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Pothole thread
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04-02-2013 9:14pm#1Hello all
Going to see if this takes off (probably will end up on it's arse or mostly me posting :pac:)
Basically, why not put up pics of potholes you encounter? It might portray which county has the worst roads, the quickest repaired etc.
For example, this example is down the road from me. I must take pictures of the rest...
I've given going that way as a result
And, to get it all out of our systems... :P
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I think we should just keep it irish, there is no shortage of examples out there and we may get noticed by a newspaper and get some of the monstrodities repaired.Hello all
Going to see if this takes off (probably will end up on it's arse or mostly me posting :pac:)
Basically, why not put up pics of potholes you encounter? It might portray which county has the worst roads, the quickest repaired etc.
For example, this example is down the road from me. I must take pictures of the rest...
I've given going that way as a result0 -
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Are there cattle herded along that road?
Thankfully not since the early 2000smiller50841 wrote: »Country bankrupt and all the huge and overpriced tax(motor tax, VRT, Vat etc) and still nothing done.
Even in the god times the one man band road repair truck was a rare sight and spent about 1 minute per pothole. The roads fell to bits the minute rain hit it
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Thankfully not since the early 2000s
Even in the god times the one man band road repair truck was a rare sight and spent about 1 minute per pothole. The roads fell to bits the minute rain hit it
Always brings me back the council man and a shovel and boots jumping up and down.
Also reminds me of the Irish Pride bread ad :pac:0 -
I don't think they were built properly to begin with. Just a layer of big stones covered with a layer of smaller stones, then a layer of tar. I think a lot of the problems with Irish roads goes all the way to the foundations.Jaysis... they could really do some damage. Why are Irish roads so bad?0 -
What foundation'smonkeypants wrote: »I don't think they were built properly to begin with. Just a layer of big stones covered with a layer of smaller stones, then a layer of tar. I think a lot of the problems with Irish roads goes all the way to the foundations.
as you rightly point out a huge amount of roads are old bohreens with some stones and tar thrown down......and not in any particular order.0 -
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as you rightly point out a huge amount of roads are old bohreens with some stones and tar thrown down......and not in any particular order.
I think you are right on this, the major problem with the pot holes I pictured are, right beside the canal you get a mist and that freezes.....like every other situation but I think it hits roads beside canals and rivers a bit worse.....0 -
That's exactly what I'm talking about. The road itself is spreading under the load. No amount of tar is going to fix that. The whole road probably needs to be dug up and built again.What foundation's
as you rightly point out a huge amount of roads are old bohreens with some stones and tar thrown down......and not in any particular order.
There are another couple of things that would help with the roads. The first is a bit of planning. Usually when you see a section of fresh road surface, inside of two weeks you'll see someone along to dig a hole/trench in it. If this was planned, then they could have done whatever needed to be done before the road was finished. The second stems from the first; the amount of holes/trenches that aren't finished properly. One of the basic rules in life is that you should put back things the way that you found them. For some reason this doesn't apply to roadworks. Apparently it's acceptable to leave a road with a series of depressions, bumps and hollows in them. I wonder if the council does any inspections when roadworks finish.0 -
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Doesnt look much there but the right hand edge is sharp and almost equals the tyre height. It has been refilled twice! By monkeys!:pac:
For some reason, the light has eliminated shadows so it's hard to see the depth of this one too. I'll try again with a ruler or cd for scale. Both these holes have been refilled before.0 -
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