Stretches of road you have an irrational hatred of?

irishrover99

the end of the featherbeds road going towards laragh. just as you get to where the house is on the right hand side after the small descent. the road seems to get very slow. there is no real incline and that stretch always seems so slow no matter what way the wind is blowing. its like my legs just die and the road is sucking me in

ghogie91

Basically the entire athlone to mullingar road! And that hill in Ballymore... level it haha

Skrynesaver

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

The N2 - Balrath to Finglas/Finglas to Balrath - long, straight, flat and boring especially with a headwind.

Have you tried cutting in after the Ashbourne roundabout to Curragha >Tayto Park>Rathfeigh>Balrath woods, much quieter and mostly reasonable (for Meath) road.

My bugbear is the road surface of the main drag in Ashbourne, smooth as a teenagers face.

laraghrider

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

Isn't there usually an mannequin half way a long it? That freaks me out.

There is in Annamoe. It's on the left hand side as you come over the bridge at the trout farm and start the little climb. It's a strange antiques/clothes shop.

cdaly_

Sandwell wrote: »

The N2/Finglas road from the M50 as far as Glasnevin cemetery. The road surface is poor and the traffic tends to travel very fast. The presence of a bike lane that dips in and out of the footpath leads to some drivers getting frustrated and driving aggressively when they see cyclists using the bus lane. I've had some very close shaves on this stretch. On the way out it's a long drag uphill, broken up by numerous traffic lights while on the way home you pick up quite a bit of speed on the stretch between Finglas village and the Tolka but the rutted surface and the constant threat of being swept out of the way by a speeding taxi make this section extremely stressful. I absolutely hate it but living in Phibsboro it's my main access route to NCD.

http://goo.gl/maps/hKXbg

Skrynesaver

nomdeboardie wrote: »

Never mind the section opposite Blackrock College...
I need a sign with a big red left-directed arrow and "Crap Surface (That's why I'm not in the bloody 'cycle lane')" to pop up behind my back as I pass this



Sorry

I go through the park for that section, I presume it's the car transporters loading/unloading on a stretch of road with no underpinning, but that section is lethal.

PJD

Worst bit of road- the road to work. Paradoxically its also the best... On the way home!

dermabrasion

With all the known black-spots that come up on treads such as this, I am just wondering if anybody has contacted the relevant councils. I never have, but I had a mind to.

ckeego

dermabrasion wrote: »

With all the known black-spots that come up on treads such as this, I am just wondering if anybody has contacted the relevant councils. I never have, but I had a mind to.

That's an interesting point..There is a website that you can report sections (I did it last year concerning a stretch near Laragh that had been dug up and badly repaired after telecommunication lines of some type were laid-they repaired it a few weeks later)

However, the Rock road has come in for a few notable mentions here but it seems that the works that are currently being carried out seem to be to jazz up the road furniture around the lights by the Frascati-pure wasre of money as there was nothing wrong with the layout that was there...Meanwhile the road on either side is in rag order-I hate to say it but it is a bad accident waiting to happen

Local government and councils in this country make my blood boil-pi$$ing money away:mad::mad::mad:

dermabrasion

Just did it. Rock road named and shamed to DLRCoco. I have full confidence that this will be remedied immediately. My property tax will work for me.

simonrooneyzaga

There's an app for that

http://fixmyarea.com/

ckeego

simonrooneyzaga wrote: »

There's an app for that

http://fixmyarea.com/

That's the one!