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A UK GROUP today launched World Pothole Day, asking people to join them on social media to show the “powers in charge of your road networks” how easy it could be to report potholes by embracing technology.
The Street Repairs group said it formed because it is “passionate about keeping local environments attractive and safe”. It runs a website and app which allow members of the public to report problems with their local roads. It then maps them all out.
They want to expand on this, displaying potholes all over the world, to show how simple it would be for governments to set up a similar system that would help them keep track of the state of their roads.
Today they are asking social media users all over the world to share images of their local potholes with them.
We are certainly no strangers in this country to the pothole…
So, how good or bads are the roads in your area? Tell us in the comment below and send us your pictures to michelle@thejournal.ie or @thejournal_ie.
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I was driving this morning and just watching the cars ahead of me. They were swerving all over the place to avoid the potholes, it was like being in a warm up lap in a formula 1 grand prix.
Someone needs to teach the councils how to actually fix a pothole. Shovelling in tarmac which is is what usually happens is pure idiocy. If slightly longer is spent to cut out a square patch and pack and fill properly chances are it would never need to be looked at again. The road will be much smoother afterwards too. Lazy solutions bred from lazy thinking are what generally happens
Surely you are just being daft now, you can’t honestly believe that.
Why the red thumbs? I was merely asking if that is your understanding of how potholes can be fixed.
That one in strand rd in Waterford was more mini sinkhole than pothole!
Of course they are full of potholes. Will only get worse. After all 66% of road tax went to Irish water.
Which fills the potholes….
Agree with you littleone.
Why has Ireland so many potholes filled with water? Because the government took the money that fixes the potholes to pay for the water that fills the potholes. Bit of a riddle it is.
What about all the potholes that were there long before Irish Water was set up? Or were all the roads perfect back then?
No the roads weren’t perfect. But how are they now going to get better if 66% road tax and property tax are going or gone to Irish water. Where is the money going to come from?
I’m just pointing out the IW is a waste of money but it’s not the reason our roads are in tatters. That and I’m sick to my back teeth of water whingers taking over every single thread regardless of the article’s content!
Well since this is an article about potholes and since 66% of road tax that was used to maintain roads has gone to Irish water. Think it is relevant. If you think not that’s your opinion but my opinion is that road tax is meant to maintain roads and now that 66% has gone to Irish water . it is relevant.
Sure what’s wrong with a little bit of fudging the accounts. Worked for Anglo. Sure why not throw in all the property tax – schools don’t need it. #irishwater #restinginmyaccount
See my best. This is very relevant. This is a reforming government – that was their mandate – and yet they are acting like the banks that got us into bother. Where is the governance?
Well for a start road tax doesn’t exist. It never has. Motor tax however as far as I’m aware is put into the general pot and used for not just water but a plethora of expenses. You might as well complain that the extra fiver in the children’s allowance could be used to fix the potholes. Using your logic, it’s just as relevant, it’s just not as populist a complaint.
Straight from www gov.ie https://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=TvESVeqdI4W07Qak54CwDg&url=http://www.gov.ie/services/renew-motor-tax-online/&ved=0CCUQFjAB&usg=AFQjCNFD8K6-Ws_sano–5isFWL2eXTf0
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It is a legal requirement in Ireland to have motor tax if you want to drive your vehicle in a public place. Motor tax is a charge imposed by the Government on some motor vehicles. The revenue from this tax is used to maintain and upgrade the road network in Ireland. Motor tax is collected by your local authority on behalf of the Government.
Think it clearly states motor tax used to maintain roads.
Not safe on our roads but at least we’re bringing safe drinking water to places like Roscommon – oh wait!
Speaking of holes the council would want to get off there’s and start fixing our roads.
Potholes everywhere and there full of Irish Water. Motor tax where you pay a tax to set up a company that is another tax and both are and will be quiet shit . A tax for a tax were Irish relax ….
The motoring public are used as a cash cow, still no transparency in the financial system. Transparency was the main reason put forward to start irish water.
The public finances are as transparent as the muddy water in those potholes!
66% of our road tax goes to Irish Water which everyone knows by now, but these Contractors who work for lrish Water installing meters don’t have to have any road tax on their vehicles which people don’t seem to know
& It’s these heavy construction vehicles that are the cause of these pot holes in the first place
ONLY IN IRELAND
The Irish rural road network wouldn’t look much different to rural Afghanistan’s.
Deco is that being sarcastic or do you really believe that. Our roads are very bad in Ireland for a country in the developed world but we still use tarmac. We dont have dirt roads here.
A Swedish engineering firm was commissioned to survey our roads in the early 90′s , the conclusion of their report was ” use more asphalt” .
Hey Loc8 codes can help report potholes to your local county council….alas the crock of manure that is Eircode will be of no use for reporting potholes.
Tell me more, on second thoughts I’ve had my crank quota for Wednesday already so don’t bother
I thought world pothole day only took place in the build up to an Irish general election.
“The Pothole Song” by Richie Kavanagh – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFYtioxmVHQ
Here in the in The sunny south potholes are they in thing I think as ther all over the place . The moon has nothing on some the roads .!!
A friend of mine, let’s call him ‘Mr. X’, told me that the county councils divert the money needed to fix potholes to build secret swimming pools for themselves!
The monies from the property tax has fixed all of the potholes in Cork County.
That’s one huge hole :-)
Only about 66% worse than they should be. #irishwater #taxfraud #finegael
I know its gas, it’d be a great little country if we could only throw a roof on it!!
The issue comes down to the extent of our road network. We are one of the smallest countries in the EU yet have one of the largest road networks. Drive through France, Germany, Ohio in the US, big open plains, wide near perfect roads, why is that? Well they have less of them to maintain and spend money on. We have roads zig zagging all over the place every few hundred yards.
John can you explain why the roads are so bad in a lot of states in the US particularly California.
Did I mention Cali? I suggest you get into your local congressman
I blame Jerry adams
No patjoe. ..yourself and Inda are a proper howl! Did he give you your weekly pat on the head today?
Think they do something to all the horses ther then
I’ll tell you a road that’s in shite, the one on which my father lives. Thanks to Irish Water, searching for leaks.
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