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Muck on the roads

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    #32
    Silvera
    Registered Users Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭Silvera


    I agree, magpie, Irish roads have ALWAYS been mucky (although they are even worse than usual with all the building works about the country).


    My question is -

    WHY ARE IRELAND'S ROADS ALWAYS MUCKY ?

    Especially when you compare them to NI or UK roads which ALWAYS seem to be relatively clean :confused:

    I drove over 50 miles today along the M1, M50, and M7 and I would safely say that I couldn't read the rear number plates of 60% of the vehicles I saw because of muck !


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    #33
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,399 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Silvera wrote:
    WHY ARE IRELAND'S ROADS ALWAYS MUCKY ?
    (a) people don't clean their wheels
    (b) off road vehicles
    (c) people in ribbon housing not having proper driveways


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    #34
    magpie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,643 ✭✭✭magpie


    (a) people don't clean their wheels
    (b) off road vehicles
    (c) people in ribbon housing not having proper driveways

    Surely these factors on their own couldn't account for every road in the state being absolutely filthy?

    Anything to do with the fact that other countries actually clean their roads? (they also mend potholes, don't leave steel plates in them etc, but that's another discussion for another day).


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    #35
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I think alot of it is the nature of the roads, most dont have hard shoulders so wide vehicles tend to churn up the edges and scater lumps of earth along
    the edge of the tarmac which is then broken up and squashed into a slippy layer.

    Loads on the back of vehicles are often not covered so crap falls of the back, plant and argicultural vehicles are driven along public roads, none of them are very cleaned first. All building sites should have a couple of powered washers which can blast off the worst of the mud before a vehicle
    goes on the road.

    Mike.


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    #36
    Saruman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    I have not washed my car... its black though now its sort of brown.. its crazy.. every day i drive my car and some truck sprays muck everywhere... there are no clean cars in dublin at the moment...


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    #37
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I took mine for the full power wash today (6 euro) and I only did it cos I dont want a build up of damp earth low down!

    Mike.


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    #38
    CharangoHolly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭CharangoHolly


    mike65 wrote:
    I took mine for the full power wash today (6 euro) and I only did it cos I dont want a build up of damp earth low down!

    Mike.

    Yeah good plan, having said that the queues for the car washes in a few garages I passed this evening was unreal!! :eek:


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