John if it makes you feel any better next wednesday I em....
a friend will have manged to go a year without taxing the car and only caught twice

 

QUOTE (TGi666 @ Mar 27 2009, 08:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>John if it makes you feel any better next wednesday I em....
a friend will have manged to go a year without taxing the car and only caught twice
tell your friend hes doing well!!
@john, it is a pain, i put a big cut in the transporter tyre 2weeks ago when it was brand new, and they still havent fixed the road, dont think its worth chasing them for to be honest, too much bollocks to sift through..

speaking of not getting caught tom i know a local guy who is 46 years on the dole, works as a trades man everyday too!! i honestly think he deserves the dole for not getting caught for that length !!!!!!!!!

 

Don't let all the responsible motorists on the forum hear you saying that Tom

Its a well known fact that 90% of the roads in this country are still engineered to a horse and cart standard. Theres nothing like living near a gravel pit and slap bang in the middle of the new M7 developments to make you appreciate the attention the council put into road maintenance...

 

sometimes think i'm better off with a jeep or monstor truck or something

@walterc: my girlfriend's from down around your way. Every time we pass through tullamore and the likes it feels like there's no progress happening whatsoever!

 

That shit sickens my hole , the roads are not going to improve wither with mr.recession hanging around

 

Ya know I don't think Dublin city is any better.
The council can't seem to put down a manhole cover flush with the road. It's either up or down a few inches waiting to buckle your wheel

 

Jaysus don't be associating me with that hole of a place!

Actually the roads around Tullamore arent too bad compared to further south where I am!

Dublin City is atrocious, but none of the residents seem to notice cos their SUVs flatten any bumps in the road as they drive over them.

 

and they wouldn't care if they tortured their wheels

 

the reason my 'friend' dosent like paying road tax is that shite roads managed to do €800 worth of damage to his car a few year back and the roads are so slippy outside my estate if its anyway wet you can take off burning rubber in second

 

QUOTE (walterc @ Mar 27 2009, 08:49 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Don't let all the responsible motorists on the forum hear you saying that Tom

Its a well known fact that 90% of the roads in this country are still engineered to a horse and cart standard. Theres nothing like living near a gravel pit and slap bang in the middle of the new M7 developments to make you appreciate the attention the council put into road maintenance...

Every morining i drive the entire length of the new m3.. them's some roads.. every hill around were i live is being dug for gravel too, but the quarry had to resurface the road, it got that bad.. is the only decent road in about 5 miles

 

They have cut back on the amount they're spending on roads lately. Read an article last week in the irish times about it. Around my area they spent a good long while re-surfacing two big roads that needed doing. Great smooth surface, but then within about 3weeks the road was being dug up again for various works and of course never finished back to the same standard as the rest of the road. Now the road isn't much better off than it was at the start of last year. I keep coming across awfully deep potholes on major roads and they're really not good for the 18's. I don't understand why they can't be filled in successfully at least. Surely a team driving around the city to do this would solve all those problems.

 

Down in the shticks, they are filled in by a "team", if by a team you mean Josie and PJ driving around in an aul transit pickup painted in the associated countys colours, with 2 shovels and a load of luke warm half tar/half gravel mix. They then proceed to heap a nice little pile of said mix on top of the pothole, roughly twice the amount thats needed, and drive off, only to return a few weeks later to find the local Milk lorry has not only sent their lovely filling into the ditch, but also made the already sizeable hole twice as big...

 

You should take pics of the pot-hole and the damage done to the wheel ... then demand compo and the hole fixed by your local council....

 

have you noticed the main street through towns too? Take enfield for example. There are so many road crossings done and badly filled in that the road is like one long cattle grid!

 

Thats a regular occurance here in meath, lay a lovely smooth new road, then within about 3 weeks dig it up to put down gas, sewage, esb, broadband, water or whatever else connections.

 

head on down to mayo lads,the roads are great

.we bust the sump on our car and lost the engine,ran out of oil

,that was last november still waiting on the council to see are they going to pay up.there was rocks the size of your palm in the middle of the road and a trench dug across the road that was badly filled again.then to think that you have to pay 590 a year road tax for that to happen.then as other members have said WHY dig a road up again after they have re done it,

 

And theres me complaining about having to pay £210 a year to tax the M5 and the Jag

though the roads in the North arent what the used to be.

 

QUOTE (Red Diesel @ Mar 28 2009, 02:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>And theres me complaining about having to pay £210 a year to tax the M5 and the Jag

though the roads in the North arent what the used to be.
road tax here is a fooking joke

off topic so is there vrt pish

 

Thats what i really cant stand. They make a nice smooth(ish) piece of road then they remember that they have to put pipes down and dig the whole flippin lot up again, only to leave it asbad as it ever was!!!!!
What tools do they have planning/ working on the roads!

I broke a suspension spring before, on a pothole, and the council said they are not legally responsible for the state of the road. It was too much hassle with solisitors etc.

 

QUOTE (StevenL @ Mar 28 2009, 03:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>the council said they are not legally responsible for the state of the road.

You got a chancer in the council office so. Of course they're responsible for the state of the roads, if they're not then who is? My brother got the price of a new wheel and tyre off them before because of a big bastard of a pothole.

 

QUOTE (Red Diesel @ Mar 28 2009, 02:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>And theres me complaining about having to pay £210 a year to tax the M5 and the Jag

though the roads in the North arent what the used to be.

The roads in the north are a vast improvement from the south, I've a good lot of family up there so I'm up quite a lot.
back roads are back roads I'm not really going to mention them but if you compare the quality of the regional/national roads here to the northern equivalent there's a pretty huge difference, One thing I've really noticed is the norths bigger roads are a lot straighter compared to some of the windy national roads here in the south.

 

Who is responsible for the roads?? That's hilarious. Muppets

 

I bust my wheel on a pothole that keeps re-appearing again an again,only worse each time. Went to the council,with receipts for everythin,made a claim, but the reply i got was...We're not responsible!!If their not then who is!!

 

Maybe they say they're not responsible because most people won't go down the route of solicitors etc. Too much hassle?

 

QUOTE (gtijohn @ Mar 28 2009, 06:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Maybe they say they're not responsible because most people won't go down the route of solicitors etc. Too much hassle?

Ya that is alot of hassle surely.an will cost just alot more gettin solicitors involved. But was told election time is comin up so ta get onto all these councillers that promise everythin an see what they can do!