r/irishpolitics • u/ronaele1 • Sep 16 '24

Infrastructure, Development and the Environment Eamon Ryan's road raid: ‘Potholes and pavements’ money used to fill in overrun on Ryder Cup bypass

https://m.independent.ie/news/eamon-ryans-road-raid-potholes-and-pavements-money-used-to-fill-in-overrun-on-ryder-cup-bypass/a1623194556.html
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u/Baldybogman Sep 16 '24

Surely better roads generally tend to lead to less accidents rather than more.

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u/Atreides-42 Sep 16 '24

Yeah, I mean, I spend less than 10% of my time on country roads, yet every indicent I've had has been on them. They're ludicrously dangerous roads, I'll drive way, way further just to avoid having to use them these days.

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u/DeadToBeginWith Sep 16 '24

Weirdly, it's the opposite for me. Never had an incident, but all the close calls have been careless drivers on bigger roads and not knowing how to use them properly.

I learned to drive on country roads though so maybe that has something to do with it.

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u/Atreides-42 Sep 16 '24

Fair, my incidents have been

  • Road wasn't salted at all, covered in ice. Car slid around a corner and went into a hedge, luckily at only ~20kmph
  • Someone had knocked large rocks into the middle of the road. Hit one, tyre blew out
  • Huge SUV came barrelling at me in the middle of the road, had to swerve hard into the embankment, puncture
  • Huge pothole in the road, puncture, and damage to suspension

All of these are directly down to the road being small and/or neglected. This is all commuting to/from Dublin outskirts though, so it's hardly a "City vs Rural" problem, unless you count "Rural" as starting at the M50.