Catastrophic condition of roads in Cork city (pic heavy thread)

Diabhalta

Saw a guy behind me hitting this (Dennehy's cross). Brutal. They fixed it, few days later same problem.

That whole junction is bumpy... horrible really, and it's one of the busiest junction in the city 🤢🤮

cpoh1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118532968#Comment_118532968

How about examples from other major cities across Europe? You need to accept that roads are not maintenance free and degrade over time. We also don't have infinite resources to manage them. Personally I think the roads in cork are in generally in good upkeep compared with other Irish and European cities.

Paris (note a leg of the Eiffel Tower in the background):

Rome (Via Del Corso - main shopping street in Rome):

Central Barcelona:

Berlin City Centre:

This took me 2mins on google maps, im sure there are far worse examples. I really dont see merit in your arguments.

Diabhalta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118534213#Comment_118534213

those are actually nice roads when you compare them to cork roads... I don't see any trenches really. But is it like that everywhere or few spots here and there? In cork everywhere you go the roads are sh1t. And it's not just roads, road signage etc. The place constantly looks tired. Tell me, where else in Europe you drove a car? Can you compare? Because I sure can.

Something like this would be fixed quite quickly elsewhere... Is money the issue, or what is the problem? Or is grand like this? Probably that is the case.

Diabhalta

I really don't remember slaloming on the road so much in Cork like elsewhere... it really is that bad over here. Cracks in the road is one thing, but there are places where the roads is literally falling apart and nothing is being done about it...

this spot, it looks like this for many years now... absolutely nothing being done. At this stage you have to either slow down, or drive around if there's nothing coming towards you. You really don't have this anywhere else in western or central europe...

bollards bent, dirty.. no sense for order or tidiness. No dignity.

now they are adding cycle lanes... they are dirty with dirty bollards along them... and they want more of those..

and cyclists are not even using them. Comical really.

seconds later on the other side of the road...

Diabhalta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118534213#Comment_118534213

also... they are most likely old roads too, they could be 10-20 years old (or even more), roads overe here looks like this after 2-3 years... so...

FGR

It still stands to this day that Cork City and County have absolutely abysmal local and regional roads - When driving from Fermoy to Tallow I couldn't help but notice that as soon as I meet the 'Welcome to Co Waterford' sign the roads improve significantly. That's not to say that Waterford is still the pinnacle of good roads that it once was.

Whether it's lack of funding or poor management by the Co Co it's a shame that the road network outside of TII roads is in such a state.

C4Kid

I find it even more annoying when you see what little money they are spending on "fixing" roads being squandered in the wrong places.

Somebody in Passage West must have some hold over Cork CoCo. A new roundabout outside Aldi and now speed bumps placed on the main road by Pembrooke. No need for either yet the road is falling apart not too far away.