the car tracks to climb up the hill! It was also closed 20 mins after I passed.

Posted in the weather forum by Tayshty from the connor pass:

whyulittle

tech2 wrote: »

Wow the Atlone bypass looks to have been in poor condition there Kev

I was on it yesterday morning at about 8:30, and the whole thing was still covered in snow, just a couple of vehicle tracks. Was fun driving it!

Chris_5339762

Whos the maniac going up the Conor pass in this

csd

Folks,

Following on from my M50 J7 pics of a few weeks ago, I went out for a look at J6 in the snow this evening...

1. Here's a view looking southwest from the northeastern corner of the interchange.

IMG_7215 by csd75, on Flickr

2. Swinging the camera around to the right, looking towards the West Link bridges.

IMG_7216 by csd75, on Flickr

3. From the northwestern corner of the interchange, looking southeast.

IMG_7218 by csd75, on Flickr

4. Turning the camera right (south) a bit to take in the N4 east to M50 north slip road.

IMG_7219 by csd75, on Flickr

5. A view of the footbridge these pics were taken from, which is located just to the north of the interchange.

IMG_7223 by csd75, on Flickr

6. Looking north from the footbridge, the two West Link bridges are visible. The original 1990 one on the left, the new 2003 one on the right.

IMG_7225 by csd75, on Flickr

7. The view south, from the same location.

IMG_7227 by csd75, on Flickr

8. Moving over to the Liffey Valley shopping centre immediately west of the junction, here's a view of the N4 looking west.

IMG_7230 by csd75, on Flickr

9. From the same location, a view of the N4 inbound just before the M50 interchange.

IMG_7231 by csd75, on Flickr

johnbk

N77 Kilkenny Ring Road Wednesday 9.00pm 1 Dec 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS43Dv9pr0c

johnbk

Found this on Youtube this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI750bVjOwk

Amtmann

Good video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLM9xHmLGHE

busman

A path less travelled but here is a picture of my driveway ....



The road to ruin ....

Tech3

The N56 in Donegal was in horrific condition over the last week:

irish1967 posted the following photos of the N56 section of the Donegal town bypass.


Saturday 18th Dec








Sunday 19th Dec








Monday 20th December







Wednesday 22nd December

csd

Folks,

I've uploaded some shots of the Red Cow taken tonight and December 2006 to Skyscraper City here.

/csd

L1011

That ^^ with the N56 is what has happened since the NRA took over nationwide salt/grit distribution. Donegal was able to handle itself all on its own properly before the NRA took over, now it gets nowhere near enough. The suggestions that the NRA took control to ensure Dublin got most seem to be quite likely true...

I know that section of road like the back of my hand yet I'd probably still be doing 15km/h on it in some of those pics. I dread to think how bad it is around Gweebarra.

runway16

Oh god, not another "dublin gets everything" topic.

Well, I can tell you Dublin seems to have gotten **** all. The roads are in far better nick outside the capital than in it from my experience of driving over the last week.

L1011

They're really, really not if you drive off the main roads; and the main roads in Dublin were just as clear.

Donegal was by far and away the best able to cope when it was allowed handle its own supply; its just that a lot of other counties were incompetent and now the NRA is dividing the national supply up as they see fit.,

KevR

I don't think the roads in Dublin were worse than anywhere else. The reason there was traffic chaos in Dublin is because there were heavy showers of snow during rush hour.

Heavy snow showers cause the same problems everywhere when traffic is busy - delays of well over 2 and a half hours and 15 km tailbacks on certain routes when Galway got heavy snow during morning rush hour; it took me almost an hour to drive 3 km in Athlone when there was heavy snow just before morning rush hour.

It's not unique to Dublin; the main difference is that RTE seem to make a huge deal out of it when it is Dublin as opposed to any other city/town.

csd

KevR wrote: »

It's not unique to Dublin; the main difference is that RTE seem to make a huge deal out of it when it is Dublin as opposed to any other city/town.

I'd say there were two reasons for this:

1. The roads in Dublin were particularly bad this time. Being a large urban agglomeration, Dublin is always a degree or two higher than the surrounding areas, so rarely gets the sort of snow accumulations that were seen in the city centre this December.

2. As of the last census, there were 801,000 commuters in the Dublin area, or 29 per cent of the country's total. Galway city and Westmeath both have about 50,000 each. So if you go on the basis that the more people an event affects, the more newsworthy it is, then snow in Dublin is always going to be bigger news than snow anywhere else.

/csd

Irish and Proud

Furet wrote: »

M50 at Sandyford:

http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/cold-spell-set-to-continue-138140.html

Ok this is off-topic, but that interchange does look good - would love to see one or two third level flyovers added to it in the future!