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New Speed Bumps
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25-02-2011 3:33pm#1What's with the new speed bumps on the Shelbourne Rd between Ardscoil and Salesians? That road has craters I can hide my car in, and they're spending the money on making the road even more of a mess?
And new speed bumps and a pedestrian down the hill from College Court on the road to UL? There's a pedestrian crossing after the roundabout 50 yards down the road
I don't get the point of speed bumps here at all? While the Shelbourne Rd ones are outside two schools (but still on one of the worst roads in the city), these ones are outside nothing but a hotel? Not to mention traffic is at a standstill anyway when pedestrians will most use the crossing, at peak UL times.
More roads to add to the list of routes to avoid, since the bottom of my car scrapes over most of the city's speed bumps. Take the new ones on the Rosbrien road for example. The old ones were pretty bad, but I could go over them without actually having to stop. I'm afraid of buckling an alloy or pulling an exhaust off if I don't literally stop and inch over the new ones there :mad: This causes a nice buildup of traffic behind me, but what else am I supposed to do?
It's a bit disgraceful that the council is not pulled up on the misuse of roads funds. If they have money to spend on resurfacing half of Clare St (which wasn't bad before) and installing new traffic lights at every second junction, they have money to spend on some roads that actually need attention.
Unless of course they space all speed bumps from now on like some of the newer ones on St Patricks Rd that I can fit between
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these ones will deter people such as yourself making the road less busy which means I can get to where I am going much quicker
People like? People who have an ounce of mechanical sympathy and don't like langering the car into a pile of tar at 50km/h? :PShould have hired the lads from charleville where you can drive between them.
They must have, I can drive between the new ones outside Salesians perfectly 0 -
Speedbumps are like snowflakes - no two are alike.
I live in Caherdavin and there are now speedbumps everywhere but they are all different heights, some are made of rubber or similar, others are two side-by-side, others are staggered (the ones opposite the church for example) where you can drive nimbly between them if no other car is coming against you.
More are of the paving-brick variety, with enough girth for all four wheels of a car to be on the 'plateau' at the same time, others are half the width.
More are gentle, others are sharp. I could go on and on.
I'd have thought there was a set of criteria for constructing these speed-deterrents but they seem to have no specifications or regulations as to height, gradient, size etc. Probably designed and constructed using the 'Irish' engineering method - like the geniuses who designed the car parks in the shopping centres such as the one on Childers Road.
There - I feel much better now ...
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Speedbumps are like snowflakes - no two are alike.
I live in Caherdavin and there are now speedbumps everywhere but they are all different heights, some are made of rubber or similar, others are two side-by-side, others are staggered (the ones opposite the church for example) where you can drive nimbly between them if no other car is coming against you.
More are of the paving-brick variety, with enough girth for all four wheels of a car to be on the 'plateau' at the same time, others are half the width.
More are gentle, others are sharp. I could go on and on.
I'd have thought there was a set of criteria for constructing these speed-deterrents but they seem to have no specifications or regulations as to height, gradient, size etc. Probably designed and constructed using the 'Irish' engineering method - like the geniuses who designed the car parks in the shopping centres such as the one on Childers Road.
There - I feel much better now ...
John.
They fixed the ones by caherdavin church- now two on both sides so you cant drive around them.0 -
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dougie-lampkin wrote: »
They must have, I can drive between the new ones outside Salesians perfectly
What are you driving, a motorbike?0 -
What are you driving, a motorbike?
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With this being the main reason I don't like the new "larger" speed bumps. My exhaust (lowest part of the car) is about 2" off the ground at the lowest point, and the sump isn't far off it. So yea I have a valid basis for complaining about speed bumps and rejoicing when I can fit between them
And those new ones at Castletroy are a nightmare! I have to quite literally stop going over them, they're so steep at the edges. I saw a felter A4 having to put two wheels on the footpath to avoid pulling his sideskirts off too :pac:0 -
dougie-lampkin wrote: »
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With this being the main reason I don't like the new "larger" speed bumps. My exhaust (lowest part of the car) is about 2" off the ground at the lowest point, and the sump isn't far off it. So yea I have a valid basis for complaining about speed bumps and rejoicing when I can fit between them
And those new ones at Castletroy are a nightmare! I have to quite literally stop going over them, they're so steep at the edges. I saw a felter A4 having to put two wheels on the footpath to avoid pulling his sideskirts off too :pac:
Nice car but I still cant see how you can fit that between the 2 ramps at the Salesians, I can see how you have a problem with the high ones.
On that, why do we use different ramp types, surely at this stage they have been tries and tested and one type selected for use?0 -
Nice car but I still cant see how you can fit that between the 2 ramps at the Salesians, I can see how you have a problem with the high ones.
They're just far enough apart, there's millimetres in it :P I can fit between the first pair of speed bumps on the Rosbrien Rd. Lidl side too, but not the rest. There's lots around the place I can do it with, almost all of the speed bumps around Thomondgate/Kileely for example. Always gives other drivers a good laugh when they see me squeeze between the two bumpsOn that, why do we use different ramp types, surely at this stage they have been tries and tested and one type selected for use?
The most cost effective ones are probably the new ones outside Salesians, I saw them making one, it's just a smoothed lump of tar. I'd imagine the full length tar or metal ones are probably more expensive, so I don't see why they're on the UL road. An improvement on the two-bump ones is when the two bumps are staggered. This means when there's no on-coming traffic I can do a convoluted manoeuvre to prevent damage to my undercarriage.
I'd have thought in this day and age we could have electronic speed bumps however, so that the ones outside Salesians would only "pop up" during school times for example. Having gone to Ardscoil for 6 years and never seen any sort of a crash or tip on that road, they're not there for road safety purposes, they're there for the school crossing. They can do it with the electronic barriers in town on Cruises St. and the like, no reason this can't be done.0 -
gotta love those felters!dougie-lampkin wrote: »
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With this being the main reason I don't like the new "larger" speed bumps. My exhaust (lowest part of the car) is about 2" off the ground at the lowest point, and the sump isn't far off it. So yea I have a valid basis for complaining about speed bumps and rejoicing when I can fit between them
And those new ones at Castletroy are a nightmare! I have to quite literally stop going over them, they're so steep at the edges. I saw a felter A4 having to put two wheels on the footpath to avoid pulling his sideskirts off too :pac:0 -
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Passed a car on the hill near aldi in rhebogue last nite and it looked to have gotten stuck on the speed ramp. it had verly low body kit & was jacked up from the ramp on the left side. or was it just a conincidence that it got a flat on the speed ramp!!! 0
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showgirlrita wrote: »Passed a car on the hill near aldi in rhebogue last nite and it looked to have gotten stuck on the speed ramp. it had verly low body kit & was jacked up from the ramp on the left side. or was it just a conincidence that it got a flat on the speed ramp!!!
Doesn't sound good , I'm sure if he got a flat he'd have more common sense than to try and change it on a speedbump!0 -
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